Bob Stoops

[Roaringboar]

You know a name not many are really saying......why not try looking into Bob Stoops.....I just said in another thread, you know a few sources have come out of the wood work saying there's a bit more to the story than Stoops just wanting to retire. I think something came between him and the school and it was just so divisive he decided maybe it was time to leave. Who knows what it was? But I think there was more to it than just, "I'm worried a bit about my health."

Myer said the same thing when leaving Florida....now look where he's at......it's at least worth a look if we are going to look for a new coach......and you can't even try to say Stoops wasn't a good coach......

[Hogwild]

When Stoops returns to coaching it won't be at Arkansas.  He will grab a top 10 job like Notre Dame, LSU, Florida, .... Like what Meyer did.

[BadPorcino]

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[Roaringboar]

When Stoops returns to coaching it won't be at Arkansas.  He will grab a top 10 job like Notre Dame, LSU, Florida, .... Like what Meyer did.

I don't see Notre Dame, he doesn't have as many regional ties there after all of these years at Oklahoma.....LSU won't cut Orgeron I don't think for at least another three seasons......And I just can't see Florida firing mcelwain after he's led them to back to back SEC Championships that he lost both years to Alabama......especially considering technically they are tied for first right now in the East.......The only big jobs I see open next year are perhaps Tennesse, Texas A&M, and Ole Miss.....like I said, wouldn't hurt to look at least.....

[RazorPiggie]

Ole Miss isn't a big job.

[Art Vandelay]

This is nonsense. If he wouldn't interview here when he was DC at Florida, what makes you think he would consider us now? 

Something is fishy with the timing of his retirement and then the school president just retiring, but that dont mean he's coming to Arkansas.

[Wildhog]

I don't want our program to kill the man.

[sowmonella]

Pssstttttttt  it's this guy

[shotgun7]

Stoops is NOT coming to Arkansas, neither is Les Miles....it is very likely regardless of the way the season ends up he gets 1 more year. The buyout would be much lower and there are likely going to be a ton of Jobs open this year and I just don't see us trying to compete with all the ones that may come open. TN, LSU (though EO has a 12 million buy out, and you people thing JL is nuts!?!) A&M, AUB, OM, MIZU and thats just off the top of my head in the SEC! 

[Pig in the Pokey]

Stoops is NOT coming to Arkansas, neither is Les Miles....it is very likely regardless of the way the season ends up he gets 1 more year. The buyout would be much lower and there are likely going to be a ton of Jobs open this year and I just don't see us trying to compete with all the ones that may come open. TN, LSU (though EO has a 12 million buy out, and you people thing JL is nuts!?!) A&M, AUB, OM, MIZU and thats just off the top of my head in the SEC!

why the hell would we want Les miles? And only 2 of those schools you mentioned will be hiring. Mizzou, which if you are afraid to compete with them, seek therapy, and A&M, who more than likely already has a deal with Chad Morris in place.

[jvanhorn]

This is nonsense. If he wouldn't interview here when he was DC at Florida, what makes you think he would consider us now? 

Something is fishy with the timing of his retirement and then the school president just retiring, but that dont mean he's coming to Arkansas.

Stoops has always said he would not be coaching at an old age like his mentor at Kansas State.  He has been at all the games this year home and away.  He  hand picked the man to replace him and left him with a top 5 team.  He said that he didn't want what he built to be in vain and he wanted to ensure the program for the next 30 years.  He lives in a house so big it has an actual moat around it.  He just sold the house he left for millions.    The president of OU, who was also a Governor and US Senator has just presided over the most prosperous almost 3 decades in OU history--and not just in athletics, but he is in his late 70s and just had major heart surgery 6 months.  He is also concerned abut td about the future of OU and has said if they don't have a replacement when his contract expires at the end of June he will stay on until they do get a new president.  There is really no more to it than that.  Nothing lasts forever.  He does say that when Stoops told him that he was retiring and why it kind of kick started him into thinking that he should do something also.  That he had been seriously thinking about since last Spring or, as he put it "Time caught up with me."  As indeed it will with all of us.

