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
team mirrors balls
I don't want to say [the teams] are mirror images of each other, ... but there's a lot of similarities on both sides of the ball.
critics-and-criticism deserve easy goes guy jump records stand time track
It's easy to jump on one guy when something goes wrong. Hey, that's fine. We deserve the criticism, but track records over time also stand for something.
blew limiting people practices six stress trying
It's just unfortunate. People didn't know it, but he had that stress fracture for about six weeks. (We were) taping it, limiting practices here and there trying to get him through it, and then it just blew up on him.
coming fairness finds rumors saying
I probably shouldn't have said (Monday), but everyone finds out anyway. .... In fairness to him, it probably doesn't need to be me coming out and saying that. In the end, that's the situation, and it's better than all the rumors being around about it.
easiest fighting fights-and-fighting looking offensive
I think you're always looking for guys, especially in the offensive line, that are just tough, hard-working, fighting guys. That's what you look for. It's not always the easiest thing to find.
followed lived measures resulted team
He has not lived up to his responsibilities or expectations with the team or academically. He also hasn't followed through on the disciplinary measures that resulted in those areas.
breaking late quarter second
Really, the second quarter there, late in the second quarter was really the breaking point.
built challenged difficult last year
I think back to last year and, I don't want to say it was easy, but we made it look easy. We weren't challenged in difficult situations. This year, we have been, and it's built our character.
attention bother seem
He is indifferent to all the attention he has been receiving. It does not seem to bother him one way or the other.
step took
Offensively, I think we took a step back today. I don't think we executed very well in anything that we were doing.
compliment compliments excellent good
Defensively, it was kind of frustrating. I have to compliment their quarterback. He did such a good job. What an excellent competitor.
averages due eventually felt good law sure swing
I felt the law of averages would eventually swing back your way. We were due for something good to happen, and sure enough, it happened.
amaze ball bit continues executing granted grass great people slippery
He continues to amaze you in what he is able to do. The ball is a little bit slippery and the grass is wet, and people take it for granted that he's in there executing in a great way.
assignment ball boundary busting covering deep entire gave good outside played positions route secondary solid somebody tackled wheel
I thought the secondary played solid and good the entire day. The one deep wheel route we gave up on our boundary was somebody else outside of the secondary busting an assignment and not covering their guy. They tackled well for the most part, their positions on the ball and challenging in many coverage, I thought, were really pretty good.