Spaulding Report: UCLA Football New Mexico Week Media Interviews
As you wait for today's game to kickoff, we've gathered all of this week's UCLA Football interviews for you in one place.
It’s been a rough week. Focusing on football tonight will be nice.
As usual, we’ll get right to this week’s interviews and see what’s been getting said at this week’s UCLA football press conferences. I’m just going to share these here all in the same place to make it easy for our readers to watch them if you haven’t already. The videos in this article are courtesy of UCLA Athletics on YouTube unless noted otherwise.
With the short week, UCLA’s media interviews this week occurred on Monday and Tuesday
As usual, we’ll start off with head coach DeShaun Foster. After declining to provide any more details about Pierce Clarkson, Foster was asked about the some of the team’s national statistical rankings. He responded by saying:
I’m just finding a way to get these guys to show up in the first half. I think if we could put together two halves like we did in that second half and play like that earlier on, then a lot of these numbers might be a little different, but we played a really good team in that in that first game and the second the second game didn't start the game necessarily way that we wanted to. And I was just glad that they were able to come out after half and start executing the way that they needed to because a lot of it is just execution. I think that we're stopping ourselves more than the the opponent is stopping us.
On Tuesday, defensive coordinator Ikaika Malloe met with the media instead of Coach Foster. He also spoke about starting faster and getting going earlier in the game.
I feel like we're finding the pieces to put in in in better ways. What I thought was we had to kind of make some adjustments to it. The first half and the second half was obviously different in the last game. So, we’ve got to continue on from the second half and actually start faster. So, we are finding the right pieces in terms of how I can protect people, but, ultimately, it came down to execution. We’ve just got to execute better.
The player who met with the media on Monday was junior tight end Jack Pedersen.
Then, on Tuesday, running back Anthony Jones spoke with the media.
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