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Gundy Meets With Media After Practice
March 30, 2016 | Cowboy Football
STILLWATER – The Oklahoma State football team held its eighth practice of the spring Wednesday at the Sherman E. Smith Training Center. The Cowboys wore full pads and practiced for approximately two hours. At the conclusion of the session, coach Mike Gundy met with media to discussed practice and give an update on how the team is progressing. His comments:
On how practice went:
"Guys were enthusiastic today and it was really good offensively. I thought the effort on both sides of the ball and learning has been really good, so as a coaching staff we're really happy with where our players are at this time. The same guys are making plays that I mentioned a week ago. Mason is doing well. Seales and Washington; Veatch and Frazier are doing really well at the Cowboy back. I like how Larry Williams is improving and the offensive line is steady with their improvement. Lampkin is making some plays. Obviously Sterns is still making some plays. Mote is showing up some, so the guys that we'd expect to make plays are doing a really good job and we just have to push forward. We will go right into a scrimmage setting on Friday to let the guys play a little bit and then let them have the weekend off."
On James Washington exceeding expectations:
"I'm not sure anybody really knew just based on being from such a small community, but he's very athletic just as we talked about. He was a multi-sport player. I was really excited when I watched him play a basketball game and he followed a missed shot and tried to dunk it with one hand, but he missed the dunk; but at least his elbow was above the rim. He spoke to our team at the end, and we mentioned to the team why was because of his lead by example effort that he puts out every day, and he certainly earned a lot of respect from the players. I would agree that he has exceeded expectations and what the recruiting services thought at that time."
On making up for Ogbah and Bean defensively:
"A first round pick and I think Bean will end up getting drafted late, so we need Cole and Jarrell and Trey and some of those guys to make plays for us out there. We're certainly not going to look the same in the first half of the season because they don't have the experience that those guys had, but we need them to start to play at a higher level once we get into conference play; and hopefully they can continue to improve as we get to the latter part of the season."
On the progress of the team midway through the spring:
"I think we're certainly as far as where we thought we would be. I mentioned a few names of guys who I thought had performed well up to this time. I think we've improved at running the football through seven practices. We won't know until deep in September or the middle of October where we're at, but I think we've improved in certain areas. We're bringing along some young players in a number of areas. We have a number of returning starters, but we don't have as much depth in the top 40 players as what we had last year, so it's a little unique; but our system has always worked and we have to develop young guys to help us in October and November."
On how practice went:
"Guys were enthusiastic today and it was really good offensively. I thought the effort on both sides of the ball and learning has been really good, so as a coaching staff we're really happy with where our players are at this time. The same guys are making plays that I mentioned a week ago. Mason is doing well. Seales and Washington; Veatch and Frazier are doing really well at the Cowboy back. I like how Larry Williams is improving and the offensive line is steady with their improvement. Lampkin is making some plays. Obviously Sterns is still making some plays. Mote is showing up some, so the guys that we'd expect to make plays are doing a really good job and we just have to push forward. We will go right into a scrimmage setting on Friday to let the guys play a little bit and then let them have the weekend off."
On James Washington exceeding expectations:
"I'm not sure anybody really knew just based on being from such a small community, but he's very athletic just as we talked about. He was a multi-sport player. I was really excited when I watched him play a basketball game and he followed a missed shot and tried to dunk it with one hand, but he missed the dunk; but at least his elbow was above the rim. He spoke to our team at the end, and we mentioned to the team why was because of his lead by example effort that he puts out every day, and he certainly earned a lot of respect from the players. I would agree that he has exceeded expectations and what the recruiting services thought at that time."
On making up for Ogbah and Bean defensively:
"A first round pick and I think Bean will end up getting drafted late, so we need Cole and Jarrell and Trey and some of those guys to make plays for us out there. We're certainly not going to look the same in the first half of the season because they don't have the experience that those guys had, but we need them to start to play at a higher level once we get into conference play; and hopefully they can continue to improve as we get to the latter part of the season."
On the progress of the team midway through the spring:
"I think we're certainly as far as where we thought we would be. I mentioned a few names of guys who I thought had performed well up to this time. I think we've improved at running the football through seven practices. We won't know until deep in September or the middle of October where we're at, but I think we've improved in certain areas. We're bringing along some young players in a number of areas. We have a number of returning starters, but we don't have as much depth in the top 40 players as what we had last year, so it's a little unique; but our system has always worked and we have to develop young guys to help us in October and November."
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