Arkansas State football holds weekly press conference, prepares for trip to Louisiana

JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) – Arkansas State soccer hits the street & renews a rivalry with Louisiana.

The Purple Wolves look to bounce again after squandering a 4th quarter double digit lead at Southern Miss.

“I used to be impressed by the best way the gamers confirmed up yesterday, a workman like mentality,” head coach Butch Jones stated. “No one hurts as a lot as we do, however that’s over with. It’s a studying expertise, it’s a part of our progress and evolution of our program. And opposite to what some folks assume, we’re making great strides. After we received right here, it’s evening and day completely different. And I’ve researched every thing. Tried to take a look at every thing, discover every thing. What can we do higher as coaches? What can I do higher? Is there a observe format, is there one thing extra? And we’re going to maintain grinding our method by means of this, trigger we’re making progress. However we’re right here to win, I get that. But it surely’ll come sooner or later.”

Jones is impressed with what he sees of the Ragin Cajuns on movie.

“As gifted of a soccer group in our convention that we’ve performed,” he stated. “I feel all of it begins defensively. They’re solely giving up 19 factors per sport, that’s 2nd in Solar Belt. They’ve generated 16 turnovers, which places them fifth within the nation total. They’ve 4 gamers on protection beginning which might be sixth 12 months gamers. And so they can wreck a soccer sport in a rush. So now we have to know the place they’re at. We now have to do a great job with our fundamentals and our particulars. They’re what you’d anticipated from a Louisiana offensive line. They’re massive and imposing. They’ve a secure of working backs. This week is all about us. We received to get our well being again. We now have to get our aggressive stability again.”

Arkansas State faces Louisiana Saturday at 4:00pm. The Solar Belt West matchup will likely be streamed on ESPN+.

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