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The Power Five => Big XII => Topic started by: longhorn320 on November 05, 2019, 12:07:09 PM
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Rumor has it that the puppy kicker is going to be HC of Florida St
I guess Big 12 HCs never die they just go to the ACC
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He will still beat Mack, obviously
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If true, this will be legendary for the Seminoles. Stoops still has many years left in him.
If he brings his brother over to coach defense, then he's back in the same ol' trap.
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He will still beat Mack, obviously
we'll see
after all thats why the actually play the game
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his brothers need jobs too
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Gonna leave the XFL at the altar?
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Gonna leave the XFL at the altar?
Its all about money and yes ego
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I doubt that the story is true.
But I guess we'll find out soon enough.
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I'm not sure I could see Stoops leaving the Norman area but I could definitely see him taking the FSU job. He coached in Fla under Spurrier for years and he's still relatively young. As bad as FSU has been lately it has to be squarely in the top 10-15 jobs around even if their facilities are not up to par as some in the media has led us to believe.
I always thought he signed onto the XFL because Dallas is close to home and the pressure to succeed in the XFL would not be as high. Maybe sitting around for two years has bored him and he's ready to up the ante, much like his mentor Spurrier did when he left UF for the NFL and then back to USC.
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I started a thread on the ACC forum where this belongs. That said, in response to the preceding post, Bobby Stoops grew up in Ohio. Three of the Stoops brothers played defensive back at Iowa, Bobby, Mike, and Mark. Bobby said years ago he did not want to coach his own son. His son wanted to play at Oklahoma where he grew up. His son may still be on the roster as a non-scholarship athlete.
In his playing days at Iowa Bobby Stoops saw how Coach Bob Cummings was treated by the fanbase when his teams went south, [I was there - real estate for sale signs appearing in their front yard] and how that played out and reflected on and hurt Bobby Cummings, Jr. who played QB. Coach Bob Cummings had been an offensive lineman on one of the 1950s Iowa teams that won the Rose Bowl.
Years ago, Bobby Stoops vowed he would not coach his own son because of his experience at Iowa with Bob Cummings, Jr. I believe his son's desire to play at Oklahoma probably motivated Bobby's early retirement as Oklahoma coach, and perhaps his son had not read the earlier sports articles on this topic. His dad was a real dad, said nothing because he wanted the best for his son, and retired.
I am speculating, but the speculation is an educated guess.
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I started a thread on the ACC forum where this belongs. That said, in response to the preceding post, Bobby Stoops grew up in Ohio. Three of the Stoops brothers played defensive back at Iowa, Bobby, Mike, and Mark. Bobby said years ago he did not want to coach his own son. His son wanted to play at Oklahoma where he grew up. His son may still be on the roster as a non-scholarship athlete.
In his playing days at Iowa Bobby Stoops saw how Coach Bob Cummings was treated by the fanbase when his teams went south, [I was there - real estate for sale signs appearing in their front yard] and how that played out and reflected on and hurt Bobby Cummings, Jr. who played QB. Coach Bob Cummings had been an offensive lineman on one of the 1950s Iowa teams that won the Rose Bowl.
Years ago, Bobby Stoops vowed he would not coach his own son because of his experience at Iowa with Bob Cummings, Jr. I believe his son's desire to play at Oklahoma probably motivated Bobby's early retirement as Oklahoma coach, and perhaps his son had not read the earlier sports articles on this topic. His dad was a real dad, said nothing because he wanted the best for his son, and retired.
I am speculating, but the speculation is an educated guess.
This belongs where ever a Big 12er wants to post it
Bob Stoops was a Big 12 coach and gets a Big 12 post
Its just a rumor last I checked so nothing further needs to be said until we know for sure
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FTR, Drake Stoops is a preferred-walk-on slot receiver who has had some catches this year. He made a critical catch and run late against K-State that was called back for a block in the back. Bad call on the official, IMO.
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I think he'd be pretty successful there. But does he really want to leave his cushy golf courses and whatnot?
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more cushy golf courses in Floridah than Oklahomo
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As Bob Stoops barnstorms for XFL, I still think he coaches college again one day
Guerin Emig
The Tulsa World
8 Nov 2019
OKLAHOMA CITY — Bob Stoops showed up pitching the XFL’s Dallas Renegades hard. He wore a black polo with a Renegades logo. He pumped up the Renegades’ family-friendly ticket prices, the XFL’s non-gimmicky football, and his staff and players.
