September 22, 2025 • 14 mins
UND Football Coach, Eric Schmidt recaps the homecoming win against Valpo and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Born and Eric Morn and Sam how are you this Born?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
So far, so good, but it's early, that's.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Right, right, man, Well keep it that way.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Well I kind of slow start a little bit in
the first half on Saturday, but then kind of put
it all together big in the second half.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Huh Yeah, Yeah, I think, you know, I thought, you know,
Velpel actually did a good job on a few things
that we were you know, on film we thought pretty
confident about. They did a few things differently, and and
you know, you're trying to trying to teach your guys.
The pictures are going to see. But I think it's
(00:43):
always good when you can criticize it. You went fifty
eight to seven, you get your program at that point,
and and you know, people still think we can do better.
I love it. So that's what we got to keep
keep working on here.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
I was going to say that you certainly had good
moments and and that you know that happens when you
win fifty eight to seven. But yeah, every coach and
every player probably says that let's take a look and
dive into the details, and there's certainly little details that
could be sharpened up. There's no doubt about that. But
I felt like the one thing on Saturday that was
(01:15):
interesting to see was the new wrinkles. I know Tom
wrote about it as well, and we talked about it
after the game that Simon Romfo kind of lining up
in some different ways, and that was more of him
reaching out and saying, hey, is there a way you
can use me? And sure enough you used him in
some different looks and used them effectively in some different looks,
(01:36):
didn't you.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yeah, I think you know, there's there's always a balance there,
you know, when you whatever you want to call it.
The art of coaching is you know, we're running Jerry
quite a bit just because we feel like we have
some depths at the QB spot. So we still want
Simon to be able to obviously, you know, sharpen his
skills yet as a quarterback and still be able to
(02:00):
get better there too as well. But on the same token, it's,
you know, he's not doing anything for our team if
he's standing next to me every single Saturday, so you know,
a credit to him and uh, and what we thought
we could do here offensively is just to be able
to you know, to use him in a few different ways.
And and we talked about it after the game. But
you know, I think there's some layers the things that
(02:21):
we can do with you know, obviously having two quarterbacks
on the field at the same time, and and Simon's
you know, a competitive kid. I said it before, the
intangibles that he brings as far as he's endeared himself
to our entire program. He just works hard every single day.
He's humble, he's selfless, and he really cares about winning.
(02:41):
You know, he's his ego isn't about him. His ego
is to, you know, help this place gets as good
as you know, I mean as we can make it.
And I think when you have those types of guys
and those types of attitudes and you're trying to you know,
I mean trying to find a way to get him
on the field and and see how he can help
our football team.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Has that been part of the plan all season to
get him into some of those situations.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yeah. Like I said, I think the interesting part is
that you know, if something you know, happens to Jerry
and things like that, like he has to be able
to still be able to take reps that quarterback and
you know, and backup JA answer, yeah two as well.
So I think that's the balance there is, like, hey,
when do we do it? How often do we do it? Obviously,
if Jerry stays healthy, you do it more because now
(03:29):
you you know, you have you have a one in
a two there at quarterback that you feel good about.
And then if he doesn't, then it's you know, we
got to make sure that he's sharp there two as well.
So he's done those things in the past. You know,
it's been a while, you know, when he when he
came in and we first started talking about him, like, hey,
when's the last time you actually lined up at receiver?
And he was like, well that was ninth grade, you know,
(03:50):
so it's been a minute since he's done it. But
I mean his intelligence is when you're a quarterback, you know,
you have to know what everybody on the field is doing.
