Indiana vs. FIU - Curt Cignetti Postgame Press Conference

okay I thought it was a really crisp start jumped up 21 nothing had to click it in all three phases and then uh you know from the middle of second quarter to halftime really sloppy ball on both sides um defenses credit we shut him out in second half held him under 200 yards thought that was good teams were solid but offense just you know too many uh opportunities squandered you know and then uh protection and just uh got to get better there well got to learn to play the lead gotta learn to play the lead you got 21 nothing man got to keep the edge and uh you know so there's a lot of things we're trying to change here and another thing we're trying to change a tradition is uh you got to keep the people in the in the seats after hack and create a high four environment state but we got to play better too so it's a win and uh something to build question yeah I think I'm G to focus now on on the game I made my statement and uh we got we have to play that I was disappointed with the way we played M jumped up 21 more but but I did think defensively other than one drive we played well uh we were swarming the football uh doing a nice job of uh in the past game for the most part put pressure on the quarterback um created a turnover or two and um so um again I didn't one drive um I thought I saw pretty significant Improvement um and a team to had chance I guess just following up on that I think eight tackles for lost four sacks just how how encouraged were you with seeing the disruption you were getting at the line of scrimmage in particular defens yeah well those tfls and sacks are great I didn't know the numbers but we've always been high in tfls and sacks and we have guys that have the ability to do that too so uh you know I think it's something to build on I heard uh first for his first game in an IU uniform how would you assess Curtis Ro to play today you know I thought uh you know he made some plays uh and uh scrambled out of the pocket made a couple plays and and then uh the protection broke down a little bit on him he he missed two to four reads which is going to happen in a football game and uh familiarity with uh scheme and things like that just playing more snaps uh we left we left 10 at least 10 plays out there offensively but not the quarterback not the quarterback um so yeah uh I like the way he moved around because he hadn't been hit and made some nice thrs I I I can't you know we had some real nice chunks in the Run game um and most of the pressure I saw was coming off the edge in the pass game so uh you know we would uh get the Run game going in the second half and chunks chunks chunks kind of breaking their will they would throw it and you know go backwards or uh but you know those guys are capable and we're going to be okay there yeah the offense changes week to week based on the opposition you know we threw a couple uh surprise type plays at them early in the game and they worked and had W again there early in the second half it should have worked for a touchdown and as the game was going on I was wishing that we had a few more to be honest with you you we didn't have that many of men so um you know want to see this play off offense like we started those first uh three out of four series Coach Andrew Turvy came up with a a tackle for loss of sack what did he show you in Fall Camp to earn that playing time you know in a close game in second half yeah uh walk on and uh you know plays really hard and he's smart and you know he does what he's supposed to do because our defense is pretty heavy uh you know there's a lot of adjustments and there's some Reed Reed and react after uh the balls has been snapped based on how lineman play and he's a real Dependable guy and uh that's all we needed was somebody over there at that particular time to sort of do what he was supposed to do because there were plays to be made coach the transfer transfers accounted for 360 of the 14 414 yards of offense today what does that say about your cut your staff and your guys's ability to bring in the right guys then get them ready for most of those guys are proven guys you I me so um you know we made some plays out there we're capable of making them um we didn't see Donovan McCully out there for you know a lot of the game what what's he been dealing with and you know how long we got him you know he was getting involved early and took a uh got got hit and um went back in there for a little bit and then uh that was it for him so um you know see your hands it was he he wasn't medically clear to go back yet you all ran it well I want to say averaged a little under six yards a carry um how would you kind of evaluate the way that um the rushing attack kind of played today yeah there was some nice creases and some nice Cuts nice chunks and now we got to take the next step and you know with a little bit better downfield blocking or breaking a tackle here and there those 12 and 13 yard games become 25 and 30 and 40 I was really impressed with Elijah green that last play I mean he broke through there with a two- line and uh showed speed and burst and they couldn't catch him Coach a lot of rushing yards today and I know that penalties are something that drives you insane uh eight penalties on the offense today was that just due to being the first game a little bit of fatigue coming in eight of the nine penalties were were on the offense yeah good job defense um too many penalties uh there were quite a few penalties and scrimmages it was a focus to eliminate penalties um but I think when you look around college football um you're seeing that in the openers right now it's almost like they're teachable moments and they learn from up the next game I'm not uh making an excuse by any means because we didn't want to have any uh I am pleased that we didn't have turnovers because I was worried about penalties and turnovers so we don't have uh to teach that uh which was good so but we got to do better in that area you talked a lot about in Fall camp in Spring just about the depth at receiver and rotating those guys how you know who kind of dictates when those guys come in and out and and how and how happy were you with kind of the the depth you showed there with you know very little I thought early on they made some plays and cross made a really nice catch and uh you know we just want them to play fast and you know if they played four five six plays in a row and all a sudden they run a deep route we try to get new group in there and sometimes we'll we'll sub out a whole uh three wide group for another three wide group so get them playing fast we have a lot of capable guys