[dj shanon "Notshavin" smeya]

Pssstttttttt  it's this guy

I think it just moved like Costanza

[Muskliketusk]

Arkansas can do better than Little Game Bob. I'd throw up if Long even interviewed that overrated bum to clean toilets in DWRRS. Plus he's a bona fied cheater plain and simple. OU will burn if the FBI ever decide to look at college football and Stoops won't be able to coach just like Tressell.

[Iwastherein1969]

Remember my fellow Hog fans, someone with a lot of power on The Hill  once said, "we're not going be a win at all costs program"....therefore we need to go looking for up and coming assistants to be our head coach....it will save enough money so that we could provide more ping pong tables, more video games and chicken enchiladas 3 times a week instead of two in the cafeteria for our 2 star athletes....makes a lot of sense to me....and by the way, "Smile !"

[moses_007]

I read that Bob Stoops retired from coaching because he has a heart condition.  Goodness, he's definitely made enough money at OU to retire from football forever.  He won't coach again.

[husker71]

Arkansas can NOT do better than Bob Stoops.  I know alot of fun is made of guys who say things like we can get Gruden or Cowher or Saban but there really are guys on this board who believe it.  I suffer from no such notions.  We are a middle of the road SEC program which is still a pretty good gig but do any of you think it is a top 20 job at this time??  I read the same stuff on the Nebraska boards about getting a homerun hire.  It is not going to happen there either.  There program has been run much deeper in the ditch than ours.

[Art Vandelay]

Stoops has always said he would not be coaching at an old age like his mentor at Kansas State.  He has been at all the games this year home and away.  He  hand picked the man to replace him and left him with a top 5 team.  He said that he didn't want what he built to be in vain and he wanted to ensure the program for the next 30 years.  He lives in a house so big it has an actual moat around it.  He just sold the house he left for millions.    The president of OU, who was also a Governor and US Senator has just presided over the most prosperous almost 3 decades in OU history--and not just in athletics, but he is in his late 70s and just had major heart surgery 6 months.  He is also concerned abut td about the future of OU and has said if they don't have a replacement when his contract expires at the end of June he will stay on until they do get a new president.  There is really no more to it than that.  Nothing lasts forever.  He does say that when Stoops told him that he was retiring and why it kind of kick started him into thinking that he should do something also.  That he had been seriously thinking about since last Spring or, as he put it "Time caught up with me."  As indeed it will with all of us.

I just think it's a little too coincidental that both of them retire suddenly the year after the huge Joe Mixon f-up. I understand that Boren is as old as dirt but Stoops explanation doesn't make much sense to me. They could have paid Riley a boatload as OC/coach in waiting and kept him from going anywhere. 

[Hogtimes]

Stoops has always said he would not be coaching at an old age like his mentor at Kansas State.  He has been at all the games this year home and away.  He  hand picked the man to replace him and left him with a top 5 team.  He said that he didn't want what he built to be in vain and he wanted to ensure the program for the next 30 years.  He lives in a house so big it has an actual moat around it.  He just sold the house he left for millions.    The president of OU, who was also a Governor and US Senator has just presided over the most prosperous almost 3 decades in OU history--and not just in athletics, but he is in his late 70s and just had major heart surgery 6 months.  He is also concerned abut td about the future of OU and has said if they don't have a replacement when his contract expires at the end of June he will stay on until they do get a new president.  There is really no more to it than that.  Nothing lasts forever.  He does say that when Stoops told him that he was retiring and why it kind of kick started him into thinking that he should do something also.  That he had been seriously thinking about since last Spring or, as he put it "Time caught up with me."  As indeed it will with all of us.

Good post.  Some people always think they see something that no one else does.....even though nothing exists.    Stoops will never coach football again.   That is obvious.

[Hogtimes]

You know a name not many are really saying......why not try looking into Bob Stoops.....I just said in another thread, you know a few sources have come out of the wood work saying there's a bit more to the story than Stoops just wanting to retire. I think something came between him and the school and it was just so divisive he decided maybe it was time to leave. Who knows what it was? But I think there was more to it than just, "I'm worried a bit about my health."

Myer said the same thing when leaving Florida....now look where he's at......it's at least worth a look if we are going to look for a new coach......and you can't even try to say Stoops wasn't a good coach......

