Bob Stoops Quotes
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It's easy to jump on any one guy when something goes wrong.
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We were fighting, scratching and clawing all year. At the end of the game, you had that feeling of 'Here we go again,' but we made the plays we needed to win the game.
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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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Typical of our recent classes, this one is well-balanced.
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But there are other parts of what we do here as college students and on a college team that also need to be fulfilled.
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We had no intention of bringing Dusty back when he was let go a year ago. I figured he'd enter the NFL draft, and that would be it.
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With the success of our program and the media attention we have received, we feel we can attract players from all over the country.
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We're going right now with Rhett, but we've still always got Paul ready to go.
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Really, the second quarter there, late in the second quarter was really the breaking point.
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He was always the first guy Jason White would talk to when he came off the field. Josh has a really good way with those guys and I'm sure he'll step right in here tomorrow night and do the same thing.
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I have total confidence in Chuck, and I think his track record speaks for him. The proof is in what they've done.
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They're still learning and improving as they go, but they played with some attitude and toughness that we needed, ... I believe we'll build off of that.
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When a guy's really good, he's really good. We realize that, and we realize that everything runs through him. When you look at not only the passing but also the run game, it all goes through him. He's a big factor, and we've got to really defend him.
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Jason knows what's best for him. If that's what he has to do, he's had an incredible career here.
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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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I thought the play was really a breaking point for us. I am not at all questioning the call, but we thought we had it, then we didn't, then they went down and got a field goal. Thinking we had the ball at the 30, and then not, that was a big swing.
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He's had the fewest number of snaps overall when you look at his time here, and he's been that close all along. We feel like if he gets more snaps maybe he can do something with it. We'll see.
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I don't think so, ... He remembers those other 12 games. They didn't fade from his memory.
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We have not been good. The players haven't been good. You can say whatever you want. I have done a lousy job.
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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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I'm not sensitive. That's what you guys do. There are some areas where we need to play better, you don't have to tell us. But I'm smart enough to see the positive side, that as badly as we played in the first half, we were still close enough to come out with the win.
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I think we're still better than the way we played.
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That's fundamental, basic football that we can be better at. That's what we've got to get across to our team. To me, the biggest factor is we can play smarter than we're playing. We can play harder. Our guys wanted to play, they were prepared to play, but we have to learn to play at a higher tempo when we're playing.
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We're going to keep getting better as we go. I believe there's great potential as we go. Are we there yet? Obviously not. But we're going to keep trying.