a) Affair
b) NCAA violations
c) Genuine retirement
d) Other scandal
What you got?
Everything but C because it's the internet and that's boring.
It will be interesting to watch. Many people were calling for his head for keeping Joe Mixon on the team, so I wonder if there's something else that happened.
he got caught in the Bobby Petrino/Bo Ryan situation.
Riley was in the position to be snagged by somebody and they wanted to make sure it was OU. And with his age, he could be there forty years. Gets handed a recruiting moster, tons of talent, storied program. I see little drop off coming.
Riley, the OC taking over is 33 years old. Holy shite. Here's the keys to the car.
Kind of shitty timing by Bob. The Oklahoma softball team just won back to back National Titles last night and were finally getting a little limelight. Now no one cares.
I'd understand if it was for health reasons, but wait another few days other reasons.
Not just softball. Oklahoma won 4 national titles in the last 2 months: softball, men's golf, women's gymnastics, and men's gymnastics.
That shitty fight song they play on every freaking first down finally got to him.
Can you imagine listening to that for 18 years? Dunno how he lasted so long.
That could be why USC has been through so many head coaches lately too.
Owns home in Chicago and has always wanted to coach in NFL. Takes one year off and when the Bears clean house at the end ouf the season (cause Trubinski is going to get everybody fired) he takes over.
Because that job will be open regardless of whether or not Stoops coaches at OK.
I think an NFL team would be a lot more confident taking a coach that's active and didn't take time off. Taking a year off in coaching is a huge gap.
Notre Dame fans are going to be calling for Brian Kelly's head all year. Bob Stoops will become their new Jon Gruden. "He was raised in a Catholic home and grew up rooting for ND!"
Stoops has actually been their Gruden for awhile, if ND Nation is a representative sample of their fanbase.
My favorite Gruden to ND story was how the ND fan base used to cling to this interview where Jon Gruden said he lost his virginity to the ND fight song. And that was the reason he was going to come coach there.
Crazy day in sports. I assume it's a family issue or something personal.
Because I'm petty, this does piss me off because it gives OSU an easier early-season game.
I laughed at the time my insiderish buddy told me that, but this makes me reconsider. He said that Stoops was just ready for a change. I bet he's at Tennessee in 2018.
I think a lot of enviable jobs will come open next year, Notre Dame and Tennessee are both great possibilities. Florida is a possibility if McElwain regresses this year and the AD thinks the program has stagnated. I wouldn't rule out Saban retiring if he wins another title - he'll turn 66 this Halloween because he's the fucking devil. There could be 4 blue bloods or semi-blue bloods looking for coaches next winter (though I think Dabo is a shoo-in for the Bama job when it opens). It certainly wouldn't be unprecedented (Meyer) for a coach to suddenly leave a school and wait a year knowing that a job he wants (and has been told through back channel communication) is soon to come open.
Yet, somehow, I think Stoops might actually just want to retire. As someone else in the thread mentioned, he has heart problems in his family, and he has been coaching for a long time. He has a massive home in Norman. I think he might just want to take a reduced role with the program and spend more time with the family.
and yet he retired. From what I heard, and I admit this is just from one insderish guy, is that he had gotten sick of being treated as a failure for not winning the title every year.
The thought of him at ND is scary, but that makes more sense than Tennessee.
I mean I mentioned Alabama....but yes, Stoops was in the catbird seat at Oklahoma and would certainly not be at ND, Tennessee, or Florida.
NDNation has been fantasizing about Stoops in South Bend for years. They've pounced on the news.
Gents, the obvious reason for the retirement is that he found out that the Prevail and Ride guy retired after last season and wasn't going to be doing any more MS Paints.
(edit: Search for Prevail and Ride at your own risk, that **** is quite NSFW)
But it's funny as hell.
Who even thinks like that?
for LSU freak to make a video on this one.