You know, that's the one thing about that is you
know your job, You know what everybody else around you
is supposed to do, where guys are supposed to line up,
and then you really know what the defense is trying
to do too as well, you know, as far as
(04:11):
coverage wise, and when you can see it through a
quarterback's lens, I think it helps you out on the
perimeter too as well to be able to understand you know,
you're looking up. I mean, I don't know how much
you know people really understand like plays are different. You
know every single time you walk up to the line
of scrimmage based off of what they what they see,
and the quarterback and the receiver have to see the
same thing. You know, there's there's choices out there to
(04:33):
be able to be able to be made and a
lot of times you hear people talk about not being
on the same page. Well, that's because it wasn't processed
in one mind, you know, the same as it was
in the other mind. And we want our guys to
see it the same. And uh and when you have
a quarterback now out of that receiver, most of the
time they're going to see it the same.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
The you know, you talked a little bit about John
John Butch and what he was able to do by
getting his hand on a couple of kicks on some
pun which is nice. He had some nice returns. Cayden
Dennis did some nice things in the return game as
the game were on as well. But it was really
nice to see for me just to see j continuing
to gain confidence We know that he's got a great leg,
(05:14):
we know he's been an effective kicker. He had he's
had a few moments early this season, but he just
he's kept at it and had a nice day for
you on Saturday. Kicking the football.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yeah, you know, it's one of those deals where you
work at it every single day. We try to take
I think the one thing that I've learned but coaching
kickers is we're always trying to take as many variables
out of their process as we can. And I think,
you know a huge part of it is starting in
the same spot every time. Believe it or not, I
(05:47):
got the big deal. Like as you as guys, you know,
do their takeaway away from the ball and they orientate
off the goalposts and then they you know, they're three back,
two over. And if those steps are different every single time,
now your plants in a different place and you know,
two inches to the right or two inches to the left,
if you don't put the the sweet spot of the
(06:08):
foot on the sweet spot of the ball, like there's
a there's an X on the ball that he's trying
to put his you know, the knuckle of your big
toe into that spot. Every single time. And if he
misses it because the steps are wrong, then you know,
that's the difference between it going through and being you know,
five yards wide right or wide left. And I thought
he was amped up at Montana, Like just watching him
(06:30):
attack the ball, it was like everything was fast, like.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
He was it.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
You want to put energy into the ball, but your
your body has to be controlled. And I thought he
was like really like running almost at the ball, and
and it caused him to hit the right side of
the ball, the right panel, and and then you know,
it's it's like any other sport, I don't care if
it's golf. For baseball, the easiest thing to do is
to pull the ball. You know you're gonna pull it
down the line. And that's what he did twice. So
(06:57):
and then he did it the week before too as well.
So obviously there's a mental hurdle now, like hey, what's
going on?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
You know?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
But I think that's where you get better off of
film study. You watch yourself when you know what I mean,
when you're hitting it the right way, and see what
you're doing right, and then you watch yourself when you're struggling.
And he was able to make those corrections. You know
and and a lot of times it's hey, man, you
just got to trust your work and trust all the
training that you've had throughout the years. And I'm telling
you right now, like nobody's perfect as a field goal kicker,
(07:24):
and you know you got to be able to when
he missed one, you got to be able to flush
it because later on in the season or later on
the game, like we're going to come back to you,
and you know, you got to have some mental toughness
to be able to be able to, you know, reset
and start over and make sure that that one myth
doesn't become too And I thought CG I did a
good job of that and looked a lot better. I
(07:45):
think just you can tell a lot of things just
by ball flight, like where the ball, like where he's aiming.
We all know where he's aiming. You know, he has
spots where he wants it's plan foot to be at home.
You know, there's there's like the clock of the field
goal posts off of it, like he's aiming. You know
at that clock, that's kind of his spot where he
wants to aim. And when you see the ball get
(08:07):
up off the ground and it's not moving left or right.
You know, it's not flights and it's not hooking, it's
it's flying in the right trajectory. Like that's how you know,
guys are locked in and they're hitting it in the
right spot. And I thought his ballflight and how fast
it got up off the ground and all those things
looked obviously a lot better, you know, and a lot
closer to how we want to make it look on
Saturday than it had the previous two weeks.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Okay, Tim, what do you have for him?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
I was going to say, what what constitutes an open
week for co Cheric Schmidt?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
You know, I think the biggest thing here early on
in the early on in the week, like today and
early tomorrow. We want to give the guys some time
to be able to regroup academically here too as well.
Believe it or not, these guys still go to school yet,
you know, I think people don't talk about, you know,
school anymore. But so they got a lot of work.
The one good thing is that this is kind of
(09:02):
the first test week. It seems like for a lot
of the guys they're having a lot of a lot
of tests this week. So that kind of falls on
a on a good deal good week for us as
far as them being able to get with professors, get
with our academic staff and work through some of those obstacles,
and then the recovery piece of it is big. We've
been grinding on these guys since July. At the end
(09:23):
of July, I just think them being able to do
a good job there of taking care of their bodies,
you know, not banging here early in the week. And
we always say, hey, their job is to grind, refine, compete,
you know, every single day, and we'll continue to do that.
