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
play two giving
It just shows you have come prepared to play and ready to execute. It doesn't give you that much comfort when it's early and you still have another two and a half to three quarters to go. You better keep playing. But it is a positive, it gives you energy and it gives you a little boost like that.
dear-lord soul cold
Dear Lord, I pray that my place will never be with the cold, timid souls who do not compete yet criticize, for they never know or feel success or failure.
athlete wrestling quality
I'm a huge wrestling fan. Wrestlers have so many great qualities that athletes need to have.
coaching developed direction excellent feels great happy nfl number reaching strong supportive wants work
We are all happy for Darrell and his family. He feels the NFL is the direction he wants to go and we are supportive of him reaching his goals. We are all appreciative of the work he did here in coaching our receivers. He developed a great number of excellent players, and as also a strong recruiter.
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.
ability believe chance great guys
Those guys all have ability .... I believe they've got a chance to really be a great group.
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.
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.
attitude believe build improving learning played toughness
They're still learning and improving as they go, but they played with some attitude and toughness that we needed, ... I believe we'll build off of that.
talk
They've been back and forth, so that's it. There's nothing else to talk about.
attitude felt mean players stronger
They outplayed us and outcoached us in most all areas, ... I felt we would be stronger and have a little more attitude than this. I told the players that just because you've done it before doesn't mean you're going to do it again. They may have tuned me out.
committed game good job run stopping
They have always really committed to the run game and stopping the run. They do a good job of it.