Q&A with Coach Mac Bryan
Q. How would you characterize this year’s team?
A. Offense returns almost all production from last year. The offensive and defensive lines should be stronger and ready to compete.
Q. What will be the keys to your success?
A. Avoiding injury, development of the young linebacker group, and limiting mistakes.
Q. Who will be your key leaders on the team?
A. Darian Keefe, Jared Mitchell, Carson Goff, Tragontae Lewis, Donavon Vandergriff, and Landon Larsen.
Q. What are your biggest reasons for optimism?
A. Nine returning starters on offense, six returning starters on defense, and punter and kicker returns.
Q. What will keep you up at night?
A. The strength of our schedule. Region is very good with two tough teams as non-region games.
Q. What can you build on from last year?
A. Last year, seven games were decided in the 4th quarter. Much improvement over year one.
Q. Any lessons learned from last year?
A. As a team we learned we could compete each week.
Q. How would you characterize your team’s speed?
A. We have good speed in skill positions.
