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
attention excite gets major players playing recognize team
Playing a team that's 10-1 gets your attention big-time. Our players recognize it as a major challenge. It does excite them.
atmosphere criticized critics-and-criticism gets overcame recognize smart teams
We're one of those teams that gets criticized even when we win. In the end, though, I'm smart enough to recognize all that we overcame down here in this atmosphere and still came away with a victory.
close fewest gets maybe number overall snaps time
He's had the fewest number of snaps overall when you look at his time here, and he's been that close all along. We feel like if he gets more snaps maybe he can do something with it. We'll see.
gets good guys handling plays shape understand
We're in good shape and the guys understand the plan. It just gets down to making plays and handling the different wrinkles.
anybody argue gets
Our expectations are always high. I don't know why anybody could ever argue why they wouldn't be. Once our expectations are set, this is what we're after, and then it gets down to each game.
capable grown guys number shows throughout youth
This shows the youth that we have and the way that we have grown throughout the year. We have a number of young guys who are capable of being really good, and I think they'll get better and better.
best sharp
We need to do our best to be as sharp as we can. I think that's the frustrating part for us,
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.
ball came fighting fights-and-fighting magnet
This typifies our whole year. We've been fighting and clawing this way all season. Fortunately, our ball magnet came up with the big interception.
excited opportunity sees
We want to give him opportunities to get on the field. He's excited about it. He sees opportunity there.
forgot games guys played
You guys probably forgot how he played those first 12 games,
paul ready
We're going right now with Rhett, but we've still always got Paul ready to go.
ball drop knew saw soon
As soon as I saw him go up for the ball I knew it wasn't going to be dropped. He doesn't drop balls.
anticipate depending depends further happens practice start
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.