Could Stoops ever coach anywhere but Oklahoma?

[Sooner_09]

Link (http://myespn.go.com/blogs/ncfnation/0-0-147/Could-Stoops-ever-coach-anywhere-but-Oklahoma-.html)

Don't leave us Bob!!

[soonerfan28]

I think he could and there are openings every year in the NFL, so he could sit back and wait, but I'm grateful we have him.

[Sooner_09]

If he leaves us, do we look to hire in staff or look elsewhere? I believe we still have possibly a few future head coaches in Venables and Wilson but there are also up and coming coaches out there.

[Curly Bill]

If he leaves us, do we look to hire in staff or look elsewhere? I believe we still have possibly a few future head coaches in Venables and Wilson but there are also up and coming coaches out there.

I hope neither of these ever end up the head coach at OU...

...especially Venables.

[olevetonahill]

Bob Will leave when and IF the time Is right For Him and His Family
Im Confidant That Coach Will Not leave us Hanging . He will not want to see what He has done go down the Tubes .
Just sayin

[badger]

No, I think Stoops is showing that he has had his most success at Oklahoma, because Arizona has yet to make a bowl.

HAR HAR HAR! :D

Badger has self-reported herself on a violation of SF.com anal code 35.24 on mixing up people of like or similar names, especially in regard to the Stoops coaching brothers. Penalty for violation is wearing a visor.

Hey, I look like I play golf now! ;)

[Curly Bill]

Bob doesn't win a Mf'n bowl game soon the NFL ain't gonna be knocking down his door. I'm not sure they are anyway.

...and that's good, I like him were he's at. :D

[Sooner_09]

No, I think Stoops is showing that he has had his most success at Oklahoma, because Arizona has yet to make a bowl.


If Mike has another down year he's out at Arizona, wonder where he'd end up.

[ashley]

I can assure you that he get inquiries every year. When, if ever it will be to warm weather site. Do I have it from good sources? You bet I do.

[soonersn20xx]

I don't think the allure of money of the NFL entices him, he makes plenty now. What will drive him away would be some monumental scandal or burn out.

[Sooner_09]

Here's a situation to consider: Jon Gruden takes the Dallas job that opens up and Stoops takes the Tampa Bay job. There's your warm weather right there.

..not that I want it to happen

[Mad Dog Madsen]

Man, I don't even wanna think about it!!!

[Curly Bill]

Here's a situation to consider: Jon Gruden takes the Dallas job that opens up and Stoops takes the Tampa Bay job. There's your warm weather right there.

..not that I want it to happen

Jason Garrett is the next Cowboy's coach....so yeah, this could not happen.

[soonermix]

if somebody doesn't remind stoops of his ol buddy the ol' ball coach then he might end up at :eek: iowa state!

[LSUdeek]

Badger has self-reported herself on a violation of SF.com anal code 35.24 on mixing up people of like or similar names, especially in regard to the Stoops coaching brothers. Penalty for violation is wearing a visor.

Hey, I look like I play golf now! ;)

What's the anal code? :confused:

[Mad Dog Madsen]

No, I think Stoops is showing that he has had his most success at Oklahoma, because Arizona has yet to make a bowl.

HAR HAR HAR! :D

Badger has self-reported herself on a violation of SF.com anal code 35.24 on mixing up people of like or similar names, especially in regard to the Stoops coaching brothers. Penalty for violation is wearing a visor.

Hey, I look like I play golf now! ;)

Wait a sec, you're a chick?!?:eek:

[olevetonahill]

Wait a sec, you're a chick?!?:eek:

I think she was born that way But then again I could be wrong .

[badger]

What's the anal code? :confused:

Penal code sounds too legal, so you hack off a letter to shorten that to enal... which reminds us that there are those who are anal retentive about enforcing rules and guidelines, thus the creation of the anal codes - rules that must be enforced to prevent n00b baiting, boomer sooner ringtone references for old news, complaints about double postings and thread duplicating, and general jibberish that spending too much time on message boards leads to.

