Rockne's Roundtable

BGI's very own Lou Somogyi asked about this today:

Kelly's response...

"I think when you’re dealing with a quarterback that’s a dual threat and we’re talking about his ability to run. You have to go over all those things that put the ball in his hands, whether it be option or read option or sprint-out, breaking contain, all those things have to be part of your defensive preparation. We’ve become accustomed to having that within our defensive game plan because of last year but we spent obviously a great deal of time making sure that we have answers to defend the run portion of a quarterback. And it could be in a number of different ways, but that is important against South Florida.

"Everett and Andrew certainly assist in that preparation. Both of them helped us this week in preparing for B.J. Daniels because they are both guys that you have to defend as it relates to running the ball.

"We’ve gotten some good work when they’re in a demonstration kind of scenario and then we’ve tried to use some 1s vs. 1s with both those guys at quarterback as well so we’re making sure our defense gets speed work. Sometimes when you go in demonstration or scout team it slows down and maybe you don’t have the offensive linemen knowing exactly what to do. So we’ve tried to put them with our first unit as well to give us the best preparation."