Here's a rundown of Stitt's last presser today. Please still ready Kyle and A.J.'s stories on it though! There will be lots more info there.
"As a head coach you gotta look in the mirror. We got awesome kids. They give great effort, they are a great group. How as a football coach can I help these kids be successful?"
"There's a lot of things that don't go right, but ultimately, it's me. It's on me. I gotta get it done. I've done a lot of thinking and soul searching about that."
Cat Game "It's a tough loss. You hurt so bad for them. Even if the season going isn't perfect, that game is a chance for the seniors to go out with a really good taste in their mouths. It's disappointing for me as a coach to not help those guys go out on the right foot."
"You can move forward as a program, but it all comes down to wins and losses, and if you don't win, it doesn't feel good. And that's what these kids deserve, is winning football games. That's what our fans deserve. We gotta win, we gotta give ourselves chances to win football games. I've got to do a better job to help our team. I will do everything I possibly can to do that. Internally it eats at me. I can't sleep at night. I can't enjoy anything unless our players are successful. I wanna help these kids. I love coaching them. We've got the start of something great."
"Not gonna panic. We're gonna stay the course. We're gonna keep moving forward. Do I want it to happen fast? Yeah, I want it to happen as fast as possible. I want people to like me. I want people to be satisfied with the job we're doing. This is not an easy job. But I love it. What makes it awesome, is also what makes it hard. There's a lot of passion. I want to please people. I want people to be happy that I'm the head football coach, and we're gonna get to that point where people are going to be really excited about the product we put out there."
"It's my job to help us figure it out. Not our job, it's my job to help our coaches figure out how to have our offense, defense and special teams be successful."
"The little things that kill your football team, penalties and offsides and discipline, those are things that come back to me. It's my responsibility. I'm held accountable for that."
"I thougth we were still in good shape. We lost two tough road games to good football teams (NAU, EWU). But going to Northern Colorado, the way that game started, it hurt everybody. I don't know if we were ever able to recover from that fully."
"We're gonna reevaluate, offensively and defensively, and good through every game, and see where we failed them as coaches. Did we put to much on them? I'm gonna look at that. I'm gonna look at everything and make sure I'm not putting these guys in a position to fail."
"There's a plan in place. We got awesome players. Great young men in this program. We're gonna put another great class together this year, and another one after that and we're gonna be loaded. We're gonna be loaded with guys love each other and care about each other. They're gonna go to class, make the right decisions off the field and the product is going to be something that everybody is gonna be really proud of. We have that now too. Our seniors did a great job of leading this team, of bringing these freshman and young guys in. It's hard when you have to bring all these young guys in and infuse them into the team as one, and our seniors did that. I'll be forever debted to those guys for what they've done this past year. And that's what hurts so bad, is they didn't leave with the taste in their mouths that they wanted to have and I wanted for them, but, I appreciate them so much for what they've done."
