Anything to get them going.
“You can tell they’re fired up,” he said Tuesday during his weekly press conference. “They were fired up for him last week. We just didn’t think he was quite ready. He was probably 90, 85, maybe 90 percent.”
Patterson called out his wide receivers on Tuesday, noting that walk-on Daniel Walsh earned a start against West Virginia.
"I told [the team] this is not indicative to Danny Walsh any negative whatsoever, the bottom line is to it: When a walk-on is a starter, what does that say about the rest of the group?