Bob Stoops
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"Robert Anthony "Bob" Stoops" is the head coach of the Oklahoma Sooners football/Oklahoma Sooners football team of the University of Oklahoma. During the 2000 season, Stoops led the Sooners to an Orange Bowl (game)/Orange Bowl victory and a NCAA Division I-A national football championship/national championship.

Prior to coaching at Oklahoma, Stoops held various coordinator and position-coach positions at University of Iowa/Iowa, Kansas State University/Kansas State and University of Florida/Florida. In 2000, Stoops led his team to three consecutive wins over ranked teams including 2000 Texas Longhorns football team/Texas, 2000 Kansas State Wildcats football team/Kansas State and 2000 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team/Nebraska. Stoops was awarded the 2000 Paul "Bear" Bryant Award and the 2000 and 2003 Walter Camp Coach of the Year.

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That surprised me, ... I thought they both would have reacted better and played better. There were some opportunities there, but we just couldn't quite get it right.

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You're not going to win when you turn the ball over and put the ball on the ground like we did.

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Until we can be responsible with the ball, it's impossible to win.

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He's got another year after this one to contribute and play. He's an excellent athlete who works hard. We just want to give him more opportunities to get on the field. I think he will give us more production.

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They outplayed us and outcoached us in most all areas, ... I felt we would be stronger and have a little more attitude than this. I told the players that just because you've done it before doesn't mean you're going to do it again. They may have tuned me out.

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I felt like Rhett started to get some rhythm and confidence in what he was doing, ... Our receivers made some nice plays, and that part of it, I feel like we're getting somewhere.

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I think they're great. I don't know if that's a surprise to anybody.

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I think we're still better than the way we played.

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I just felt overall that there was a little more, maybe, consistency there to some degree, ... but it's still very close when you look at them overall.

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