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Fresno State rewind: Third-quarter shortcomings stunting growth potential

In its first three seasons in the Mountain West Conference, Fresno State had much success in the third quarter of its football games.

No matter where the Bulldogs stood at halftime – ahead, behind, tied – they went into the locker room and made adjustments, tweaked this or that, then came out in the second half and far more times than not put together a run.

u201cRight now, weu2019re a fragile football team,u201d Fresno State coach Tim DeRuyter said. u201cWhen adversity hits, weu2019ve got to be able to bow up and do a better job coaching our guys to respond to it.u201d
“Right now, we’re a fragile football team,” Fresno State coach Tim DeRuyter said. “When adversity hits, we’ve got to be able to bow up and do a better job coaching our guys to respond to it.