Tuesday's beginning — on one topic, the "Lucky Ducks" incident — went on for nearly 7 minutes.
Oh, Oregon. There's no easy getting over this one.
"I think this one was so painfully obvious," Stoops said of Saturday's loss marred by officiating mistakes, "everybody's having a tough time accepting it."
Stoops spoke first Tuesday of moving on, of moving away from the Oregon controversy and ahead to this week's matchup with Middle Tennessee.
But only after a brief address concerning the Oregon issue, followed by a few questions.
Then Stoops, voice rising at times for emphasis, railed for a while, fielded 28 questions on the topic before asking if anyone had just one more.
"I feel the right to stand up for my football team," Stoops said. "I'm not sitting here, me babyin' or whining about it. But when I look at my players (Monday) and read the letter from the Pac-10 commissioner, and what the penalties are, I see the amazement in their eyes."
Stoops said he was speaking on behalf of his players.
"I can't have 100 kids, or all my players who want to say something, say something," Stoops said.
He said he conferred with his players on what to say and how to say it.
The gist: "That we can't sit here and say it's OK," Stoops said. "It's unacceptable. And inexcusable. To them and us, it is. Because we can't get it back. And they earned it. And that's the hard truth of it. Now our situation is severely altered.
"We've got to fight th
