justments in the locker room, and it
was good to get back out there and
play the ball that we could play."
UMass head coach Mark Whipple
…
On Notre Dame's quarterbacks:
"They got better. Kizer got better.
We knew that Wimbush could run
around and make some things hap-
pen. We tried to take Fuller out of the
game, which we did a pretty good
job. He didn't get the big one.
"I think they played good. He
[Kizer] had the one turnover that
Trey [Dudley-Giles] made a good
play on. That was about it. They ran
it a little bit more than maybe we
expected, but he's got a chance to
be really good because you've got
an offensive line like they have and
you've got [C.J.] Prosise back there
and you've got a guy on the outside,
you've got to double him. They have
one guy short in the box, and you
want to stop the run.
"They've got what it takes to be a
really good offense."
On Notre Dame overall: "Their
varsity was better than our varsity
and their JV was a little better than
our JV. Brian did a really good job.
They got their guys ready. We kind
of put a little shock into them and
woke them up, I guess, at the end of
the second quarter. …
"We didn't make enough plays
and had some one-on-one shots we
missed. We knew we had to make
a couple of those, and they just —
they're better than we are. We'll take
the money and run."
— Jordan Wells
