00:00And, Coach, 2026 Tigers, what are we going to see this year?
00:05Oh, man, just a gritty bunch.
00:08You know, we're excited about the opportunity.
00:09We've got a challenging schedule, as always,
00:12going to open up in Baton Rouge against LSU.
00:15Obviously, they've been well, you know, documented.
00:20Obviously, hiring Coach Kiffin and what a great job he's done
00:23and the players they brought in there.
00:25So, we've got our hands full right out of the gate.
00:26But, man, just a tough, gritty team.
00:29You know, a bunch of nobodies just trying to find a way to, you know,
00:34go have a little better season than we had last year.
00:38Now, you sound like Lou Holtz.
00:40I know this gimmick.
00:41Jimmy used to always go, because Lou Holtz,
00:43I don't know how we're going to beat Miami.
00:45I have no idea how we're going to beat him.
00:46Those guys are the best.
00:48I'm like, Coach, you're 12-0.
00:53Under sell over deliver, right, Coach?
00:55Yeah, that's right.
00:58We don't have much room to talk around here right now coming off our year last year.
01:03We just got to put our heads down and go to work and see if we can go and fight
01:08our way back toward the top.
01:10Coach, what did you learn from last year's season?
01:14I mean, it's still the little things.
01:17I mean, it's still football stuff.
01:18You know, you got to do the little things well to win football games.
01:22We lost three games by a total of 11 points, and we lost two of those games on the last
01:28play of the game, literally.
01:29And we had a couple games that we had to lead in the fourth quarter, and we didn't finish.
01:34You know, you got to – first of all, you can't beat yourself.
01:37You got to have 11 people that are on the same page that understand the call.
01:43We had too many times we didn't have that last year, especially in the back end defensively.
01:49We were really, really poor, and just being on the same page in the secondary and gave up a lot
01:56of big plays, a lot of busts, that was really frustrating.
02:00And then offensively, you know, you got to be able to run the football.
02:03You know, you got to have a presence up front and being able to run the ball, and you got
02:07to be committed to that.
02:08And, you know, so, you know, it's really more just confirmation of things that I know as a football coach,
02:15the things that win games.
02:17And, you know, we just didn't do those little things well, and the opponents did.
02:21And, you know, everybody's got good players.
02:23Everybody's got good coaches.
02:24And, you know, the one thing about Clemson, we're going to get everybody's A game.
02:27You can count on that.
02:28And, you know, so you got to do the little things that win football games.
02:36And, again, it's blocking.
02:37It's tackling.
02:38It's eye discipline.
02:39It's angles.
02:41It's, you know, great communication.
02:44It's special teams.
02:45You know, we gave up a kick return for a touchdown in one of those games that we lost on
02:50the last play.
02:51So, you know, all those things matter.
02:53And but, you know, that team was a committed group.
02:57I love those guys.
02:58I mean, bottom line is I didn't get it done.
03:01It was just, you know, a season that, you know, we came up short from what we expect around here.
03:07And, you know, thankful that, you know, that one's over and in the rearview mirror.
03:12And it's all about, you know, what's ahead of us now.
03:14We've got a new opportunity.
03:15We've got a new opportunity.
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