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
paul ready
We're going right now with Rhett, but we've still always got Paul ready to go.
chance deserves means mostly older opportunity paul played poorly saying seen sitting start takes thompson
We're going to give Rhett Bomar a chance to start and see where he takes it. 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.
deserves direction opportunity paul work
We feel that Rhett deserves an opportunity to have the opportunities that Paul had and see what he can do with, ... That's the direction we're going to go and work from there.
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.
excites gives hard ideal opportunity paul people respect understand
It's not the ideal situation, I understand that, ... But I think people respect Paul and how hard he's worked, and this gives him an opportunity to do something that excites him.
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,
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.
feeling fights-and-fighting needed plays win
We were fighting, scratching and clawing all year. At the end of the game, you had that feeling of 'Here we go again,' but we made the plays we needed to win the game.