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
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.
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.
accept criticize fair listen mean others teams
We're doing things discipline-wise, and everything else like we always have. That doesn't mean it's right or good, and it's fair to criticize me because some teams accept it better than others and listen or are disciplined better than others.
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.
believe deserves hard junior opportunity team worked
The team thing would be to keep him at quarterback, ... But the guy's a junior and he's worked too hard here to do that. I believe he deserves an opportunity to be on the field.
appears book doctors evaluate few hard magical start strength weeks
He's still a few weeks away from what the book says, but strength-wise he appears to be solid. What's the magical day is hard to determine. I think the doctors will evaluate him on (today) and see if he can't start doing some work.
plays
He's the best. You can say all you want about him. He makes the plays that matter, and you see it every week.
fully jumps looks notice
He's probably still not fully healed, but you won't notice it. He looks great. He's back. He jumps through the hole. You notice it. He looks really good.
deserves means mostly older opportunity paul played poorly saying seen sitting thompson
By no means am I sitting here saying that Paul Thompson is responsible for the way we played Saturday. That's not the case. We had a lot of guys, mostly older guys, play as poorly as I have seen them play. We feel Rhett deserves the same opportunity that Paul had.
approval believe clint everybody far final guess guys tells thinks veto
I know everybody thinks I've got the final veto and/or approval of somebody, and I guess I do, ... But he and (linebacker) Clint Ingram by far and away had all the votes. That tells you that guys who are working with him every day believe in him, too.
confidence proof record speaks total track
I have total confidence in Chuck, and I think his track record speaks for him. The proof is in what they've done.
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.
coming eight guys reading starters
I keep reading about all the guys they have coming back, ... We have 10 starters coming back on offense, eight on defense.