For a guy some media outlets connected to a college job all week, Stoops seemed as serious about giving this a go as he did when the XFL introduced him in February.
Besides, as he shared with his audience at this meet-and-greet/pep rally at Toby Keith’s Bricktown restaurant, in this gig he doesn’t have to worry about homesick freshmen.
A little later in the evening, Stoops pulled up a chair with a couple of sports writers who complicated his life those 18 years he was the Oklahoma Sooners coach. I asked if there was something he did miss about coaching in college.
“I loved it. There’s no getting around it,” Stoops answered. “I was in this ... you’d think I would have counted up the years by now, but I haven’t (it was 31 years). But I loved every part of it.
“And a big part of it was working with players at that age. You can affect them so much. I think you can affect them more than a 24- or 25-year-old. In fact, I know you can. So, yeah, you do miss that.”
That’s a flicker of hope for suckers like me who predicted Stoops would coach again, coach college again, the 2017 day he stepped down so stunningly at OU.
I don’t believe it’s going to be at Florida State, despite any reports to the contrary smoldering in Tallahassee.
“You just learn to not care about it,” Stoops said about his fate as rumor mill grist the rest of his life. “People that know you know. Really, that’s all that matters to me.”
Anyway, a task like restoring Florida State is the wrong challenge at the wrong time for a guy who was hanging out with Dan Marino and promoting tequila this week in Florida. Who has entered a rose-sniffing phase of his middle ages — he’s 59 — where he gets more comfortable slapping backs and posing for selfies every time I see him.
But back to coaching some college program again ... I do think there will come a challenge and time. Take Notre Dame down the road a bit, just as an example.
This can be after Stoops’ son, Drake, is no longer playing for Lincoln Riley’s Sooners, after Stoops has finished his duties with the Renegades, and after the guy who replaces Brian Kelly fails. That way, a man as aware of his Catholic faith as he is of college football tradition can ride to the rescue.
He can give it one more college try.
Stoops is still attached to the college program he ran for so long. He attends many of OU’s games and pops in on coaches meetings.
“I still go by once in a while,” he said. “I never say a word, but I love to listen and know what’s coming.”
Stoops also said: “I still care deeply in how they do. When you invest that much time in anything, you don’t just not care anymore.”
That goes for a profession. Football coaches never lose the taste of the spit in their whistle. Stoops working in a league owned by Vince McMahon, not two years after retiring from the Sooners, is solid proof of that.
He’ll be great for McMahon, the XFL and the Renegades as long as his mind is on it. Unless he was pulling a fast one on the crowd Thursday night, Stoops’ mind is on it.
It’s just if he’s really going to coach again, he’s bound to wind up back in college. That’s his real profession, the one he knows best. The one, despite the recruiting calendars, class schedules and compliance meetings, he can impact the most.
When I asked Stoops on Thursday night if he could see himself giving college another shot, he said: “You’re trying to get me to define the rest of my life. You can’t do that and I can’t do that. So ... I don’t think you ever say ‘ever’ or ‘never.’ ”
That was fine and all, but something else Stoops said later in the conversation resonated more. It was in response to a question about the attitudes of pro players.
“My favorite saying to everybody — you ask any of my buddies — people don’t change, they just get older. Right? At a certain point, you’re not affecting them anymore. People are just going to get older and do what they do. ...
“At a certain point you are what you are.”
Right now, Stoops is a professional football coach and he seems earnest about that. But I still think in time he gets back to who he is. A college coach.
Guerin Emig 918-629-6229
guerin.emig@tulsaworld.com
Twitter: @GuerinEmig
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more cushy golf courses in Floridah than Oklahomo
Yeah but not much time for golfing for a full time college football coach.
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Tell Spurrier that.
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As is often the case, we may well have more openings for HCs than obviously qualified attractive prospects.
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Yeah but not much time for golfing for a full time college football coach.
this is true
most coaches have a membership at a nice golf club as part of the salary package - hopefully the wife and kids use the social membership and the pool, because the coach isn't playing too many rounds of golf