Georgia Tech interim head coach Brent Key speaks after loss to Miami
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00:10 >> Anytime you lose a football game at this point,
00:25 it's not disappointing, but you need to do your stuff.
00:30 I didn't agree with what I said.
00:31 >> [LAUGH]
00:32 >> No, but anytime you lose a game,
00:34 it's disappointing.
00:35 So the true disappointment comes if you don't come back the next week and
00:39 you're ready to work, and that starts tomorrow.
00:42 We challenge guys in the locker room that the character of our team has got to
00:47 prevail, and it's got to rise up tomorrow, the guys that have the character.
00:52 It's important to come back tomorrow and get to work and
00:55 ready to play another football game next Saturday.
00:59 If there is anybody that doesn't, which I don't think there will be,
01:02 you only get so many games of football in your life, and
01:05 they run out at some point.
01:07 So those guys have to wake up tomorrow and be ready to come in and
01:10 understand what the mistakes were and what we have to correct.
01:13 And also build on what the things that were good in the game and
01:16 move forward and get ready to play a good North Carolina ball game next Saturday.
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01:24 >> I think Miami finished the game with 44 rushes.
01:28 Did you expect them to run the ball as much as they did?
01:31 >> Yes, we did.
01:32 Depending on which quarterback was in the football game,
01:35 we expect it to be a quarterback driven run game.
01:38 And that's what it was in the 11th game.
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01:44 >> Coach, both your quarterbacks, two intercepts today,
01:47 maybe they weren't comfortable or maybe they're not seeing something,
01:50 but how do you kind of attribute some of that to them?
01:52 >> Excuse me, the first one, I'll go back and look at them all.
01:58 The first one was a play down the sideline,
02:01 a good ball that was kind of a 50/50 ball down the sideline.
02:04 And they ended up getting interception with a one yard line,
02:07 one with Nate, went down with that one, got air knocked out of him.
02:11 On that play, so it's a 50/50 ball that they were able to come up with.
02:16 The other ones, we'll get in and look at it and see exactly what happened.
02:18 But you can't turn the ball over.
02:22 That was the number one most critical factor in the game, it is always.
02:25 That's one reason we've been able to have some success week to week,
02:29 was being able to take care of the football and
02:31 then on the other side be able to get the football.
02:33 And we flipped it the other way today, so we're gonna go back and
02:36 look exactly why those things occurred when it was a gadget shot play
02:41 that we're getting some momentum back from paper on it.
02:46 So those are things that we definitely gotta look at and
02:49 gotta correct those things.
02:51 ASAP, we'll go ahead and get them next week.
02:54 >> Anything else for Coach Keefe?
02:57 >> The coach, working on that same question there for a second.
03:05 How tricky is it as a head coach to address your team?
03:07 This margin of loss was obviously quite significant.
03:10 And yet, they just picked off two passes inside the L15,
03:13 one of which instantly became a touchdown.
03:16 So in many respects, you weren't that far off.
03:19 >> Yeah. >> Off that line for
03:20 confidence versus constructive criticism.
03:22 >> As a coach, you can't look at the scoreboard and
03:27 make judgments based on the scoreboard and how you address your team,
03:30 how you prepare your team, how you work with your team.
03:33 And for the last, what is it, seven games, six games,
03:38 that is the way our teams work.
03:40 We look at what we have to do to prepare during the week,
03:42 what we have to do fundamentally during the game,
03:44 what we have to do in the grand scheme of how the game is being played.
03:48 And go out and play every single play for 60 minutes of the game,
03:51 one play at a time, and not look at the scoreboard.
03:53 And when a team is truly conditioned to do that, then you're able to go back in
03:58 after a game, whether you win or lose, and make those adjustments and
04:00 make those corrections.
04:01 Because you can't look at a scoreboard and
04:06 truly be honest with yourself of how the game is played.
04:10 There's been games that people have won by a lot of points that they made a ton of
04:12 mistakes, and vice versa.
04:14 So we've gotta be extremely objective in the way we look at game film and
04:18 the way our kids play the game, because that's what carries over on Saturdays.
04:22 Yeah, it's great to say, we played really hard,
04:24 we should have been closer than we were.
04:26 But in the day, we don't look at the scoreboard, but
04:29 it is the way you're judged, that's life.
04:32 So all the external things that these kids hear every single day is about
04:38 scoreboard, they score, they score, they score, win, lose, win, lose.
04:41 So as coaches, that is our number one priority every single day,
04:45 is to take these guys and condition them so that that does not become something that
04:50 affects the way that they prepare, it affects the way that they play the game.
04:54 And regardless of what the score is in the game, you can turn on the film and
04:58 not look at that.
04:59 When the film comes on, it shows the scoreboard, it shows the wide shot,
05:02 it shows the end zone shot.
05:04 Well, you should be able to turn the game on regardless of when it is in
05:08 the football game, and never look at the scoreboard and not be able to tell.
05:11 Cuz that's how a football team has gotta play every single game.
05:14 It's no different than Zach Pyron.
05:16 If you looked at his score last week at the end of the game, and
05:19 the one he scored two weeks prior, the week prior,
05:22 you can't tell the difference in the way that kid was playing in the game.
05:25 Regardless of the score, and as a coach, that's what you look for.
05:28 That's what we look for in our kids.
05:30 That's what we strive every single day to get our kids to be able to believe in.
05:35 And when they truly believe in it, and they've been able to do that long enough,
05:38 and you build on one time, and one time, and one time, and one time.
05:40 All of a sudden now, a bunch of those instances, they become something big.
05:44 That's what culture of the team is.
05:46 That's culture.
05:48 Culture's not something you, that's the culture of your team.
05:52 >> Can I interrupt myself, sir?
05:55 Their run game in the first half, it seemed like it was instrumental.
06:02 I'm curious if you feel like your front,
06:04 even the front was responding playing the way you think they can.
06:07 >> Yeah, I mean, when you have a quarterback driven run game like they did,
06:14 really you become an extra half.
06:15 And then you add the readout to it.
06:18 So there's different things that we've worked on up front on the defensive,
06:23 from the defensive side of the ball, to create confusion on their side.
06:27 To change gaps, to move the front from one way or the other.
06:30 To be able to play different techniques with the defensive ends,
06:33 to change the reads of the quarterback, to take away some of those plays.
06:37 And there were times that we executed the way we were supposed to do.
06:41 And there were times that we executed and they made a play.
06:46 And whether it was a couple of counter replays with the running back wide
06:50 to the field where you're in position, the kid slips right through it, and
06:54 was able to circle the defense on us.
06:55 So the overlap in the defense is something we gotta continue to preach and
07:00 harp on and build half those guys.
07:02 When something like that does happen, the overlap in the defense,
07:05 the other person is coming to get the player down, get the ball down.
07:09 And negate the big plays.
07:10 >> Thank you, coach.