 Hello and welcome to the Coach's Corner. I'm Joe Wong, but joined now with 24th ranked football head coach, Ed Hoddle. How are we doing? Good. Thanks for joining us today. And you guys go up to Albright, overcome a little bit of a slow start, beat a quality team in some tough conditions. Can you talk a little bit about that game? The 10-30 kickoff was certainly something that was a little bit different for us, obviously. But I think it was different for them as well. It was hot, longer trip than what it normally would have been to head up to Redding. So a little bit of adversity, a slow start. How much of that affected us in the first quarter? I don't know how much of that slow start was nerves in a big spot early in the year. But that's not an excuse. We've got to be able to come out and execute offensively, execute defensively, and be great in the kicking game. Regardless of the weather, regardless of the trip, and regardless of kickoff time. And you guys were able to do that. You came out in the second half, scored 21 points in the third quarter, and then were able to stave them off in the fourth quarter. Were you happy with the defensive effort in the second half? Yeah, we did a nice job in the second half. I think we can tackle better. We've addressed that this week. At times I think we let our eyes drop and our tackling techniques suffered a little bit. So we've certainly addressed that and talked about that at length with our guys throughout the week of practice. I think they did a nice job bringing fresh legs in late in the quarterback change, which I think affected the game a little bit. I don't think that we were so much on cruise control, and I've been asked that question a little bit. I think they did a great job. But again, we cannot allow that to affect how we perform. So again, something that we talked about in one of our goals for the season is to finish everything. And I'm not sure that we finished that game as well as we possibly could. So again, something that we've addressed with the guys, and the guys are embracing that at this point. And your effort was recognized this week. You guys earned your first ever national ranking at 24. What does that do for the team? Does it breed a little bit of confidence? Does it make you feel like maybe you've got a target on your back? Teams want to upset you coming into the rest of the season? I think it's more of a target over the course of building our program. That was something that we always looked at and said, hey, this is our chance to go beat a top 25 team. So while it's nice to be recognized, and it certainly is exciting, particularly from a personal perspective, having been here since the beginning, and to get that early season recognition, there's one ranking that's most important to us, and that's the one that happens in December. And it is early in the season. You finish out September, next two home games, playing at home, Lebanon Valley, and FDU. What do you expect? What do you want to see out of these next two home games for you? Our goals are really simple. To continue to improve our quality of play, we've got to get the running game going a little bit earlier. I think our offensive line is starting to settle down a little bit. We're starting to find some consistency in the run game. We'd like to see Dan start fast, where he started fast in week one, a little bit slower last week. So we're looking to him to find some consistency. Defensively, we've got to ratchet up our tackling technique. We've got to clean some things up coverage-wise, and just continue to work to achieve the level of play that we know that we're capable of. For us, again, it's a very inward focus. What do we need to do as a program to improve? And we sit down every Sunday, and we evaluate not only our players, but we evaluate our schemes. Are we putting our players in positions to have success? We evaluate how we practice. We really evaluate ourselves as well. Are we doing everything we can to be in a position to be successful on Saturday? And I think we've identified some areas where we can get better. And the team is embracing it. The program is embracing it. And the focus has to remain on us, and an inward look to improving over the next couple of weeks. And hopefully, that continued inward look breeds more success on the football field that you guys have had with the home game on Saturday and then next Saturday as well. So good luck to you, coach, and those next two games. He's Ed Hoddle, 24th ranked football team. I'm Joe Wamba, and this has been the Coach's Corner.