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Montgomery vows to ‘stay the course’
By Pete Conrad
OXFORD — Five games and six weeks into a season that hasn’t come close to going right, head coach Shane Montgomery said he is not giving up on his team’s offensive and defensive schemes.
There already have been some obvious personel changes, most due to injury, some due to performance (such as last Saturday’s big halftime change with Clay Belton in, Daniel Raudabaugh out; Belton did not play badly in the second half, so it makes sense that he will start, or at least see some important playing time at Northern Illinois).
Head coach Shane Montgomery, who isn’t saying whether Belton will start ahead of Raudabaugh, did say that he is not ready to make any fundamental changes.
“As a coaching staff, if you believe in what you’re doing, you want to stay the course,” Montgomery said. “We feel good about what we’re doing scheme-wise.”
That doesn’t mean the coaches won’t tinker with things. Changing the tempo of the offense. Making it a priority that the offense does not make turnovers. During practice pitting the first-string defense against the first-string offense more often. Things like that.
Montgomery said it’s up to the players to trust themselves.
“We’ve had some things thrown at us that maybe we haven’t seen before,” he conceded, “things that have caught us by surprise a little bit. But there are times we have gotten in a position to make plays and we’re just not getting it done. We’ve given up too many touchdown passes the last three weeks and most of them have been long. We’ve got to trust ourselves assignment-wise and play with confidence.”
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