North Carolina football coach Larry Fedora spoke with the media Monday morning inside the Kenan Football Center for the team's weekly press conference.
Here's what happened.
Back to business
On the scoreboard in Kenan Stadium on Monday, the score remained from Saturday’s thrilling football game: North Carolina 37, Pittsburgh 36. But on the fifth floor of the Kenan Football Center, the team had moved on.
“People are excited because we won,” said quarterback Mitch Trubisky. “But we realize that we have another job to do this week. So we enjoyed it while we had it, but we’ve got a big work week for Florida State.”
Defensive tackle Nazair Jones said there is no balance between enjoying the win and moving on to the next game. Saturday’s win, as exciting as it was, is in the past.
“We are over it now,” he said. “After Sunday, we'll enjoy it for maybe 24 hours, but we are on to Florida State. We seen all the mistakes that we’ve made, we made all the corrections, so it’s time to move on."
This is the mentality Coach Larry Fedora has ingrained in his football team: The next game is the most important one. Never get too high or too low emotionally, and never dwell too much on a result.
“That’s what we preach,” Fedora said. “We want them to be the same way all the time. We really don’t want to be up and down. We really would like to prepare the same way each and every week, so that we will hopefully play that way.”
