Boise State head coach Spencer Danielson on win at Georgia Southern

Well, I'm proud of our team, man. Good teams find ways to win and it wasn't pretty tonight, but I mean, there are some unbelievable performances by our players, but I'm proud of our whole team finding a way to win. We knew coming in, this is going to be a great home field advantage for Georgia Southern elements, all that. Our team found a way to win and we haven't been one to know in a few years. It feels good if you want to know we're going to celebrate the win and then tomorrow we're going to flip the switch and move on to Oregon. But I'm proud of how our team B and I'm proud of how they stayed in the fight, kept swinging. It didn't always go our way and sometimes it was self inflicted. Sometimes there are just things that happened in the game that you got to respond to. And that's what I'm excited to as a coach, week one, when you can find a lot of things to clean up on film and still find a way to win the game. That's what I'm proud of our team doing. So, a lot of guys had to step up today. We had a lot of guys go down and have to fill in. So a lot of guys got good reps and there's some things on film that we can, can grow and improve on. So I'm proud of our team. I mean, obviously, I mean, it goes without saying, I mean, Ashton Gents is the best player in the country. I mean, that was on full display tonight. But even with saying that, I want to make sure I say this every time I talk about Ashton, he's an even better young man than he is a football player. You talk about a unanimous captain, a leader on our team and everything he does. I mean, in January, I mean, he's the first one in the building last week. So what he just put on display. August 31st, I've seen him do it day in and day out since he's been here and he deserves a ton of offensive line. The run game that we were able to create and continue to sustain drives was awesome. I mean, Cy Gaines, a 17 year old freshman been on a mission since he showed up on campus, proud of how he did it and just the rest of the tight ends, the receivers block and you find ways to win games. That's what good teams do. Some, sometimes it's gonna be maybe throwing the ball more or, or run the ball more, find ways to win games, obviously defensively just way too, way too inconsistent. We got to get off the field on third down. There's some things that we just know we got to clean up. There's some bus and covers or some things, one on ones, we got to find a way to win. And so there's a lot of things that we need to continue to clean up and there's some self inflicted wounds that we got to deal with too. I mean, we come out in the second half start fast is third long, incomplete pass, rough for the passer. You can't do that um, to continue to win games the way we need to. So there's a lot to clean up, but I'm so proud of our staff and our players stay in the fight and they kept swinging all game and feels good we want with Ashton, I mean, to have the whole off season Heisman campaign, all that stuff and then first game, second carry house in 77 most, most yards, most touchdowns ever by. I mean, to start it off in that fashion, what can you say? I mean, I'm just, I'm so proud of Ash because he deserves all the credit he's getting, he deserves it all because I've seen him work every single day when I get in there. He's the first one in there and he's waiting for the training room to make sure he's getting his body right like he did deserves it. And there's a lot of guys around them that are blocking their tail off for them. They deserve all the credit to the offensive line, the receivers, the tight ends. I mean, and the plan that we had run game wise, I mean, coach Potter, coach cutter, coach K, I mean, they did a phenomenal job. Coach Montgomery getting those backs ready to roll. I mean, those guys deserve all the credit too And, but I mean, you talk, I mean, I, we could be here all night talking about Ashton Gent. I mean, this young man is a 10 out of 10 in everything he does and how he leads this team, how he motivates this team and how he leads himself on a daily basis. I mean, he's a generational talent type kid in all facets. I mean, that's who Ashton Gte is and I'll screw that from the rooftops. Um And the awesome part for Cy Gaines, that's who he watches every single day. I mean, he comes into work and he watches Ashton Genty and you talk about a guy that hasn't missed anything since he came on campus. He's been watching Ashton. He's been modeling him and he shows up with a true fresh and R for over 100 yard that's tested him. I know he's not afraid of the, that's how these guys learn and grow. The only way to get better at football is playing and especially for a young freshman or a six year senior, you got to find ways to learn through your mistakes. Now, hopefully we can learn through the and not let it show up at a critical moment like it did. Thank the Lord Austin Bolt did a great job finding a way to get that ball. That was a huge play in the game. Um Will you find ways to continue to learn and grow? And cy is a guy that is so confident because of how he's trained that even though he had that one fumble, we got it back. He, we, we trust him, we trust because we've seen him continue to work no different than our other players. You know, you gave the starting job because he knows how to run it over 600. How were you with the way he ran? It was awesome. I mean, our coaches deserve a ton of credit our players buying into it once again, it's always perfect, but our guys kept swinging, they stay in it, things don't go our way, stay in it, keep swinging. I'm problematic. I mean, you talk about a