MSU HC Pat Fitzgerald Liam's Kicking Triumph & 4th Quarter Comeback

In the kick game, I thought Liam was absolutely outstanding. Yeah, we had one blocked, our operation was a little slow, but I wanted to put him into that situation to see how he would respond. And man, oh man, did he. And what a great game he had, not only with his place kicking, but then also a dominant performance in the kickoff game. So all we could do is go 1-0 today, so that's what we did. And I'd like to go practice, cuz we got a lot of work to do, but really proud of the guys and I'm really thankful for them. 270 something days ago, we got together as a football family. And there was a lot of new faces, and a lot of new coaches, and a lot of new everything. And we've just gone through a journey to get to this point. And now it's about taking the necessary steps as coaches to help these guys improve in every aspect of what we do. So with that, I'll answer any questions that you may have. Coach, you talked about the first quarter and how you came out hot. The difference between coming out in the first quarter and the third quarter, and then the second part of the question, what did you say to get your team refocused in that fourth quarter? I'm disappointed I didn't have them ready to go better in the third quarter. We did move the ball a little bit, and we had that self-inflicted wound, and then we gave up the explosive. So now if you're in a fight, all of a sudden you got hit in the gut, and I got hit in the face, and you're stunned a little bit. And we just talked about what we value, and that's responding. It's all you heard on our boundary was respond, respond. And we do a drill called the fourth quarter at the end of practice every day. It's down ups, it's push ups, it's sit ups, it's nothing fancy, it's nothing magical. But it's about focus in the fourth quarter, and that's what we do. We come together, you guys maybe saw that, and the conversation was pretty easy.