Fran Brown postgame vs. Ohio

saw oh yeah pretty much uh just really thankful um had the opportunity to coach here today the first time and get a chance to go out there but I think uh really the big shout out should go to uh the walk everyone that showed up to the walk I mean they did an amazing job uh the band cheerleaders dance team uh and just all the fans you know all the family and friends I was very very uh pleased and thankful and um you know it was pretty good to see all that that was a good show for our our players also and they really appreciated it and I want to make sure sure they know that we're very thankful and that was um that was that was pretty legit all everybody we're going to come around with microphones for questions we'll start right from Emily and then go to dance right hey Fran uh we saw Marlo go out of the game and come back to the sideline with crutches I know it's early but do you have any sort of update on him and his status uh he could be gone for a few weeks but he'll be straight he a tough kid so we thinking he may be going for a few weeks uh just from seeing already like how it went and going and usually that's something that happens but uh we'll figure it out you know we're going to do what's best for him uh make sure that he uh can still be around regardless if he can play or can't play because he's a leader of the football team you know when he's in it's a different ball game but um you know it's monotony of football you know yeah Fran congratulations thank you just looking at the wide receiving core and and the tight ends as well R gadon Zed Haynes as well as Jackson Meeks a bunch of those big catches Trevor Pena having a historic day for himself just what you can say about the receiving core overall today they did a great job uh Ross Douglas coach Nixon um are really good football coaches and they've trained those guys up uh we did a lot I thought the offensive line and our wide receivers were two of the biggest upgrades on our football team and both of those guys did really uh both of those units did a great job so just very thankful for them and um I mean Kyle could throw so it helped a lot right in the front row Terry Collins it's all about sports first of all coach congratulations on being undefeated as a head coach um real quick talk to me about the difference in the preparation this week with being a head coach versus in the past uh a assistant coach or a position coach uh just a lot of things you have to do when it comes to the entire team you know I was in charge of the secondary before now it's the entire team I uh meet with at least six to seven players every day so having an opportunity to meet with all those guys and then all the other things like everybody's problems and and situations come to your death so you got to make sure all that stuff is straight um but I mean still I'm I'm involved you know I'm out there coaching and trying to coach all the time and Coach special teams defense you know every position just running around trying to hold guys accountable so I mean it's pretty cool little Mark right there hey coach how you doing good yourself good uh as you were standing in the tunnel waiting to lead your team onto the field your first g game as a head coach were there butterflies going on what were you thinking about and how do you feel getting the first game out of the way I needed to go back and use the bathroom again I was so scared I'm talking about I I called my wife probably like three times and um just throughout the day I've been tight for the last three days I just been nervous a little bit just not want to let um the fans you see the fans I want to let them down you know and making sure we do it the right way but um I was nervous but then as I seen those players and I seen one of my little league football coaches and it was just like all right let's go play ball you know I actually seen him it was crazy I got to see I seen him and I was like wow it's pretty legit I didn't had no idea it was coming and that's what just kind of like all right let's go let's go play ball front go to Chris right there on the second one in friend a guy like Kyle goes out and has the first series that he had um do you guys say anything to him or did you just know that he's gonna you know sort of Shake It Off and be okay no I just messing with him like I yall win three and out you know just mess around with him cuz you know what he can do you know he's a good football player and he's got that kind of relationship like you'll be all right get him next time just like never worry and um I think that we needed that we've never dealt with adversity you know we got to be down 6 nothing there was a lot of things that we were able to deal with throughout the game that helped us and showed that you know we'll continue to play we'll continue to count on each other and do things of that nature so I mean not getting down I mean Kyle's a good good football player you seen it right there I should sent uh sent Ryan Day a bottle of champagne allowing us to get him it's pretty cool steve Fran along those lines uh you talked about being a little tight yourself the last couple days and you know Chris mentioned the way that Kyle started on that first drive did you say anything to the team as that first quarter wound down because you know second quarter you guys got clicking and you know settled in and got moving and and things were all good after that did you say anything to the team at that point I he was telling them fall back on the training and I was like uh snapping on the D line because I think they they were a lot better than they were playing you know the front seven I was like like what are we doing this is not what we practice they're hitting seams on like they're doing different things and it wasn't about like scheming us up or doing it was literally we weren't hitting and that's what we do that's what we like buy into that's supposed to be our DNA and we weren't hitting them like we were diving instead of using our pads you know we weren't like striking blocks and knocking guys back and they were they were out playing us I just didn't like what was happening so you know I just kept telling them you're not doing what you a coach to do fall back on your training you know we're out here fall back on your training Christian right there on the end Coach congratulations for what makes uh Trevor such an effective option uh for Kyle and what did you see in training camp that um led him to have this great game today I just think that uh he studies the game the way Kyle studies the game you know the kids always studying always going through stuff always working and uh when I first got here he came to my office he was one of like probably about within the first 10 guys that I met and he said coach I want to get get closer to God I'm always getting hurt I'm always doing this and that and it was different things and we did some stuff