And then you know, our opponent who we play in
two weeks, Northern Iowa, was off this week too as well,
So it's not like we're waiting for a game that
(09:46):
we're going to see something new, you know, this Saturday.
So we'll start game planning and uh, and we'll get
a few extra days of some prep on them, and
then it'll be a big recruiting week here for us
too as well.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Well.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
We have a lot of really good twenty six players
that a lot of other people in the country are
you know, working on trying to trying to recruit here
yet too as well. Which when you recruit good players,
you got to keep recruiting them all the way until
all the way until signing day, and then we got
some twenty seven kids, some kids that are juniors right
now that we really like, and we have to continue
(10:23):
to dig into their wiring and how they're wired and
how competitive they are and if they're the right fit
for us here. So we'll be able to go out
and watch those guys practice and watch them play, and
get around some of the people that they interact with
every single day and see what they think of them
and start to you know, really dig into into that
next recruiting class here too as well.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Before we let you go. Friday night, a couple of
U and D football alums were inducted into the Hall
of Fame. Randy Harliss, very soft spoken, big man who
tormented people for years as a big man in the trenches.
And then you had Kelly Howe, of course, a bit
from your era go into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
So a good night.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Well, so many wonderful people that went into the Hall
of Fame, but to two football alums, that's that's great.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yeah, that was awesome. You know, I think the the
Alumni Association Foundation. Both events that were done on Thursday night.
You know, they had the Sewer Awards, the alumni there
was two Young Alumni Awards Leadership Awards that were given
out too as well. Michael Greenwood, who played safety here
up I think you graduated in two thousand and seven.
(11:32):
And then Hunter Pinkey. Everybody knows his story, but you know,
just the type of ambassador he's been for our program
and an inspiration that that that he is to a
lot of people. Went in, you know, and received those awards,
and then, like you said, Randy, I mean, there wasn't
a better speech all night long and than Randy Harvists
just going up there and giving it from the heart
(11:53):
and short and sweet, and it was awesome to listen
to him. And then obviously Kelly Howell too as well.
I mean, both those when you talk to when you
talk to their teammates, you know, from their eras I
think as much as they were good players and you know,
just guys you can count and rely on every single Saturday,
just the type of teammates you know that they were
(12:15):
too as well. I didn't play with Randy, but playing
with Kelly, like he's a Hall of Fame teammate as
well as a Hall of Fame player too as well,
so it was often to be able to induct those
guys and be the newest members of the und Athletics
Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
I go to Kelly's speech, and you know, you don't
hear it often in speeches, but one of his big
thank yous was to Kathley Ziggler for bringing him back
from that broken leg. And you know, the sports medicine
staff quiet sometimes but so important, but he actually vocalized it.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I loved that.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
I thought that was great.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
So, yeah, they're huge here. You know, Kathy's still here yet, yeah,
you know, to this day too as well, and I
talked to her a lot. They have probably eight to
ten of our guys right now that are working, you know,
with them, working to get back. And they have a
new facility too as well. That used to be over
at the Hitslop and now they're over at the medical
Center right next to the bookstore, and it's it's amazing,
(13:10):
you know, just that that is as nice as any clinic,
you know, as far as the equipment that they have
in there than the space they have there too, is
now to be able to really you know, recover and
work with our guys. So it's huge athletic staff. Jeremy
Glasser and what he does here. We got three you know,
full time ats that work just with football. So I
(13:31):
mean that's I always say it, man, it's the helpers
and supporters that you have. It's not just coaches and
assistant coaches. You've got to have, you know, everybody that's
that's an expert that you can rely on, that can
you know, really help make this the most incredible experience
of a of a young guy's life. And I'm really
really grateful for all you know that that our medical
staff does here too as well.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Yeah, no doubt, and yeah sometimes they work in the background,
but all their hard work really can pay off, that's
for sure. And Kelly highlighted it specifically for him. That
was awesome. Appreciate you dropping in. I know we'll keep
it brief tomorrow night as well, but we appreciate if
you're able to swing by at all and visit with
us briefly. Otherwise, you have a great week ahead and
(14:13):
I know there's just more work adad each and every day.
Thanks for this and have a great week.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Okay, yup, you guys do the same. Thank you, all right?
