Lubick remains confident in himself and team
CSU head football coach Sonny Lubick said he is expecting his
team to improve this week against San Diego State at his weekly
press conference Monday at CB & Potts in Fort Collins.
“We like to think we have made some progress,” Lubick said. “But
this will be a test.”
Lubick, whose team is coming off a bye week after losing the
conference opener to BYU 31-21, said the team was going to get
better.
“You get the feeling something is wrong?” Lubick said,
questioning the assembled press. “There’s nothing wrong with
me.”
Addressing concerns about his coaching and his team
underachieving, Lubick said he doesn’t have any doubt that the team
played as well as it could have.
“The kids did everything they could to win (in all our games),”
Lubick said. “They played hard, that’s it. I feel good about this
group.”
Lubick said winning the remaining six games on the Rams schedule
is his goal.
“We need to start acting better and playing better,” Lubick
said. “We will go from there.”
Even though CSU lost the conference opener, Lubick was
optimistic about the Rams’ chances of competing in the Mountain
West Conference.
“I’d wait till it plays out,” Lubick said of his team’s chances
in the MWC. “We’ll go play football, and be the best we can
be.”
Facing SDSU this week, Lubick said it would be a challenge
facing a defense that only gave up 264 yards to Wyoming this past
weekend, still losing 20-10
“They are as good on defense as anyone in this league,” Lubick
said. “(But) we have a quarterback who can move the ball, and we
have been running better and our offensive line is blocking
well.”
Lubick said the team had been working this past week on red-zone
scoring, which has been a struggle for the offense. CSU is second
in total offense in the MWC but only scores an average of 21 points
per game.
“We’re pretty good, we just haven’t scored any points,” Lubick
said. “But I don’t think we’ve played any bad defenses.”
Lubick admitted that things change when teams approach the end
zone.
“When you get to the 12-yard line or whatever, you have to do
things differently,” Lubick said. “You have to see what works and
what doesn’t. We’re working on that and should be better.”
Facing the first 1-4 start of his term at CSU, Lubick said this
was a critical game for the rest of the season.
“We don’t want to say this is the turning point,” Lubick said.
“But we have got to come together as a football team. It is time
for us now to see if we can shock the media and the sportswriters
and win some games.”
Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.