Monday Press Conference

HawaiiAthletics.com has excerpts from Greg McMackin's Monday press conference. Here's a couple:

On the play of the defense…
But what I’m so proud of is how well the players handled the cut-block, because that was my main concern. Richard Torres, I think they had 68 plays, didn’t get cut one time. He was using his wrestling moves. Our theme on defense was to “stay alive.” Don’t get cut, or if you get cut, get back up because if you’re not on your feet then you can’t make plays. They did a great job of that. The front really played front and stout. Overall I’m really happy. Special teams, offense, defense, it was a team victory.

On the team’s focus…
Just like at San Jose State we learned how to focus. We were really focused the entire game. We have to take that into this (week’s) game because this is the most important game we will play.