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
lousy players whatever
We have not been good. The players haven't been good. You can say whatever you want. I have done a lousy job.
coming position understand
Those conversations are usually pretty short. He hasn't been in that position much, and I understand where he was coming from.
attention attract media players program success
With the success of our program and the media attention we have received, we feel we can attract players from all over the country.
believe believing came entire good hear media mind mistakes players ranked separation spring
We came out of spring believing that they each had a scrimmage or two that they were good at and one or two that they made some mistakes at. Each of them did that and in our mind there was not a separation going into (Thursday's) practice. I feel it's unfortunate that so many of you in the media have ranked them and have put them in place so that players have to hear that the entire summer. It's really not fair.
both completing couple game guys per percent strong throwing yards
Together, both quarterbacks are throwing for about 250 yards per game and completing about 70 percent of their passes. That's pretty strong for a couple of guys who don't have a lot of experience.
against game haunt instance kept knee maybe position reason rotten side texas
What we were doing at the end of the game, we've never done before. The other side of it is, if we don't do it, for instance when we did take a knee against Texas Tech, does that then come back and haunt you? Is that the reason that maybe kept you out of something, and how do you live with that as well? Its really a rotten position to play in.
building continue dan either happy root step sure
I don't root for either team, but in the end, I have to be happy for Dan and the way he's building that program. They continue to make improvements. I'm sure this is a big step for them.
fade games remembers
I don't think so, ... He remembers those other 12 games. They didn't fade from his memory.
bad believe poor truly
I don't believe as much as you write about it, you truly know how down it was and how poor and how bad it was,
college parts students team
But there are other parts of what we do here as college students and on a college team that also need to be fulfilled.
anticipate happened
I didn't anticipate all that's happened and who we've missed,
advice applicable ensure followed obtained
obtained professional advice to ensure that we followed applicable laws.
guys national won
No, they had most of their guys before they won the national championship.
continue executing passing
Rhett Bomar made a lot of plays, which will continue to give him confidence. He was much better in executing our passing game.