Bennett Press Conference

[GoRedGoBlue]

Here it is...Real Audio required

<A HREF="http://www.smumustangs.com/multimedia/football/audio/030922_BennettPressConference.ram" TARGET=_blank>http://www.smumustangs.com/multimedia/football/audio/030922_BennettPressConference.ram</A>

I apologize if I misheard anything or misunderstood, but this is what he talks about...
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Jonas: played hard, was overmatched, but kept working at it, got rattled and lost focus

Punting: have to PUNT better, hard to cover when the tragectory is so inconsistent

Nevada: found their QB (600yds on SJSU)

Looking for Improvement: QB situation, would play both. Not sure we have the comlete package of what we are looking for...

"If you were taken off the field...we played almost every freshman we had dressed out."

Richard stayed 'in the game' despite being benched to help Tate.

"We are demanding, try to do the right thing, not near we need to be, but we are working to get their shortly"

"Maybe we are doing too much (on Bartel)?"

Phillips would be the next backup...Tate wasn't perfect, but gave some spark offensively.

Respects Jonas, took more blame than he should...got away from correct technique.

"You'd think that 52 pts would have 500yds, but they didn't...they had starting field position inside the SMU 35."

Nevada is a good football team.

Defensive: 3 or 4 True Fresh may play, not decided.

Decision is do it now, or wait.

R. Massey played well, 26 snaps, 8 carries. Slight ankle sprain.

If Mentzel cannot do it, then we are going to let Matt Rushbrook be our Punter, Punt returner, and leading scorer, and best WR blocker. 1990 Diamante stolen in parking garage...

BENNETT: He believes in a starting QB, but this situation last year and this is a unique situation. Cannot underestimate the effects of losing Luker and Page at that stage...

Townsend H. may not play this week. He's hurt.

The way DARRIN is progressing he may 'start'.

Bob Hitchcock was moved from DL to OL and became all big10 at Purdue, and played 9 seasons in the nfl... (example of doing so like Darrin)

Talks about the offense and checking off plays...

No one more determins than Larry E. (OC).

Had 4 coverage busts. They did NOT run against us, and we did not have 9 in the box.

Desmond Jones is playing above his years...

Nevada is 'GOOD' on defense, but is not great.

OSU's front 7 is best they will see (well, except TCU).

NOT at all down, determined.

[SMUguy]

Thanks for the highlights. Good to see SMU offering the sound file.

[FloridaMustang]

They offer it every week.. but the site is down for some reason tonite.