Press Conferences (JT Tuimoloau) Elite Edition Mar 11

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 of it. One of those younger guys, we're seeing it, it's the first time I've heard all of those last years. What have you seen from Lil, because I feel 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 that? Well, as a workhorse, he goes, stay quiet, you go and work hard, and that's what 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. When all the games were going 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, enough is enough. Does that feel the difference?

1:00Or is there not really any difference? It's just the same work. It'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. You know what 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 the coach makes of 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 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.

2:01Of course, as you know, it's frustrating. But you can't change the outcome. You can't really dwell on it. You 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 I 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 as 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? 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 in shape. It's been a pleasure. The idea of a potential is 16 and 17 and 17. What do you say about that idea? Does it make you nervous about, can you last that long?

3:06I think, I think I definitely can last. I was just, you know, we got to get the young guys that come along with us. We can't play 50 snaps again. That's just too much on our bodies. Everybody's like, oh 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.