Bob Stoops

Bob Stoops
Robert Anthony "Bob" Stoopsis an American college football coach, and the current head football coach at the University of Oklahoma, a position he has held since 1999. During the 2000 season, Stoops led the Sooners to an Orange Bowl victory and a national championship...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth9 September 1960
CityYoungstown, OH
anticipate depending depends further happens practice start
We'll see. At this point, we anticipate him playing. Start or not depends on how we feel practice is going, what we feel we need to do. Depending on what further happens from here, we'll see.
bringing dusty enter figured intention nfl year
We had no intention of bringing Dusty back when he was let go a year ago. I figured he'd enter the NFL draft, and that would be it.
coaching developed direction excellent feels great happy nfl number reaching strong supportive wants work
We are all happy for Darrell and his family. He feels the NFL is the direction he wants to go and we are supportive of him reaching his goals. We are all appreciative of the work he did here in coaching our receivers. He developed a great number of excellent players, and as also a strong recruiter.
paul ready
We're going right now with Rhett, but we've still always got Paul ready to go.
atmosphere criticized critics-and-criticism gets overcame recognize smart teams
We're one of those teams that gets criticized even when we win. In the end, though, I'm smart enough to recognize all that we overcame down here in this atmosphere and still came away with a victory.
forgot games guys played
You guys probably forgot how he played those first 12 games,
impossible until
Until we can be responsible with the ball, it's impossible to win.
ability believe chance great guys
Those guys all have ability .... I believe they've got a chance to really be a great group.
attorneys continue deny disrupt duties expectation family lawsuit resolve
While we deny many of the allegations made in the lawsuit, our attorneys will continue to try and resolve this matter, ... It is our expectation that this lawsuit will not unduly disrupt our family or professional duties and responsibilities.
feeling fights-and-fighting needed plays win
We were fighting, scratching and clawing all year. At the end of the game, you had that feeling of 'Here we go again,' but we made the plays we needed to win the game.
detail push
We didn't push it. I'm not going to detail it for you.
gets good guys handling plays shape understand
We're in good shape and the guys understand the plan. It just gets down to making plays and handling the different wrinkles.
deserves direction opportunity paul work
We feel that Rhett deserves an opportunity to have the opportunities that Paul had and see what he can do with, ... That's the direction we're going to go and work from there.
biggest both lead
To me, you look at both of those games, the turnovers are the biggest issue, and the turnovers lead to all the other problems.