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
imagination move offensive staff
Our imagination as a staff, and Chuck's imagination with the offensive staff is to move the football,
ball breaking field point thinking
I thought the play was really a breaking point for us. I am not at all questioning the call, but we thought we had it, then we didn't, then they went down and got a field goal. Thinking we had the ball at the 30, and then not, that was a big swing.
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.
I think we're still better than the way we played.
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.
effective expect full point receiver speed
We don't expect Travis to play. He hasn't progressed to the point to where he is effective or can be at full speed. A receiver not at full speed makes it pretty tough.
great matched opportunity ready shooting
We have a great opportunity to go down and win. That is what we are always shooting for and we will be ready to go after it. ... We feel like we are making great strides, too, and traditionally we have matched up with them.
expect fully kids prepare slow
We prepare our kids to look and see. You can't be fully prepared. You have to expect them to do something to slow us down, and we'll try to do the same thing to them.
detail push
We didn't push it. I'm not going to detail it for you.
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.
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.
ability believe chance great guys
Those guys all have ability .... I believe they've got a chance to really be a great group.