Name those sources that have come out of the woodwork.   There aren't any.   Stoops timed it perfectly.   He did it his way. That is all there is to it.

[DeltaBoy]

Bob lost his Mojo in that bowl game where Boise State beat them with a trick play.  He not been the same since.

[Inhogswetrust]

Bob is getting up there in years to start over. PLUS he retired due to health. Good for him that he is able to retire and still live comfortably. There is no reason for him to work again.

[Polecat]

lol

[Hogwild]

Bob is getting up there in years to start over. PLUS he retired due to health. Good for him that he is able to retire and still live comfortably. There is no reason for him to work again.

He is still working at OU, as assistant to the AD.  And he didn't retire because of health reasons.

In his written statement and at the Wednesday news conference, Stoops reiterated that there wasn't an immediate health concern forcing his retirement. On the Dan Patrick Show Friday morning, he repeated he wasn't retiring for serious health reasons.

"There is no smoking gun whatsoever," Stoops told Patrick. "Anyone who knows me knows that's the case. Nothing health-wise. Like everybody, I guess, at my age, you have your here-and-there health battles, but there isn't anything serious or imminent at all.

"No smoking gun anywhere. I guess, people have a hard time when someone just makes the decision to handle their life the way they want to and step away in a proper fashion and hand something off that's so good. But that really is just the way it is."

[Al Boarland]

There will be a lot of coaching turnover and I'm afraid we would be in the middle of the pack or worse if we are looking for a coach.



Also, we won't be looking for a new coach. Given th buyout and the above it won't happen.

[zebradynasty]

Bob would command a salary just below Saban and Myer if his agent is worth anything. We can't get over $15 mil for BB and then pay Bob that kind of money....move on he's what we need but him coming would be like hitting the lotto. If we were that lucky we wouldn't be in the shape we are in now!

[RME]

Bob lost his Mojo in that bowl game where Boise State beat them with a trick play.  He not been the same since.

Nevermind that he went to the BCS National Championship two years after losing that game, I guess.

[Porked Tongue]

Stoops departure from OU was a well orchestrated spin.

[Iwastherein1969]

Nevermind that he went to the BCS National Championship two years after losing that game, I guess.

that he did, but after USC beat the Sooners like a 3-legged rented mule in the Natty, at that point, he did lose his mojo. But the man could "croot" with the best of them. Would I like to have "Big Game Bob" as our coach at Arkansas despite him losing his mojo ?  Uh, "Hail to the Chief, Hail YES !"

[MuskogeeHogFan]

He is still working at OU, as assistant to the AD.  And he didn't retire because of health reasons.

Believe what you will. Not immediate health concerns, but family history of health concerns overall. He wanted to take time to enjoy life and watch his sons play their Sr. years in high school and spend more time with family without the obligations associated with producing a winning P-5 football program.

[Roaringboar]

Stoops departure from OU was a well orchestrated spin.

That's what I think.....I don't think he just retired....I think he'll be back soon, and again, much like Les Miles and Chip Kelly, I think Jeff Long is going to be stupid and hang on to Bilema instead of looking into one of these guys before it's too late.........

[Iwastherein1969]

Believe what you will. Not immediate health concerns, but family history of health concerns overall. He wanted to take time to enjoy life and watch his sons play their Sr. years in high school and spend more time with family without the obligations associated with producing a winning P-5 football program.

Are you really trying to say that Bob Stoops values his family over coaching the Hogs and working for a man who says he doesn't run a "win at all costs program" ?  No, say it ain't so.

[shotgun7]

why the hell would we want Les miles? And only 2 of those schools you mentioned will be hiring. Mizzou, which if you are afraid to compete with them, seek therapy, and A&M, who more than likely already has a deal with Chad Morris in place.

I never said I wanted Miles here, I don't don't think he would do any better. and not scared of compete with Mizzou, but my point is there is gonna be a turn of turnover in CFB this winter and do we really want to compete with everyone and end up with the middle of the pack coach.

[The Boar War]

He is still working at OU, as assistant to the AD.  And he didn't retire because of health reasons.

If he didn't have a health condition before becoming coach of the Razorbacks he would soon afterwards.

[Arky]

If he didn't have a health condition before becoming coach of the Razorbacks he would soon afterwards.

lolol