In an effort to weed out those that will immediately jump on such statements in lame joke attempts or chime in with the usual responses, I choose to act before they do in an anal retentive way.

In effect, I'm pointing out my own message board faults :)

That answer was entirely too long... reviewing the codes... nope, didn't violate anything through lengthy posting, not even code 55.19. or 21.14. Whew! ;)

Or perhaps, I was just subtle-like clue dropping for people like Mag Dog that have not figured out that I'm "doing my nails" and in love with that guy NormanPride ;)

[MITSooner]

I'm just glad that a job close to beaches hasn't opened up yet.

I mean, who could resist beaches? They are crowded with tourists, drive the cost of real estate through the roof, and are perfect places for the homeless to set up shop. What's not to love?

[LSUdeek]

Penal code sounds too legal, so you hack off a letter to shorten that to enal... which reminds us that there are those who are anal retentive about enforcing rules and guidelines, thus the creation of the anal codes - rules that must be enforced to prevent n00b baiting, boomer sooner ringtone references for old news, complaints about double postings and thread duplicating, and general jibberish that spending too much time on message boards leads to.

In an effort to weed out those that will immediately jump on such statements in lame joke attempts or chime in with the usual responses, I choose to act before they do in an anal retentive way.

In effect, I'm pointing out my own message board faults :)

That answer was entirely too long... reviewing the codes... nope, didn't violate anything through lengthy posting, not even code 55.19. or 21.14. Whew! ;)

Or perhaps, I was just subtle-like clue dropping for people like Mag Dog that have not figured out that I'm "doing my nails" and in love with that guy NormanPride ;)

I prefer not to read the above and just assume that you like it in the butt. :eek:

:pop:

[SoonerInLubbock]

I predict when Bob does decide to retire or move on in 10-15 years from now he will be replaced by Josh Heupel.

Heupel is already being groomed for the position.

[goingoneight]

Venables is a guy that every except for a bunch of message board dorks thinks will be the best HC candidate. He's been around great coaches for a long time, he's had his shiniing moments as an assistant, consistently fields great defenses regardless of whatever "rebuilding" he has to do, he's a great speaker and motivator.

The crying shame is nowadays the trend to replace a head coach seems to be buy someone else's head coach or bring in a retread. BV has turned down K-State and interviewed for both R-kansas and aTm (twice now). I think honestly he's playing his cards right if he turned down a KSU-type. The K-States and Baylors (and OSU it seems) will sniff a hint of success and automatically expect a Stoops-esque resume these days. aTm fired franny after two 9-win seasons... why? Because he hasn't met their expectations. This from a school with one MNC back in leatherheads days known for mediocrity.

I can't really think of whole lot better assistants right now that are soon to make that jump (soon being within five years).


Josh Heupel is a high school coach's son with an impressive college resume who seems to be a good position coach right now. He's definitely mature enough to handle the next step, which is an OC position. IOW, things are going well for a great future HC candidate. For the love of GOD, don't go be HC at Texass, Josh. :eek:

[SbOrOiNaEnR]

Nobody's brought this up yet....Stoops is 48, and has been around the college game for almost 20 years now. DKR and Switzer were both in their early 50s when their college careers ended, and despite scandal and essentially being forced out by regents and Banowsky, Switzer probably wouldn't have stayed at OU much longer anyway. Both of those legends felt pretty much the same way when they got out...it wasn't the same game from when they started, and what 50-year-old man wants to be running around pimping himself to 17 and 18-year-olds? Same thing with Bud...he was 48 when he called it quits. I'd honestly be surprised if Stoops stayed around for 6 more years, much less 10-15.

[Curly Bill]

Venables is a guy that every except for a bunch of message board dorks thinks will be the best HC candidate. He's been around great coaches for a long time, he's had his shiniing moments as an assistant, consistently fields great defenses regardless of whatever "rebuilding" he has to do, he's a great speaker and motivator.


