Press Conferences (JT Tuimoloau) April 8 Edition

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 a lot already. 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 Lil, 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 that you've been through? Well, as a workhorse, he's going to stay quiet, he's going to work hard, and that's all I love about him. The focus is he don't really talk much. He's 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. That mindset is 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, the numbers are up. Does that keep you feeling different? Or is there not really any difference? It's just the same work.

1:02It's definitely a difference. Everyone working harder. We noticed our last run. 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, if 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 work harder. That kind of coach makes a saying, you know, nobody cares, just work harder. Like those, you know, when we played Georgia, it's the same thing. Yeah. Last, last play, you know, 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, you know, 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 hard, and then 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 as hard as I could, but not 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? I mean, 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 in shape. It's been a pleasure. The idea of potentially the 16th, 17th and 17th, how do you say it about that idea? Does it make you nervous about, can you last that long? I think, I think I definitely can last. I was just, you know, we got to get the young guys that come along with us.

3:12We can't play 50 snaps again. That's just too much on our bodies. It's just everybody, like, online, online. We got to get those younger guys to play, you know. Get that pieces on the D-line and online and everywhere else, so we can last that long run. Speaking of this, I was like playing in an open snap. Did you like playing that movie snap again last year because I don't know. I don't know if any of us were really expected to be playing.