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Baylor Head Coach Jim Grobe
Opening statement...
"That was disappointing. I really thought we had a pretty good week of practice. I worried, after Texas that was a tough loss for us, and I worried how we would bounce back. Obviously, not good. I didn't sense that at the end of the week and I think we talked earlier, I thought that early in the week our kids were really down, but later in the week, I thought our guys kind of bounced back a little bit. I really felt like coming out of the locker room today that we were ready to play. But, obviously not. And I would like to give a lot of credit to TCU's kids, I thought they played really, really good. In the locker room after the game, I told our players, in this league, with the people we play, teams can put points on you in a hurry. We have to be able to certainly play better. I didn't think we played good in any aspect defensively, run or pass. And then, offensively, we just were really out of sync early and kind of got out of the game by halftime and really never got it going again in the second half. So, I think that it's a team effort. I think both sides of the ball certainly have to play better as we go into Oklahoma week. We'll get back tomorrow and look at the video and figure out how much of it was our players not doing what they were supposed to do and how much of it was our scheme. I think that's the thing you've got to do as a football coach, is make sure that the blame doesn't all go on the players, that coaches have a big responsibility to put in a game plan that gives the kids a chance, and that the kids are able to execute that plan. And so we'll look at both, we'll look at how we played, and we'll look at how we coached, and we'll try to, certainly, have a better plan this week."

On the assistant coaches tweeting in support of Coach Briles last night and if that was a distraction coming into the game...
"You know, we talked about it last week for Texas. We had the Wall Street Journal article come out before we played Texas and that was the question. I really don't know. I think TCU played great. I hate to make excuses, but I really don't know how to put my finger on that. I think from what I saw today, I just don't think we fit our gaps very well defensively. We gave up too many big plays again this week, second week in a row, in the throw game. And then it's the most sluggish I've seen us, offensively, so far. So, I have no idea. I know we just didn't play as well as we needed to, and I hate to say anything that takes away from TCU's effort because I think they played really good."

On if it is incumbent upon the coaches or is it more the senior leadership to try and get this thing back on track and keep it together after two straight losses...
"Well, I think it starts with coaches. We have to bring the guys in and show them not only where we didn't play very well, but also where we could have made better calls, maybe have done some things differently. But, obviously, when you are in these situations, you need the old guys that have been around the block a couple times to step up and show the younger guys how to do it. And right now, guys are embarrassed, coaches are embarrassed, we just didn't play very good. So, I think it's going to be a little bit of both. We need leadership out of our old guys and we need our coaches to really do a good job, not only correcting the mistakes that the players made, but figuring out away to put them in a little better position to win."

On if he worries with everything that's gone on since he's been here that the emotional gas tank can't get filled up again for these kids...
"Well, I do think that we had things going on the first six weeks and found a way to overcome it. I think we played a good Texas team last week on the road. I think that the combination of distractions and playing Texas on the road was hard to overcome. I was surprised today, to be honest with you. I felt we played better than we did today. But I think that once you have a couple tough losses like we have had the last two times out, I think it may be a little bit easier to just start playing football. Kind of just regroup, get your feet back on the ground and, hey, let's get ready to play some football."

On cut backs hurting the run defense...
"Yeah, absolutely. I think that it can be a couple of things. It can be the back side edge not doing a good job squeezing or times when we ran stunts and got underneath and we would get the linebackers out the back side. Sometimes if they don't fit tight enough, that crease gets back there. So I think that from our perspective, we're trying with some undersized guys to slant and angle a little bit and get those guys moving their feet. But at the same time, it just takes one guy not going with everybody else, if it's not in sync, then it creates a little bit more seam. So I think that we got to look at it really, really hard. I think that as much movement as we're doing, we may need to look at just holding points a little bit better and not doing as much movement. But it could be a lot of different things. But I think that we're asking our secondary guys to help us in run support and the combination, trying to play the pass and the run can be hard sometimes. Getting those guys fitted up right and getting them to be aggressive when it's run, and then get out there when it's pass and play well. It's just tough, it's tough. I thought TCU did a nice job tonight."

Baylor QB Seth Russell
On what happened in the game and not expecting this type of result...
"Yeah, we weren't expecting that. We just didn't execute. They came out, played better than us. They came out with a win."

On trying to block out the noise around the program and if it affects the team...
"It's tough. Everybody knows what we're going through. We don't use that as an excuse. We have been coached better than that, we have been trained where we can't let those outside things affect us in one way or another. We have to use that as motivation. And we didn't execute well today. We came out kind of firing and let off the gas a little bit. I feel like a lot of that was my fault. Reading the wrong guys and stuff like that. But we just didn't execute, we didn't play well at all. And TCU had it for us."

On if TCU's defense took over during the offense's struggles...
"Not at all, it was all us. We had penalties, and I'm not doing the right things on the offensive side of the ball. We kept shooting ourselves in the foot. Started out first and 10 and then we get a procedure penalty, it put us back first and 15. Then we get 14 yards on the third down or whatever on that drive, but we can't get the first down. That's just us. TCU came out and played hard, they played tough, but at the end, we just didn't execute."

On how, as a leader, he can make sure this season doesn't crumble and fade away...
"Just got to stay focused. You can only say so much, the rest of it is about your preparation and about the way you play the game. We have had a lot of talk, and we don't need to be talking right now, we need to be just focused on the next game, focused on doing what we need to do to get to a better ball game, or whatever it may be. And also to show that Baylor is not going to give up. We're in the fire, and we have been in the fire since the beginning, and I feel like it's making us tougher as a team, making us close as a team. But we have to stay together through it all."

