What They Said: Postgame quotes after K-State beats UCF

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CHRIS KLIEMAN

Opening statement: “A difficult loss last week and we talked on Monday in here as a team that we couldn’t let Missouri beat us twice. Our kids rose up and our captains, our leaders rose up, and we played an excellent football team. UCF is really talented. They’ve been 3-0 and played good football. We knew this was going to be the type of game it was. Back and forth with an explosive offense. Two things we had to do, we had to be able to rush the football, we absolutely had to be able to rush the football to try to keep their play count down. And then the second thing we had to do is we had toget some negative plays, some tackles for losses, some things where we could get them off the sticks a little bit. For us to hold those guys to 59 plays in 25 minutes and we have 82 plays in 34 plus minutes, that was the recipe. The easy name is DJ Giddens. We challenged DJ. We said we were gonna give you the football. You needed to step up, you have all the ability in the world. We’ve got to believe in you and we’re gonna keep giving it to you and keep giving it to you. And then we didn’t know if Will [Howard] would play and he was not 100%. But in the second half, I told him you have to run the football for us to secure this win. You absolutely have to because they were starting to key in on things and they weren’t rushing him late. They just started batting balls down. Great job by them. Will had to become a runner and I challenged him a couple of times on the sideline and he responded. We’re 1-0 on league play going into an open weekend, we couldn’t be more thrilled. We’re by no means a finished product. We’ve got to get a lot better as a football team. We’re still growing and learning as a team but excited to come back home in front of a great sellout crowd. Our crowd was phenomenal tonight. They stayed and they were into it. They were a big factor in a number of delays of game they [UCF] had in the fourth quarter.”

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Publish date : 2023-09-24 12:21:15

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