Fresno State football media press conference ahead of Michigan game

does it feel real yeah welcome to game week it feels very real uh we've been grinding uh it's been a long summer starting in July and then getting through August and things like that and it's finally game week I'm excited about it and looking forward to getting out of town and starting toames and you PR OPP CHS chur are youti do you to from your te you know the big thing is Just Energy enthusiasm I wanted to look like it's game we you know like we've been practicing you know you're always talking about we have a game we have a game well it's finally here it's finally time and just seeing the guys excited to play playing physical running around having fun bringing the juice having a lot of energy and uh just day by day getting better that'll be the big thing and I know you've been soaking up wisdom from a lot of coaches for basically your whole life starting with your dad any people that you reached out to ahead of this just to give some last minute CRI notes or advice I I just talked to people before we started training camp because most of the people I know are are in training camp right now so you don't really want to bother guys and things like that but I talked to a lot of people before we started up got a lot of good advice can always talk to my dad now he's retired things like that his main thing is just be you just no matter what it is good or bad just be you deal with it how you would deal with it and keep moving forward so that's basically what I do every single day allall opening games um you have to prepare for things that you know they're going to do or think that they're going to do but also uh stuff that uh you know might come up in the ball games that you haven't seen them do a lot of and that's the uh that's the difficult thing about an opening game but it's also fun as a coach you got to make sure your team is prepared for anything that might happen coaching is eliminating mistakes before they happen not after they happen so hopefully we can give them all these different looks during the course of training camp and spring balll so that they can rely on their training when they get out in the game if they see something that they haven't practiced against they're able to do it you know coach Skipper when he played here got to sit on the sideline a long time because the off chewed up clock and play keep away from the opposition and then coach the running backs here for a while coach some really good running back so should we expect the the run past balance to shift a little bit now that coach Skipper in charge I wouldn't necessarily associate it with coach in charge I think think going back of studying ourselves last year there certain we got is it we talked about a lot this offseason we got we got to run the ball better to run it more you know so that's kind of been the main point emphasis in regards to that so yeah I mean I would like to think that we're going to run the ball yes yes that goes hand in coach