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OSU opponent too 'nice" in bowl last season?
Published: 12/28/2010 3:20 PM
Last Modified: 12/28/2010 3:22 PM

No more Mr. Nice Guy for Arizona coach Mike Stoops?

Having been around Stoops on only a limited basis, I can’t vouch for whether he is a sweetheart or a meanie. But check out Arizona safety Cam Nelson’s comments after the Wildcats were beaten 33-0 by Nebraska in the Holiday Bowl last season.

Nelson said many of his teammates were just happy to be at a bowl and added, “All week, coach Stoops tried to be nice and a lot of guys took advantage of it. That caused us to play the way we did.”

Stoops was asked during a pre-Alamo Bowl press conference Tuesday if he notices a difference in his team’s pre-bowl focus this year.

“We seem to be much more focused on some of the details of the preparation,” he said.

“From my vantage point, I see a difference in our attitude and our practices and hopefully that will carry over to tomorrow night. A lot happened a year ago. I hope we learned from some of our mistakes, which you do as you get older. Bowl experiences, I think you evaluate each one. What’s the good part and the bad part?

“Certainly there was a lot of bad in all the stuff we did leading up to (the Holiday Bowl). I just feel we understand what kind of game this is going to be and getting embarrassed a year ago was a tough feeling for us. Not competing, that’s not what our program is about. This is a team that has competed since day one when we took over this program. So I look for us to compete in a lot better way tomorrow night.”


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Tulsa World sports writer Jimmie Tramel is a former class president at Locust Grove High School. He graduated magna cum laude from Northeastern State University with a journalism degree and, while attending college, was sports editor of the Pryor Daily Times. He joined the Tulsa World on Oct. 17, 1989, the same day an earthquake struck the World Series. He is the OSU basketball beat writer and a columnist and feature writer during football season. In 2007, he wrote a book about Oklahoma State football with former Cowboy coach Pat Jones.

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