Bob Stoops
Robert Anthony Stoops (born September 9, 1960) is an
American football coach who is the head coach for the
Arlington Renegades of the
United Football League (UFL). He was the head football coach at the
University of Oklahoma from 1999 through the 2016 season, and on an interim basis during the
2021 Alamo Bowl. He led the
Oklahoma Sooners to a record of 191–48 over his career. His
2000 Oklahoma Sooners football team won the
2001 Orange Bowl, which served as the
BCS National Championship Game, and earned a consensus
national championship. Since 2020, Stoops has been a head coach with the
XFL, coaching the Renegades in
2020 and has been re-signed for
2023. Stoops' Renegades won the XFL Championship in
2023.
Stoops played
college football at the
University of Iowa as a
defensive back from 1979 to 1982. Prior to his tenure at Oklahoma, he held various assistant coaching positions at the University of Iowa,
Kent State University,
Kansas State University, and the
University of Florida. Stoops was awarded the
Paul "Bear" Bryant Award in 2000 and the
Walter Camp Coach of the Year Award in both 2000 and 2003. Stoops has been nicknamed "Big Game Bob" by both supporters and detractors.
Stoops was inducted into the
College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 2021.
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