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LDN: How hard is it to get a team up
for a game like this after starting out with two wins on the road?
Coach Oaks: I wouldn't think it would be hard,
but it isn't something that they have done before. When you are
trying to turn a program around you go through some spells, or they
are learning some lessons, sometimes the hard way… Like I told them,
you can't just show up and expect people to roll over for you.
You've got to come ready to play. We came ready to play the first
two games, but tonight we where just
sluggish out there. We had a couple turnovers and too many
penalties. Those were things we were not doing the first two games.
That just shows me that we weren't mentally ready to go tonight.
LDN: The fire just didn't seem to be there tonight. Was it
just a letdown from the first two games?
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Coach Oaks: I
think part of it was. Then we had a couple of guys dinged. That
didn't help things as the game went along -- hopefully nothing serious.
You've got to learn to keep that week in and week out and keep the
desire and the fire going and come to play that way.
LDN: How are you going to get them ready for next week's game?
Coach Oaks: This is a wake-up call for them. If we can't get
ready after this week, we are in trouble… Either they will learn a
lesson from this or they won't. I think this team wants to be
successful and they are working hard to be successful, and this is a
lesson that they will learn from and be ready to come out ready to
go like they did the first two weeks.
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