The Coach in Waiting speaks:
"You're kidding yourself if going and playing in front of 100,000 people on the road for the first time, if you're going to have that same feeling pregame that we did last week," Leonhard told reporters on Tuesday. "You can either admit that it's gonna be a lot of fun in an awesome atmosphere right now and get ready for it, or you show up on game day and go, 'Damn, this is pretty cool.'"
"First time on the road, you learn a ton about a team," Leonhard said. "You've gotta go in there with confidence and you've gotta go in there ready to communicate. You better know and trust what you're doing or they can cause some trouble. There's gonna be some situations where it's hard to talk. If you don't know what you're doing, you're gonna be in trouble.
"It's one of one on the schedule. You've gotta handle it that way, but from an approach standpoint, there's certain things that change when you play on the road. There's certain things that change when you play against talented groups that you have to understand the urgency of how you handle your business this week needs to be there."
