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Sept. 11, 2006

P.J.: We are very fortunate that we won the game. We are very lucky. Any time you put the ball on the ground that many times and create that many turnovers you have to take your hat off to the defense. They made some plays. We are very fortunate. A couple of times we pitched it back to our own goal line and if they pick it up they walk in and we don't even get a chance to stop them. It's pretty frustrating. We are about as bad offensively as any team I've ever coached.

Q. Last week you told us that UMass would be tough, but did you expect them to be this tough?

P.J. I think they have a good team and I think they have good players. It's not like we're Notre Dame. We don't line up with a bunch of 6-5, 270 pound guys. If we aren't dialed in and ready to play it's going to be a long day for us. We have to play with emotion and we have to play with intensity and evidently I did a very poor job of getting them ready to play because we didn't have much of either.

Q. What concerns you the most about Hampton?

P.J. I'm concerned with the lack of quarterback play, which encompasses all of them. We have some real soul-searching to do.

Q. Are you searching for a starter next week?

A. I would think. Did you watch the game?

Q. Is it 50-50 between Brian and Kaipo?

A. It may be one of the guys who didn't even play. We may take the guy off the JV team. He couldn't do any worse.

Q. What exactly is it that he isn't doing? Is it his decision-making?

A. Who? Don't just lay this on Brian. The other guy laid it on the ground a few times too. He laid it on the ground at the end of the game and Adam Ballard gets it back.

Q. What led you to make the change at quarterback the first time?

A. I was ready to give the other guy a chance. The thing that's frustrating is that those kids have ability. Brian has ability.

Q. When you put Brian back in to the game were you just trying to get his confidence back?

A. Which time was that?

Q. When you had the ball deep in your own territory.

A. We had the ball backed up on the two yard line and we were going to try and run some inside plays with the quarterback and some mid-line and that's kind of Brian's thing, it was last week, and he's the senior and I thought we would give him a chance to come back and do that and he gets the ball knocked out.

Q. What did you think about Kaipo's performance?

A. We will have to watch the film. He pitched it on the ground, he completed one pass, he fumbled the ball with two minutes to go, other than that I thought he did really good.

Q. On a positive note your team really stepped up on defense.

A. I thought we played really well on defense in the second half. In the first half I wasn't that pleased with it, but I thought in the second half they played great. We put them in some awful positions and they made some big plays. The play that DuJuan Price made on the halfback pass was huge and they made some other big plays. I'm just really frustrated. I really thought we would play better today, I really did. We had a couple of good days of practice and we took the opening drive and went right down the field and for whatever reason we got out of synch. Maybe it's my fault. It's hard to play if you can't complete a pass.

Q. Were you surprised at how well UMass played defensively?

A. I don't know. What did we have rushing?

SS: Close to 300

A. It wasn't like we couldn't make a first down. The thing that was killing us on offense was turning the ball over. It wasn't like we were getting stoned. We turned the ball over so much the last quarter I was afraid to run the offense.

Q. Were they doing anything defensively that you didn't expect?

A. They were playing an eight-man front just like we practiced against all week.