Head Coach Brian Kelly met with the media on Tuesday to discuss Sunday's loss and this Saturday's matchup against Grambling:
- Injury update: Armoni Goodwin - questionable, Aaron Anderson - probable.
- Said nobody is happy with Sunday's performance, but points out the amount of new faces that played. 11 true freshman and 14 new transfers traveled with the team this past weekend.
- Says he knows who is team is physically, but mentally they just weren't where they needed to be. Says he needs to do a better job getting his players in the right mindset.
- He and the team are excited to go out on Saturday and play the game the way it's intended to be played for four quarters, not just two.
- There's a happy medium that they feel they can strike with Harold Perkins. Thinks he can be used both as a rusher and as an off ball linebacker, and they hope they can find that happy medium better in the future.
- Says they needs to figure out a better rushing balance. Jayden can't be the teams leading rusher every week, and he knows that. No running back had more than four touches and that needs to change.
- Teams very excited to get Maason Smith back this weekend - sounds like he could get a start this weekend.
- Says Aaron Anderson will still stay back on punts even after the muff. Says he gets away from his fundamentals at time and that doesn't work in CFB. Also expects him to get more involved in the offense as the season goes on.
