Southern Miss head coach Blake Anderson speaks after loss to Tulane

Obviously gutted, disappointed for the guys to get that close and not get it done. They played hearts out, played with their hair on fire, challenged them all week. And they gave me everything that we just made some mistakes. Gotta give credit to Tulane. They made some plays that they had to make to win it. And we'll learn a lot from tonight. But I think it's a glimpse for our guys and our fans and everybody involved at what this team's capable of. And we just gotta take the next step, cuz we were right there and had a great chance to win it. Just made critical mistakes that we can't make. What questions do you have? Coach, what did you think of Andrew Liddy's performance? He hit them all over the team. Yeah, he did a great job. I thought he played a great game. Settled, it was rough early. They've got a really good front and we were struggling to cover them up. But I thought he did a great job sitting in there and staying in the pocket. Even though he's getting hits on and squeezed the ball long enough to make some plays down the field. Pulled it a couple times. Yeah, he did what I expected him to do. He played the way we needed him to play, gave us a spark, and pleased with what he did. You just walked us through the goal line there at the end and just kind of threw some of the play calling there. Not at all. You gotta, yeah, I mean, I thought we had good, thought they were good calls. I mean, we had opportunities to score and we're ahead away from in several different situations of getting it in. I don't wanna settle for a field goal, but I'll take a tie game too if we got to. I guess a good football team, but no, I thought we talked about a lot of the calls and liked them. Tried to give our best jump ball guy a chance in a one on one. We got it, we just didn't execute it real well. So, no, I'm not second guessing my play caller. I thought he did a good job all night. I guess a really good defense. Who thought of that?