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Postgame Q&A: Omar Cooper Jr. on Indiana football's 20-15 win over Michigan
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Nov 14, 2024
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Omar it seems like every time you have a
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one-on-one battle anywhere on the field
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it seems like you're winning that battle
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why is that uh just a lot of work that I
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put in in offseason working on releases
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and then stacking the players uh so and
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also work with Curtis so we've built a
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relationship where he's able to trust me
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enough to uh win them one at once was
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this different at all during the game
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not to be way ahead guys have to fight
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every down yeah it definitely was some
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we weren't used to um um so it was good
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to be able to see how we would react to
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it and we reacted well uh our defense
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stepped up a lot for us which helped us
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offensively so we owe we owe him big
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time next game did you tell them right n
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not yet we will we will tomorrow we will
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tomorrow Omar we saw some composure with
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this team late that tested unlike you
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have been this season is that something
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you guys felt like you've always s or
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that's something has learn among a group
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like this uh I feel like that's just
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something that's instilled in US uh with
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Co coach cetti he just Mak sure that
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that no matter how we beating teams uh
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no matter how close the game is we
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always got to fight to the end of the to
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the end of the game from the start of
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the game to the end and today we was
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able to show that we can still we can do
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that no matter who we playing kean's
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obviously a guy in your room how excited
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were you when you saw him that coach
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said it was one of the biggest plays or
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the biggest play of the game I was super
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excited for him KY has just always been
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a down earth guy and he just was always
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happy for for everybody else so for him
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to be able to get his opportunity I was
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proud of him and he made the best of it
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so I'm happy for what he did for us and
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the team when the offense was struggling
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in the second half did you guys rally
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around and talk to each other and try to
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rally each other up or what was the
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conversations kind of going
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inside uh kind of like you said we was
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rallying each other up uh we go to the
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sideline see what mistakes we made and
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try and uh fix them next time we went on
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the field um but like I said earlier the
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defense stepped up for us which helped
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us so it helped us be able to have
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confident no matter what we did on the
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field how freeing I guess is it
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offensively that you know that you have
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that defense coming in behind you uh
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it's it's good I mean just knowing that
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we got a defense that's really good and
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capable of doing uh a lot in turnovers
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or stops so for them to be able to do
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that uh just helps us play more free and
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just focus on the next thing there were
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a lot of guys talking about 1 and0 one
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week at a time all that but after the
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game it looked like there was a lot of
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weight to this win a lot of guys were
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really savoring this moment did it feel
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like more tonight uh yes it did just
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because at the end of the day Michigan
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is still the defended chance and this
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was the best team that we've went
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against uh if you ask the media so uh it
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was glad it was good to be able to get
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that uh win and focus on our next
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opponent two more for are you more
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excited about undefeated Indiana or
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undefeated Warren
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snor that's a hard one I probably
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say undefeated
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Indiana but I'm proud of I'm proud of w
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North too as well what's been the
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biggest difference this year in the
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culture from last year um just kind of
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like he said ear or she said earlier the
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one and0 mindset uh making sure that no
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matter what we've done in the past
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there's always we still got things to do
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in the future so making sure that we not
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paying attention to the accolades that
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we already uh achieved but just make
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sure we focus on our next opponent
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thanks Omar thank you thanks Omar
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