The Stanford Cardinal (0-1)hosts the Central Florida Knights (0-1) on Saturday Night in Palo Alto in a ball battle of teams who disappointed in week one. “There’s a ton of things to clean up”, Shaw told.

Shaw said he liked the attitude he saw from his players after the defeat. I think Stanford will be OK this season and this game will start to show why. “I thought he made some plays during the game”.”We came back last night, had a really good practice, really upbeat”, he said.

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“It’s rough but (Athletic Director) Bernard Muir has done a great job of trying to get more home games a little later”, Shaw said.

Hogan struggled with his timing and accuracy last week at times against a stiff Northwestern secondary that played sound coverage all afternoon, meaning that Saturday will likely provide him an opportunity to regain his footing and find his rhythm. “They need to change the offense, ‘” Shaw recalled.

“The good teams can handle a loss and bounce back, and not let the outside influences bother our chemistry”. Had a lot of great things on tape, had a lot of mistakes that we know that we can correct. “That is the most effective half about it, it is they’re all correctable”. Despite the loss, were there any positives from your perspective? Rivals hate to lose to anyone.

Both UCF and Stanford are looking to move on from their week one losses. Everyone always asks if the play calling is too conservative. He countered with how “the method for the West Coast offense hasn’t modified in nevertheless a few years” and that when confronted with two-deep security appears or eight-man coverages, Hogan is baited into throwing interceptions. Look at what we’ve done since Andrew (Luck) left…. “Besides that, we need to be efficient in our passing game and we were not”, because of dropped balls, missed throws, penalties, and missed blocking assignments. “That’s why you feel stagnant when you don’t complete the standard 6- and 7-yard passes and get to third-and-medium and convert those”.

We caught up with Cardinal insider R.J. Abeytia of The Bootleg to get more insight on the Knights’ opponent.

Normally, you’d chalk up UCF, a team that just lost to the juggernaut that is FIU (3 FBS wins last season) as a W. Stanford used to eat average-ish teams like UCF for breakfast, but now it seems they might have trouble swallowing.

“Everybody talks concerning the massive leap each groups makes from the primary to second week”, stated center linebacker Blake Martinez, who felt the unit at occasions strayed away from its fundamentals.

Shaw believes that in school soccer, particularly with no preseason, it is unfair to guage a staff after Week 1. It’s best to wait until at least a month into the season before passing judgement. “We kind of worry about ourselves inside, Stanford football, as a team”, Martinez said.