Bob Stoops Quotes
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All those guys are coming in ready to play at some point.
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No, they had most of their guys before they won the national championship.
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He has not lived up to his responsibilities or expectations with the team or academically. He also hasn't followed through on the disciplinary measures that resulted in those areas.
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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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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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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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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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We need to establish some kind of passing game.
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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'm a huge wrestling fan. Wrestlers have so many great qualities that athletes need to have.
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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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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 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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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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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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It's still the Roy-back position until someone plays like him.
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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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Everyone said, 'That was a recipe, this is how everyone will do it'
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They've been back and forth, so that's it. There's nothing else to talk about.
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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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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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Those conversations are usually pretty short. He hasn't been in that position much, and I understand where he was coming from.
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Until we can be responsible with the ball, it's impossible to win.
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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.