together and kept showing them and we were holding each other accountable and he takes care of his body now he goes to sleep more so like he's doing all those things because he's been that good he just had a lot of injuries and things of that nature but he's just growing up you know when you become a senior it's a big difference than when you were before and you know just I'm not saying it's structure but I think he's put structure into his life there's a little more structure now so when there structure and you can follow a plan that he has for the week he got a time management sheet and he just follows it to a te and um he practiced really really hard and he showed up for him on today Cooper the second round black shirt coach going back to Trevor just how much does it add to have a guy who's kind of like a Swiss army knife out there to add around guys like aande and Zed for Kyle's weapons I mean it's always helpful the more players you got that can make plays the better off it is you know right over on the side here coach how um how impressive were those first couple possessions in the first quarter y'all held them to field goals they had possession almost the whole quarter it could have been pretty bad if they scored a few touchdowns there that's why you got red zone defense you know you you want to make them attempt field goals you know hope they don't score them you want to make them attemp field goals somebody got the ring but you want to make them attempt field goals and uh we were able to do that they made a couple of them but it was there big stops for our defense to be able to do that in the Red Zone because let's talk if they weren't stops then that's 14 points you know and then there more points they have from that so I think we stopped them what probably four times down there that's 12 points that if you go to the other way that's 28 it's a different ball game so we just got to fix out in the field you know we'll fix a few things up uh there's a couple guys just not making certain plays but I mean as I guess it was big to answer your question on the red area it's a part of theame game that we wanted to make sure we could dominate the red area Mario on the back TV platform coach all the way back here at the TV platform sorry little guy weren't sure for you what did you learn from game one uh I think I got control my composure a little bit more I was like acting like I'm at practice still so I think I got to fix that I'm going work on that I'm going pray about that fix that um I just learned that it's fun you know you get to compete it's just football it's I've been doing it in my entire life but now I'm just the leader of the football team but I've been doing it my entire life I just learned that uh our guys had a chance to win um learned how to communicate with the rest more I never had to talk to them as much as I talked to him today so talking to them a lot different things that um I was asked them a lot of questions you know still want to know you know when can I go do this how far will I go out before you throw a flag so it's a lot of stuff like that that I was talking to him about but I mean I a I mean it's football I mean been doing it since I was 9 years old so just get to learn a little more of the game but not much more that I learned um I was really um thankful that I was on CI all night and just trying to listen to that my wife told me I'd go to sleep um but it came through and it helped me at the end of the uh first half you know that was something that was I was worried about like I didn't want to mess up you know when it came to the end of the first half end of the fourth quarter being able to put the team in good situations and I just had it you know and it was pretty cool that helped me a lot what about your team um I learned that they are they're resilient they have each other's backs you know when the defense wasn't going the way that they wanted to go the offense held him down did it and then when you see when the defense went three and out back to back like three times in a row the offense was able to go and score and capitalize so you can see if you put it all together they'll be really good playing complimentary football but you also saw that they um were able to pick up the slack when when their brother wasn't doing it in that form so um I learned that we we trying to live dart on the football field take a few more players Emily Chris and finish off right here car Fran you just mentioned the end of the first half I'm curious that the decision to go for it there inside the minute push for the touchdown was that you was that Nixon and I guess how confident were you in the offense that you were going to be able to execute that there we do it in practice all the time so it was me I was like all right guys we got three timeouts if they don't get this I'm going call a Timeout on first down then we did it on second down third I knew what they had too so I was like I want to make sure that I call these timeouts and then we always only had to use two of them because they threw the ball so that helped us by them doing that and um I knew that when we had 50 some seconds we would do they score on us all the time at practice so we knew like all right let's go score you let's go push it down the field let's get in the endzone um but it was just like practice you know it happens all the time and I always see him do it so it was just like dang that was just like practice why they would kept St was running off screaming just like practice you know because that's what they do all the time in practice Chris maybe along the same lines Fran but in the in the fourth quarter um youen get stopped on the three plays and you didn't seem to think about kicking a field goal when a lot of coaches would have gone up three scores what made you sort of want to finish that drive or score a touchdown there just because like I mean you're gut right the fourth and one we on the one yard line we tried to do it three times y I just didn't want him to feel that he was tougher than me and we wanted to score as our team that was something that we needed to do I felt for us to go and score you know like we tougher than them we wanted to show that we can get in right there on that fourth and one so um that's what it was about you know I didn't we just wanted to wanted to compete and last question to Carson coach congratulations on the win I know you said you like to live in the present you're not thinking about Georgia Tech yet but what are you taking away from today both positive and negative we better stop the run in the quarterback you see them I mean they got a great quarterback coach ke coached me and um um College uh coach m is on their staff he coached me in college um so we got to stop the run you know we got to stop the quarterback from being able to run but I mean every game they all different styles make fights we see what happen next week good thank you