We're still trying to teach (the younger players) about the Big 12. We're tired of losing. You can't lose games and still win the Big 12.

Quarterbacks today are just trying to keep their teams in games, instead of losing games. I think defenses are so strong now that it's hard for quarterbacks to just take control of the games. With parity being the way it is, you just don't have dominant teams. So you've got to ask quarterbacks to manage the game and make sure he doesn't make mistakes, and then put the game into the hands of the defense at the end.

I don't know why everyone was stressin' because we weren't losing those games,

I was pleased to hear we won't be losing our best games. The general impression was that NBC was going to cherry-pick the best games. But it wouldn't be fair to give us the dogs.

We keep losing these close games, but five or six bounces, and we could be 4-0.

It's tough. We keep losing these close games.