Duggan fine-tunes message in Week 2

JONESBORO -- Nothing about the past two weeks for the Arkansas State University football team has been easy.

Some look-in-the-mirror opportunities have resulted.

Interim coach David Duggan indicated after Saturday night's 37-30 loss to SMU in Jonesboro that he may have overprepared and overemphasized some things with the Red Wolves (0-1) heading into the opener. On Monday, Duggan came back to that theme when reflecting on last week.

"Maybe I prepared them, like I said on Saturday night, maybe I prepared them too much for the challenges of a first game and, basically, I jinxed our team," Duggan said.

Since the passing of ASU Coach Blake Anderson's wife, Wendy, on Aug. 19, Duggan -- who's in his…