"Playing in front of 86,000...took your team on the road against a good opponent and didn't get many penalties."
Prince: "If you don't beat yourself you can make yourself hard to beat. Very pleased kids played hard, bought into the message of how we had to win that game."
"If it hadn't been for those kick returns and turnovers we would've won, did that offend you?"
Prince: "I take that as a compliment. Texas is like the Yankees. I don't care about the offense, I want to excel in defense and special teams."
"I know you do care about the offense and limiting turnovers. Did your offense perform poorly?
Prince: "I'm responsible for how the ball moves in three phases, if we can move it on special teams and stop movement on defense then you can play in a different way than the opposition. We didn't have to take risks or chances on offense, particularly on the road, and I wanted to prove to our players and our coaches that we could disrupt them on offense. We can only compete with them on speed. #4 couldn't bail them out on routes down the sideline and Campbells return was a big play, but those incompletes were very important too."
"Rushing Defense, is it the key? If so, how?"
Two things wanted to do. 1. Relating to spread offenses, adding linebacker helped. Also wanted to contest passes. First two weeks didn't happen. We wanted to put ourselves in a position where the other team couldn't just hand the ball of and move it. We can't let the opponent run the ball in. We haven't achieved that yet, but there is time left.
Can you compare defense this year to last year.
I'm cautiously optimistic. Of the 30 meaningful statistics that the NCAA keeps they {ku} are better than us in 23 of them.
What would you describe ku?
They are the best team we will face so far. They have no weaknesses. They have a plan. They have an explosive offense, their QB is 11th in the nation, hasn't even played most 4th quarters. Has weapons to go to. 1 kickoff return team in the nation. Concerned about match-ups. Maybe they haven't had to disclose everything they can do. Scared? NO. Respect? Yes.
This is a more complete team offense, defense, special teams. I'm not trying to pull a Lou Holtz, I can tell you this is a great team, well-coached and it will take a great effort to beat them.
sorry not the best transcription.
