Bob Stoops Quotes
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Everyone said, 'That was a recipe, this is how everyone will do it'
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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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It's still the Roy-back position until someone plays like him.
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All those guys are coming in ready to play at some point.
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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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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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I'm a huge wrestling fan. Wrestlers have so many great qualities that athletes need to have.
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When we did protect him, we didn't convert our opportunities.
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We're doing things discipline-wise, and everything else like we always have. That doesn't mean it's right or good, and it's fair to criticize me because some teams accept it better than others and listen or are disciplined better than others.
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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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I'm sure possibly all the extra work probably could be bothersome to him healthwise, and he just decided he wants to move on. Good for him. He'll have a successful career in whatever he does.
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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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I don't believe as much as you write about it, you truly know how down it was and how poor and how bad it was.
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I think back to last year and, I don't want to say it was easy, but we made it look easy. We weren't challenged in difficult situations. This year, we have been, and it's built our character.
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He'll get his share of carries, but we also hope that we can get him another five to 10 touches through the passing game with a little more space, as opposed to everybody sitting there lined up looking at him in the backfield. How that works out, we'll see.
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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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We need to establish some kind of passing game.
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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'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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This is a guy who, when he's healthy, has been phenomenal. Once he regained the strength in his ankle this year, he was right back to running with power and making the same kind of cuts before he was injured. He really came on once he was over the injury and he has been sensational in every game since.
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We didn't push it. I'm not going to detail it for you.
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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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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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I am not at all questioning the call. But we thought we had it, then we didn't.