Pough upbeat after loss, says team will play hard vs. Arizona

ORANGEBURG, South Carolina  - “Doom and gloom” is not the approach South Carolina State head football coach Buddy Pough has toward team adversity.

He could have used Monday’s weekly press conference to further dwell on last Saturday’s Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference 27-14 loss to Bethune-Cookman. Then Pough could have expressed his concern and dread about facing two straight Division I teams prior to a critical home match-up Sept. 29 against defending conference champion Norfolk State.

Instead, Pough was nearly as upbeat about the upcoming match-up with 24th-ranked Arizona as he was a week earlier coming off a victory. The next week, S.C. State in on the road at Texas A&M.

“We’re in a hole, but we’re not in a hole that we can’t get out,” he said. “There’s too many different scenarios possible ...

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