I agree. Notre Dame is a good fit for Bob and his family, and OU. He has
fullfilled his 10 year commitment, got his millions in bonus’s, taken the
tradition rich, storied football program that Benny, Bud and Barry built, back
to the Gary Gibbs level of 1989. Failed in one BCS Bowl, Big game after
another. Been a total embarrassment in prime time this season and more
time than not in the past. You’re RIGHT! It’s time for Bob to move on, he’s
in over his head. Just make sure he takes his four favorite Crony’s with
him(Wilson, Venables, Norvell and Patton). I’m ready to bring back good
old fashion Oklahoma hard-nose, smash-mouth football. I’m ready to see
some slobber knocking defense like Bud and Barry had and a good running
game, Some Sooner Magic. I’m ready to see OU compete with the top-10
teams again, aren’t you! There was a song in the 80′s that had lyrics that
mentioned “take the money and run”. Yealp, it’s time.

j. adams, you’re an idiot.

j. adams, I hope you’re being sarcastic and making fun of the typical moronic fair-weather OU fan. You make us all look bad.

Yes I am leaving, I’m going to Notre Dame. Thank you OU. I will always think of Sam Radfourth when I sleep!

Boob Stops – Head Choke of UO

j. adams – I hope you are not a Sooner? You are a moron!! Arguably, this might go down as one of Bob’s best coaching jobs – w/ the dozens of injuries, etc….

Take Colt McCoy & Jordan Shipley off the Longhorns and see what they do this season?

Yes, we have lost some disappointing games over the years but I don’t remember Gibbs playing for National Titles? You are just a spoiled B$#@H – please do not claim to be a Sooner….

From a true Sooner & season ticket holder…

I don’t think Stoops is going anywhere. Brian Kelly of Cincinnati will probably wind up getting it.

Hopefully he can coach better then select “confidants” (The source said Stoops has told confidants he would be interested in talking to the Irish.) I thought confidants meant secrets are entrusted to them.

We should have fired the last coach who had his only perfect season in year 2.

1973 – Tied USC
1974 – Perfect Season
1975 – Lost to Kansas
1976 – Tied Texas, lost to OSU & Colordao
1977 – Lost to Texas, lost Orange Bowl to Arkansas
1978 – Lost to Nebraska
1979 – Lost to Texas
1980 – Lost to Texas & Stanford
1981 – Lost to Texas, USC, Nebraska & Missouri, final record 7-4-1
1982 – Lost to USC, Nebraska & West Virginia, lost Fiesta Bowl to Arizona State, final record 8-4
1983 – Lost to Texas, Nebraska, Missouri & Ohio State, final record 8-4
1984 – Tied Texas, lost Orange Bowl to Washington
1985 – Lost to Miami
1986 – Lost to Miami
1987 – Lost Orange Bowl to Miami
1988 – Lost to Nebraska, USC, lost Citrus Bowl to Clemson

Do you know what sarcasm is, j.adams? Go back to drinking Schlitz, drawing worker’s comp, and beating your kids in your double-wide. Those of us who actually graduated from OU don’t need your coaching input.

From a Longhorn Fan—– Stoops is good for the Big 12, he needs to stay in Okieville

Winning records are only the surface…recruiting assistant coaches and athletes to me refect the coach more deeply that W v L. Look at Coaches assistants…look at his athletes. If he goes it’ll be hard to replace THAT talent. I for one would be extremely sorry to see him take the job.

Hey stoops we hope you stay in Norman, those of us who are loyal OU fans remember the john blake days not just yesterday. You are an excellent coach with great moral character as well. But if you do go I hate the ND Irish but would watch them some because i respect what you have done here at OU. BOOMER SOONER

Stoops grew up in EASTERN ohio not WESTERN.

j. adams,

I have a better idea, why don’t you leave and take your “Sooner” yelling, redneck idiot, cronies with you?

Guys how lucky is OU to have a coach that is atop every coach hiring list but some stupid sooner fans want him gone. Brilliance at its finest, jadams speak for yourself, you give true sooner fans a bad name

7 10+ win seasons, 6 Big XII titles, 1 national title, 2 heisman trophy winners. Sounds like success anywhere to me. If not for a bcs losses OU would be team of decade and are still very close as it is.

