Published 9/11/2012 by: Jeremy Wrobel
Greg Mattison acknowledged he, himself did not arm his defense with enough in Saturday's performance against Air Force. The Wolverines allowed Air Force to rush for 290 yards and it took a late 4th quarter stop to ice the game.
"I'll take the blame for that as a coordinator. One thing we always talked about
with our defense is we're always going to have enough bullets, always have
enough in our package to be able to stop anything somebody does," he said. "For
a number of reasons, we maybe didn't have enough adjustments, or I didn't adjust
soon enough to take away what they were doing."Mattison was concerned overloading the defense with so much of their scheme. He didn't want them to not remember anything, with only having two actual prep days.
Mattison said. When we started to slow their attack is when we did better with our eyes," he said. "Watching the tape, in crunch time at the end of that game, we had seven freshmen and sophomores in there at one time right during the heat of it. I don't fault our players."
"I'll say it again - I could have done a better job. That's why I'm proud of the players."
Not thoroughly impressed in the effort but Mattison said, "But it's great to be able to look at that and get a win."
With only two days actual prep time and playing with young talent, I feel Coach Mattison did a pretty good job. Air Force was coming off a blow out win and high confidence. They came to play and if it weren't for Mattison's defense stepping up and stopping them when they had to, it may have been a bad day. Overall in two days, I felt he did a great job.
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