guy that's never too high, never too low. And I mean, even after the interception, he comes back and has two big time throws. That's Matt Mason. I mean, this guy is no moments too big for him. He stays in it and he's lethal. He'll go out there and make the biggest play of the game because he knows his process and he stays with it. You keep swinging. I mean, you're up 28 9, you blow the lead, you're down, I think, third or early, fourth quarter, I mean, just to walk back in and be able to, a couple of touchdowns. What's that? Say? It's huge when you talk about the fight in our guys. And that's, and that's football, good teams find ways to win. It's never gonna be, it's never gonna be perfect on that field and a good teams find ways to win. And tonight we found ways to win once again, a ton to clean up. I'm, I'm fired up for one and, oh, for the first time in a few years, but there's already a lot of things that I'm going to my mind to practice and things, we gotta make sure that we clean up. We have to, but you find ways to win and that's why I'm proud of our whole team from offense, defense, special teams and every game is gonna go back and forth. There might be games that our defense plays better. We got, we got to find ways to win. It's not always gonna be perfect. That's why I'm proud of our whole team collectively staying in it and finding ways to win. I'll, I'll watch one more time. How much, what the offensive line think ice is, experience, experience that, no, I'm, I'm proud of our, I mean, we, we gotta, we gotta experience the old line coming back, there's some guys banged up that we gotta continue to find more rotations and guys to step up. But I mean, that's the mentality of our team. And coach Kane does a great job with our O line coach Potter with our run game. I mean, building that mentality into him. I mean, no matter what front lines up in us, I have confidence in our offensive line, creating movement at the point of attack and imposing our will on defenses. Spencer when you took over last year, it was just like just like thrown into it. Today was about testing eight months of Spencer Danielson culture. So to go into that locker room after that, how, how is it different for you this time? It's just, I mean, I love these kids and first off, I mean, I give God all the glory. I, I I'm open about this. The only reason I'm the head coach at Boys State is because God put me there and I know it's the developed people, developed champions of life and those are champions of life on that field. Some of those. So we, we didn't make the plays, we needed to at all times. But learning and growing from this game and what I see that nobody else sees is how our teams in their work and loves each other. Does the hard things in there early in the infernos hiking table rock where no one knows running decks like I see that. So when I see something go well or not, I know our guys are trained. I also know this is a development for life. So I'm proud of our team and I football is a hard game. You are promised 12 opportunities a year. I'm gonna enjoy this win. And then on this long plane ride home, we're gonna, we're gonna work to fix it because there's a lot of things we need you to continue to go forward to specifically address them. I don't know if Maddox was really touched tonight and as good as the running backs were, there were a number of times for their life, six yards down field before they even got a chance. No question. How good was that group? And you were rotating a couple. I mean, they did a great job. They said coach King Co Potter, Coach Montgomery did a phenomenal job getting those guys ready to play. And there's a mentality, a part of that group that they will impose their will, that's on film, that's who they are. And so I'm proud of what they did tonight. I said, Ashton, Sire Gaines and other players deserve a ton of credit as well, but nothing's happening without that front. What was the reasoning behind that? So, for us guys, I mean, I'm going to look at the analytics, I'm gonna, where things are going in the game and what we did in this game was planned out, like I knew in what situations down, up what area of the field. I mean, that's my job now as game management, I'm not calling plays on either side. I'm building into our team. I'm encouraging and I'm focused on the game manager and I'd still make the same call again. Hey, we got, we focus on week one week, one week one. Now that you got this win, you want 24 hours to think about it, the opportunity you have next week. Yeah, we're fired up to go play Oregon. I mean, we're like I said, we're gonna enjoy this game. We're gonna clean it up. That's gonna be the focus of Monday to Monday night is clean this game up, but we're fired up to go play Oregon. It's the next team on our, on our schedule and we know how talented they are and how well coached they are and we're gonna work our tail off to have an opportunity to win real quick. Thank you. He talks about, yeah. So it's a go there. And so I gotta look at it for my and there's a lot of things too for me that go into, where's the game going? Where's the flow of the game? Like I said, for me, I believe in process. And so for now my process is game management to make sure how a game goes. What are the analytics? I look at that that matters to me to see and then where's, where's the game at? And so, like I said, I make the same decision again. All right. Thank you. Did you guys travel back safe, man. So the wind was cut. If we were going this way, we would have kicked it there. We, we're thinking probably the 29 yard lines where we would have kicked it. So good question. I appreciate you guys. God bless.