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Woody (via iPhone) > On Nov 20, 2014, at 1:53 PM, mail.bobparks.com <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have one word for this suggestion. No. > Stoops never wanted the Florida job before, why now? > Besides, what has he done, really? Won a NC. Then what? His photo is next to > the definition for almost in Webster's dictionary. > > Oliver Barry, CRS, GRI, SFR > Real Estate Broker > Bob Parks, LLC > 145 Maple Row Blvd > Hendersonville TN 37075 > Mobile: 615-972-4239 > Office: 615-826-4040 > Sent from my iPhone > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Woody <[email protected]> >> Date: November 20, 2014 at 10:06:27 AM CST >> To: WXIA <[email protected]> >> Subject: [gatornews] Bianchi: It's finally time for Bob Stoops to coach >> Gators - Orlando Sentinel >> Reply-To: [email protected] >> >> >> http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/open-mike/os-gators-sooners-stoops-muschamp-20141119-post.html >> >> lRelated >> >> Several years ago, I wrote that Oklahoma football coach Bob Stoops would be >> crazy to take the University of Florida coaching job. >> >> Now, I'm writing he would be crazy not to. >> >> Memo to the man Steve Spurrier nicknamed "Stoopsy" when Spurrier was the >> Gators' head coach and Stoops was his defensive coordinator: You've done all >> you can do at Oklahoma. Now it's time to come save the program that gave you >> one of your biggest breaks in coaching. >> >> Florida Athletic Director Jeremy Foley, when he hired Will Muschamp four >> years ago, hoped that Muschamp would bcome the next Stoops -- a former >> defensive coordinator who became a rock star as a head coach. Not many >> people know that it was Foley who actually urged Spurrier to hire Stoops. >> >> It was back in 1996 when the Gators were looking for a defensive >> coordinator, and Foley went to Spurrier with a stat sheet that showed the >> most dominant defenses in the NCAA. At the top of the list was Kansas State, >> where Stoops was a co-defensive coordinator along with Jim Leavitt, who >> would go on to become the head coach at the University of South Florida. >> Foley suggested to Spurrier that maybe he should hire Stoops. >> >> The rest, of course, is collegiate coaching history. Stoops came to UF and >> took over a defense that had given up 62 points to Nebraska in the previous >> season's national title game. The very next season, with Stoops >> choreographhing the defense, the Gators won the national championship. >> Consequentely, Stoops became one of the hottest coaching commodities in the >> country and was hired by Oklahoma as its head coach two years later. >> >> That was 16 years ago -- 16 long years ago. >> >> Certainly, Stoops must know deep down that he's just not appreciated as he >> once was at Oklahoma, where fans have booed the team this season. Spurrier >> himself once said that spending 10 or 12 years at one program is enough and >> then you need to move on. One of the stated reasons Spurrier left Florida is >> because Gator fans had become so spoiled that they expected perfection every >> season. >> >> "Anytime we lose, it's us coaches; we screwed up," Spurrier said when he >> left UF. "... That sort of wears on you a little bit." >> >> Surely, Stoops is starting to feel the same way. He won his only national >> title at Oklahoma in 2000 when his defense bombarded and bumfuzzled Florida >> State in the championship game as the Sooners took a 13-2 victory. In the >> years that followed, Stoops -- "Big Game Bob" as he was once known -- was >> recognized as one of the top two or three college coaches in the country. >> >> But in recent seasons, his reputation has begun to fade. His teams have been >> good -- just not great -- and OU fans have started grumbling. >> >> I's time for Stoopsy to move on. >> >> Time for him to leave Oklahoma and come back to a place that his been >> dreaming of his return ever since Spurrier left all those years ago. >> >> Email me at [email protected]. Follow me on Twitter @BianchiWrites. And >> listen to my Open Mike radio show every Monday-Friday from 6-9 a.m. on 740 >> The Game. >> >> Copyright © 2014, Orlando Sentinel >> >> >> >> Woody (via iPhone) >> >> >> >> -- >> -- >> GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! >> 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions >> 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions >> 2008 National Football Champions | >> Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), >> Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "GatorNews" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- > -- > GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! > 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions > 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions > 2008 National Football Champions | > Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), > Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "GatorTalk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GatorTalk" group. 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