Bob Stoops comments on Nebraska head coaching position, whether he’d be interested
By Sydney Hunte
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Bob Stoops retired from Oklahoma in 2016 after 18 seasons, winning nearly 200 games and leading the Sooners to a national championship in 2000. He briefly returned in 2021 on an interim basis to lead the team in the Alamo Bowl after his successor, Lincoln Riley, departed for USC.
Stoops will be back on the sidelines in 2023, though, as he’ll lead the Dallas Renegades in the resurrected XFL, a team he coached in 2020 before the league’s shutdown in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. But Scott Frost’s recent firing at Nebraska have some wondering if the 62-year-old would be keen to a return to the college game.
According to Stoops, that’s not happening.
“That is not a job that I’m going to be interested in,” he said on his YouTube channel, according to 247Sports. “I think it’s a heck of a job, great job. They’ve got an incredible following. So, someone will be lucky, you know, to have that great job, but that won’t be me.”
While Bob Stoops may not be interested, younger brother Mark, who has led Kentucky to new heights on the gridiron, has been brought up as someone that is on Huskers AD Trev Alberts’ wish list. That won’t happen without Kentucky putting up a fight, though.
But who knows? Maybe Nebraska ends up with a Stoops after all when it’s all said and done.
Sydney is an Atlanta-based journalist who has covered everything from SEC and ACC football to MLS, the U.S. men's national soccer team and professional tennis. His work has appeared on such platforms as SB Nation, Cox Media Group and FanSided.
