Carroll McCray
Carroll McCray
Carroll McCrayis the head football coach at Gardner–Webb University. He was previously the head coach at Austin Peay State University from 2003 through 2006 and at North Greenville University in 2012...
goals good group hard individual picked pleased segments work
I'm pleased with what we've done so far. But this is a big, big week, to see how much more we can improve. Every individual group has goals we're working on. I thought we got good work today; we picked it up more at the end in live competition. I think it's important we have segments every day where we put them in competitive situations, while working hard on our fundamentals." ()
camp concentration days execution four good maybe
I didn't think our execution was as good today. ... Maybe camp is getting to us a little, about 10 days in with about four to go. But I just didn't think our concentration was as good. It has to be much better, much quicker." ()
crowd hope man men red white
I hope that we will see a big crowd (tonight). A lot of these young men have a lot of fans. I hope they will all show up and will be our 12th man in the red and white so we can go out here and have a lot of enthusiasm." ()
adversity days execute football happened hit hope last pleased says shake team
I am very, very pleased with our football team that they could shake off what happened to us the last 14 days and come out here and execute even when adversity hit us a little bit. I hope that says something about our team that we can grow." ()
backed bad beginning built downhill field fighting game position
The beginning of the game backed us into a corner. UD got us into bad field position and then built up a lead. They were able to play downhill for most of the game with us fighting to get back to midfield." ()
anytime areas coverage david gotten ground injury people specifics three work
Anytime we're able to get people back from injury is good. David has gotten better these three back-to-back days. We had some specifics we wanted to work on. I thought we got better in some coverage areas and I think we made some ground with some of our perimeter players." ()
chance dig early momentum ourselves played short situation
We played well in a short yardage situation early on, but we were not able to dig ourselves out of the hole. We had a chance to take some momentum back, but we did not execute." ()
anywhere charlie encouraged injury possibly scope test today
I was a little more encouraged with Charlie today. Today was kind of a test day. We thought it would be anywhere from play him to scope him on Thursday, but he has responded a lot better than we possibly thought he would when the injury happened." ()
good honest inside overall physical played pleased post
Brandon let the post get inside him one time, but to be honest with you he played well considering. We were pleased overall with what he did. He was very physical and he is a very, very good tackler." ()
coach curve excited focused good helped helping job learning line playing steve throw time wonder
We are very excited about him. You wonder about the learning curve because they throw a lot of defenses at you, but he is focused in there. (Offensive line coach Steve Haywood) has done a good job helping him learn things and I think that has helped him get considerable playing time with that first group." ()
It had some to do with us and a lot to do with them." ()
bad guys snap took wind
That took a lot of wind out of our sails. A lot of guys said 'Oh my' after that one. It was a bad snap and a bad punt." ()
best days goal people performed start three today track week work
Really our goal for this week is to take the people that have performed the best and work them together. We're going to start doing that today (Tuesday). We're going to go three days in a row, which is a little much for us, because of this weekend's track meets." ()
beat football good offense outside pressured run speed strength today
They've got a really good football team. Today we got beat by the strength of an older, more experienced football team. They run through tackles on offense and come at you downhill. On defense, they have a lot of speed on the outside and pressured our young players." ()