Those who think Bob is going to leave OU are stupid. Let’s see. You are coaching at a school that is annually now in the top 10 to start the season, in a league that almost always promises a BCS Chmampionship spot if you in the league, to go to a program that is on the outside looking in of the current system, that doesn’t get the top players anymore, where you have to play tougher teams more often in order to get attention and votes in hopes that you can squeeze into the national title game? WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD YOU DO THAT? It would be a dumb move. You don’t make moves at his level based on private or religious loyalties. He has a higher loyalty to consider … his family…who love Norman. Welcome home Stoops. You are right for us and we are right for you.

Stoops will not leave Oklahoma this year. As a Mizzou guy, and do not take this the wrong way, he is a bit of an egotist. It has served your team well. He will not leave after this year because the guy does not want to look like he bailed out when things got tough. Its real easy to leave a mess, and I do not see Stoops taking the easy way out. I hope he does leave and they hire an idiot for a coach, but that would be too good to be true.

Go Mizzou!!

@JYouell
“to go to a program that is on the outside looking in of the current system”

While I agree Bob isn’t going anywhere, ND is part of the BCS system and in fact until they lost to Navy they were in the running for a BCS bid even though they had lost 2 games already.

MizzOU90:

The most correct answer!

Sorry fellas, just because there are those of us who are sick to death of Stoops’ attitude, and his loyalty to certain assistant coaches who do not do their jobs, and his failure to prepare the team for critical games does NOT make us disloyal. In fact, it makes us extremely loyal. The first letter in this stream – from J. Adams – sums it up succinctly. Our three-million dollar man has lost more than a step. And the argument that ‘at least he gets us to the championship games’ is convoluted. Trust me, Sooner fans, it would be far better to go to a lesser bowl and win than to step into the spotlight of a national title game (or any other BCS bowl) and be sissy-slapped time after time. It’s embarrassing and whether you agree or not, it certainly does detract from the tradition that Wilkinson built and Switzer maintained. Grow up.

Dutch, how do you lose a step but play in the National Championship last year as well as another Big 12 title?

I wish you people that long for the Switzer days would take a little history lesson. You bash Stoops for losing big games, but don’t remember the big games Switzer lost. See Big Esh’s comment from earlier. In 5 of those seasons Switzer lost a big game that would have won another NC. Only one year was OU an underdog, and that was the 1986 Miami game. In some of those games OU was a big favorite, like the Orange Bowl against Arkansas, where the game wasn’t supposed to be close. Well, it wasn’t close because Arkansas blew us out 31-6, and that was after suspending four of their best players before the game. Two of the NCs won under Switzer we had to have help because of earlier losses. Stoops is doing fine. I’ll bet Nebraska fans are glad they didn’t give up on Osborne when it took him over 20 years to win his first NC.

Everyday when I leave to go to work, I drive by this HUGE new home being built by Stoops and his family and I think to myself, thank God he’s not going anywhere for awhile. Don’t worry, he’s not going anywhere. Just dumb rumors.

Your first reason is that he’s catholic? I guess then he’s also worthy of mention the next time there’s an opening for the Pope.

If he rejected the thought of it earlier why now? His kids being young and his love for OU is supposedly wht kept him away from Notre Dame, tOSU, Florida, Falcons, Browns, & Denver already.
You think he wants to leave after having the type of season he’s had this year? Bob’s no quitter and he’s not going anywhere.
Thanks again for your Nat’l Inquirer journalism.

His next stop is the Nfl.

I hate to admit it but Stoops time is up at OU. He hasn’t won a big game in years and let’s face it Mack Brown has the clear advantage over him now on the field and in recruiting. Let’s get a fresh face and let the most overrated OU coach of all time move along.

I cringe when I hear people talk about the glory days of Barry Switzer. No man brought more shame and anguish to OU than Saint Barry. Let’s all look in the mirror and realize that the Switzer era was shameful in so many ways and is best retold as only a cautionary tale.. Stoops may not be a great coach but at least he runs a program that isn’t a national embarrassment.

How many teams have a chance to go to the national championship game each year? 2
I think I would much rather be in the national championship game and loose than to go to the lesser bowl game. It may not sound very good loosing the game, but being in the national championship game 3 times in a 4 year period sounds great to me!!
Has any other team been in that game 4 times? NO!
Va Tech and Neb are the only teams that have been there and not won one. At least OU is one up on them.
The next time Fla St or Ohio St goes and looses, they are tied with us at 1-3. There are only 11 different teams that have been to the BCS championship game, and four of those have been there only once. At least OU can get there on a semi consistent basis!!!

