Bob Stoops Quotes
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I have no idea why Mark would have done that. I was as shocked as anybody in the stadium. How do you explain that? I don't know. That goes back to Pop Warner football. Mark should have made a better decision. I'm not going to sit here and go any further in front of the whole media, but it's as bad a play as there is.
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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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Everyone said, 'That was a recipe, this is how everyone will do it'
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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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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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The competition there has been really close and really good. Between all those guys, we have a lot of confidence in whoever is out there. Who plays the best and makes the best plays will get the most time.
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We felt, as a staff, we're going to start Thompson. We feel that he has earned it to this point.
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To me, I am most critical that we were not tough and physical. It's something we have always done. For whatever reason we didn't do that to the ability we're capable of, and that's my fault, along with my staff.
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No, they had most of their guys before they won the national championship.
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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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Until we can be responsible with the ball, it's impossible to win.
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He's the best. You can say all you want about him. He makes the plays that matter, and you see it every week.
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If you can run the football, your opportunity to win increases big time, no matter who you're playing, and we're going to always try to, ... With the potential that we have in our backfield, everything should set up off of that.
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I'm a huge wrestling fan. Wrestlers have so many great qualities that athletes need to have.
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Sometimes it concerns you that when you have won for a period time, the players start thinking you have a right to win. You have to earn it every play, and I say that every week. We didn't go out there and do it last week, and TCU played harder and tougher than we did.
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When we did protect him, we didn't convert our opportunities.
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I felt like Rhett started to get some rhythm and confidence in what he was doing, ... Our receivers made some nice plays, and that part of it, I feel like we're getting somewhere.
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That was a big swing, ... We're hanging in there, with a chance to make some plays and we don't. That was tough to overcome.
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We didn't push it. I'm not going to detail it for you.
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Really, our expectations will not change. I say it every year. We respect Texas. We've been on both sides of it. We've been picked behind them before, and we've been picked ahead of them before. We'll get off the bus when it's time to play.
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We need to establish some kind of passing game.
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We want to give him opportunities to get on the field. He's excited about it. He sees opportunity there.
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Playing a team that's 10-1 gets your attention big-time. Our players recognize it as a major challenge. It does excite them.
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Our imagination as a staff, and Chuck's imagination with the offensive staff is to move the football.