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Crain & Cone

Georgia Southern Head Coach Clay Helton | Saturday Special

Crain & Cone

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4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Georgia Southern's head Coach Clay Helton joins to discuss his team's upset over Nebraska and what he expects for his program moving forward.

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0:00.0

All right, very excited to bring you our Saturday special here with Coach Clay Hilton.

0:06.2

Big winner there at Georgia Southern. Two in O to start the year. They go out, beat Nebraska,

0:11.0

after handling business against Morgan State Coach. I know it's the busiest time of a year for

0:15.2

you. It never really stops, but you're playing games this time of year. I really appreciate you

0:18.9

taking some time and hopping on with us. Well, thanks for having me. Really appreciate it,

0:22.8

guys. Definitely. Well, let's hop right in. I mean, you know, you're coming off the big win

0:27.2

against Nebraska. Just talk about what that means to you, you know, you're being there after

0:32.6

after moving on from the place you were before and just the momentum that it's created early.

0:36.9

And especially to the guys in that locker room, you handle business. These are the results

0:40.8

that you can get. Just talk about kind of the emotions that are still left over and that whole

0:44.8

experience. Yeah, you know, it was an important game for us moving forward. You know, we're trying

0:49.4

to build a national brand. That's our vision is to be able to, you know, with the recruiting base

0:54.2

that we have here, we ask ourselves, why can't we be the next Cincinnati? Why can't we be the

0:59.0

next central? Why can't we be the next Memphis teams that have really propelled themselves

1:03.6

forward over the last half dozen years? And so, you know, for us to be able to gain respect and to

1:09.2

be able to build a proper resume, you have to go into a traditional power and win those games on

1:15.1

the road. And our kids had a great mindset. It was a great mental toughness that they walked into.

1:20.1

They expected to win the game. They knew it was going to be an up and down game. They knew that

1:24.8

it could be a fourth quarter game. And I thought they did a great job of getting to the next play

1:29.6

and not letting a electric environment one of those more special environments I've ever been a

1:34.7

part of. And just getting to that next four to six seconds and you look up and you collect a win

1:41.2

which was ultra important to us moving forward. And really showed the type of makeup our kids are

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