I get so tired of hearing people complain about Bob Stoops. So, okay, he’s not perfect. Who would satisfy some of you whiners? As an OU grad and Sooner fan, I say we’re the most spoiled, fair-weather bunch in the country. OU is always in the hunt for the NC and the difference in us being undefeated this year is 12 points. It could be so much worse with all the injuries. Stop crapping on Stoops, please, unless you can do a better job.

Stoops should leave for Notre Dame as soon as possible..ideally before Saturday…he would improve the situation at both places. It’s the humanitarian thing to do.

Stoops go to ND….Hey ND is one of the Dream schools with a long long history. Every recruit drools at the chance of attending that school. They get Televsion coverage and a jump on every poll no matter what. Fact is they have great recuits squandered on poor coaching Stoops could go back closer to his roots and become a Legend. He may be Stoops but he would be STOOPID not to take the job. OU is in great shape for the next year but not like old and ND is just crying for someone who knows how to win.

Well Okies having grown up in Soonerland and having the privledge to leave for good there’s only THREE THINGS THAT I STILL LOVE FROM THAT STATE=My family, friends and SOONERS! Looking from afar it kills me to see people BASH BOB STOOPS-STOOPS IS A LIVING LEGEND! You should thank the lord that an egotistical-arrogan and cocky coach blessed Norman because all those intagibles is what punked Mack Brown for 6 years nice guys don’t always win-Bob Stoops in kind of like Bill Belichick and I’m not comparing their success, but they have that arrogant mojo that makes his teams great. People don’t see the BIG PICTURE. Hell OU could win the BCS next year and it’s because of Stoops-please don’t forget the 90′s! If it wasn’t for Larry Cochell, Billy Tubbs and I hate to admit it(kelvin sampson) OU sports would’ve taken a nose dive in the 90′s Stoops is the man stop crying about not winning EVERY GAME-because you can’t and THANK BOB STOOPS FOR ALL HE’S DONE! Having said all of this Bob won’t leave not yet-but he will someday I know I will cry when he does!

People saying that Stoops is bad at recruiting and Notre Dame has a great recruiting class coming up? Not true. Oklahoma is currently ranked #1 in incoming recruiting class.

Stoops family is firmly entrenched in Norman. He isn’t going anywhere. OU Medical Center has bent over backwards for Stoops daughter and for that he is internally grateful.

Trust me. The guy will be in Norman for the next 10 years. Now can we say his assistance coaches be around the long? That’s another story.

For those of you so called Sooner fans who wants Stoops to leave, who do you think OU can hire that can repeat what Stoops has done for us the past 10 years? Seriously, Stoops is considered one of the elite coaches in the country and he earned that title. I really don’t think there is a better coach in the country that’s better suited to be the head coach at Oklahoma. I hope he stays for another 10 years!

5 straight BCS losses. 1-4 in his last 5 vs Texas. 4-6 overall in Bowl games. NCAA probation. Having the best Texas recruits not even look at OU most of the time. Shall I go on? It’s called a trend folks and it’s a bad one. He needs to leave or his assistants do because it could get ugly in the very near future.

“5 straight BCS losses. 1-4 in his last 5 vs Texas. 4-6 overall in Bowl games. NCAA probation. Having the best Texas recruits not even look at OU most of the time”
AAHH YOU CAN’T WIN THEM ALL! ASK BARRY SWITZER AND TOM OSBORNE THEY LOST A BUNCH OF NCAA TITLE AND ORANGE BOWL GAMES!!! Stoops has lost great assistant coaches and dealt with untimely injuries(see DeMarco Murrary-twice, Reggie Smith and Malcom Kelly) He also has had more big xii titles than even one Mack Brown. I’ll keep Stoops you complainers go move to another state school like VA Tech or Arkansas and try to sniff the BCS title game. IT IS NOT EASY!!! Trust I live in the D.C. Metro area now they don’t even know what a conference title here smells like let alone a BCS title game….

