Press Conference (JT Tuimoloau) April 7

0:00I just wanted to get like more experience under my belt, so I can know bring younger guys with me because I've been through one of those younger guys we're seeing it, it's the first time I've heard all these last years what have you seen from Will because I kind of felt like last year we all forgot about him because he was hurt now he's running you know almost a second man up behind you and tied what have you seen from him? Will is a workhorse, he's going to stay quiet, he's going to work hard and that's what I love about him, he focuses, he don't really talk much he's just going to get the job done, do a job right, he rarely has any mistakes What would be a successful season? A national championship? I ring when all the games we don't want to lose anything we got a mindset that we can't be beat and we just got to go show it Is that mindset different? It seems like you guys expect a national championship every year this year even more so you guys have all come back for this It's definitely a difference, everyone working harder, we noticed our last run

1:06most of us don't have any years after this so we got to go bigger going home and we're not trying to go home Finish big We know what you guys think of Michigan but when you look at what they did they won the national championship and you guys took them down to the final minute right? You were right there, something goes a little different, you guys could have won that game against them Does that tell you anything about like that, hey you guys want to win a national championship but you played to the 59th minute with the team that won the national championship last year like you're that close So I'm saying we just like work harder, that kind of coach makes a saying nobody cares, just work harder like those won't play Georgia, it's the same thing Last play they went on the win in the 90s so we just got to get over that hump at the end of the season I think we'll be fine How frustrating is that, you're that close against the last two national titles? Of course it's frustrating but you can't change the outcome you can't really dwell on it

2:07You just got to come back and work harder do things better than you did last year and hopefully the outcome will change Is that as you get older you can learn I thought that was working hard and then you always find out there's a little more than you could have been doing? Yeah definitely, I mean that's what growing up is basically in college I thought freshman year I was working, it's hard as I could but now I look back at it I really wasn't working hard at all compared to what I'm doing now so just to learn anything Did the statement as a 16th and the answer to like what do you need it to be to be your best player? Like is it 75? 80, 85? I mean I can, it's all on me I think it's a little higher, I was just trying to be funny but I mean it's all on me, I just got to run harder Get the shape It's time to add to you guys behind it It's been a pleasure The idea of a percentage of the 16th and the 17th and the 17th I have about that idea, does it make you nervous about can you last that long? Where are you? I think, I think I definitely can last

3:08I was just, you know we got to get the young guys to come along with us we can't play 50 snaps again that's just too much on our bodies Just everybody, like O-line D-line We got to get those younger guys to play You know, get that pieces on the D-line and O-line And everywhere else, so we can last that long run Speaking of the light playing and all those snaps Did you like playing that many snaps again last year because I don't know I don't know if any of us were really expected to play