Presser: Alex Golesh previews the SEC Opener vs Florida

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Alex Golesh (2:20)

All right, guys, thanks for being here.

Go through Saturday night. A couple of things. One, awesome, I mean, awesome environment, incredible crowd, kind of surreal running out there the first time. Really, really, really special, really cool. I think two things. One, our kids handled the delay incredibly well. You go through it for a first time. I thought poise, energy, stayed focused in the locker room, like literally didn't flinch. Really, really cool. And then came out with a crazy amount of energy and focus. I thought the crowd affected Southern Miss's offense early. There was some spluttering of penalties there for them. And I thought that was absolutely huge. Really, really big. I thought we played well on defense. Stopped the run, certainly affected the quarterback early. Scored twice on defense. We had a sudden change situation on defense. And then to get points in the form of a safety out of a sudden change is huge. The drive at the end of the half was the one disappointing piece.

There was a handful of missed tackles there. To let them go drive 75 yards was the part that was frustrating. Certainly, the missed tackles piece was more than we were supposed to have. Those things cleaned up, the tackling in space, the tackling in general, as we get into SCC play has got to improve.

Offensively, the penalties felt, and sometimes you go back and it's not as bad as it seems, sometimes it's worse than it seemed. The penalties were frustrating. One of them killed a drive. The other six didn't kill a drive, but you're third and crazy forever. And some plays, some scrambling around, kind of covers up for the mishaps. The point there is, you get into playing in this league and that'll kill you, being in third and long, especially on clock stoppage, will absolutely destroy you. I thought we ran the ball well. I thought Byram settled in well.

I thought he did a good job of creating, good job of taking care of the football. We had two fumbles. We lost one of them. I thought there were some ball security things that were super careless, in the game, and that was a huge point of emphasis. When I use the term sloppy, that was a huge, huge piece of it. I thought the positives, the end of the half, two-minute drive with 19 seconds left to go three plays and then allow Alex to go kick it. I thought that was really, really big. I thought there were some poise in that moment across the entire offense. And then certainly for Alex to go hit a 55-yard was huge. And then I thought at the end, our twos went in there and there was a mix of threes in there too. And to go hang on to the ball for six, just over six minutes and go finish the game out, I thought was really big for us to be able to just run it and turn the, turn the ball or turn the chains. I thought Tristan came in. That was really good experience for him. I thought he, he handled it well, handled the situation at the end of the game well from a time management standpoint, I thought he threw it well, had good poise, good command. I thought that was really positive to get him out there. And then from a special teams perspective, the other part that I thought was sloppy, we didn't take advantage of the pitches to hit. You don't get many from a kickoff return standpoint, I thought we were just okay there. From a punt return standpoint, the one return gets called back because of a penalty. And that's where when you say sloppy, you can't play like that against good teams and have a chance.