Yeah, but every head coaching position that comes open around the country is offered to him before anyone else. One of these days his sense of loyalty to OU won't be enough to keep him from taking one of those. :rolleyes:


...and the term consistently great defenses? We gave up 27 to TTech in one half of football, and 48 in the Fiesta Bowl, so how is that consistently great? Now if you'd said occasionally, or even often great, then we might have had something.

[Sooner_09]

I predict when Bob does decide to retire or move on in 10-15 years from now he will be replaced by Josh Heupel.

Heupel is already being groomed for the position.

Interesting. Care to elaborate?

[SoonerInLubbock]

Interesting. Care to elaborate?


I guess I just see alot of Bob Stoops in this kid (lol, not really a kid anymore). Now I'm not saying this will happen anytime soon. I just feel like he has the goods and is well on his way to being a great HC. Coaching for OU is most likely wishfull thinking on my part though. He has been around the coaching element his whole life. I think it is very reasonable to see great things from such a young man.;)

[Sooner_09]

I think he needs more experience first, maybe a coordinating job or something first.

[BoulderSooner79]

Nobody's brought this up yet....Stoops is 48, and has been around the college game for almost 20 years now. DKR and Switzer were both in their early 50s when their college careers ended, and despite scandal and essentially being forced out by regents and Banowsky, Switzer probably wouldn't have stayed at OU much longer anyway. Both of those legends felt pretty much the same way when they got out...it wasn't the same game from when they started, and what 50-year-old man wants to be running around pimping himself to 17 and 18-year-olds? Same thing with Bud...he was 48 when he called it quits. I'd honestly be surprised if Stoops stayed around for 6 more years, much less 10-15.

I tend to agree - maybe for different reasons. One thing that makes Bob effective is that he is driven. So many such coaches just feel that *have* to try the NFL. I hope Bob is not so inclined, but it wouldn't surprise me. I think the NFL HC job sucks compared to a big-time college program, but someone has to do it :) And the sad thing is that there is no good way to leave. A coach cannot tip his hand or it disrupts recruiting, so it will almost always seem sudden and leaves fans feeling cheated. I'll just feel lucky for each year Bob sticks around and wish him the best if he does go. He's earned it.

[BASSooner]

How in the world is this even a question?!

That's like asking, "can birds fly without their wings?" No!

Bob has given us obvious clues that he's staying here. Quit panicking people!!

[SoonerKnight]

Didn't we just renew his contract? For five more years?

[Eielson]

Wait a sec, you're a chick?!?:eek:

She will be a man when she is 40.

[Eielson]

I predict when Bob does decide to retire or move on in 10-15 years from now he will be replaced by Josh Heupel.

Heupel is already being groomed for the position.

I don't think Heupel is going to wait around 10-15 years.

[KingBarry]

Nobody's brought this up yet....Stoops is 48, and has been around the college game for almost 20 years now. DKR and Switzer were both in their early 50s when their college careers ended, and despite scandal and essentially being forced out by regents and Banowsky, Switzer probably wouldn't have stayed at OU much longer anyway. Both of those legends felt pretty much the same way when they got out...it wasn't the same game from when they started, and what 50-year-old man wants to be running around pimping himself to 17 and 18-year-olds? Same thing with Bud...he was 48 when he called it quits. I'd honestly be surprised if Stoops stayed around for 6 more years, much less 10-15.

That's an interesting point, and one I've thought about many times, myself. Why is that our two legens -- Bud and Barry -- both left the game as relatively young men, after what, 16 or 17 years at the helm? (They both eventually returned to coaching, but not in college.)

And why is it that other coaches at other places (Paterno and Big Bowden come to mind) stay for decades?

Was the short-livity of both Bud and Barry a coincidence? Was/Is it something about our program? The second seems hard to buy if, as stated above, the game wasn't the same for Switzer when he retired as when he started out, then was a vastly different game between the fifties and the seventies.

I don't know. I don't have an explanation. I just hope it, whatever "it" is, doesn't bite Coach Stoops.

[Eielson]

what 50-year-old man wants to be running around pimping himself to 17 and 18-year-olds?

I don't know, but we seem to have plenty 80 year old men that like it.

