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"There’s a sense of entitlement with some young kids. ... Kids don’t fear anything. They don’t respect anything.," Capel said.

"But it goes back to me. I’ve done a poor job. I’ve always felt one of my strengths was being able to figure out what buttons to push, how to get best out of guys. I haven’t been able to do that this year.

"It’s been frustrating. Frustrating to me, frustrating for people to watch. It’s embarrassing. I’m ashamed."

"You never sign a team. You sign individuals and you hope they can become a team. That’s something we’ve struggled with all year," Capel said. "You look at the teams that are at the top, they have a definitive guy who is their best player. And no one has a problem with it. No one has a problem saying Sherron Collins (Kansas) is our best player, James Anderson (Oklahoma State) is our best player, Donald Sloan (A&M) is our best player. There are no other agendas besides winning.

"To be completely candid, we’ve struggled with that all year. If I would have said earlier that Willie is our best player, I may have had three guys in the locker room upset. In conference after five-six games, I say Tommy is our best player, still you may have three guys upset in your locker room.

"That falls back on me. Whether it’s Nate Carter, Blake Griffin, Longar Longar for a stretch, I’ve been able to say these guys are our best player and everything has fallen into place and guys have settled into their roles. On a team, everyone has a role. Everyone has to fall in love with their role. You have to love and embrace your role. If you do that, you have the opportunity to be a good team.

"And we haven’t been a good team all year."

"We don’t have a player like that (Griffin Brothers) on this team, a guy that sets an example," Capel said. "That’s unfortunate. I thought some of our returning guys, having been around Blake and around Taylor, I thought some of that would’ve rubbed off. But it hasn’t to the level that I hoped it would.

"It really all boils down to hard work. When I recruited Blake, he told me what he wanted to achieve, and my message to him was, ‘Dream bigger that that.’ He said he wanted to be a pro. I said, ‘Why not become the No. 1 pick? ’ He came to understand the things that it took to attain that. He worked like he’d never worked before. That’s what we’ve got to get these guys to do."

"Scholarships are not guaranteed for next year. There will be some decisions that will be made. So if guys aren’t motivated, then they’ll make that decision a little bit easier." — Jeff Capel, when asked what it will take to keep his team motivated.