Oklahoma Football Ou Quotes • Head Coach Bob Stoops Oklahoma 30, Tcu 29 • Nov
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OKLAHOMA FOOTBALL OU QUOTES • HEAD COACH BOB STOOPS OKLAHOMA 30, TCU 29 • NOV. 21, 2015 Opening Statement: On Samaje Perine’s injury followed by a 72-yard run: “I’ll first start off by complimenting TCU, Coach Patterson, the team and “He had a slight ankle sprain, and it hurt him initially. Once he gets the staff for another hard fought, tough football game. Their team really on the sideline, they tape it again, he gets to moving on it again, then hung in there and made plays there down at the end to give them a he trusts that it’s okay. It’s an ankle sprain; it’s not a high one, which is chance to win, and fortunately, we came up with enough plays to win good. Hopefully he’ll heal up well.” the football game. I’m really proud that Steven Parker came up with a huge play there at the end. I guess to recap the game just overall, On tonight’s performance despite having better finishes in the offensively, I really thought going into half time, compliment TCU forced past: us on some red zone areas to come up with some field goals instead “If you look around the country every week, for everyone, is it ever of touchdowns. I knew it would be difficult moving the ball overall, perfect? It’s tough. Gary’s sitting over there with a team that hasn’t but I felt like we had a chance to catch a rhythm… Of course, Baker, lost but three times in two years. Regardless of who’s playing for them, just to be sure that everyone understands, our trainers and doctors they’re a good football team, and I knew they would be. Rarely is it were constantly with each series, every time Baker was off, checking perfect. We’ve had a lot of excellent games, and we’re due for one that him, asking him questions, making sure he was okay. Everything was maybe isn’t. You can win when you’re still not at your best.” checking out fine, and then at halftime they approached him again, wanting to go over some things, and Baker admitted to having a On Zack Sanchez’s performance coming back from an ankle headache, and that’s when our doctors said we’re not going to have injury: him play any more. I’m sure there was more to it than that, I’m not part “Zack was great again. The interceptions were huge, and the onside of the whole testing situation and everything that they do. I know our kick. Fortunately he didn’t re-hurt it at all, but he’s still favoring that doctors are incredibly thorough and always err on the safe side, and ankle, but he’s still fighting through it.” once we did find a symptom, that’s when they made sure he was pulled. Of course, that threw us off in the second half when we weren’t very On going into next week’s game and their chances of securing a consistent at all. Defensively, I thought in the first half, it basically got playoff spot: to two plays, two pass plays on one drive were really all that we gave “A lot happened this week, a lot will happen next week. When you up the whole first half… Then, the same thing happens in the second can not be at your best and win, it’s always a positive against a ranked half—we’re playing great defense—and one guy gets beat in coverage team… We’ve been in four National Championship games where they and they get a big play and a touchdown, and all of a sudden they’re pick two, and in three of them, we had a loss. A lot’s going to continue juiced up, and again, when the defense isn’t able to do anything, they’re to happen.” constantly kicking it back to them in three-downs or turning it over and giving it to them with field position, it’s tough to hang on, and that’s how the game got tight by the end. Again, fortunately we were able to come up with a big play there at the end on the two-point play to win it. It puts it in a position now with one game remaining in the regular season to go to Oklahoma State and hopefully have a chance to win the championship.” On Steven Parker’s play during the two-point conversion attempt in the fourth quarter: “That was a huge play. On the sideline, it looked like he was up there, like he could have dunked it on a 12-foot rim. He was way up there. It was a great play by him.” OKLAHOMA FOOTBALL OU QUOTES • COORDINATORS OKLAHOMA 30, TCU 29 • NOV. 21, 2015 OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR LINCOLN RILEY DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR MIKE STOOPS On changing quarterbacks and how it changed the offense: On the last play: “We didn’t have to change much. We just didn’t play as good in the second “We played a quarter concept across and just were able to cover them. We half. I felt like in the first half we were close to blowing it wide open. were in kind of the same defense as when they threw the touchdown. We We started to get into a little bit of a rhythm, but any time you change were in a pretty good call for what they were trying to do. I thought we had quarterbacks it’s going to take time to get in a rhythm. I didn’t call a very it covered, and we did. The initial coverage was pretty good, then we lost good second half at all. We just had some small breakdowns here and contain. It was all kind of a blur to me.” there. I don’t think any position group played super well in the second half; On when TCU changed quarterbacks in the third quarter: we were just okay. We were just one step away. We played a lot of nine and “They ran a concept there for the deep post that’s a beater against that 10-man football the second half, and when you do that against a really coverage. We weren’t far enough inside and didn’t have the right leverage. good team and a defense like the one run by Gary Patterson, you’re not That gave them hope with eight-and-a-half minutes to go. We were pretty going to play as well. At the end of the year… this is our eighth-straight much doing what we needed to do to secure the game, regardless of what was [win]. It’s gutty. You look across the country… we got a chance to watch going on. We were in a good rhythm. We were stopping the run. We were good the Ohio State vs. Michigan State game. It’s a lot of ‘ugly’ games. That’s on third down. We just gave up that play. You could just feel that things were what the end of the year is about. You’re going to have some adversity and starting to change.” both teams did today. Give our team credit because we found a way to win it.” On the defense’s overall effort: On mistakes he made calling plays: “We had four turnovers again. We’re doing a lot of good things. It took a little “We weren’t aggressive enough. We got away from who we are offensively. bit away, but give TCU credit. To knock the champ out, you have to fight. It’s That’s my fault. That can’t happen. We were playing so well defensively. I going to be a fist fight. We were just hanging on. We couldn’t make a play. We felt like we had the game under control for a while. We got away from that, overran the football. We made good calls. We just lost momentum. We had to and me doing that took away from our kids playing football. It’s unfair of make a play. We just felt like we were going to make one to win the game. It me to ask them to play one way and me not bring that same approach. got to that point, and we were able to do it.” I brought them down by doing that. I can’t do that. That’s why we’ve gotten to where we’ve gotten and had whatever success that we’ve had On if he was surprised by the two-point conversion call: offensively is because of that mentality, and I got away from that and it “I was (surprised). The way their defense was playing… in the second half, showed in our kids.” both teams had backup quarterbacks, so I was surprised just because they were in such good rhythm defensively. On the road, they say go for the win On Trevor Knight’s ability: and we made a play when we needed to. For our guys, I thought, for 52 “I don’t worry about anything before, I go off what I see in practice. There’s minutes we controlled the game and just lost it there down the stretch. I not anything in this offense he can’t do. This is a guy that came as close wish we would’ve finished better, but winning championships is never easy. as it could be to starting the season as a starter and a guy that’s won a Beating a team like Baylor, you have to earn it.