Bob Stoops Quotes
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With all my Iowa ties, I do my best to watch the game indifferently. But you have to be happy for Dan. He's been building that program and that sure is a big step for them.
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As soon as I saw him go up for the ball I knew it wasn't going to be dropped. He doesn't drop balls.
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He is indifferent to all the attention he has been receiving. It does not seem to bother him one way or the other.
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Each day he's gotten more and more confident, knocking the rust off. Larry brings a lot of energy defensively, just with his attitude and all. Having him available to play to some degree hopefully will be a boost for us.
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He handles it well and, I'll tell you, he has good hands. He catches the ball. He'll definitely be more a part of our passing offense.
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Obtained professional advice to ensure that we followed applicable laws.
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This game isn't real complicated, in that if you turn the ball over you're going to get beat. Those guys quarterbacks each need to be more responsible with the ball.
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We'll see. At this point, we anticipate him playing. Start or not depends on how we feel practice is going, what we feel we need to do. Depending on what further happens from here, we'll see.
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It kind of just typifies our whole year. We've been fighting all year. I'm proud of our guys for competing the way they did.
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We had our opportunities, we just didn't convert.
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I felt the law of averages would eventually swing back your way. We were due for something good to happen, and sure enough, it happened.
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To me, you look at both of those games, the turnovers are the biggest issue, and the turnovers lead to all the other problems.
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It's easy to jump on one guy when something goes wrong. Hey, that's fine. We deserve the criticism, but track records over time also stand for something.
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I think you're always looking for guys, especially in the offensive line, that are just tough, hard-working, fighting guys. That's what you look for. It's not always the easiest thing to find.
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We need to make something of this week.
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Dear Lord, I pray that my place will never be with the cold, timid souls who do not compete yet criticize, for they never know or feel success or failure.
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He wasn't making the cuts he was used to making. We knew there was a chance he may not play.
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It matters, your game plan. But in the end, there are a lot of ways to play defense, and there are a lot of ways to run or throw the football. If you don't block anybody, I don't care what your grand scheme is, if that nose guard is in your backfield three yards, it doesn't matter.
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You could point fingers all you want. But in the end, we are thin there and it has affected us to some degree.
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That didn't surprise me at all. Clint is just a ball magnet. He makes plays like that every day.
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Disappointed across the board, definitely. I told the players, 'Just because you had it before doesn't mean you're going to do it again.' Maybe they tune me out.
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By no means am I sitting here saying that Paul Thompson is responsible for the way we played Saturday. That's not the case. We had a lot of guys, mostly older guys, play as poorly as I have seen them play. We feel Rhett deserves the same opportunity that Paul had.
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We're one of those teams that gets criticized even when we win. In the end, though, I'm smart enough to recognize all that we overcame down here in this atmosphere and still came away with a victory.
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They outplayed us and outcoached us in most all areas, ... I felt we would be stronger and have a little more attitude than this. I told the players that just because you've done it before doesn't mean you're going to do it again. They may have tuned me out.