There you go.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
That is head coach Eric Schmidt tim with his thoughts
following Saturday's homecoming win
Born and Eric Morn and Sam how are you this Born?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
So far, so good, but it's early, that's.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Right, right, man, Well keep it that way.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Well I kind of slow start a little bit in
the first half on Saturday, but then kind of put
it all together big in the second half.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Huh Yeah, Yeah, I think, you know, I thought, you know,
Velpel actually did a good job on a few things
that we were you know, on film we thought pretty
confident about. They did a few things differently, and and
you know, you're trying to trying to teach your guys.
The pictures are going to see. But I think it's
(00:43):
always good when you can criticize it. You went fifty
eight to seven, you get your program at that point,
and and you know, people still think we can do better.
I love it. So that's what we got to keep
keep working on here.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
I was going to say that you certainly had good
moments and and that you know that happens when you
win fifty eight to seven. But yeah, every coach and
every player probably says that let's take a look and
dive into the details, and there's certainly little details that
could be sharpened up. There's no doubt about that. But
I felt like the one thing on Saturday that was
(01:15):
interesting to see was the new wrinkles. I know Tom
wrote about it as well, and we talked about it
after the game that Simon Romfo kind of lining up
in some different ways, and that was more of him
reaching out and saying, hey, is there a way you
can use me? And sure enough you used him in
some different looks and used them effectively in some different looks,
(01:36):
didn't you.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yeah, I think you know, there's there's always a balance there,
you know, when you whatever you want to call it.
The art of coaching is you know, we're running Jerry
quite a bit just because we feel like we have
some depths at the QB spot. So we still want
Simon to be able to obviously, you know, sharpen his
skills yet as a quarterback and still be able to
(02:00):
get better there too as well. But on the same token, it's,
you know, he's not doing anything for our team if
he's standing next to me every single Saturday, so you know,
a credit to him and uh, and what we thought
we could do here offensively is just to be able
to you know, to use him in a few different ways.
And and we talked about it after the game. But
you know, I think there's some layers the things that
(02:21):
we can do with you know, obviously having two quarterbacks
on the field at the same time, and and Simon's
you know, a competitive kid. I said it before, the
intangibles that he brings as far as he's endeared himself
to our entire program. He just works hard every single day.
He's humble, he's selfless, and he really cares about winning.
(02:41):
You know, he's his ego isn't about him. His ego
is to, you know, help this place gets as good
as you know, I mean as we can make it.
And I think when you have those types of guys
and those types of attitudes and you're trying to you know,
I mean trying to find a way to get him
on the field and and see how he can help
our football team.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Has that been part of the plan all season to
get him into some of those situations.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yeah. Like I said, I think the interesting part is
that you know, if something you know, happens to Jerry
and things like that, like he has to be able
to still be able to take reps that quarterback and
you know, and backup JA answer, yeah two as well.
So I think that's the balance there is, like, hey,
when do we do it? How often do we do it? Obviously,
if Jerry stays healthy, you do it more because now
(03:29):
you you know, you have you have a one in
a two there at quarterback that you feel good about.
And then if he doesn't, then it's you know, we
got to make sure that he's sharp there two as well.
So he's done those things in the past. You know,
it's been a while, you know, when he when he
came in and we first started talking about him, like, hey,
when's the last time you actually lined up at receiver?
And he was like, well that was ninth grade, you know,
(03:50):
so it's been a minute since he's done it. But
I mean his intelligence is when you're a quarterback, you know,
you have to know what everybody on the field is doing.
