Skip Holtz Press Conference Quotes
September 28, 2010
USF Athletic Facility - Tampa, Fla.

Opening Statement
"Welcome to the press conference this week, I appreciate everybody being here again this week, as we sit down and recapped a little bit about last week after we've had an opportunity to sit down and take a look at the film, study a little bit more of the ins and outs of the football game and look at it a little bit closer.  There are a lot of things in that game I'm proud of this football team for, obviously they won, I thought they competed extremely hard, I thought they played physical, I thought going into the game we said we wanted to be able to run the ball and we wanted to stop the run.  Playing against a team that has the fifth leading rusher and defensively to hold them to 88 yards rushing, and offensively to rush for 26 yards, we accomplished a lot of the things that we were trying to do coming into this game  I felt like if we allowed them to run and we had to rely on our passing game, it was going to be a long day in that game, so that was really the emphasis as we came in, but there are some things that obviously we need to continue to work on as a football team, I thought when I looked at it defensively, I was really pleased with the front four the way they played up front, I thought they created some havoc and did some really good things, and put a lot of pressure on the quarterback.  Then I really thought the secondary really played well even though they threw for a high completion percentage, you look at it with I thought that had much more to do with the underneath coverage with the linebackers, secondary didn't give up any big plays, keep them out of the end zone, tackled well, kept the ball in front of them, rallied to the point, put them on the ground, and made them snap the ball again.  We gotta get better in our underneath coverage with our linebackers on the defensive side of the ball.  On the offensive side, really pleased with the running game, with Demetris Murray, I said before Demetris was a red-shirt freshmen a year ago, he's sitting there looking at about four senior tailbacks ahead of him, going to be awhile before I have the opportunity to get on the field and all of a sudden because of some suspensions and injuries and some other things, he has been kind of thrown into a starting role and he has really embraced it.  He's done a great job, he's running hard, running physical, carrying over what he did at the Florida game, he tweaked his ankle the very first play of the game, continued to play, played the entire game w\with it, I'll talk a little bit about it when I get to the injuries with him, but I thought he really played well, as well as Moise Plancher, I thought they both ran really hard and the offensive line was doing some really good things.  The thing we got into that game, we turned and we ran the ball, we ran through it about eleven times in that game and I've always said that as a football coach, as a football team what we've got to do is find a way to highlight our strengths and hide our weaknesses, and  right now when you look at having a young quarterback and a new system and a lot of inexperienced wide receivers, we just felt like we put the saddle on the offensive line and the running game and I really thought they came through and did a really nice job in that game."