Press Conference (JT Tuimoloau) Elite Edition Mar 10

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1:03I just wanted to get more experience under my belt, so I can bring younger guys with me because I've been through a lot of it. One of those younger guys, we're seeing it out here. It's the first time I've heard all these last years. What have you seen from Lowe? 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 out behind you and tied. What have you seen from that? Well, as 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 going to get the job done, do a job right. 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. 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. You guys have all decided, like, enough is enough. Does that just keep feeling different? Or is there not really any difference?

2:03It's just the same work. It's definitely a difference. Everyone working harder. We noticed our last run. Like most of us don't have any years after this. So we got to go bigger, go 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 know what I mean? I mean, 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's kind of a coach makes of saying, nobody cares, just work harder. Like those won't play Georgia, the same thing. Last play, they went on the win in 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?

3:03Of course it's frustrating, but you can't change the outcome. You can't really dwell on it. You 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 kind of learn. I thought that was working harder than you always find out there's a little more than you could have been doing? Yeah, definitely. I mean, that's how 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. What do you need it to be to be your best? Uh, 80, 85. I mean, I can, it's all on me. It's just, 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 in shape. So that is stemming up to you, young guy. It's been a pleasure. The idea of a potential is 15 or 17 or 17 years. What's that about that idea?

4:03Does it make you nervous about, can you last that long? Are you worried? What was your head like? I think, I think we, I definitely can last. I 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. Speaking of that, we'll see if 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.