You know, that's the one thing about that is you
know your job, You know what everybody else around you
is supposed to do, where guys are supposed to line up,
and then you really know what the defense is trying
to do too as well, you know, as far as
(04:11):
coverage wise, and when you can see it through a
quarterback's lens, I think it helps you out on the
perimeter too as well to be able to understand you know,
you're looking up. I mean, I don't know how much
you know people really understand like plays are different. You
know every single time you walk up to the line
of scrimmage based off of what they what they see,
and the quarterback and the receiver have to see the
same thing. You know, there's there's choices out there to
(04:33):
be able to be able to be made and a
lot of times you hear people talk about not being
on the same page. Well, that's because it wasn't processed
in one mind, you know, the same as it was
in the other mind. And we want our guys to
see it the same. And uh and when you have
a quarterback now out of that receiver, most of the
time they're going to see it the same.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
The you know, you talked a little bit about John
John Butch and what he was able to do by
getting his hand on a couple of kicks on some
pun which is nice. He had some nice returns. Cayden
Dennis did some nice things in the return game as
the game were on as well. But it was really
nice to see for me just to see j continuing
to gain confidence We know that he's got a great leg,
(05:14):
we know he's been an effective kicker. He had he's
had a few moments early this season, but he just
he's kept at it and had a nice day for
you on Saturday. Kicking the football.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yeah, you know, it's one of those deals where you
work at it every single day. We try to take
I think the one thing that I've learned but coaching
kickers is we're always trying to take as many variables
out of their process as we can. And I think,
you know a huge part of it is starting in
the same spot every time. Believe it or not, I
(05:47):
got the big deal. Like as you as guys, you know,
do their takeaway away from the ball and they orientate
off the goalposts and then they you know, they're three back,
two over. And if those steps are different every single time,
now your plants in a different place and you know,
two inches to the right or two inches to the left,
if you don't put the the sweet spot of the
(06:08):
foot on the sweet spot of the ball, like there's
a there's an X on the ball that he's trying
to put his you know, the knuckle of your big
toe into that spot. Every single time. And if he
misses it because the steps are wrong, then you know,
that's the difference between it going through and being you know,
five yards wide right or wide left. And I thought
he was amped up at Montana, Like just watching him
(06:30):
attack the ball, it was like everything was fast, like.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
He was it.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
You want to put energy into the ball, but your
your body has to be controlled. And I thought he
was like really like running almost at the ball, and
and it caused him to hit the right side of
the ball, the right panel, and and then you know,
it's it's like any other sport, I don't care if
it's golf. For baseball, the easiest thing to do is
to pull the ball. You know you're gonna pull it
down the line. And that's what he did twice. So
(06:57):
and then he did it the week before too as well.
So obviously there's a mental hurdle now, like hey, what's
going on?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
You know?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
But I think that's where you get better off of
film study. You watch yourself when you know what I mean,
when you're hitting it the right way, and see what
you're doing right, and then you watch yourself when you're struggling.
And he was able to make those corrections. You know
and and a lot of times it's hey, man, you
just got to trust your work and trust all the
training that you've had throughout the years. And I'm telling
you right now, like nobody's perfect as a field goal kicker,
(07:24):
and you know you got to be able to when
he missed one, you got to be able to flush
it because later on in the season or later on
the game, like we're going to come back to you,
and you know, you got to have some mental toughness
to be able to be able to, you know, reset
and start over and make sure that that one myth
doesn't become too And I thought CG I did a
good job of that and looked a lot better. I
(07:45):
think just you can tell a lot of things just
by ball flight, like where the ball, like where he's aiming.
We all know where he's aiming. You know, he has
spots where he wants it's plan foot to be at home.
You know, there's there's like the clock of the field
goal posts off of it, like he's aiming. You know
at that clock, that's kind of his spot where he
wants to aim. And when you see the ball get
(08:07):
up off the ground and it's not moving left or right.
You know, it's not flights and it's not hooking, it's
it's flying in the right trajectory. Like that's how you know,
guys are locked in and they're hitting it in the
right spot. And I thought his ballflight and how fast
it got up off the ground and all those things
looked obviously a lot better, you know, and a lot
closer to how we want to make it look on
Saturday than it had the previous two weeks.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Okay, Tim, what do you have for him?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
I was going to say, what what constitutes an open
week for co Cheric Schmidt?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
You know, I think the biggest thing here early on
in the early on in the week, like today and
early tomorrow. We want to give the guys some time
to be able to regroup academically here too as well.
Believe it or not, these guys still go to school yet,
you know, I think people don't talk about, you know,
school anymore. But so they got a lot of work.
The one good thing is that this is kind of
(09:02):
the first test week. It seems like for a lot
of the guys they're having a lot of a lot
of tests this week. So that kind of falls on
a on a good deal good week for us as
far as them being able to get with professors, get
with our academic staff and work through some of those obstacles,
and then the recovery piece of it is big. We've
been grinding on these guys since July. At the end
(09:23):
of July, I just think them being able to do
a good job there of taking care of their bodies,
you know, not banging here early in the week. And
we always say, hey, their job is to grind, refine, compete,
you know, every single day, and we'll continue to do that.
