SIAP....Bob Stoops notable quotes on the Vols from his weekly presser

[owenfieldreams]

Silent snap count....absolutely. Another thing about our O.....the center, Ty Darlington, calls all the signals, not the QB.

It will be interesting to see how our young O-linemen handle the noise.They will be challenged to say the least.

 

[onlyut4me]

Venue may play a part when it's a lower division school coming in that may be a little intimidated already, but I don't think it really affects the big schools too much. Bob is pretty sensible and genuine. Hope he has a long miserable ride home from Knoxville.

Tell that to the cal players in '06. That entire team looked like deer in headlights.

 

[LVvol]

owenfielddreams...Nice post on the history of Coach Stoops. Thank you for taking the time to put it together.

 

[Sooner Nation]

I'm not being chippy, but it's laughable to compare us to Cal and say the intimidation will be the same for my Sooners. The OU players look forward to great games like this. I definitely think the crowd will be a factor. Your fans and team have been pointing to this game for a year and rightfully so. If I was a Vols fan I'd go nuts and yell my ass off the whole game. The crowd noise should be good for a few penalties, as well as a couple wasted time outs with the play clock winding down. OU seems to get circled on everyone's calendar and they know that. They will be ready to play and I expect both teams to bring it! It should be a great game and I think it will be very close to the end. I hope the injuries are minimal and ya'll do great the rest of the year. BOOMER!

 

[Biopsyman]

Ok was better when they ran drugs and guns from the football dorm

 

[Ol Mother Hubbard]

Bob is highly thought of and respected by the Sooner fandom, notwithstanding his prickly demeanor. He runs a very clean program and he is a players coach. His assistants love him for the family atmosphere he creates.

Radio personality Chuck Oliver, broadcasting out of Atlanta, recently had a blistering take on Bob Stoops. Oliver spoke of how Stoops took part in a silent protest of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity after the well documented racist video came to light. Oliver offered the question, "why would he take part in a protest of racism against black men and not a protest of domestic violence against women (obviously referencing Joe Mixon)"?

Oliver's take is that Stoops needs young black men to keep his job, he does not need women who get beat up. It is Oliver's opinion that Bob Stoops will pick and choose the causes he chooses to back, with the main concern of, "does this help my football team"?

I have nothing but respect for what OU has done on the football field. They are undoubtedly a top 5 program in the nation. I also respect Bob Stoops as an X's & O's man and a motivator. I lost a lot of respect for him as a man, especially as one who should be a leader of young men, when he made his decision on Mixon.

I was so proud of CBJ when he refused to allow Paulk back on to UT. Sure, Mixon is on a different level athletically than Paulk, but I'd like to think he'd make the same decision.

I'm not judging either of these fellas. I make 3-4 mistakes before I roll out of bed in the morning and my Lord says that no sin is greater than the other. Lost respect is not judging, it's just a byproduct of sin. We all pay the consequences of our mistakes. Burns me up to see Mixon skate free.

 

[owenfieldreams]

We have a very different view of Stoops in the manner by which he handles player dicipline. Stoops kicked our starting QB off the team in fall camp a few years ago. He has run several off in his tenure at OU. The difference in his approach is that he thinks of himself as a teacher and mentor and when a kid makes a mistake....see Ryan Broyles or Dusty Dvorchek as examples, he will disipline them but give them the chance to redeem themselves. This was his approach Dorial Green Beckham and with Mixon. As it pertains to the Mixon incident, it is a rare 18 year old who can restrain himself when being spat upon and called the N word. Mixon sat out an entire year and his deportment as been exemplary.There is a reason why when polled the coaches in division one (FCS?) voted Stoops the coach they would most want their son to play for.

 

[Volosaurus rex]

Stoops has a history of being short and almost insulting to/with local media. . . . His comments about Neyland are not necessarily reflective of his opinion about what OU faces this coming Saturday but more about the ridiculous line of questioning he gets when he has to face the media.

