S.C. State Bulldogs look to improve to host CSU after opening loss

ORANGEBURG, South Carolina -- No time to mope or hang heads low in disappointment.

The South Carolina State football team still feels the sting of Sunday's 14-8 loss to Southern in the MEAC/SWAC Challenge in Baton Rouge, La. That sting is partially from a season-opening loss, and partially from falling short on opportunities to win late in the game.

It wasn't the way Bulldogs head coach Buddy Pough wanted to start his 16th season leading his alma mater's program. But, with an experienced defense and a talented but unproven offense, the result was somewhat understandable.

"It's been a brutal morning, looking at that (game) tape and seeing some of the mistakes we made," Pough said at his weekly press conference on Monday. "It's just not what I had envisioned. We need to get through that as quickly as possible.

"Sometimes you need to put a win behind you and get better, but maybe you need to get a loss behind you even faster. You can brutalize yourself (mentally) to the point where you don't give yourself a chance to come out of it. You can't get too high or too low in this game. We need to fix what needs to be fixed and get on to the next thing."



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