Following his team's 24-21 to Eastern Michigan, Gregg Brandon naturally wasn't in much of a talkative mood. Today, however, he was back to his normal self discussing issues from Saturday's game as well as looking ahead to Akron this coming weekend.

--While Brandon was talkative as usual, you could still tell that the loss was bothering him. As we can all agree, you just can't lose to EMU this year. They're awful.

--Every Monday after we interview with coach, we talk to players we requested so we can write our various stories and such throughout the week. Today, for the first time since we've been covering football for this newspaper, no players were made available. The reasoning was "The kids have midterms and need the shortened week to study." This reason is B.S. Over half of the classes at this university don't even have midterms, and many of the ones that do will schedule them for the week AFTER Fall Break. And the football team has no shortened week, because they aren't gong anywhere for Fall Break. They've got to travel to Akron on Friday or Saturday. To top it all off, we got a bit of a chuckle in when we saw three players casually walking through the Sebo Center during the time where they were supposed to be hard at work studying for all these midterms. Personally, we would've just preferred a direct statement like "since we lost Saturday, we'd rather not have the players talk more about it to the press." In the grand scheme of things, missing out on the two player interviews we scheduled isn't a big deal, as we've only got three issues this week. Coach and the SIDs are always nice and accommodating. We're not mad about it. We just thought the excuse was incredibly lame.

--Brandon addressed one of the main issues from the loss as being untimely errors and penalties. As a veteran team, these mistakes shouldn't be happening, and it is something that needs to be fixed. "Every game we play the rest of the way is going to be like that one," Brandon said to his team following the loss. "They're going to tough, physical games that may come down to a play or two at the end of the game.

--Antonio Smith was called for interference on a punt, which was a very questionable call by the officials. Brandon believes that the ball should have been BG's ball at the spot where Smith recovered the punt.

--Because BG was picked to win the MAC East before the season, every single MAC tam wants to beat the Falcons. Given that fact, the Falcons need to be mentally ready for every game whether it's against a ranked team or a MAC opponent. "We have to show up with same intensity that if we're playing Pitt or Boise or whoever in this league," Brandon said.

--The injury report looks good for the Falcons. Willie Geter has a strained ligament in his knee which kept him out of the Eastern game. Otherwise, there is just the same small nicks among players like Anthony Turner and Freddie Barnes.

--Akron has a unique defense that no one else in the league runs. The defense has been used for years and BG has seen it before. Brandon was also sure to mention Bryan Williams, Akron's kick returner is towards the top of the nation in kick returning. The Falcons also need to get at Chris Jacquemain, who has seen vast improvement this season which means BG needs to show many different defensive schemes to get him guessing.

--A big question after the game is should Brandon have let Tyler Sheehan throw a hail mary pass? Brandon's answer to that: "I thought about it. I didn't say it to anybody," Brandon said. "I thought Sinisa [Vrvilo} could make the kick. He's made 50 plus yarders before." Brandon was also sure to make sure that it is known that the missed field goal is not the sole reason the team lost the game.

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