This is classic Stoops. If you could see some of his halftime on-the-field interviews as he heads to the locker room you would get a better feel for what I am talking about. He thinks the interviewer is wasting his time and the questions are incredibly stupid.

I watched Butch Jones' Monday press conference and the two are night and day from each other. Jones gives detailed answers to the questions, almost too much information; but much more accommodating and respectful. It is well known to OU fans that Stoops has sort of a running feud with certain local reporters who cover the OU football beat, most notably, John Hoover from the Tulsa World.

I believe that bold-fonted comments reflect the true mind set of every college football head coach in America, if only you could get them to truly speak from the cuff. I am sure that every single one of them is sick to death of bubble-brained sideline reporters asking them, "how did you feel when . . . ?" It is particularly annoying to interrupt them when they are on the way to the locker room at halftime.

As for running feuds with local media, I personally wish that Butch would launch a nuclear salvo across the proverbial bow of John Adams, sports editor of the Knoxville News Sentinel. You may not be able to win a war with the media, but it sometimes would be refreshing to let them know in no uncertain terms just how little you think of them, personally and professionally.

 

[jimallvol]

Stoops has a history of being short and almost insulting to/with local media. He simply doesn't respect them and even when it comes to more regional or national coverage, he picks and chooses who he favors in an interview process.

In his mind, stadium noise, regardless of where the team is playing, is irrelevant. His comments about Neyland are not necessarily reflective of his opinion about what OU faces this coming Saturday but more about the ridiculous line of questioning he gets when he has to face the media.

This is classic Stoops. If you could see some of his halftime on-the-field interviews as he heads to the locker room you would get a better feel for what I am talking about. He thinks the interviewer is wasting his time and the questions are incredibly stupid. His demeanor with the press is a running joke in Oklahoma.

I watched Butch Jones' Monday press conference and the two are night and day from each other. Jones gives detailed answers to the questions, almost too much information; but much more accommodating and respectful. It is well known to OU fans that Stoops has sort of a running feud with certain local reporters who cover the OU football beat, most notably, John Hoover from the Tulsa World.

Bob is highly thought of and respected by the Sooner fandom, notwithstanding his prickly demeanor. He is the winningest coach in OU history and that's saying something. The program is the only one in college football with 4 coaches with over 100 wins each in their careers as HC in Norman. He's won 9 conference championships and one NC and has competed in 4 NC games. He's won all the BCS bowls and has a winning record vs Texas, Nebraska, Florida State, Alabama, & Oregon to name a few. He runs a very clean program and he is a players coach. His assistants love him for the family atmosphere he creates. With all this the fans pretty much cut him slack when it comes to his testiness.

Personally, I think he's the best HC OU has ever had because the times in which he has coached are so much more complicated then when Wilkinson or Switzer were in charge.......from recruiting to scholly limits to the demands today's players put on a program, Bob has done an outstanding job.

Some worry that he has finally run the string out. History pretty much validates that he is at a point in his career when both Wilkinson and Switzer started to lose it. But, he is much younger than they were at this juncture and his recent hip replacement surgery seems to have put him in a much better frame of mind. I expect him to leave OU on his own terms. He has been too good a HC and the way he turned the program around after the miserable 90's was nothing short of miraculous.

I defiantly agree with you on Stoops being the best HC at OU. I know the Bob is not the best at interviews, but he's nowhere near as bad as Bo Pelini. I was watching a Nebraska game a couple of years back, and one of the guys for ESPN was asking him a few questions on his way to the locker room, and Bo looked at him and said " are you kidding, that's the stupidest question I've ever heard". I remember thinking what a ******* Bo is. Lol

 

[tnraider1]

OFD (sooner), do you guys ever use silent snap counts?

We've gone predominately silent in the past, but I'm not sure if our young line has been prepped for that. I hope so, because we are going to need it. The plays are sent to the players with signs the coaches hold up, so that will help with some of the confusion due to noise.