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GBK: Army-UConn: Monken Press Conference (Audio)

Charles Grevious
First and foremost, our apologies regarding today’s coverage of Head Coach Jeff Monken’s Weekly Press Conference. There was technical difficulties between ourselves and Army West Point Athletic Communications. Therefore, we will not be providing you with the audio of today’s press conference.

That being said, Monken won't forget about Friday's loss to Fordham ... one in which he said that he was embarrassed by the team’s performance.

However, there’s something to be said about the opportunity to play again and again is what will occur on Saturday as the Black Knights travel to Storrs (CT) to take on the Connecticut Huskies at Rentschler Field.

Until the Black Knights win a game, there will be plenty of questions on where the program is headed, although it is clear that this is a relatively young team and the 2015 season is Part II of the re-building phase under Monken.

However, to say that this is a must win game for Army would be an understatement.

Army will be facing a UConn team that is coming off of a 20-15 win over Villanova on Saturday, along with a group of Huskies players who will be looking to revenge last year’s 35-21 loss to Army at historic Yankee Stadium.

Stay tuned … as we will have video highlights from Friday’s contest, along with video interviews with three class of 2016 commits in Gavin Bassett, Geoff Kirk and Liam McCarthy.

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Army commit, Geoff Kirk was on hand on Friday


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Youth Movement

goodknight65
Looking over the participation stats, I counted 17 plebes who made their first appearance in a college game last night.

Jordan Asbury had a very good debut with 56 yards rushing in 5 carries and 1 reception for 33 yards. Tyler Campbell made his first career reception of 5 yards.

Cole Macek had two tackles (both on special teams as I recall), while Calen Holt, Harrison Rooney, Andy Davidson, Brandon Jackson, and Kenneth Brinson had one tackle each.

We had 9 sophomores, 7 juniors, and 7 seniors starting, counting White as a starter at TE. On reserves and special teams we had 17 plebes, 3 yearlings, 2 cows, and 10 firsties.
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About 20x...

S
I think that's how many times I saw the same Fordham pass play to the flats. I have to think Josh Jenkins would have jumped one of those if he was in the game. After the first 10x that play was an INT waiting to happen and maybe a TD since nobody was behind receivers . The TD saving tackles (3 or 4) were fun but against the big teams those are gone. On other hand Army passing game was fun to watch and that hasn't been true awhile. Hope the defense gets some gnarly edges polished soon
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Coaching and tempo

BillGil
I think the most egregious mistake JM has made, dating back to the Buffalo game last year, is he is not shrinking the game. I give RE full credit for this and the play cards and it was one of the most intelligent items of his tenure. Our defense is at such physical mismatches in space, even to Fordham or Yale, that keeping them off the field is the best course of action. We can give up a big play, almost any play. Moorhead knew tempo and clock was key to the game and getting ahead would force us out of our comfort zone. Bradshaw is snapping the ball at times with 12 seconds on the play clock.
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