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
boot ready
It's better than it was yesterday, it's improved. They'll probably take the boot off by (today) and he'll probably be ready to go by Wednesday.
boot hopefully ready
It's better than it was (Sunday). It's improved. They're probably going to take that boot off (Tuesday). He'll probably be ready to go, hopefully by Wednesday.
boot ready tomorrow
It's better than it was (Sunday), ... He's improved. We'll probably take the boot off tomorrow and be ready to go on Wednesday.
plays position until
It's still the Roy-back position until someone plays like him.
Everyone said, 'That was a recipe, this is how everyone will do it,'
appreciate fighting fights-and-fighting guys maybe
It maybe typifies our whole year. We've been fighting and scratching and clawing through it all. I appreciate the guys for that.
block care game grand guard nose run scheme three throw ways
It matters, your game plan. But in the end, there are a lot of ways to play defense, and there are a lot of ways to run or throw the football. If you don't block anybody, I don't care what your grand scheme is, if that nose guard is in your backfield three yards, it doesn't (matter).
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.
easy goes guy jump
It's easy to jump on any one guy when something goes wrong.
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.
calls far team
I want our team to know that we are not far off. We'll get those turnovers and we'll get those calls as we go through the year.
beat came
They came in here and beat us, and that is it.
concerns earn harder last period played players start thinking tougher won
TCU just outplayed and outcoached us. ... Sometimes it concerns you that when you have won for a period of time, the players start thinking you have a right to win. You have to earn it every play, and I say that every week. We didn't go out there and do it last week, and TCU played harder and tougher than we did.
adjust asking few last needs
It needs to improve. What we are asking them to do needs to be assessed to see if they can actually do it. Can our receivers do what we have been doing the last few years? We need to adjust and make some modifications.