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Iowa State University Athletics
ISU Football Team Elects Captains, McCarney Talks About Saturday Scrimmage
08.19.2006 | Football
Iowa State Head Coach Dan McCarney:
"It appeared there weren't any major injuries and when you scrimmage almost 100 plays, which we got today and that didn't include all the kicking, you hope and pray we come out of it in pretty good health, and I think we did. There was some minor stuff as always, but I don't think we had anything major. Hopefully that will hold up here the next couple of days.
"It was a very competitive situation, many game situations that can and will come up in every game. We got a lot done. I was impressed with the way this team came to practice. We've been in camp since July 31. That's a long camp, but they came out with a great attitude today and we elected our captains last night. It's an outstanding group that I announced before we went out today with Bret Meyer and Austin Flynn on offense and DeAndre Jackson and Brent Curvey on defense. It was a landslide with those four. They just ran away with it. I'm really proud of their leadership. They've been doing that since January and it was no surprise to me that those are our four captains.
"Defensively I thought we played the run better today than we have in camp since we've been there. It wasn't that they completely dominated our number one offense. The first two sets I went ones against twos and the rest of it was ones-ones, twos-twos, threes-threes. There were some good plays made and some big plays made. Austin Arnaud continues to make plays every time he gets an opportunity. He rolled with twos and threes. Kyle Van Winkle went one set with the ones and Bret (Meyer) of course was running with the ones the whole time.
"I thought there was some give and take, and some positives on both sides of the ball. We didn't come out of it saying, ?Boy, our defense really stunk,' or ?We didn't do this on offense,' or ?We were really poor in one area.' I'm anxious to watch the tape. You can see so much more than just standing out there on the field. We had eight total penalties on 100 plays, which is too many, but one of those was a celebration at the end of the overtime when the ones beat the twos, so I will take that as long as we win the overtime."
We had three or four (turnovers). It was a day that you go, ?Defensively, we are keeping with the tradition that we have.' We can get some turnovers and takeaways. Offensively we've got to do a better job of taking care of that. It wasn't all the number one offense, but a few too many turnovers offensively, and it was good for our defense to get some.
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