There’s no greater step forward in a football season than from Week One to Week Two. The first game is filled with butterflies and enormous expectations, yet they must learn the much faster speed of the game on the fly.
Mark Stoops doesn’t mind the early errors, especially from his quarterback: “There was a few missed opportunities, but you could say that about a lot of our players and a lot of things. Nobody plays perfect.”
Towles struggled with the deep balls, primarily because of the increased speed of the game. Timing is everything, and his wideouts were moving much faster on the new turf than on the Tim Couch Practice Fields.