I don’t want Stoops going anywhere either. However if he should, it isn’t like we’re doomed. Stoops isn’t the end all be all of the OU program. Like Stoops has said time after time, nobody is bigger than the program, and that includes Stoops himself. Maybe a little fresh perspective would be good for both sides. People, stop bashing each other because you don’t agree with each other! We have that right here in America, so why make an ass of yourself by calling people names and criticizing folks that don’t necessarily agree with you. So what if you’re an OU grad! I’m an OU grad too, so is my Dad and my Grandad, but that doesn’t mean my opinion carries more weight than a non-grad. Being an OU grad is not a prerequisite to being an OU fan and voicing your opinion, so get off your high horse already!

Please people.Stoops best team was recruited by someone else. He hasn’t won a big game since his brother left. Is he getting soft? Why won’t he upgrade his staff the way some other coaches do? Step up or ship out. Lots of good coaches would die to coach OU.

I am a Longhorn fan and I do NOT want Stoops to leave. I grew up Hating OU, but I’ve made a lot of great friendships with OU grads and no longer Hate the school. However, I do HATE the cocky, Spurrier disciple known as Bob Stoops. I love beating the man. I love watching him lose. I love watching him throw his players under the bus in post-game interviews after losses. I feel sorry for Sam Bradford, but think it was Kharma for Stoops not pulling starters in blowouts. I think the man has no class. I hope he does stay. We need him to keep OU near the top so when Mack keeps beating him, it increases our NC title chances. That and I LOVE watching that pr*ck lose!!

As a Longhorn fan, it would be sad to see Stoops go to ND. A lot of okies are upset with him right now, but for the wrong reason. The guy recruits and coaches well. The Big 12 is a much better conference with him in it as opposed to be out of it.

Stoops will stay at OU but his staff needs to be tweaked.

Since Wilson has became OC for the 2006 season, Stoops is 11-6 against teams ranked lower than OU. Six times teams with lesser talent upset OU. That does not include 3 loses to unranked teams. Stoops is 0-4 against teams ranked within 2 or higher than OU. Wilson has never engineering/game planned an “upset”. Stoops is 1-3 against Texas and 0-4 in Bowl games.

Since Patton became O-Line Coach, 40% of all O-Line recruits leave the program within 1 year and 50% leave before completing 2 years.

Stoops can stay but Wilson and Patton need to go. It’s called being a good CEO. Stoops runs a multi-million dollar business, and needs to treat it as such. If your managers are not performing, it’s time for new ones that can.

COME ON STOOPS MAKE THE EASY DECISION THAT SHOULD HAVE ALREADY BEEN MADE.

I think it is hilarious that posters think that if Stoops leaves, on his own or is forced, we are doomed to get a Blake or Shellenberger type head coach as a replacement and that’s the only option. Are you people that stupid?

Look at the hires that Joe C has make and you really believe that is possible? Who hired Stoops? Who hired Capel? And I could go on for other sports.

I have no worries if Stoops leaves, now, next year or the anytime as long as we still have Joe as AD.

j.adams’ post is perhaps the most childish, uninformed and ill-conceived comment I have seen in quite some time. Let’s just hope it’s a hater in sheep’s clothing and not someone who actually pretends to be a fan.

You wankers better be careful what you wish for.

Lets forget football for awhile,and,talk about Stoops the man, if you have time, read this article,and,then tell me you dont like Bob Stoops, yes I like to win, dont we all ? Bob Stoops is a great guy, a great family man, and, a great coach. he will stay at Oklahoma,because he has compassion, not only as a coach but as a human being.

Kourtlyn Uzoma grew sick.

Just 13 years old, he was sick of being sick, sick of the battles with a wicked cancer, sick of the relapses and the two years trying to get well inside a hospital.

Then came word of a special camp—Kamp Kourtlyn—to be hosted by Bob Stoops and the Sooners at their practice field in Norman.

Just for him. And for a day, Kourtlyn wasn’t sick anymore.

“He hung around with the football players, tossed the ball,“ said Kourtlyn’s dad, Clement Uzoma. “Bob took him in his BMW, and they went around everywhere. It was just joyful to see Kourtlyn and his face and how he reacted when he got home.“

Such an effect Stoops had on the little man.

“Bob Stoops,“ Clement said, “was God’s angel sent to Kourtlyn.“

While few know this personal side of Stoops, similar stories stream from the many who have either seen or experienced the Oklahoma football coach’s continual outreach and acts of compassion for sick children. Publicly, it may be a hard and rugged persona that Stoops puts forth, but privately, particularly when in the company of kids in distress—which is often—he’s gentle and soft.

