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Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 04-14-2013, 07:52 AM:

He is excited about this team and the coming season.

COACH STOOPS: Thought it was a great night for the program. Really appreciate the fan support, just an unbelievable atmosphere. I thought the players played hard. Made some mistakes, but overall, pretty clean game. So, very excited.

Q. Re: Jalen Whitlow

COACH STOOPS: Jalen (Whitlow) did a nice job, he has that dimension to run the football and pull it down when something is not there and create. He did a nice job tonight. I was impressed with the way Jalen played.

Q. I know you knew the number (of tickets that) have been distributed but when you come through that catwalk and see that many people what does that tell you?

COACH STOOPS: I was amazed. You felt that, you heard these numbers for the past couple weeks, and you know, you never know who is going to show up. It was overwhelming. It was fantastic.

Our players really felt that, the energy of the catwalk. And just to see the stadium and they were energetic and into the game, it was a great feeling. So it really helps. It will help our program.

Q. They couldn't get many sacks because of no contact on the quarterbacks -- looks like you have something from the two ends (Dupree and Smith), what did you see from those two guys?

COACH STOOPS: Yeah, I thought so, as well, if it was a live game and we were live on the quarterbacks, I think they could have created some havoc. I thought they did a nice job, they are very active and have been very solid all spring.

Q. If you're going to have one solid building block up front --

COACH STOOPS: Absolutely, I do, I think you have to be physical up front on both sides of the ball. Been very pleased with both lines. You know, we know we need to get bigger and stronger, but that is a good foundation. I thought with Mister (Cobble) inside, he's very unselfish and you need to be very unselfish as an interior defensive lineman. So Mister doesn't get a lot of credit but he's very solid inside.

Q. What does that do?

COACH STOOPS: It does an awful lot, because if you can get some pressure with four guys, then you can put another guy in the coverage.

So that's a big part of it and also in the run game, if you can learn to play the run game without numbers all the time, then that helps your defense, as well.

Q. What about the other quarterbacks?

COACH STOOPS: Yeah, I thought we were solid again. You know, I have to go back and look at the film. It was really hard for me to tell but I thought each of them had their moments and were consistent. We need more playmakers around them, and so it's not always on the quarterbacks. It's on the other ten guys that are out there playing with them.

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