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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 3971119, member: 289"] Gomez came on and again talked about how “you can highlight the guys on a Friday night game” Dino: “The spotlight is on your trademark. Everybody who plays on Saturday will be watching us.” He also said that “the kids were really turned in and focused against Albany”. Gomez suggested that Albany “might have some guys who could play at the next level”. Dino: “I’m not here to recruit other people.” Was playing spring ball an advent age for Albany? “It would be interesting if FCS became spring football instead of these NFL spin-offs. It would add some college flavor. Gomez, noting all the scouts that will be at this game, asked if every D1 player has been scouted at one time or another by an NFL scout. Dino: “No, scouts decide quickly who they want to look at.” (Sorry, Airon.) “OK, you’re the best at your position on your team. Are you the best in your conference, in your region, in the country? And if you are, are you better than Justin Pugh, who’s bene in the pros for 6 years? NFL means ‘Not for long’ so you need that degree from a private school to kick in.” (A degree from a state school doesn’t ‘kick in’?) This game will be the first where Dino and Liberty Coach Hugh freeze will shake hands. Freeze watched the 2019 game form a hospital gurney in a stadium suite and last year they couldn’t do it due to Covid restrictions. “We’ve had no normal games.” Gomez was impressed with the Dome light show after a score. Dino thinks the big new scoreboard reminds him of the spaceship in 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'. I think it’s been a long time since he’s seen that movie. [ATTACH type="full"]206618[/ATTACH] = [ATTACH type="full"]206619[/ATTACH] ? Gomez bemoaned that we were finally getting the tight end involved and then Luke Benson goy hurt. Dino: “Luke got off to a good start. I think it was on his second catch when he got hit low- a legal hit. He’s banged up.” I called in my second question. Dino: “Both Jarveon, who I would have loved to see get the TD because he took us down there, and garret could have scored. The quarterback isn’t looking at the hole the running back has in front of him or how far he has to go. He’s keying on a defender on a zone read. Jarveon could have wrapped his hands over that and demanded the ball but he’s very unselfish, as both the quarterback and running back have to be. That’s only the second time I’ve seen someone do that and I won’t discuss the other time.” On the penalties: “there was an NFL ref there and a bunch of guys who were applying for jobs. But don’t get me fined. Some of those were real.” Gomez asked what Dino looks for from the quarterbacks that the fans wouldn’t notice. Dino: “Certain passes. We time them with a stop watch. He needs good pass protection. Was the receiver doing it right?...A two quarterback formation would be cool.” (But Dino doesn’t like cool.) “We’ll play one guy and if he does well, he’ll finish the game., If he doesn’t, we’ll take him out.” Gomez said that this is the 15th anniversary of Mike Gundy’s famous “I am a man” rant” and that Gundy might have had a point with his comments on the media. Dino: “I thought I had a point with my rant: ‘Another personal foul, dang it!’ And I said ‘dang’, not some other word…. Don’t get offended if you get too close to the dog and he snaps at you.” Donovan McNabb and Gary Anderson have been nominated for the Hall of Fame. Dino predicted they would make it and that Dwight Freeney, Chandler Jones and Justin Pugh will be there someday. He recalled Gary Anderson from the days he’d come out to Hawaii and play in the Pro Bowl. “When the pro stars took over the town, the college players were told to stay home because they’re too small.” [/QUOTE]

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