“What’s impressive, it’s something he doesn’t share with other people,“ said former Sooner Jacob Gutierrez, who became known for his own charitable acts while at OU. “It’s not a publicity thing. It’s him being who he is. He understands he can make an impact on other people’s lives, and he takes the time to do that.

“It’s not because he wants the attention, or it’s someone making him, it’s just because.

“And that’s who coach Stoops is.“

Bob Stoops: behind the scenes

Kay Tangner, a longtime volunteer at the Jimmy Everest Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders in Children, first invited Stoops and his players to a pep rally the young cancer patients wanted to throw to celebrate the Sooners’ 2000 national championship.

Stoops accepted.

And he’s been returning ever since.

More and more frequently over time.

In season. The off-season. Over the summer.

Sometimes Stoops arrives with players. Many times he slips in alone, unannounced.

“We were in the hospital a lot last year,“ said Stacy Hasley, whose 7-year-old daughter Jordan is in remission from leukemia. “One morning, it was 8 o’clock, and there’s this knock on the door. And the door opens, and it’s him.

“It’s just a very cool thing that he does.“

Stoops has stopped in at the hospital with his own family on Thanksgiving mornings and also near Christmas.

When he can, he celebrates birthdays with the kids.

“Just hangs out,“ Tangner said. “Talks. Sits on the edge of the bed.“

If anything, Stoops has avoided any attention when it comes to his time at the hospital and his fight for the cause.

Even his charity, the Bob Stoops Champions Foundation, aimed at helping ill or disadvantaged children, maintains a low profile.

Only recently, sensing that he could help enhance awareness of the need for critical bone marrow matches that many sick patients are awaiting, has Stoops peeled back the curtain.

During the team’s annual Media Day earlier [in August], Stoops welcomed reporters to a volunteer testing procedure to register potential donors with the National Marrow Donor Program.

Stoops was among 84 individuals, mostly players, who added their name to the registry.

“You have the opportunity to save somebody’s life,“ Stoops said. “It’s pretty neat when you think about it. I see a lot of kids at the Children’s Hospital at OU Medical Center that are awaiting bone marrow transplants, or awaiting matches.

“Or I see a lot of them that have already had their match and had their transplant and are recovering from it. And I know the difference it makes in their lives.“

Reaching out

Even kids focused on overcoming cancer know who Bob Stoops is.

Some, however, may not be such big fans—at first.

“Kids are so honest,“ Tangner said. “They’ll say, ‘I have to tell you, I don’t like OU. I like OSU.’

“And he’ll say, ‘Well, that’s OK. Everybody’s got to like somebody.’ And by the end, it’s not even about football. It’s about a friend.“

And friend is the word most associated with Stoops in his relationships with the kids and their families.

“Oh my goodness, each family thinks they’re Bob Stoops’ special patient,“ said Dr. Rene McNall, a pediatric oncologist at the hospital. “He has this amazing way to remember all their names.

“I can’t tell you the number of patients and parents who are at the middle of this very stressful thing and they think Bob has this special place in his heart just for them.

“And he does. He just has a way of making them all feel special.“

T.J. Hutchings was a promising 17-year-old high school pitcher with a baseball scholarship to the University of North Texas when persistent pain on his right hip led to an MRI. Doctors discovered a baseball-sized tumor and diagnosed him with Ewing’s sarcoma, a cancer that most often strikes between the ages of 10 and 20.

They also found three spots on Hutchings’ right lung.

“I was in the hospital,“ Hutchings said, “and Stoops came by and introduced himself, like I didn’t already know him before.“

A few months later, Hutchings’ treatment ramped up—on his birthday no less—with radiation tacked on to chemotherapy.

“They told me to came down to the nurses station,“ Hutchings said. “They had all these balloons and stuff. I thought, ‘Oh. that’s nice: the nurses threw a party for me.’

“I turned the corner, and Bob Stoops and Adrian Peterson were there. I was just baffled. They brought out the cake and everything. It was pretty awesome.“

Hutchings’ birthday was a Thursday, two days before the Red River Shootout with Texas in the Cotton Bowl.

“They were leaving out that Thursday afternoon to go to Texas,“ Hutchings said. “Adrian Peterson was on the cover of Sports Illustrated the week before. And he brought him up there.

