 Hello and welcome to the at-hautel show presented by Buffalo lovelings. I'm Greg Royce showing my students head football coach at Hotel coach I wrapped up the regular season this past Saturday You play FDU here at home and had a pretty complete 34 nothing win kind of got a little bit of everything from all three phases of the game Yeah, it was exciting to watch You know we have a special teams touchdown a defensive touchdown and obviously the offense had a solid day So it's you know, we've talked about it all year You know playing team football and everybody's kind of contributing and it really was all in display Saturday Yeah, and I think one of the things that was important to that is obviously you're playing a team That's kind of seen the mix for postseason contention. Obviously you'd locked up a spot But you were able to kind of set the tone early and kind of put them away and maybe Demoralize them a little bit. Yeah, I think you know for us I don't know that we ever feel like we've put somebody away again for us. It's You know, how well can we play? You know, it's it's it's that internalization that to me is the most important You know, we want to be a better football team every single week And I think we were able to to do that on Saturday, you know, particularly on the defensive side of the ball Yeah, their performance was uh, oh, you know historic in a sense and you know breaking several records and You know really happy for the seniors to go out that way and You know just a just a really really good team win Yeah. Yeah, and obviously the defensive effort, you know giving up just 45 total yards I mean that's one of you know, if you look it's one of top performances division three this season the whole country Absolutely, and again, you know hats off to coach McCray coach Nelson And obviously, you know the players, you know, it was it was it was a complete effort on the defensive side of the ball Yeah, now this week before we get to this week's game I mean all conference stuff came out on Tuesday. You had 12 guys honored You know just talking about kind of their season and kind of you know what it means for them to be honored and You know to be recognized You know, it's for some of them. It's it's the culmination of four years of hard work for others. It's You know some recognition a little bit earlier in their careers and you know, we had some conversations about that stuff yesterday and You know, I think our perspective on those things or it's nice to be recognized But again, it's it's it's about the team, right, you know an individual award like that again It's nice to have but I think, you know, our guys understand that without the ten other guys out there They wouldn't have the opportunities they've had to make the plays that they were able to make so for us I think it's it's important to keep those things in perspective and understand What they mean and certainly down the road. They'll be more meaningful for them But but it's our hope and I think we're there to look back and feel like, you know We I was part of something special from a team perspective not necessarily an individual award perspective Yeah, absolutely. Obviously being a part of something from a team perspective obviously get that chance this weekend Qualifying for the Centennial Mac Bowl series for the second time this straight year in the postseason And you play a Susquehanna team that you know statistically looks very similar It's kind of played well down the stretch similar to what you have so look on paper It looks like it should be a good matchup. I think it's going to be a good football game I know I'm excited the staff's excited. It's uh, you know, they're a good football team I think we're a good football team So I think it's you know, it's going to be a good a good ball game and um, you know, their resume is solid You know, you look at you look at their body of work on a whole and I think they've played four overtime games this year Knocked off Johns Hopkins for their first conference loss in a number of years and You know, we're excited for the for the matchup for sure Yeah, and obviously, you know, it's always nice to be able to play somebody different opposed to the scenario where you get a little different look and a little bit of You know different perspectives and playing, you know, some of the Mac teams that you play a year and you're out Well, it makes things a little bit stressful on Sunday Monday and Tuesday. I can tell you, you know, it is always interesting Um, preparing for somebody you you've never seen before Um, you know, there's not you don't see the patterns in the scheme You don't see the patterns and special teams things and you know, it presents its own unique set of challenges and You know, it's one that that you know, I love this time of year. I get excited for for the post season We talk often, you know with the guys in the program about meaningful games during the month of november And that's why you train hard in february, you know So this is an opportunity to play a very meaningful football game in the month of november and You know against a a formidable opponent and then, you know, like I said earlier, we're very excited for the matchup Yeah, all right coach. We'll wish you the best of luck this saturday and um, we'll chat wrap up the season here soon Thank you, sir. All right for ed hotel. I'm greg rois. This has been the ed hotel