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Soundbites: Post-practice media availability (North Carolina) – Virginia Tech Athletics
Tech head coach Brent Pry and offensive lineman Johnny Jordan communicate to the media Wednesday
Soccer
9/28/2022 8:12:00 PM
BLACKSBURG – Virginia Tech soccer met with media Wednesday after apply to debate this week’s matchup towards North Carolina for a media availability. Learn under to see what head coach Brent Pry and offensive lineman Johnny Jordan needed to say.
Head coach Brent Pry
On how he thought the brief week final week might have carried over into the sport:
“We talked about it on Friday. All people felt fairly good. If you put the movie on, they’re reacting, they’re driving all over the fourth quarter, so I do not suppose it was fatigue. You aren’t getting as many reps becoming issues in a brief week. We’re nonetheless studying as a protection, so which may have been an element, nevertheless it was performs we’ve executed all week lengthy.”
On what he thinks the protection wants to enhance on going into North Carolina:
“Truthfully, we simply did not match issues very nicely. Not like we had been doing in apply. We sort of misplaced our minds on the market. We missed some key reads. We tried to do issues outdoors of our job. We have to see what we have to see as people. We have to belief in our teammates. We should deal with higher. We had finished that for 3 weeks. We did not do a superb job tackling. We left an excessive amount of within the air. I believe North Carolina has some good backs. They’re athletic and so they have a secure of them. I do not know if they’ve been as dedicated to operating the ball as West Virginia has been. However they’re actually going to wish to run the ball. Plus, their quarterback is an element operating the soccer.”
Head coach Brent Pry
On how he thought the brief week final week might have carried over into the sport:
“We talked about it on Friday. All people felt fairly good. If you put the movie on, they’re reacting, they’re driving all over the fourth quarter, so I do not suppose it was fatigue. You aren’t getting as many reps becoming issues in a brief week. We’re nonetheless studying as a protection, so which may have been an element, nevertheless it was performs we’ve executed all week lengthy.”
On what he thinks the protection wants to enhance on going into North Carolina:
“Truthfully, we simply did not match issues very nicely. Not like we had been doing in apply. We sort of misplaced our minds on the market. We missed some key reads. We tried to do issues outdoors of our job. We have to see what we have to see as people. We have to belief in our teammates. We should deal with higher. We had finished that for 3 weeks. We did not do a superb job tackling. We left an excessive amount of within the air. I believe North Carolina has some good backs. They’re athletic and so they have a secure of them. I do not know if they’ve been as dedicated to operating the ball as West Virginia has been. However they’re actually going to wish to run the ball. Plus, their quarterback is an element operating the soccer.”
Offensive lineman Johnny Jordan
On the climate problem the Hokies face this weekend at North Carolina:
“We’ve got been working all of it week with the moist ball snaps. Simply spraying the ball with water to make it possible for we’re ready for all climate situations.”
On apply forward of this week’s recreation versus North Carolina:
“It has been good. I assumed we had a extremely good Tuesday apply yesterday, and one other good one at present. I believe we’re in the best mentality heading into one other ACC recreation.”