“One of the biggest games of the year —always. I totally couldn’t believe it.“

Passing it on

That first pep rally evolved into an annual event around Christmas. Now the tradition involves sending the Sooners off to their bowl destination.

The children make banners and perform cheers. They present awards and “bowl rings“—candy ring pops and light-up rings—and even hand-made trophies. One year, there was an Orange Bowl trophy made with plastic fruit.

The players, they laugh and they howl.

And they connect, so much so that they end up coming back, too.

A list of OU players who have joined Stoops for room tours at Children’s Hospital would be lengthy.

“I’d ride up there with Coach Stoops,“ Gutierrez said. “He knew each of the kids by name, and that really impressed me. He’d sit there and talk to them for a little while. And not just the kids, but the parents. It’s a hard time for the parents, too.

“It was great to see that kind of a person and to play for that kind of a person. I’ll always take that and know that no matter how busy you get or how famous you get, there’s always time for other people.“

Pass it on.

“The neat thing is watching him bring his players and teach them how to be a good person, too,“ McNall said.

“I always say I’m not a big football fan, but I’m a huge Bob Stoops fan because of all he does.“

Building a connection

Tangner often shadows Stoops on his trips to Children’s Hospital, shooting pictures to present to the patients and their families.

She keeps copies, too. And there are enough to fill several bulky photo albums, the images capturing the bond between Stoops and the children.

Forget, she said, that Stoops is a popular football coach. That may get their attention. But there must be something special to maintain it and create a connection.

“They can be in the dumps, because they’re up there in the bone marrow unit, there for several weeks at a time,“ said Tangner, who has seen a lot in 15 years of serving at the hospital. “And he can walk in, and you can just see it. You can feel it.

“And the parents are just so grateful, because you’ll do anything for your kid to just feel better.“

Stoops might toss a football in one room, play dolls in another.

Mostly, he just talks. About stuff.

Kid stuff.

And, sometimes, he plays coach, too.

“That’s what he tells the kids in the bone marrow clinic. He walks in, and he knows them all by name. ‘You’ve got to keep up. You’ve got to stay strong. You’ve got to keep fighting.’“

McNall sees the struggles every day. She works on the front line, where disease wages an unfair war with kids. Disease too often wins.

Bob Stoops can’t beat that. But he can provide reinforcement.

“Honestly, it gives them something positive to look forward to, to do,“ McNall said, “someone special who is special to a lot of people, who thinks of them as special.

“I had one kid who told me, ‘Except for this cancer thing, this has been the best year of my life.’ “

Making memories

The rooms and halls of Children’s Hospital are filled with stories.

Some heart wrenching. Some uplifting. Stories of pain and suffering and sacrifice.

Of loss. And conquest.

There are Sooner stories, too, involving Stoops and his players.

There’s the tale of little Kaci McGee, who at the age of 4 would watch an entire OU football game just to see Stoops. And she referred to him as, “My Coach Stoops,“ which she’d repeat over and over as she followed him from room to room at the hospital.

There was the funeral for Justin Scott, a teenager who lost a battle with a bad form of leukemia, where no black clothing was allowed, only crimson and cream. Where Stoops and several players served as pallbearers.

“It’s not a little thing he does,“ McNall said.

Said Tangner: “I can’t tell you how many times I go, and there’s the football that he’s signed, right by the casket. Or in the slide show, there he is with them. And how much it means to the families.“

There was Stoops last December, sad that he would have to miss the annual pep rally because he was due to have shoulder surgery the same day. And there was Stoops, on the arm of his wife, Carol, showing up still groggy from the procedure.

“Who would have come straight from surgery?“ Tangner said. “It had to mean something to him.“

And what about Hutchings, now 21 and a junior at OU, beating cancer. Stoops still meets with him two or three times a semester, just to have lunch and check in.

“He gave me his cell phone number and told me to call if I ever needed anything,“ Hutchings said.

And there’s Kourtlyn Uzoma, who died last spring.

When he was too sick to attend the Miami game he so wanted to see last fall, Kourtlyn was presented with a game ball, signed by all the seniors.

“That game ball is in my house,“ his father, Clement, said through tears, “and every day I see it. Bob Stoops came into our life, and I look at him as a Christian man, then secondly as a coach.

