Bob Shoop Quotations

I don't think our run game was where we need it to be. The four new starters on the offensive line, they'll continue to get better.

I thought we played really smart today. We looked like a real college football team, you know, the enthusiasm, the energy. ... There was a genuine enthusiasm, not fake enthusiasm out there. To me that was a really good football game.

I think that was the turning point of the game. From then on, I thought the defense had a lot of confidence.

It is like looking in a mirror. In my two years here I think this game has turned into a really nice rivalry. If you ask our players and coaches this is a team we like to compete against. I think they are two very similar teams.

I said they're games and they're big games. I said to the team. 'This I'd say is the biggest game since I've been there...' I think now, we're getting to the point where this is a really big game.

We do need to find another playmaker on offense, whether it's the tight end or who it is. Or teams are just going to quadruple-cover Bowser.

We'll watch the film and we'll make decisions.

There are probably more schools with a combination of really good athletics and academics than any state in the country.

We've played well, what we did Saturday was play winning football. We did the little things.

We were playing with an edge and confidence that I hadn't seen at Columbia.

There's just kind of a confidence that was throughout pre-game and throughout the locker room before the game, and even at halftime, there was a confidence that I hadn't seen in our student athletes at Columbia since I've been here. I don't think there was ever a thought that we weren't going to win that game. There wasn't any panic, ever.

They beat us in every facet of the game. Offense, defense and kicking.

I'm not sure what to make of them.