Tom Craft
Tom Craft
Tom Craftis the head football coach at Riverside Community College in Riverside, CA, and was the head football coach at San Diego State Universityfrom 2002-2005 and at Palomar College in San Marcos, CA from 1983-2000. Craft has also been the associate head coach and offensive coordinator at Mount San Antonio College in Walnut, CA...
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John Beck doesn't have a good arm, he's got a great arm, one of the strongest in college football. He's very accurate, has an extremely quick release. He's one of the best I've ever seen.
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Then you had Colorado in there, Arizona State, Michigan and now Ohio State for the second time. That's not a realistic way to re-establish and develop your program.
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Ohio State's quarterback kept things alive. Troy Smith was elusive and physically strong.
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It's not a hard thing to figure out. This (schedule) is something that we got stuck with because of contracts that were done a long time ago. Right now, it's important for us not to focus on what the record is, but to focus on how we can get better each week so that when we have an opportunity on a level playing field, we can come out on top.
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He'll get better and better as he sees the holes and gets into a rhythm as we get further into the season.
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I thought we were a little hesitant (on defense) through the whole first half. Considering the poor field position we had, I thought we did a little better job in the second half. (But) we need to communicate better, too.
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He's the better athlete of the two quarterbacks.
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So I think we've learned our lesson. Unfortunately, here at San Diego State, it took us longer than that because we overscheduled, and we've locked into these games years in advance where we couldn't get out of them. That's what I realized when I came here, is that we couldn't get out of them. And now we've got to live with the results. And it hasn't been fair.
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He's really a hard worker, on and off the field,
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I'm not ruling out playing those types of teams in the future,
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We really felt like he would be a better fit on that side of the ball, ... based on evaluating who we had over there and based on our running back situation. It's really worked out well.
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We really felt the matchups their defense against our offense was going to be a big challenge. We got exposed in a couple of areas.
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When you've had a group like we've had, you can kind of have some liberty about adjusting quickly and knowing that it's going to be done with discipline,
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Three years ago when they came in and played us, it was a mismatch,