“My son for the last two years was in the hospital. Bob Stoops came every week to see him. I can remember when it got to the point Kourtlyn couldn’t talk, they would bump hands.

“I don’t know how to describe Bob Stoops except to say he’s an angel. An angel God sent to visit all these kids.“

Stoops, please don’t go. We all love watching the melt downs in the Big Games away from Norman. Running up scores on inferior teams just makes the destruction against real teams all the sweeter. Bob Stoop’s signature win this year is blowing out a young inexperienced Aggie team, and throwing bombs in the Q4 so Sooner nation can forget about the miserable performance against hated Nebraska. Nothing says class, nothing says Sooner better. Stay classy.

I am an Okie living in San Diego…my wife’s family members are all USC grads. One family member was an assistant coach at USC. I have to say that while I live and breathe OU football, we fans are whiners! I don’t hear nearly the complaining out here over USC’s losses as I hear out of OU! I will say this: if there is a weakness at OU, it’s not Stoops as much as it is Kevin Wilson. I sit on my sofa and tell my wife what play he’s running next…90% of the time I’m right! He is too predictable, and too conservative when OU needs to pull out ALL the stops. Why play conservative when you have nothing to lose? Didn’t we learn anything from Boise State? The measure of a head coach isn’t just W’s…it’s integrity. Stoops has it. Barry didn’t. Just think, had Stoops not thrown our former excuse for a quarterback/car salesman off the team for cheating, Sam Bradford wouldn’t have the place in our hearts he occupies today. Thank you Bob. And Kevin, please run for political office…we desperately need more conservatives in Congress!

stoops is going to nd if offered the job lets buy out bo from nebraska he would be the perfect fit

J.Adams is right. And for some of you to question his/her loyalty to OU is misguided. I am also a die hard OU fan, but I am definitely not a Stoops fan. I feel that our players and our fans deserve better than what we’ve gotten.

Let’s look at a few things. Bob’s post season win percentage is 40%. If you look at his BCS bowl win percentage, it’s only 17%. While I know that it’s unrealistic to expect OU to win them all, many of those losses have been complete embarrassments. However, Stoops has done nothing to change things. You want to bring up Big XII championships? Give me a break. OU and TexSux ARE the Big XII. The other 10 have made attempts to become powerhouse teams, but have failed miserably. Big XII championships don’t mean as much as some of you would like for them too. I was one that took great offense to the naysayers bashing the Big XII last year for having no defense. Well guess what. Looks like they were right.

Anytime Bob has played a quality team (Top 15) on the road, he chokes. Defense has sucked. Offensive play calling has been incredibly predictable. We’ve had more talent SINCE the 2000 NC win than we actually had on the 2000 team, yet Bob can’t get it done.

It is quite obvious that Bob’s strength was in Mike Stoops and Mike Leach (coordinators don’t always make good head coaches, so don’t compare their lack of success at AZ and TT). We have struggled ever since they left.

Bo Pelini might be a good fit, but I’d rather look at Cincy’s, TCU’s, or Boise’s head coaches. Those are guys who have proven to get it done with much less.

Please Bob, go to ND!!!

BTW . . . If Stoops would at least show that he’s holding his staff and players accountable, I’d have no problem with him. But his excuses are getting old.

As a Longhorn, I’d hate for Stoops to leave for a few reasons. 1) We owe him a couple of 40 point butt whoopins and 2) I would hate for anyone to say that the only reason we win the next 5 BigXII championships is because Stoops wasn’t here

BTW, are you sure that big new house he’s building isn’t a spec home he’s building to sell to the next OU coach?? j/k

Big Loss Bob would become the Pope if it paid him more than 4.3 million dollars per year. Bob will not go to ND unless he gets paid more than what Conrad Joe pays him to lose bowl games, lose to a slow white boy BYU, lose to Texas, get sissy slapped by USC, Florida, Boise State, West Virginia, TTU, and from time to time, Kansas State. ND is used to losing in big games and Big Loss Bob would fit right in as a Head Coach there. Heck, he and touchdown jesus would make a perfect pair.

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even if stoops would leave, which it is really clear now that he won’t. Bo would never go to the sooners. he is a nebraska man, he wasn’t happy the one year in norman, and he loves osborne. Bo would never leave NU for Ou, no matter the money. stupid. within the conference stupid. to a rival stupid. let’s just be happy with bob and hope he stays. he would be an idiot to leave anyway