[RedstickSooner]

I don't know, but we seem to have plenty 80 year old men that like it.

I blame Viagra.

[rainiersooner]

How old is his youngest kid? I bet he leaves when his youngest kid graduates from high school; and he will want to try his hand at the NFL. But it's hard to imagine him going somewhere else before that - he seems to put a huge emphasis on his family...he's got a dream job, he's paid well, he and his family are a huge part of the community...he's not going to uproot them before they're adults. Just my two cents....

[shaun4411]

there will always be the arrogant stupid fans that want to call for stoops' resignation if ou loses 2 games in a season. the type of bandwagoner who didnt even know who heupel was until he beat nebraska on that october night of 2000. the type who forgot what it was like to be kinda happy to have scored a whole 21 on nebraska, or beating syracuse in overtime at home. some ou fans have really forgotten what life was like pre-stoops.

[JLEW1818]

Nothing against BV but people claim he gets head coaching offers. I'm just curious what teams have offered him that, and where these articles are? I'm not being a smart *** I'm just curious.

[jrfootballou]

they said he might go to UT (Tennessee not Texas) in a few years, ESPN reported it a few weeks ago

[Curly Bill]

Nothing against BV but people claim he gets head coaching offers. I'm just curious what teams have offered him that, and where these articles are? I'm not being a smart *** I'm just curious.

Good luck, I called someone out on that about a year ago...I'm still waiting.

Supposedly he has interviewed at Arkansas and K-state. In some people's minds these have equated to head coach job offers. To me, they mean exactly what it looks like: he interviewed.

[Curly Bill]

there will always be the arrogant stupid fans that want to call for stoops' resignation if ou loses 2 games in a season. the type of bandwagoner who didnt even know who heupel was until he beat nebraska on that october night of 2000. the type who forgot what it was like to be kinda happy to have scored a whole 21 on nebraska, or beating syracuse in overtime at home. some ou fans have really forgotten what life was like pre-stoops.

Learn to use the term bandwagon properly. Because someone calls for Stoops or anyones else's resignation that does not make them a bandwagon fan. In fact they may have been a fan for the past 50 years through good times and bad, and now they're just not excited about a certain staff member, that does not make them a bandwagon fan.

...but hey here's some more neg. SPEK for ya.

[stoopified]

NO! At least not until he has at least 158 wins and at least 3 NCs.

[LSUdeek]

I blame Viagra.

If 4 hours elapses, and you still have an erection, call more ladies!!!

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[EstablishedSooner1967]

Sooner09 #1 Gruden will never be the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys... the next Cowboy head coach is Jason Garrett... he is now being paid as much as the head coach, he is young and Jerry likes him a lot to be the new face of the Cowboys in the new stadium.
Bob, will more than likely take another job one day but I think Switzer and Spurier have told him what its like.. and if you get a Dan Snyder to over pay you then take it... If he goes to the NFL... I think somewhere close to home.. if another college job.. Somewhere close to home.. IOWA or back to the Fla area but it would have to be a the right situation from all my accounts listening and reading what he says....

[the_ouskull]

Here's a situation to consider: Jon Gruden takes the Dallas job that opens up and Stoops takes the Tampa Bay job. There's your warm weather right there.

..not that I want it to happen

Never happen. OU has more NFL prospects than the Bucs do.

the_ouskull

[JLEW1818]

Never happen. OU has more NFL prospects than the Bucs do.

the_ouskull

OH HELL YA!

[tulsaoilerfan]

If Bob didn't take the Florida job after Spurrier left, i don't see him ever taking another college job; why can't people that write this stuff figure out that he has one of the top 3 jobs in the country at worst?

[Curly Bill]

If Bob didn't take the Florida job after Spurrier left, i don't see him ever taking another college job; why can't people that write this stuff figure out that he has one of the top 3 jobs in the country at worst?

People that write stuff get paid to.....write stuff. So, that's what they do: they make stuff up, they speculate, they do what writers do....

The fact that they find Bob interesting enough to write about is a good sign.

