Practice Availability: Head Coach Willie Fritz

I'm good Willie early in the week you began preparation UNLV as you end this week going into game week how do you feel things are in terms oh I feel good you know it's some of it even though I got a lot of guys who have been with me before coaches support staff you still got to teach you always are coaching to the lowest common denominator not the highest common denominator and some of the guys that been with me are teaching some of the other staff members how we do things and I don't want to be the first time we get on the sideline a week from Saturday that they understand sideline organization how we warm up expectations of where we're at in the locker room we're going over a lot of stuff right now so that we're prepared and we can play the game without you know having to think about too many things on Saturday obviously you guys put in so much preparation throughout the offseason up to this point now just for you personally as a coach what's the excitement level for you as you're so close to playing first oh you know I'm I'm I'm excited about it I I you know I love the prep ation part it's uh I love being able to work with everybody now we're starting to pair it down a little bit where we're getting the guys that are going to you know play the Reps in the ball game working with them a little bit more uh yeah but you know I'm always uh you know I try to look at it analytically I try to make sure that we we do a great job with preparation and you know it's just uh you know it's uh sometimes I you know I think I do a pretty good job of of just preparing each and every week the same way rather than going up and down you know what gives you the confidence that your guys are ready for the season over well we're uh uh they've had good practices you know one of the things we've tried to do too is we've Chang changed the environment that we're practicing we've been in the stadium been in the indoor we' been in the outdoor sometimes we were at two different spots during practice during the day just want our guys to because you're going to have to adapt during the game as well and you we got to be outside and get in the heat also you know it's it's going to be hot week from Saturday well he typically he playing in Houston this time many years and Advantage UNLV posted some stuff where they've been out in the 100 plus is that sort of a different type of opponent just because that's maybe not one of those advantag yeah I think that's good for them you know too and uh I think they're trading off a little bit going inside I know they had a real nice uh tweet x what do you call it whatever it is and uh showing working out in the Raiders facility you know where we had uh our media day so you know so yeah you uh you know hey you got to work where you got to work at and and and we'd be foolish not to go outside a bunch so coach you were just at a freshman event and you were talking to the student saying you want them do the R-rated version of the fight song what's your first experience with that how did you discover that when I got the job I had about 20 people send that to me you know I'd never noticed it before I guess when I was over here coaching so I just tell my guys what do the PG version we we were with the band the other night and we wanted to do the the PG version and uh you know when the students get out there and they want to have a little fun and go have a little fun you're about eight days out now Willie what if you can give a message to the fan base you know those yeah we we need to get you come on out I I think you're going to like our product our kids are going to play hard they're going to do it the right way you know we're we're a hustling football team we we're very disciplined uh you know we're going to tackle well we're going to play with effort you know and and uh hopefully something you'll be proud of so come on out and watch us so coach Eddie Eddie Nunes just got introduced what sort of relationship have you built with him in a short time just you know talk to him a few times you know his head's swimming I I was just went through that a few months ago so I know where he's coming from so I don't want to sit there and come in and hey I need this or that or I'm trying to give him some space and room and you know but uh I thought he did an excellent job job in the press conference and he's being around I got to find a time to introduce him to our players and our team he was out here earlier and I didn't know if he was going to stay all the way through or not but another good thing he's used to heat also they said new for him really healthwise how' you feel like you came out of Camp not bad you know we got a few guys hurt and I that's the only thing I don't like about this unbelievable sport of football but we're we're in pretty good shape and hey this is a big deal I'm giving them two days days off you know we're taking all day Saturday all day Sunday off and then getting in a game week and and the guys have earned it from uh all the practices that we've had over the last few weeks