Six For Fritz

In honor of Georgia Southern’s six FCS national championships (and the number of points awarded for scoring a touchdown), the editors of Georgia Southern Magazine caught up with Coach Willie Fritz to ask him six post-season questions.

1. What was your biggest surprise this season? How well our team gelled and how quickly it came together.
2. What was your greatest teaching moment? I think it might have happened before the season began. When we talked about what kind of team we were going to be and the effort we had to give in order to be successful at the FBS level—were we going to be the team that went 4 and 4 in the Southern Conference last year or the team that beat Florida. I told them that that was the kind of effort that we were going to have to give week in and week out.
3. What was your biggest disappointment? Probably the Navy game. I felt like we had a good plan but they had a better one. We didn’t play as well as we were capable of playing. A lot of the credit for that goes to Navy.
4. You win the Sun Belt in your first season. How do you top that? Win it in our second season, go to a bowl game and finish in the top 25.
5. Who gets this season’s game ball? I think that would be split evenly amongst the seniors.
6. In one word, sum up this season.   Fantastic.