And then you know, our opponent who we play in
two weeks, Northern Iowa, was off this week too as well,
So it's not like we're waiting for a game that
(09:46):
we're going to see something new, you know, this Saturday.
So we'll start game planning and uh, and we'll get
a few extra days of some prep on them, and
then it'll be a big recruiting week here for us
too as well.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Well.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
We have a lot of really good twenty six players
that a lot of other people in the country are
you know, working on trying to trying to recruit here
yet too as well. Which when you recruit good players,
you got to keep recruiting them all the way until
all the way until signing day, and then we got
some twenty seven kids, some kids that are juniors right
now that we really like, and we have to continue
(10:23):
to dig into their wiring and how they're wired and
how competitive they are and if they're the right fit
for us here. So we'll be able to go out
and watch those guys practice and watch them play, and
get around some of the people that they interact with
every single day and see what they think of them
and start to you know, really dig into into that
next recruiting class here too as well.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Before we let you go. Friday night, a couple of
U and D football alums were inducted into the Hall
of Fame. Randy Harliss, very soft spoken, big man who
tormented people for years as a big man in the trenches.
And then you had Kelly Howe, of course, a bit
from your era go into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
So a good night.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Well, so many wonderful people that went into the Hall
of Fame, but to two football alums, that's that's great.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Yeah, that was awesome. You know, I think the the
Alumni Association Foundation. Both events that were done on Thursday night.
You know, they had the Sewer Awards, the alumni there
was two Young Alumni Awards Leadership Awards that were given
out too as well. Michael Greenwood, who played safety here
up I think you graduated in two thousand and seven.
(11:32):
And then Hunter Pinkey. Everybody knows his story, but you know,
just the type of ambassador he's been for our program
and an inspiration that that that he is to a
lot of people. Went in, you know, and received those awards,
and then, like you said, Randy, I mean, there wasn't
a better speech all night long and than Randy Harvists
just going up there and giving it from the heart
(11:53):
and short and sweet, and it was awesome to listen
to him. And then obviously Kelly Howell too as well.
I mean, both those when you talk to when you
talk to their teammates, you know, from their eras I
think as much as they were good players and you know,
just guys you can count and rely on every single Saturday,
just the type of teammates you know that they were
(12:15):
too as well. I didn't play with Randy, but playing
with Kelly, like he's a Hall of Fame teammate as
well as a Hall of Fame player too as well,
so it was often to be able to induct those
guys and be the newest members of the und Athletics
Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
I go to Kelly's speech, and you know, you don't
hear it often in speeches, but one of his big
thank yous was to Kathley Ziggler for bringing him back
from that broken leg. And you know, the sports medicine
staff quiet sometimes but so important, but he actually vocalized it.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I loved that.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
I thought that was great.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
So, yeah, they're huge here. You know, Kathy's still here yet, yeah,
you know, to this day too as well, and I
talked to her a lot. They have probably eight to
ten of our guys right now that are working, you know,
with them, working to get back. And they have a
new facility too as well. That used to be over
at the Hitslop and now they're over at the medical
Center right next to the bookstore, and it's it's amazing,
(13:10):
you know, just that that is as nice as any clinic,
you know, as far as the equipment that they have
in there than the space they have there too, is
now to be able to really you know, recover and
work with our guys. So it's huge athletic staff. Jeremy
Glasser and what he does here. We got three you know,
full time ats that work just with football. So I
(13:31):
mean that's I always say it, man, it's the helpers
and supporters that you have. It's not just coaches and
assistant coaches. You've got to have, you know, everybody that's
that's an expert that you can rely on, that can
you know, really help make this the most incredible experience
of a of a young guy's life. And I'm really
really grateful for all you know that that our medical
staff does here too as well.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Yeah, no doubt, and yeah sometimes they work in the background,
but all their hard work really can pay off, that's
for sure. And Kelly highlighted it specifically for him. That
was awesome. Appreciate you dropping in. I know we'll keep
it brief tomorrow night as well, but we appreciate if
you're able to swing by at all and visit with
us briefly. Otherwise, you have a great week ahead and
(14:13):
I know there's just more work adad each and every day.
Thanks for this and have a great week.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Okay, yup, you guys do the same. Thank you, all right?
There you go.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
That is head coach Eric Schmidt tim with his thoughts
following Saturday's homecoming win
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