00:00hello sports fans welcome to another edition of coffee with the coach with wolverine's head coach
00:04kyle whittingham and kyle got a quote laurel and hardy this week oh no here's here's another
00:11first earth that's happening costello lord that's right that's right i didn't even get that right
00:17here's here's here's another fine mess you've gotten us into yeah but actually uh i'd i know
00:25it's it's it was a tough saturday and with that uh one question for you start off the bat who
00:30had a
00:31worst saturday afternoon was it you or ohio state coach ryan day oh that's probably a toss-up i don't
00:39know i don't have a great answer it's miserable for both of us i'm sure uh i know it was
00:43one of
00:44the most miserable saturdays i've ever had and and uh unfortunately that's part of the business on
00:48occasion you got to deal with stuff like that and uh if you're in it long enough you pretty much
00:53end
00:53up dealing with everything at some point but uh that was no fun uh we didn't play very well needless
00:59to say you know we did on defense there was some good things going on defense didn't didn't allow
01:02a touchdown i think that's the first time in my career that you lose a game where you don't allow
01:07a touchdown but uh it was uh some really good red zone defense and some really you know good defense
01:13overall other than the inability to take with football away and we're minus four in the turnover
01:17margin and with all that happened in that game that was the absolute single biggest and most
01:22important stat that led to the loss was being minus four you your chances of winning a game when
01:28you're minus four almost none i mean that's just where it's at to address uh the breaking news from
01:33yesterday uh jason beck he's gone you want to address that yeah we uh weren't gonna initially make
01:42a decision on and an assessment on the you know the state of the program until after the season and
01:49uh
01:49i think i even said that at the podium on saturday night but after coming in and watching the film
01:54in detail and and uh you know just uh too many things that uh just weren't right and uh too
02:04much
02:05regression in the offense and i thought it was important after having a chance to really dive into
02:10it to uh just you know let's let's make the move now let's start the search uh sooner rather than
02:17later and get this process going have you checked facebook marketplace for an offensive court not yet
02:24because i don't even know what that is but i sound like it might be uh be very resourceful yeah
02:30well
02:30next up the ducks you're on your way to oregon to take on the ducks this saturday uh as you
02:36know
02:36ducks handled ohio state 48 to 28 will you be watching the films and dissecting how oregon
02:46uh beat ohio state and how you can attribute that for you to attempt to beat oregon this weekend
02:52well absolutely we're uh obviously that's what we do is we dive into the films and and spend
02:58countless hours doing just that evaluating and and uh determining you know what the best approach is
03:04what the best way to attack or defend as the case may be and uh that's uh the process that
03:10is an
03:10every week thing and and uh you know this week will be almost a dual uh approach where we're
03:19obviously trying to look at what oregon's doing and has you know did against ohio state and then also
03:23get a little jump start for when we play the buckeyes in two weeks and and get a you know
03:28really in-depth
03:29look at them now halftime at the michigan state game what were your thoughts and thinking that
03:34maybe hmm should we switch quarterbacks or do we keep with car what was that was yeah that was a
03:41discussion we had as a staff uh when all was said and done we felt it was probably not in
03:46the best
03:46interest of either guy to make the change either bryce or tommy and so we stuck with tommy the second
03:52half and it wasn't just a tommy problem i mean he had played exceptionally well the week before
03:57and as well as he played the week before he just had a you know there's a big drop off
04:01this last
04:02game but but again there's always more to it than than one guy just like when you make a change
04:06at
04:06oc there's more to the problem than just one guy and so uh we decided that uh to stay the
04:12course
04:13and to uh let tommy uh finish the game and and uh we just uh couldn't really get anything more
04:20going in the second half than we did the first half although we did score there at the end with
04:23a
04:24minute or so left in the game but too little too late at that point yeah uh any indication uh
04:30who
04:30are you going with this saturday you're gonna we're having discussions on that right now and
04:35as we speak in you know in the offensive room that's going on and and uh we will come to
04:40a
04:40conclusion and and uh couldn't tell you you know if i knew right now i probably wouldn't tell you
04:45anyway but i don't know sure you could i won't tell anybody yeah well uh you can tell uh by
04:54the
04:54armchair quarterbacks on social media i'm happy that uh to know that you don't look at the social
04:59media don't even have it on my phone i've never had social media on my phone couldn't even tell you
05:04how to get on it so that's that's uh something that uh is a distraction that i don't need for
05:09sure
05:09now do you feel like uh the pressure is building up on you this week before this game with oregon
05:15no i've never you know i feel pressure all the time every day of my life and so there's nothing
05:21different about this week uh although we do have three games in a row against top 25 teams so it's
05:26a gauntlet of sorts i guess you could say but but uh i can tell you right now their their
05:31roster is
05:32loaded with talent they've got uh just a ton of really good players and they seem to have got the
05:38quarterback situation uh more uh under control and that was really when they were losing those
05:43games that was the big issue was was the quarterback play and they've seemed to have uh with the
05:48coordinator change that they had also what two or three weeks ago uh settled in and and uh become
05:54much more effective offensively and it starts with quarterback play now i i know your experience
06:00with the first rivalry game is gonna sit in your mind for quite a while but uh uh what what
06:06is the
06:06morale in the locker room now going into this week well based on meetings this morning we haven't had
06:11a team meeting yet that'll be later today but uh guys were upset disappointed uh but certainly not
06:18hanging their heads or moping around i mean we gotta you know we got some some good football left to
06:23play
06:23and some really good teams and and so uh i would say they're more motivated than anything to get back
06:29out there and get back at it because that was such a disappointing outing that we had on saturday night
06:34so what's your schedule like this week uh since it is an away game when do you guys leave well
06:39we
06:39leave on thursday because we're going what three time zones away and uh i've never never done that
06:44as a coach i've never you've gone two time zones but never three and so when you have that situation
06:49even when it was two time zones you'd go a day ahead of time so we'll leave thursday rather than
06:52friday uh to try to get a lot acclimated and and uh you know more situated into the into the
06:59uh
06:59the time zone that we're playing in so that'll be a a big change or a big departure in our
07:03usual
07:04routine for a road game but but it's not uncommon i mean a lot of teams do that and that's
07:08their
07:08you know the way they approach it is if you know if it's a couple time zones or more than
07:12you
07:12you go out a day ahead of time well to quote my bob so once again leaving on a positive
07:18note you can't
07:18drive on i-75 but looking in the rearview mirror so best of luck to you this week and uh
07:25uh who knows
07:26maybe we'll shock the world this upcoming saturday good luck to you coach and as always go blue
07:33thank you very much i appreciate it go blue
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