Quotebook: TCU RB Says ‘We Got Our Butts Kicked’

Here are all your leftover quotes from TCU coach Gary Patterson, OSU coach Mike Gundy and others after the Pokes’ 31-6 beatdown of the Frogs in Ft. Worth.

Ramon Richards on the defense

“Last year, we had a lot of great guys, but the chemistry this year is much stronger. I don’t have to worry about whether the man next to me will do his job.” [Tulsa World]

Glenn Spencer on the defense

“I’m just happy the guys can get recognized for that. Somebody’s gonna say something good about ’em this week. I get tired of people talkin’ bad about ‘em. They really don’t know what goes into what. Now, they need to treat it as garbage like the rest of it is, and I’ll tell ‘em that.” [O’Colly]

Mike Gundy on the defense

“First I will say this was the best defensive effort game plan; tackling against some tricky, skilled players that I’ve seen for a very long time.”

Gundy on how practicing has changed

“We’ve adjusted our practice routine this year and we are considerably rested, and it paid off for us today. Actually on field time, we are about 14 hours less of actual practice time than we were last year, and it has helped us from an injury standpoint and in our players, they seem fresh and their attitudes are better.”

Gundy on closing games

“I told our boys, in the early 2000’s that how we used to win games. That’s what we were known for. When we are not running the ball decent, it makes it harder for us. But we’ve come a long way, we’ve built systems that allowed us to take advantage of the players we have and we created running lanes.”

Gary Patterson on getting smoked

“It’s simple. I think you have to give coach Gundy and his group credit. They kicked our butts. You’ve got to be able to run the football when you get inside the 5, and you’ve got to tackle. It’s been a long time in the 19 years I’ve been here where we got our butts kicked at home. That was one of them.”

More from Patterson on the whipping

“I don’t know how much of it was us or how much of it was [Oklahoma State]. That’s two weeks in a row that we’ve played two really good football teams in West Virginia and Oklahoma State on off weeks, and we scored 6 and 10. Coach Gundy and his group got after us. That’s the one team in the Big 12 that we’re not .500 or better against. We’re 1-4 against them, so we’ve got to come up with a better plan of how to beat Oklahoma State. And Oklahoma.”

TCU running back Kyle Hicks on getting embarrassed at Home

“We definitely got our butts kicked, it was embarrassing. They came to our home turf and just straight up kicked our butt. But there’s nothing we can do about it. It was embarrassing. “We had two weeks to prepare for them. We should’ve come out with more of a sense of urgency and gone out there making plays.”

TCU safety Denzel Johnson

“They’re a good team. They’re coached well, they’ve got a lot of athletes, they’ve got a lot of speed. You can’t take anything away from them. They played good and we didn’t.”