Kansas Jayhawks head coach Lance Leipold discusses how his team prepares for up-tempo offenses heading into the Oklahoma game. He also answers a question about how to keep the team focused on the final five games of the season.
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00:00 does the up-tempo offense and I think UCF has won, Oklahoma State has done it too.
00:05 As the season goes on, as time goes on, do the guys get more comfortable going against
00:10 that and how do you have to change things when you go up against a team
00:13 that wants to kind of push the pace like that? Yeah, well I think they get more,
00:16 they get used to it no doubt. As a staff there's a lot of different ways through
00:21 the years you learn to practice that because when you don't do that you're
00:26 trying to replicate it and then using scout team players and that aren't used
00:31 to that and it's hard enough sometimes to run the scout team for various reasons.
00:35 So we try to find different ways. I think our guys do. I think last year as we
00:40 remind them you watch things we you know we're watching everything from average
00:45 ball snap between plays to all those things to to create that sense of
00:49 urgency but yet we got to continue to play hard and and then get lined up and
00:55 then get the next call. So yeah it's a it's a process and in playing UCF just a
01:02 few weeks ago and now I think will help us in some regards. And I guess looking
01:07 at the final five games of the season, what is it going to take for you guys to
01:10 finish fast? Well again I I'm in a week-to-week mode, okay? You're probably
01:16 looking at it differently but again I I think I know where you're where the
01:23 reason is from last year's maybe to this year and again if you remember at the
01:28 beginning of the year or maybe even last spring I've I think I sat in this room
01:32 and said we can be a better football team and probably will be a better
01:37 football team than we were last year but I can't promise it's going to show up in
01:41 the record, okay? And that's and that can hold true when you look at it across the
01:45 board in this conference it's how you're gonna match up. So it's gonna come down
01:49 to A) staying healthy, B) we got to be able to execute and stay physical and be
01:54 able to to create our balance and offensive explosiveness. We've got to be
01:59 able to prevent big plays and tackle well on defense and and find a way to
02:03 win something in special teams and that that's going to continue on. There's not
02:07 a magic hey if we just do this we're gonna be set. We've got to continue to do
02:12 what we do and keep pushing our players to be to be better today than they were
02:16 yesterday. I know it's kind of boring but that's really where it gets to and I
02:21 think again where we're at health-wise and some things is is pretty good right
02:26 now and we've got to be able to stay that course and and bounce back. You know
02:31 I mean it's tough to you know we haven't played now it'll be two weeks so you
02:36 know you you know if you look at OU and Texas didn't play the the week
02:42 before, okay? I don't know if that had to do with anything the scores of their
02:46 game. I don't want to take away from those two opponents that played them to
02:49 the wire but we got to come off this break. You can be you can be refreshed
02:54 but you better be able to come out of the gates well and play well off of it.
02:59 So those are all going to be the things that we'll talk about as we as we go
03:03 down these final five.