ESPN Interview with Clancy Pendergast

The always solid Pac-10 Blogger Ted Miller has a nice interview with Clancy Pendergast.

While Pendergast doesn't reveal too much, he seems to maintain that this issues were more on lapses in discipline and missed assignments by players. I don't interpret so much as a "throw your kids under the bus" kind of thing, and more of a confidence in the gameplan type of of deal.

You guys have had three strong weeks of defense, and one bad one: Was it a case for you of having a short week of practice to prepare for an offense you never game-planned for in the NFL?

Clancy Pendergast: We are not making any excuses. We didn't play well that night. We didn't play with a good gap integrity. We didn't get off blocks. And we didn't tackle well. So those were most of the shortcomings, things we had wrong that night against Nevada.

For what it's worth, I do think that Clancy Pendergast has struck me as a bit of a curmudgeon. And for some reason, I like that about defensive coordinator.