Hunter Luepke--NDSU fullback

indu fullback Hunter lipkey and he got a lot of a lot of love a lot of attention uh on on Saturday in in Tucson and you know I'm sure disappointing with the with the loss I mean you're you're going down there to win and make a statement but uh I guess just you know after it's been all said and done just overall thoughts on what happened with the game Saturday yeah I thought we played really hard I thought uh the effort and physicality was there uh just didn't make some plays when we need to on both sides of the ball and yeah didn't come out didn't turn out our way but as far as defensively with Arizona were they you know was it was it a physical style that maybe you you were kind of used to you expected I guess that were there any surprises in what they threw at you defensively I don't think surprises we knew we were going to they were going to play hard throughout the entire game so went in there with the same mindset we do every other week so um we wanted to play our physical style of football and I thought that showed throughout the game yeah there were some moments I think you guys you were ready to take over that game and just kind of a few little things here and there just turn over here penalties things like that maybe things that you just accustom that that they're going to happened maybe it didn't take place and that's just you know the the the atmosphere and playing an opponent like that I mean it was for your class this was a new experience yeah I mean it's something that we're we're not used to but uh coach and said it yesterday we got to learn from it and burn it so that's what we're going to do you feel like you you've learned from it already or is that just kind of come come with time I think I've been I've been through a couple in the past and I think just looking up to those leaders and seeing what they did in the past kind of helps me through it now um just got to put it through and I don't know burn it get it out of your memory I mean nothing nothing's going to change what happen so might as well move on from it yep that's uh that's very true you hadn't played a whole lot the first two games did you feel like even in third fourth quarter you felt like you felt good even with the the weather the way it was you were you were still feeling good going into that that second half yeah I felt great I thought uh my conditioning and stuff was where it needs to be coach Cramer and his staff do a great job throughout the summer and we did our 24 period practices throughout fall camp and into game weeks and stuff like that too so I thought I thought everybody's stamina and conditioning was adequate a little bit different with the 8 o00 start what did you guys do over the course of the afternoon to uh to to keep yourself loose and right it a go yeah so we did a couple extra walkthroughs than we normally do and just just to get our minds on the game uh tried not to get too too pumped up early in the day tried to save it all before the game but yeah did you did you maybe feel some of the guys some of the young guys maybe got a little little too hyped up or were they did they keep pretty good even Keel over the course of the game yeah I thought I thought everybody played or stayed pretty even Keel I I don't think anybody on the sideline was too too pumped up or too jacked up for this game I mean we talked about it all week last week it's just it's just another game for us it's nothing nothing too big or nothing too small so what do you use like your wrestling background how do you how does that kind of can you use that to to to your advantage of the football field wrestling is a really big mental sport so I think I use a lot a lot of my uh mental aspects of wrestling with football and also just with I think pad level two I mean wrestling is all all about level changes and stuff like that so I think that helped me helps me a lot on the football field as well uh how much do you kind of have the same mentality as the offensive line with Jaylen and Cody and some of these guys who played together so long that you know you can just line up and go Toe to Toe with anybody yeah I mean I I trust them with everything I have so I mean they're a good group of guys they put their work in they're they're here on Sunday watching the game already right when we got back so I mean they put in a ton of time into this program and into each other and I mean it's hard it's hard not to have a better group when they do all that what do you what can you learn from A Loss like this once you get in you know it's kind a perfect timing you go right into the next step here in the conference yeah I think it's just how how the team reacts to it and I mean I thought practice yesterday was was dialed in and we were all pretty focused so I think just the focus piece throughout the week and then uh just how much detail we want to put in into into our work so NSU fullback hun liy I appreciate the time as always thank you