They want to be able to check on football players because they don't trust us. I don't think it's that big a deal for us because - I hate to say it and ruin our streak - but we haven't had a positive steroids test in eight years.
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He is a difficult assignment especially because of the way they can throw and run the ball. You don't stop those kinds of guys, you just hope to control them enough to give you a chance to win.Rocky Long
We've come real close three times to winning a conference championship and haven't won one yet. That means we're missing something. It might not be very much.
Rocky Long
We're resilient. I think people were questioning that. I mean maybe even I was questioning it some. But they hung in there in some critical situations and overcame some real good players going out of the game for different reasons. And they overcame some bad breaks and turnovers. I just told them it won't go down in history as one of the great victories in Lobo football, but it was a damn nice victory for us.
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Nobody has seen it enough yet to get a real good handle on how to stop it. As long as it's going to be effective, people are going to run it. We haven't stopped it yet, so we're still in the process of trying to learn how.
Rocky Long
People wonder sometimes whether we educate these guys because a guy slips up and makes a mistake. Well, we do extensive education. We cover steroids, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, domestic relations. We do extensive education with these guys, more than the student body gets and probably more than the general population ever gets. But for whatever reason, these guys are under more scrutiny, so we have to try to educate them.
Rocky Long
They may not get as much attention, but scouts still go to those bowls so it was a very good opportunity for them.
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