Bob Stoops Quotes
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He's got another year after this one to contribute and play. He's an excellent athlete who works hard. We just want to give him more opportunities to get on the field. I think he will give us more production.
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We need to develop a passing game that our players can execute. For whatever reason, for the past two weeks what we have been doing hasn't been productive. That is being about as kind as I can be. We are not going to continue to go through the year like this and not be able to throw the football some.
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I remember the night we saw him in Columbia as a freshman and thinking to myself that he was going to be a handful for the league over the next four years. That definitely turned out to be the case. He just presents so many challenges to a defense with his size, his speed and his feel of the game. He is also a player who had the respect of people around the Big 12 for the way he conducted himself. He is a person that the Missouri program and fans can be proud of in a lot of ways.
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I don't want to say the teams are mirror images of each other, ... but there's a lot of similarities on both sides of the ball.
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Even if it goes against us, I told the official, I thought it was fair.
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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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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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We're going to give Rhett Bomar and opportunity to start and see where he takes us.
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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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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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That didn't surprise me at all. Clint is just a ball magnet. He makes plays like that every day.
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Adrian needs work. He can polish a lot of things up to become a better and better player, and he's aware of that. I think this can really help him. When you think of the time he has lost - spring last year, two-a-days the year before - he's playing on a lot of raw ability and I think some of this practice time can really benefit him.
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We had our opportunities, we just didn't convert.
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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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Obtained professional advice to ensure that we followed applicable laws.
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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 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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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 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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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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We need to make something of this week.
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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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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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You could point fingers all you want. But in the end, we are thin there and it has affected us to some degree.