Are You Ready for Some OU Foots-ball?

[Tanis143]

Time for a crew cut instead of a mullet?

Or just a cut period. I know Gundy made OSU competitive for a few years, but sticking with him means OSU is ok with mediocrity. Stoops lasted as long as he did simply because he got one natty and several conference championships plus 3 other title game appearances. If OSU wants to be on the national radar and get those good recruits they need to think about a coaching change.

 

[Pstmstr]

As an OSU fan I think it’s time for Gundy to move on, mullet or no mullet.


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[bigred1]

Bob Stoops had a record of 190/48. Yeah, he was pretty lucky lasting as long as he did.

 

[TeleStratMan]

Bob Stoops was a much better coach than a lot of people in Oklahoma gave him credit for. He was actually a great college football coach and learned from one of the SEC greats in Steve Spurrier at Florida.
His major sin was getting rid of Brent Venables to make room for his brother Mike. No one is perfect in coaching or life in general.

"A life long BAMA Fan."
After last Saturday's Iron Bowl it looks like Nick Saban may have lost some of his mojo.


"Big Game Bob"

Coaching Record

Year School G W L T Pct SRS SOS AP Pre AP High AP Post Bowl Notes
1999 Oklahoma 12 7 5 0 .583 10.14 0.64 23 Independence Bowl-L
2000 Oklahoma 13 13 0 0 1.000 21.56 5.32 19 1 1 Orange Bowl-W
2001 Oklahoma 13 11 2 0 .846 15.39 2.16 3 2 6 Cotton Bowl-W
2002 Oklahoma 14 12 2 0 .857 19.02 4.31 2 1 5 Rose Bowl-W
2003 Oklahoma 14 12 2 0 .857 20.27 4.06 1 1 3 Sugar Bowl-L
2004 Oklahoma 13 12 1 0 .923 21.23 6.85 2 2 3 Orange Bowl-L
2005 Oklahoma 12 8 4 0 .667 11.24 6.99 7 7 22 Holiday Bowl-W
2006 Oklahoma 14 11 3 0 .786 12.75 2.83 10 7 11 Fiesta Bowl-L
2007 Oklahoma 14 11 3 0 .786 15.87 2.87 8 3 8 Fiesta Bowl-L
2008 Oklahoma 14 12 2 0 .857 24.79 6.72 4 1 5 BCS Championship-L
2009 Oklahoma 13 8 5 0 .615 13.21 4.82 3 3 Sun Bowl-W
2010 Oklahoma 14 12 2 0 .857 17.11 5.40 7 3 6 Fiesta Bowl-W
2011 Oklahoma 13 10 3 0 .769 19.75 7.82 1 1 16 Insight Bowl-W
2012 Oklahoma 13 10 3 0 .769 14.32 6.17 4 4 15 Cotton Bowl-L
2013 Oklahoma 13 11 2 0 .846 13.19 4.12 16 6 6 Sugar Bowl-W
2014 Oklahoma 13 8 5 0 .615 10.21 3.90 4 4 Russell Athletic Bowl-L
2015 Oklahoma 13 11 2 0 .846 17.84 4.38 19 3 5 Orange Bowl-L
2016 Oklahoma 13 11 2 0 .846 14.98 3.60 3 3 5 Sugar Bowl-W
18 Yrs Oklahoma 238 190 48 0 .798 16.27 4.61

 

[Tanis143]

Oh I won't argue Bob wasn't a good coach, but he did favor his coordinators even when they didn't perform. I agree he never should have brought Mike back and instead focused on D recruiting along with better position coaches. After watching OU decline in the 90's I would still take Bob as a coach and at least have winning seasons. But you know Stoops was under the gun the last few years for not getting back to the natty or winning one.

 

[Aries]

Venables wasn't nearly as successful at OU as he has been since, for whatever reason, and a lot of people wanted to see him gone (not necessarily replaced by Mike though). Weekly "Fire Venables" threads on the OU message boards.

 

[Tanis143]

Venables wasn't nearly as successful at OU as he has been since, for whatever reason, and a lot of people wanted to see him gone (not necessarily replaced by Mike though). Weekly "Fire Venables" threads on the OU message boards.

His defensive schemes were sound, just poorly executed by the players. Players were constantly out of position, poor open field tackles, etc.

 

[Snattlerake]

Bob... is available.

 

[Aries]

Bob... is available.

Nope, he's coaching an XFL team in the spring.

https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/25946033/bob-stoops-returns-coaching-dallas-relaunched-xfl

 

[Aries]

His defensive schemes were sound, just poorly executed by the players. Players were constantly out of position, poor open field tackles, etc.

All of those deficiencies are poor coaching, if they aren't corrected. If Venables gets no blame for players out of position and can't tackle, why does Grinch get credit if they get better?

I'm not saying Venables was a bad coach, I'm sure he didn't suddenly learn to coach when he went to Clemson. I'm just saying that if letting him leave was a mistake on Bob's part, there were tons of Sooner fans who agreed with it at the time. For whatever reason, it wasn't working here.