[shaun4411]

Learn to use the term bandwagon properly. Because someone calls for Stoops or anyones else's resignation that does not make them a bandwagon fan. In fact they may have been a fan for the past 50 years through good times and bad, and now they're just not excited about a certain staff member, that does not make them a bandwagon fan.

...but hey here's some more neg. SPEK for ya.

it was properly used. luckily, you dont have to agree with me. but you negged me because you didnt agree with my statement, and i thank you for that.

[Curly Bill]

it was properly used. luckily, you dont have to agree with me. but you negged me because you didnt agree with my statement, and i thank you for that.

Sure thing. I hate the term, and it was misused.

[r5TPsooner]

Anything is possible in life.

I never thought that Switzer would coach the Dallas Cowboys.

I never thought that Brett Farve would want to dawn anything but the Green and Yellow.

I never thought that "the ole ball coach" would leave Florida and eventually end up at S. Carolina.

I never thought that Joe Torre would manage any other team but the Yankees at his age.

I guess that what I'm trying to say is that anything is possible in the world of sports.

[poke4christ]

Stoops will probably go to the NFL at some point, but I think he's still probably 5 years away from it. Nothing to worry about. My 2 cents.

[olevetonahill]

it was properly used. luckily, you dont have to agree with me. but you negged me because you didnt agree with my statement, and i thank you for that.

I negged Ya cause I dont Like you .:P

[Curly Bill]

I negged Ya cause I dont Like you .:P

The reddest poster on SF.com...

[tulsaoilerfan]

People that write stuff get paid to.....write stuff. So, that's what they do: they make stuff up, they speculate, they do what writers do....

The fact that they find Bob interesting enough to write about is a good sign.

Eh, Good point; wonder why there is never any speculation about Gundy leaving Boone State? :D

[shaun4411]

Sure thing. I hate the term, and it was misused.

its cute that you insist it was misused, but fail to elaborate. the fact that you hate it doesnt make it any less relevant.

[Curly Bill]

its cute that you insist it was misused, but fail to elaborate. the fact that you hate it doesnt make it any less relevant.

Bandwagon fan refers to a fan that is only a fan when times are good. You used it to charaterize a fan who was being critical, those are not the same thing. Someone could have been a fan for 50 years and be critical of some aspect of the team, thus that person is not a bandwagon fan. They are a long-time fan who was critical of something, but the way you incorrectly used the term that fan would be a bandwagon fan.

So, not only is it not relevant, it is an incorrect use of the term.

...but here's some more red for you. :D

[JLEW1818]

I'm a big Curly Bill fan, I do know that.

[Curly Bill]

I'm a big Curly Bill fan, I do know that.

Just don't be jumping on and off the Curly Bill bandwagon. :D



this was proper usage of the term bandwagon

[JLEW1818]

Just don't be jumping on and off the Curly Bill bandwagon. :D



this was proper usage of the term bandwagon

I feel ya, hopefully I'll see you sometime this season!!!

[olevetonahill]

I'm a big Curly Bill fan, I do know that.

Suck up

[Curly Bill]

Suck up

Oh it was fine when he was sucking up to you. :P :D

[JLEW1818]

Big Vet fan too.

[olevetonahill]

Oh it was fine when he was sucking up to you. :P :D

Well Yea.:D

[shaun4411]

Bandwagon fan refers to a fan that is only a fan when times are good. You used it to charaterize a fan who was being critical, those are not the same thing. Someone could have been a fan for 50 years and be critical of some aspect of the team, thus that person is not a bandwagon fan. They are a long-time fan who was critical of something, but the way you incorrectly used the term that fan would be a bandwagon fan.

So, not only is it not relevant, it is an incorrect use of the term.

...but here's some more red for you. :D

my reference was made to critical bangwagon fans. not all fans who are critical.

[Geekboy]

I think Stoops will want to be Miles next defensive coordinator at LSU.

JUST KIDDING!!!!

[Sooner_09]

lester doesn't deserve to be on the same staff as Stoops