JOE MOORHEAD: To my left we've got running back
Travis Dye, quarterback Anthony Brown, offensive lineman
Steven Jones and offensive lineman Alex Forsyth.
We're very excited to be participating in the Alamo Bowl, a
great reward for a fantastic season by our young men, and
the opportunity to reach that 11-win plateau is something
that's very hard to do in college football.
We've had a good couple weeks of preparation at school.
Started off with a great day today, and like I said, when
you're playing a great storied program like Oklahoma, it's
an unbelievable opportunity, and I know our guys are
excited.
Q. Joe, now that you've disclosed what transpired
there the morning of the Stanford game, this will be a
multi-parter, but walk us through what actually
happened, like were you experiencing stomach pain of
some kind for a couple of days? Did this literally wake
you up? And in terms of the chronology, the timeline,
how fast are you there and how quick are you going
under the knife and you're calling Jen? How quick are
these guys learning what's actually happening that
day?
JOE MOORHEAD: Yeah, I have a pregame ritual that I
know through every night on Fridays just going through the
calls and making sure everything is on point for the next
day, and around probably 10:00 or 11:00 that night I
started experiencing a little bit of stomach pain and thought
it was just that and tried to lay down and go to bed and
relax, and it went away a little bit, and I woke up the next
morning to get ready for our staff meeting, would have
been around 6:00 or 6:30, and it was just absolutely
debilitating, could barely move. I hopped in the shower,
got dressed and went down to see Chief and Doc
Davidson in our training room, and they did some tests,
just kind of poking and prodding around and sent me to the
ER, checked in, and they were hoping that they could do
something to alleviate the pain and get me to the stadium
to call the game, and then they took me back for a CT
scan, and that was definitely not going to be the case. So
went from hoping to get me back to the game to we're
going to get you back for surgery in like 45 minutes, and
they took me through the three things that it could be, and
none of them were good.
Yeah, called my wife, called my family, went back, I think
the surgery lasted around six to eight hours, and then next
thing I know, woke up in the recovery room.
Q. When you turn on the tape of Oklahoma, four of
their front seven opted out. What's that process been
like trying to prepare for the guys who are going to
step in across the front seven?
JOE MOORHEAD: Yeah, I think with the combination of
opt-outs and guys that are in the portal, I think there will be
some different faces in there, but at the end of the day
these are all young men who were recruited by the
University of Oklahoma, and the roster is filled with fourand
five-star guys.
Just like us, I'm sure they espouse a next-man-in mentality,
so we have a depth chart, we have guys that we're
anticipating that we're going to see, but at the end of the
day they're still going to be running their defense, and the
things they do present an incredible challenge for us
offensively.
Travis Dye, quarterback Anthony Brown, offensive lineman
Steven Jones and offensive lineman Alex Forsyth.
We're very excited to be participating in the Alamo Bowl, a
great reward for a fantastic season by our young men, and
the opportunity to reach that 11-win plateau is something
that's very hard to do in college football.
We've had a good couple weeks of preparation at school.
Started off with a great day today, and like I said, when
you're playing a great storied program like Oklahoma, it's
an unbelievable opportunity, and I know our guys are
excited.
Q. Joe, now that you've disclosed what transpired
there the morning of the Stanford game, this will be a
multi-parter, but walk us through what actually
happened, like were you experiencing stomach pain of
some kind for a couple of days? Did this literally wake
you up? And in terms of the chronology, the timeline,
how fast are you there and how quick are you going
under the knife and you're calling Jen? How quick are
these guys learning what's actually happening that
day?
JOE MOORHEAD: Yeah, I have a pregame ritual that I
know through every night on Fridays just going through the
calls and making sure everything is on point for the next
day, and around probably 10:00 or 11:00 that night I
started experiencing a little bit of stomach pain and thought
it was just that and tried to lay down and go to bed and
relax, and it went away a little bit, and I woke up the next
morning to get ready for our staff meeting, would have
been around 6:00 or 6:30, and it was just absolutely
debilitating, could barely move. I hopped in the shower,
got dressed and went down to see Chief and Doc
Davidson in our training room, and they did some tests,
just kind of poking and prodding around and sent me to the
ER, checked in, and they were hoping that they could do
something to alleviate the pain and get me to the stadium
to call the game, and then they took me back for a CT
scan, and that was definitely not going to be the case. So
went from hoping to get me back to the game to we're
going to get you back for surgery in like 45 minutes, and
they took me through the three things that it could be, and
none of them were good.
Yeah, called my wife, called my family, went back, I think
the surgery lasted around six to eight hours, and then next
thing I know, woke up in the recovery room.
Q. When you turn on the tape of Oklahoma, four of
their front seven opted out. What's that process been
like trying to prepare for the guys who are going to
step in across the front seven?
JOE MOORHEAD: Yeah, I think with the combination of
opt-outs and guys that are in the portal, I think there will be
some different faces in there, but at the end of the day
these are all young men who were recruited by the
University of Oklahoma, and the roster is filled with fourand
five-star guys.
Just like us, I'm sure they espouse a next-man-in mentality,
so we have a depth chart, we have guys that we're
anticipating that we're going to see, but at the end of the
day they're still going to be running their defense, and the
things they do present an incredible challenge for us
offensively.
