Post by Baph on Jun 8, 2017 12:27:07 GMT -5
Surprise retirement by Stoops just . . . 60-70 days out from kickoff . . . with a Heisman candidate senior QB and an 8th ranked team with playoff aspirations.
There has been some talk about Stoops bowing out gracefully, maybe after Baker's gone or maybe after year 20, just 2 years away. He's got two kids in HS here in Norman that will keep him in town for another year at least, so . . . would appear, at least to me, that his timetable for retirement may have been bumped up a year. These hyper competitive, hyper motivated, work-a-holic maniacs that coach D1 football don't just walk away like this.
Herman to Texas and a surge in UT recruiting? Some recent scandals wearing on him? A mass exodus of talent (Mixon, Peryne, Westbrook) and a looming @ Ohio St, @ KState, @ Baylor, neutral Texas, @ OKST . . . may be an opportune time to go out on top and hang this 3-4 loss season on the young understudy? I've heard rumors that Stoops has been unable to answer personnel/roster questions at donor meetings and is extremely "big picture" and doesn't actually know a lot of names, schemes, details regarding the team, and may be losing a step, mentally, after decades of 80 hour work weeks and travel and stress. Perhaps a planned retirement was moved up a year because the guy is just out to lunch half the time and Lincoln was running the day-to-day operations already? And as such, losing a guy like Lincoln was just an unacceptable risk to the future of the program. A guy like that gets an HC offer from USC or LSU and he's gone forever. Make the move now, lock up the next decade, stability ensured, Stoops goes out gracefully with a Sugar Bowl win as one of the most successful coaches in program, conference, and frankly all of college football history.
As a big fan of the rival team, my first thought . . . well, that's not true . . . my second thought was pure disappointment. It's deflating after building up a team for 3-4 years and finally peaking to go into a season with your primary objective, or certainly one of them, removed.
There has been some talk about Stoops bowing out gracefully, maybe after Baker's gone or maybe after year 20, just 2 years away. He's got two kids in HS here in Norman that will keep him in town for another year at least, so . . . would appear, at least to me, that his timetable for retirement may have been bumped up a year. These hyper competitive, hyper motivated, work-a-holic maniacs that coach D1 football don't just walk away like this.
Herman to Texas and a surge in UT recruiting? Some recent scandals wearing on him? A mass exodus of talent (Mixon, Peryne, Westbrook) and a looming @ Ohio St, @ KState, @ Baylor, neutral Texas, @ OKST . . . may be an opportune time to go out on top and hang this 3-4 loss season on the young understudy? I've heard rumors that Stoops has been unable to answer personnel/roster questions at donor meetings and is extremely "big picture" and doesn't actually know a lot of names, schemes, details regarding the team, and may be losing a step, mentally, after decades of 80 hour work weeks and travel and stress. Perhaps a planned retirement was moved up a year because the guy is just out to lunch half the time and Lincoln was running the day-to-day operations already? And as such, losing a guy like Lincoln was just an unacceptable risk to the future of the program. A guy like that gets an HC offer from USC or LSU and he's gone forever. Make the move now, lock up the next decade, stability ensured, Stoops goes out gracefully with a Sugar Bowl win as one of the most successful coaches in program, conference, and frankly all of college football history.
As a big fan of the rival team, my first thought . . . well, that's not true . . . my second thought was pure disappointment. It's deflating after building up a team for 3-4 years and finally peaking to go into a season with your primary objective, or certainly one of them, removed.