Greg Mattison Press Conference Transcript

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Here's the transcript of today's Greg Mattison press conference. Four instances of "tremendous".

He had this to say about Will Heininger's health:

Q. We've seen Will go around on crutches, how much has he been able to practice? And do you have a limit of how much time he can miss before you may rule him out?

COACH MATTISON: That's really up to Paul. That's up to our medical staff. Over the years in coaching I've had guys that have missed an entire Bowl practice and all of a sudden they were cleared. And you now have another hand, you now have another guy that can play.

You can't worry about that as a coach. If you're a coach and all of a sudden somebody goes down and you start worrying about that, you're not going to do a great job. And it truly is, at our place, with Brady, and our staff, next guy. Next guy. These are our players. This is Michigan defense. This is how you play. You're expected to know what to do.

You're supposed to execute what we call and I'm very confident that they'll do that.

And this to say about his confidence in Will Campbell:

Q. Craig talked about how Will Campbell has basically his own personal coaching staff. How has he responded to that kind of attention in practice and the position he might be thrust into next week?

COACH MATTISON: Will has responded well all year. There aren't just three starting defensive linemen. You can't make it doing it that way. You've got to always look at it as if there's five or six starting linemen.

And you're going to be playing [??] whenever you put a defensive linemen in a game in a crucial part of a game he's a starter. The times are passed when one defensive lineman plays the whole game if you get ahead you mop up you put a guy in. Doesn't happen that way. And especially the way we do it, because we've rotated, we've tried from day one, even when guys weren't ready, we rotated guys in in crucial times.

So when all of a sudden it's time for you to say: Okay, instead of you coming in the second quarter, you're going to start the first quarter, that's about where it's at with Will. And I have utmost confidence. And I'm happy for him.

I'm excited for him, because he has an opportunity now to show what he can do, and that's what this game is going to give him.

[Update: GBW now has video of the presser.]

MaizeRage89

December 31st, 2011 at 10:05 PM ^

Reading 3 & out and man I could only imagine what could have been with a real DC like we have now. However I'm beyond excited for who we have running the show on offense, defense and big daddy Hoke. Go Blue and we got this game

LIZARD4141

January 1st, 2012 at 10:56 AM ^

Rich Rodriuguez would have never hired someone like Greg Mattison.  Good coaches like Brady Hoke hire great assistants and let them do their jobs.  I want to see Rodriguez do well in AZ and hopefully he learned from his experience at MI.  I think you can win more games in the PAC12 with a poor defense.  There are some great offensive minds in the PAC12 with the addition of RR and Mike Leach.

razor93

December 31st, 2011 at 11:56 PM ^

I thought he was going to be an absolute monster. I hope he continues to improve and takes the starting roll next year and absolutely dominates.

85Lee

January 1st, 2012 at 11:15 AM ^

defense it has not had the most stable learning enviroment.  Down years, position changes,  DC changes,  RR drama, etc.  Lets see what one year with top notch defensive coordinators and a team that is on the up and up.  Say what you want but when the team is poor like it was for a couple years it is not easy to motivate yourself sometimes.