"Bob Shoop" is an American college football coach and former player. He currently serves as the defensive coordinator at Pennsylvania State University. Shoop served as the head football coach at Columbia University from 2003 to 2005, compiling a record of 7–23.

Shoop is a 1988 graduate of Yale University and both played and coached under Carmen Cozza. In his senior year, he was named to the All-Ivy League team. He later served as an assistant coach at Yale and as defensive coordinator. from 1994 to 1996. He was hired by Tom O'Brien (American football)/Tom O'Brien at Boston College in 1999.

In 2003, Shoop was hired by Columbia University with the hopes that he would turn around the struggling program. He was fired shortly after the end of the 2005 with a record of 7–23 in his three seasons with the team. His 2005 team went winless in the Ivy League and he never finished above 6th place.

From 2007 to 2010, Shoop served as the defensive coordinator at College of William & Mary/William & Mary. On January 31, 2011, he was named as the defensive coordinator for the Vanderbilt Commodores football/Vanderbilt Commodores, under new head coach James Franklin (American football coach)/James Franklin. He followed Franklin to Penn State under the same title for the beginning of the 2014 season.

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There's just kind of a confidence that was throughout pre-game and throughout the locker room before the game, and even at halftime, there was a confidence that I hadn't seen in our student athletes at Columbia since I've been here. I don't think there was ever a thought that we weren't going to win that game. There wasn't any panic, ever.

I thought we played really smart today. We looked like a real college football team, you know, the enthusiasm, the energy. ... There was a genuine enthusiasm, not fake enthusiasm out there. To me that was a really good football game.

We'll watch the film and we'll make decisions.

We were playing with an edge and confidence that I hadn't seen at Columbia.

They beat us in every facet of the game. Offense, defense and kicking.

It is like looking in a mirror. In my two years here I think this game has turned into a really nice rivalry. If you ask our players and coaches this is a team we like to compete against. I think they are two very similar teams.

I think that was the turning point of the game. From then on, I thought the defense had a lot of confidence.

We've played well, what we did Saturday was play winning football. We did the little things.

I said they're games and they're big games. I said to the team. 'This I'd say is the biggest game since I've been there...' I think now, we're getting to the point where this is a really big game.