Bob Stoops comments on potential return to college coaching
Three Power 5 college football head coaching jobs have already come open, and there are sure to be more as the 2019 regular-season winds down here in November.
When CFB jobs come open, you can’t blame the fans for wondering if they can possibly hire a proven winner. When FSU fired Willie Taggart, former Oklahoma Sooners head coach Bob Stoops was immediately brought up as a lead candidate. If you believe the message board and social media insiders, Stoops has been talking to the Seminoles.
Stoops stepped away from coaching college football ahead of the 2017 season. He’s set to return to coaching but as the head coach and GM of the revived XFL’s Dallas Renegades. With so much uncertainty surrounding the lifespan of the new XFL, no one would be surprised if Stoops decided to take a college football head coaching job instead.
On Wednesday, Stoops called into ESPN Central Texas for a radio interview. The discussion was mostly focused on Stoops’ upcoming season with the Renegades, the topic of Stoops potentially returning to college football did come up.
“Well you never know what the Lord is going to bring ya,” Stoops said. “Everybody wants you to define your life at every age. At 50, they wanted me to know what I was going to do the rest of my life. And at 55, and now at 59, everyone thinks you gotta…ya know, who knows what I’ll be doing next year or the year after. You don’t know what you’re going to be doing next year. And the good Lord is the only one who knows.
“We’ll see where things end up for me.”
For now, though, Stoops is saying the right things about coaching in the XFL.
“I’m excited about this adventure here with the Dallas Renegades and looking forward to some good, exciting football with them,” Stoops said.
With Stoops having won national championship rings at Florida (1996, defensive coordinator) and Oklahoma (2000, head coach), and showing an interest in coaching again, he’s sure to be linked to many prominent college football jobs.
So basically it sounds like if the right job was offered to him…he would take it…
Missouri better get him on the phone. I know the players like Odom but sorry players, liking somebody does not make him your best leader, teacher, or even example. Odom can probably will become one of the better coaches in College Football but he will be a little older when it happens and watching this team turn in poor performances when they had everything to gain is among the worst stretches of football coaching I’ve ever seen. Put his bowl game philosophy on top of this and it’s just time to send him to a California College where he can have a love fest at practice every day.
I’ll qualify that last comment by saying that if Odom can get tough and save this season: Get Walters upstairs where he can see. Get Dooley upstairs where he can see. Get both of their game time coaching decisions ahead of the too little too late, I’ll change my mind about this but Odom is just too soft and reverts to softness quickly after getting ahead of his opponents. So Odom really has to rethink why he goes all soft, slow, love-sick, and stuck in last week gear, together with not bring forward every thing that worked in the past. Are you kidding me, nobody can run an option play this year, ever? Nobody can beat anybody deep on the backside or frontside of the safety? etc. etc. etc.
Dude. Misery? That is not a “hot job” in the SEC.
You are so ignorant. Who would want to go to Mizzou? Y’all suck and always will. Where are your boosters? The same place your program is. No where. You’ve sucked way to much liberal stuff.
How long have you been watching college football? Do you really think Stoops will have interest in Missouri? My gosh
I’m thinking he may end up at Fsu…if they want to spend the money after the check they’ve got to sign for previous coach…that is if they don’t hire prime time…lol…or he could go to Usc…but I see Urban taking that job…that’s really the only two jobs that will be open this year that may interest him…
Stoops at FSU and Mullen at UF would make for mighty interesting Gator-Noley games!
USC will offer the job to Meyer—if he doesn’t take it, Stoops would be choice #2. For enough money, maybe $8-$10 million / year plus a boatload of benefits, he could be enticed to get back into coaching.
Why would he want to go to the University of Spoiled Children?
$$$, storied program, $$$, great weather, $$$ …
I say we fire muschamp now , get stoops as HC , hire Chad Morris as OC and offer Derek Mason a DC job if he gets canned