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Oklahoma football: Bob Stoops won't address OU's previous struggles at Texas Tech with the team

The Oklahoman's Jason Kersey and Stephanie Kuzydym provided live coverage from Bob Stoops' press conference at OU today. OU takes on Texas Tech in Lubbock on Saturday.

By Jason Kersey and Stephanie Kuzydym | Published: October 1, 2012 Comment on this article

NORMAN — Bob Stoops said he won’t address with his team Oklahoma’s struggles at Texas Tech, where the Sooners haven’t won since 2003, leading up to Saturday’s game in Lubbock, Texas.

“We’ll address what we have to do ... to win down there,” Stoops said.

“For instance, it didn’t matter to Tech how many times we won here. The last time they were here before last year, we beat them 62-10 or whatever the heck it was; it didn’t seem to matter a year ago.

“Everyone wants to tie years to other years, and I don’t see it that way.”

Texas Tech beat Oklahoma 41-38 in Norman last season. The year before that, in 2010, the Sooners beat Texas Tech 45-7 in Norman.

The year Stoops was likely referring to was 2008, when Texas Tech walked onto Owen Field ranked No. 2 in the country and left a 65-21 loser.

The last time OU beat Texas Tech in Lubbock was 2003, a 56-25 victory.

Here's a look at Bob Stoops' and Landry Jones' comments from the weekly media luncheon:

NewsOKSports 11:34 a.m. Bob Stoops will address the media at noon. Live updates from Jason Kersey and Stephanie Kuzydym will appear here.

@jasonkersey 12:08 p.m. Stoops on slow starts: Just overall execution needs to be better #Sooners

@jasonkersey 12:11 p.m. Stoops says he won't talk to his team much about OU's past struggles in Lubbock #Sooners

@stephkuzy 12:11 p.m. Stoops says what happened in past doesn't matter. It comes down: will they protect the ball. Will they be strong in kicking game? #Sooners

@jasonkersey 12:12 p.m. Stoops said they want to get Damien Williams more carries and more opportunities. #Sooners

@jasonkersey 12:12 p.m. Stoops, as an old defensive coach, on West Virginia-Baylor: It's a nightmare #Sooners

@stephkuzy 12:13 p.m. Stoops' word of the day : execution

@stephkuzy 12:16 p.m. It's safe to report that OU want Damien Williams will get more carries ...since it's been mentioned three times since the last game #Sooners

@stephkuzy 12:19 p.m. Stoops says in order to have Landry feeling like he can have pressure in the part, it's part confidence and part working on it #Sooners

@stephkuzy 12:20 p.m. Stoops says they run blitzes each practice and do everything short of hitting the quarterback, which won't happen. #Sooners

@stephkuzy 12:22 p.m. Stoops said during the bye week they worked on Justin Brown and Trey Metoyer's precision for where they are on the field. #Sooners

@jasonkersey 12:23 p.m. Stoops: I would think DBs have something to prove; how could you not? #Sooners

@stephkuzy 12:25 p.m. Stoops on the 11 a.m. kickoff - "when you lose, you don't get night games as much." #Sooners

@jasonkersey 12:28 p.m. Stoops said he likes Mike Gundy's policy of not talking about injuries. "I'll see how it goes for Mike" and reevaluate his own #Sooners

@stephkuzy 12:48 p.m. Sorry tweets slow during Landry's press conference. Here are the key points: QB guru George Whitfield texts Landry words of encouragement

@stephkuzy 12:49 p.m. Landry talked about he thinks some of his issues were just trying to force the football down the field and trying to make big plays.

@stephkuzy 12:50 p.m. Landry said he's learned to make his circle of influence smaller. He only listens to things said by teammates, family and his wife Whitney