Bob Stoops Quotes on Media & News (3 Quotes)

We came out of spring believing that they each had a scrimmage or two that they were good at and one or two that they made some mistakes at. Each of them did that and in our mind there was not a separation going into (Thursday's) practice. I feel it's unfortunate that so many of you in the media have ranked them and have put them in place so that players have to hear that the entire summer. It's really not fair.

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.

It probably means he doesn't believe it. Maybe it's what you guys media are saying, and he doesn't believe it. Gauging by the way we played a year ago, I don't blame him for not respecting us very much.