Bob Stoops became Oklahoma’s head football coach prior to the 1999 season and set sail on a remarkable 18-year run.
He accumulated a record of 190-48 and captured the 2000 National Championship & Big 12 titles - 8 more than any other school during his tenure.
His Sooners were 60-30 (0.677) against AP Top 25 opponents with 21 wins against top-10 foes and 11 victories.
Stoops was the only coach to win a National Championship and each of the BCS bowl games (Fiesta, Orange, Rose, Sugar). He completed that cycle when Oklahoma registered a 45-31 victory over NO. 3 Alabama in the 80th Allstate Sugar Bowl to cap the 2013 season.
Stoops picked up 19 Coach-of-the-Year honors including 8 on the National level.
OUs players were heavily decorated during Stoops’ years at OU. Two won the Heisman Trophy & a total of 7 were finalists for the award. 38 of Stoops’s players won National awards, 37 were first-team All-Americans and 83 were drafted into the NFL.
I tried lite and fun when we played for the championship in your back yard. Didn’t say one bad word about LSU- and got hit with a bat for my efforts. Y’all are wild! And I love it. Can’t wait to visit your campus this fall.
When will any of his handlers come forward and speak to whether he got the covid jab? Don’t ya think the entire humanitarian race deserves to know? I was surprised, he didn’t mention it….
Coach, I was thinking that the other day.... Toby's phone was probably always blowing up from everyone he knew and all the closet friends he had! Such a legacy, and such a loss for everyone.
My daughter and I had gone to the area of Toby's ranch, cause the pine needles were longer than the ones at the Lake (Overholser) and Brit was in the truck she see';s him and OMG MOM Stop using the Walmart sack !!!! He told her I shop at Walmart, doesn't bother me. He asked what I was doing with pine needles and I had a basket that I did and he liked that, to be creative. I told him I did medieval faires in Stroud. So that was a wonderful memory for me, even he got a laugh at Brit's expense when she sunk down in the seat after hollering it's Toby Keith, Mom. I said yeah, that's his ranch across the road, that nice spread. But I'll keep that memory forever.
I LOVE t he song" If I Were Jesus " I have every CD Toby put out. I live far west end of OKC, I'm OK Born, (Altus OK!!) OK Tough, I'm also 62, so having Toby pass at this age, always liked it that for 6 months, he was the same age as I was. My dad's birthday was Jan 13, mine 31st...mom's is Feb 16th (I miss my mom & dad = Dad had, Alzheimer's and he died after breaking his hip. His Identical twin brother also has it and has no idea who I am. Dad didn't know me neither but I knew he was dad and that's all that mattered to me. Mom.. I really believe it was due to a broken heart. It's been a yr today that I lost her too. I Miss our Coach, Mr. Stoops or Coach Stoops, I'm a BIG OU Football fan :D
Toby sang "MacARthur Park" about 6 or 7 years ago when Oklahoma song writer, Jimmie Webb was honored by Carnegie Hall. As the mother of a soldier, I will always remember and respect and admire how much Toby supported our military. What a wonderful man he waa!
I love hearing the stories from those that knew Toby. Thank you for sharing. To those that are Veterans...I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your service. I keep you all in my prayers❤️ I love what Toby did for our military. RIP TK
Saint Paul MN here, owned just one Toby album when in 2017 got a call, extra ticket For Toby playing at the Mn State Fair. Ran over quit and watched the greatest show in my life and I have attended well over 100. That showed turned me into a massive fan and I've thought about it often as it was that outstanding, what a performer. Crowd was on its feet almost the whole show and the place was packed. Can't thank you enough for this show as it confirmed all I assumed about this man. I do feel robbed as I had no doubt I would be seeing in concert again and soon. Ted Nugent said it best the other night when he stated "I have a hole in my heart and so does half America". It's been four days since I received that early morning text and I can't quit watching Toby's video's and interviews since. What a huge loss and thankfully the Legend's music lives on . Unexplainable that no celebrities passing has ever effected me this hard and I am missing him more with each new great song I discover.
Coach Bob Stoops, I've had the Pleasure of meeting you, and You are Class. I definitely Want Drake Stoops to Go to an NFL team I like ( