Nevada vs. NMSU
Oct. 11, 2008
Post-Game Notes

Colin Kaepernick completed 15-of-26 for 194 yards and three touchdowns while rushing for 54 yards and another score. In the last three games, Kaepernick has accounted for 12 touchdowns (five rushing, seven passing).

Vai Taua recorded his third multi-TD game of the season and of his career. The sophomore rushed for two touchdowns (8, 3) and caught a 5-yard TD pass from Colin Kaepernick for his first career receiving score. He later added another receiving touchdown for a career-best four-touchdown day. Taua now has seven touchdowns in the last two games and 10 on the season (eight rushing).

Taua rushed for a career-high 188 yards on 20 carries, eclipsing his previous best of 123 (vs. Idaho, last week). Taua also had 49 yards receiving for a career-best 237 all-purpose yards.

Kicker Brett Jaekle moved into second place on Nevada’s all-time kick scoring list. The senior had six extra points and field goal and has now scored 304 career points. He passed Tony Zendejas (1981-83). The all-time leader is Marty Zendejas (367; 1984-87).

Receiver Marko Mitchell had 97 yards receiving and moved into 11th place all-time at Nevada in career receiving yards with 2,199. He passed Mike Senior (2,074; 1991-94)

Mitchell has now caught a pass in 20 straight games and in 31 of his 32 career games at Nevada.

Mo Harvey picked off his third pass of the season in the third quarter. Nevada now has seven interceptions on the year, with six of them coming from defensive backs. In 2007, Nevada’s defensive backs had just three interceptions.

Et cetera: ... New Mexico State won the coin toss and deferred to the second half ... Nevada received the opening kickoff ... Adam Liranzo recorded his third sacks of the season ... Linebacker Joshua Mauga recorded a season high in tackles with 13, including one for a loss ... Nevada remains at home and will host Utah State for Homecoming on Oct. 18.
 

           
Nevada vs. New Mexico State
Oct. 11, 2008
Post-Game Quotes
Nevada Head Coach Chris Ault
On overall game
“The third down conversions are what hurt the most.”
“It’s that simple, no magic wands, their offense out-played our defense.”
On offense
“Offensively, we played well. We moved the ball and kept their offense off the field. Our offense deserved the win.”
On overall game
“I feel very disappointed, I don’t think we deserved the win playing that kind of football. Our defense was non-existent but our offense played well under the circumstances”
On next week
“It’s tough, take a loss like this, look at next week as a whole other situation. Defensively speaking we need to look at personnel.”
On problems in game
“With Kap’s fumble and Amaya’s fumbled punt, those were both critical plays. Jon doesn’t drop balls but he did this time.”
On defense
“I expected us to execute better. They had too many wide open plays. We have to execute, have to play football.”

Vai Taua
On fighting to keep up
“We had to score touchdowns and had a couple letdowns. But offense should be able to put up more points.”
On the turnovers
“”We should have been able to overcome them and make something happen.”
On the offensive line
“They do all the hard work, what I do is easy.”

Mike Bethea
On-game
“A lot of us are not doing our job. We need to go back and look at film tomorrow and Monday and see.”
On-NMSU
“They know what kind of deffense we are and what we like to do. They just picked us apart on those long plays.”
On- WAC
“Like Coach said, we’ll watch film tomorrow then throw it away and start working on Utah State.”

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