Baylor CB Ryan Reid
On how disappointing the loss was after playing well for all but the last two weeks...
"It's really disappointing. You ask me, just being a leader on defense, we played horrible. We have to pick it up. There's nothing to it, there's nothing to sugar coat."

On if the outside distractions affect the team...
"Me, myself, personally, I stayed off social media, starting Friday. So, with me, a distraction from all that, no. I can't really speak on my teammates, but one thing you have to do is just you can't worry about that. You have to worry about who is ahead of you in this game we're going to play."

On how the team makes sure two straight losses doesn't derail the season all together...
"In practice we have to go 150 percent. You have to push yourself a little harder. You have to push yourself until you feel you're just about to die out there. You have to get the best out of yourself. I feel like that's one thing I'm going to do going into this next week with Oklahoma."

TCU Head Coach Gary Patterson
On if this is a little bit more rewarding after the conditions played a factor last year in the game vs. Baylor...
"Oh, no, I mean you don't care how you win, you just try to win. That's a good football team and there's a lot of good football players on that team. So any time you can come to somebody else's stadium and win, you're happy about it. Period. You know, the football gods, we have had some close ones this year, had a couple blocks, easily could be 7-2. So it's like I told them in the locker room, they shouldn't think about themselves any different this morning as they do right now. I told them, we got to quit worrying about all the things that woulda, shoulda, coulda, and just go play. We didn't hurt ourselves most of the time today on offense with penalties and then you can move the football. Guys made plays. We were able to run the football, made some plays on the edges. I've been talking about the X's and Z's, and I thought they played better. Defensively, we knew we had to stop the run and tackle and we were going to have to stop the play action. Didn't do a good job there in the first series, and then after that, we generally did a nice job, so. You say we did a nice job and they had 400 yards, so. Welcome to the Big 12."

On the defense in the last two weeks playing really well...
"Well, really going to Kansas, I can tell you right after. Since we had, really the break and everything going wrong, we have been getting better, they have been reclaiming their confidence. And then you go back to Lewis, Julius Lewis. I told you guys, Travin is young, Howard and Denzel, they didn't go through two-a-days, they're both starting to make a lot of plays now. Travin had 18 tackles last week. I've only had one great, great, great one, LT, and he had to practice. You don't practice together, it's hard to have confidence, it's hard to do things. So, I thought we didn't hurt ourselves in special teams. Our kicker kicked well. Punted, you got to give our punter -- I thought he made a big difference as we got the ball inside the 10 yard line three or four times. You got a chance to stop people from scoring if they have got to go 90 yards as a general rule."

On how important the defensive stand in the first half was...
"Any time you play Baylor, you're just holding on to your pants. They do a great job, they got great people on the outside. And so for us to get stops, guys made plays, and the drive they had right before the half, everybody said, well, you can't get the call, never mind getting lined up. It's hard for me to make a call if you're walking back, and they're going fast. So in the second half, we -- in the first quarter, well really a quarter and a half, they did a great job of playing the calls, tackling, breaking on the football. It was great to see Ranthony get a pick to keep building his confidence."

On if there is anything left to be said about Kyle Hicks...
"No, I mean, Kyle Hicks, he didn't practice all week, to be honest with you, he's got an injury. For him to fight through that and coming -- it's hard to play on turf, for him to play today, make the cuts he made and did, I mean, he would have been a big help last week because he catches the ball, he just gives everybody else confidence. And Turp being back. We didn't know last week how much Turp could go, so we didn't have a lot of game plan for him. We found he could go, so we had a lot more game plan, and we continue to have more game plan. And our job now is to get to six. We got two weeks, we got a really good Oklahoma State team coming to Fort Worth and that's our plan. We'll go recruiting. Go try to find some good players that are also good people and win championships, and want to win championships, and see if we can beat Oklahoma State."

On what this can do for the rest of the year for the team...
"You know, it's like -- here's what I told them. I'm not going to feel anything different than I did this morning. We're 4-4 and lost two or three in a row. I'm going to just keep my head down, try to get Oklahoma State, and then you got Texas at Texas, and then you got Kansas State, three really good teams. We got to get, we got to win one and hopefully win two or win three. But right now, we're hopefully Tipa's, okay, that's what my main concern is. And the rest of the group in there and like I told them, academically we need to get back into it, we have a couple days to be able to do that. And then we're going to get ourself back in the weight room. We got to get ourself ready to go and get ready for the next ball game. We got two out of three at home and one's just down the road, so you got to get ready to play."

TCU QB Kenny Hill
On what changed with him this week...
"I don't know. Just being confident in myself, and I mean, it was big for me this week just having the confidence of, like, all my teammates. They were picking me up, man, you're going to do good this week, we trust you, we believe in you. I mean, that was big for me. And it just put confidence back in myself. I just went out there and played."

On if it helps him as a QB when he breaks off a big run or makes a play with his legs...
"Yes, because I think that it opens some stuff up for us, like, as an offense in general. We see, like, then we get more like one-on-one coverage and we can hit receivers better where they're worried about me and then Kyle gets a bigger hole. So I think it just opens stuff up."

On what he thought about after he said last week woke him up...
"Oh, man, I can't do this all over again. It was just like, man, this is Texas A&M all over again. But then I come in Sunday and coach sat me down and talked to me and told me, man, we have faith in you, we just need you to go out there and be the same Kenny you were in the Arkansas game, the Oklahoma game, have that fire and that drive and the teammates, your teammates will respond. And that's all I was thinking about was coming out here and just playing the best I could."