Bob Stoops Quotes
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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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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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They're a very solid team in everything they do. Watching them against Minnesota, there were a good number of plays and series where they were really playing well and executing on both sides of the ball.
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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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I didn't anticipate all that's happened and who we've missed.
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This shows the youth that we have and the way that we have grown throughout the year. We have a number of young guys who are capable of being really good, and I think they'll get better and better.
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They have always really committed to the run game and stopping the run. They do a good job of it.
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We prepare our kids to look and see. You can't be fully prepared. You have to expect them to do something to slow us down, and we'll try to do the same thing to them.
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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.
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Watching the TCU game and critiquing it Sunday on tape, we just weren't very physical up front. TCU just outplayed and outcoached us.
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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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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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We're going right now with Rhett, but we've still always got Paul ready to go.
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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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You're not going to win when you turn the ball over and put the ball on the ground like we did.
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I still think we haven't put it all together, and maybe that's good that we're still good enough to win. I told the guys, our 2000 national title team -- we won 12-7 here, and we went on to win out and play in the Orange Bowl. So a lot of things are setting up similarly.
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What we were doing at the end of the game, we've never done before. The other side of it is, if we don't do it, for instance when we did take a knee against Texas Tech, does that then come back and haunt you? Is that the reason that maybe kept you out of something, and how do you live with that as well? Its really a rotten position to play in.
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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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We feel that Rhett deserves an opportunity to have the opportunities that Paul had and see what he can do with, ... That's the direction we're going to go and work from there.
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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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Typical of our recent classes, this one is well-balanced.
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I keep reading about all the guys they have coming back, ... We have 10 starters coming back on offense, eight on defense.
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I think we're still better than the way we played.
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All those guys are coming in ready to play at some point.