
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Indiana coach Curt Cignetti met with the media in Monday and talked about the Hoosiers win over Michigan State and look ahead to Saturday's game with UCLA, a team that's 3-0 after losing their first four games.
CURT CIGNETTI: UCLA, we're playing a 3-0 football team that's undefeated, 3-0 in conference. Since they have retooled their staff, now have their new defensive coordinator and offensive staff in place, very impressive football team, okay?
Offensively this team is rushing for 233 yards a game right now, in their last three games, which would be against Penn State, Michigan State and Maryland.
Time of possession, 36 and a half minutes. That means the other team has the ball 23 and a half minutes. 50% on third down, 70% on fourth down. They've gained two possessions with two faked punts. They're keeping the ball away from the other team.
They're starting fast. Outscoring people in the first half 58-17. Averaging 33 points a game.
Defense, a lot of different personnel packages. Really try to keep you off balance. Really impressed with what they do. When you get outside of normal down-and-distance situations, you see a lot of stuff.
They got about seven personnel packages, a variety of blitzes, pre-snap looks with linebackers mugged to try to confuse the quarterback a little bit. They're a rejuvenated football team.
Led by a talented quarterback, who really has a quick body and a live arm. Has made some big plays with his legs also. Really good skill people. A new offensive design, so to speak.
I mean, we're playing a 3-0 football team at home this Saturday at 12:00.
Michigan State, good conference win. Offense scored touchdowns their first five drives. The first two in the third quarter were great to see. They're all great to see.
Defense shut 'em out the last 38 minutes of the game till at the end we had quite a few of the starters out. They kicked the field goal at the end.
We didn't get off to the greatest start. Michigan State had two possessions. We had one possession. There was nine minutes left in the second quarter. At that point every play was going to be really important. We did a great job of adjusting and playing a little better. Two-thirds of the game we pitched a shutout.
Special teams, we had 22-yard punt return. Made all our extra points, field goal. Both kickoff guys kicked the ball out of the end zone. We didn't punt. They punted twice, once with quarterback.
This is going to take tremendous preparation and effort on our part this Saturday.
Questions.