Chuck Long
Chuck Long
Charles Franklin "Chuck" Long, Jr.is an American football coach. He played quarterback in college at Iowa for Hayden Fry and professionally with the Detroit Lions and the Los Angeles Rams. He is an inductee of the College Football Hall of Fame. In the January 2008 issue of San Diego Magazine he was chosen as one of the "50 People to Watch in 2008". He was fired by San Diego State University as its head football coach on November 23, 2008...
training week
I would look at this week for us as like a training camp. We're back in camp.
backs feature good guys nice offense running saw stood tailor
We want to tailor our offense to our personnel. We have good running backs, and we want to feature those guys, as you saw today. I thought those guys stood out. The running backs did a nice job.
closure move ready
It does give me some closure to be out here, but I'm ready to move on.
happen middle
That doesn't happen a lot. It still doesn't happen a lot in the middle of the season.
came excited far happy program time year
I would look at anything that came along, but at the same time I'm very happy here. I'm excited about our program - where it is, what we've done so far this year from where we started and where it can go in the future, I think,
alignment ball both care created execution few good improvement last looking overall penalties plus sides
I thought overall the execution was good on both sides of the football. I was looking for a few things. I was looking for an improvement on penalties over last week, which we did, and better alignment on assignment, which we did. We still need to take care of the ball better, but defensively we created some turnovers, which was plus for them.
defense emphasized great ground job offense practice scoring twice
The offense put it on the ground twice and we can't have that, but the defense did a great job of scooping and scoring when they did, which is big for us. That's something we've emphasized in practice every day.
anyone competing fall front guys push strongly summer talk training unless
I told all of (the coaches), unless someone is really out in front at all positions, let's see if we can push everything into the fall and keep guys competing over the summer and into training camp. But if there's anyone they feel strongly about, we'll talk about it and go from there.
beat growing guys hard pains roll sleeves stay tape together tomorrow watch worked
We all worked hard in camp, but when you get in games, it's a little different. We're not going to beat our guys up. We were all part of this deal. We'll watch tape tomorrow (Sunday) and see what happens. The big thing we told the guys was they had to stay together ... we're just going to roll our sleeves up and work. We have some growing pains right now.
coaching game saying staff
At the time, the coaching staff had to be saying to each other, 'this is our game to win.'
fall fighting kinds positions
There could be some possibilities, but (potential candidates) are really fighting for other positions right now. Those kinds of things will get ironed out more in the fall than they will in the spring.
needed practices
We got 29 practices in August, ... and we needed more.
evaluate
We think he's going to be OK, but we'll evaluate him and see.
far pleased
As far as we're concerned, we're very pleased with the arrangement.