You have no idea what you are talking about. Oklahoma and Michigan are almost identical programs. Both have storied histories and tradition, both have strong institutional support (Michigan probably has a slight edge here but nothing that OU can't overcome), both have to recruit outside their respective states to make up for the relative lack of instate talent. Both have to compete against a lower profile in state school.
The only real difference is Michigan is the far superior school, which probably helps Michigan recruit certain players. OU makes up for that by being in a much better recruiting location (just 3 hours from Dallas, Michigan is almost 3 hours from Cleveland for example). They are worst case the third option for recruits in Texas, which produces the most recruits in the country, far more than what the Midwest produces. If you combined the entire B1G footprint Texas still produces more. I mean, there is a reason why Harbaugh's Sattelite Camps are located primarily in the South. And by the way, they finished with the 8th ranked class in 2017, higher than A&M and Texas. So not sure what you're talking about when you say they can't go into Texas and recruit at a high level.
In short, if you think there is no reason for OU to be good, you must also think there is no reason for Michigan to be good.
Take off the homer glasses. Oklahoma has 7 national titles in the modern era. Michigan has 3. They also dominated decades like the 50's and 70's. And were still really good in the 2000s. Michigan has never dominated a decade outside 1900-1910. i.e. no one is alive that can remember it.
Tired of people on here trying to square a circle with records from 100 years ago. NO ONE CARES...except for us and Notre Dame. Using that logic, I guess Yale and Princeton are better football programs than Michigan.
Oklahoma is also like #2 (behind only OSU) for #1 AP appearance.
The Brady Hoke hire told you all you needed to know about where Michigan really ranks on the list of most coveted football jobs (hint: it's not in the top 5). If Harbaugh didn't play here, there is no way we land someone like that. Some people on here need to look at things more objectively.
I never said Oklahoma shouldn't be good, but nice non-sequitur nonetheless. I said it has geographic disadvantages, which is supported by tons of evidence. The 2017 class was Oklahoma's first top 10 class since 2010 per 247. You look through a lot of those classes, and it's a surprisingly high number of JUCO players for a blueblood. The 2016 class was 19th. Houston signed more four stars out of Texas in 2016 than Oklahoma. So did TCU. LSU routinely gets more top 100 players out of the state than Oklahoma. Ohio State raids Texas now. As deep as the talent pool is in the state, that depth only goes so far when everyone swims in the pool.
If you want to compare Michigan and Oklahoma (and even your post acknowledges Michigan has built-in advantages), we've seen over the last decade that winning here isn't quite as easy as previously believed, which is probably something to remember in the post-Stoops era.
You said "is there any reason OU should be a great program in this day and age?"
I'm saying yes. If you are saying no (and I assume that's what your point was), then I'll ask you "is there any reason Michigan should be a great program in this day and age?" Because both programs are in virtually the same boat.
never produced more instate football talent. Compared to OH and PA we are far behind in top 300 football talent. TX, LA, AL, FL, GA are like football factories.
Good coach. He stayed at the same program long enough to become no-longer-trendy, and many forgot how good he was. He reminded us last season, and now he retires on an up note.
Coach Stoops, you were a creative force in the sport and it's been a pleasure watching your teams. Here's hoping you move on to broadcasting where you can make almost as much for less than half of the work schedule.
I immediately looked at their commits and targets to see if there was any potential for poaching. Recruiting is an obsession.
I heard this while in the car headed away from a meeting about an hour ago - I was actually pretty stunned by it, I can honestly say that I wouldn't have imagined him leaving right now for any reason really. Still, almost twenty rather successful years and you've still got plenty of time to enjoy other things? I would probably think about it myself if it were me.
Not sure if they are really giving this guy a chance. 32 years old, never coached before - and now you need to run OU and all that comes along with being a head coach, as well as call the plays. This has disaster written all over it. Other thing is OU has a good team coming back with a heisman trophy candidate, something smells here....
The Spartys might need to do a major house cleaning after this upcoming 2-10 season with more felony convictions than wins.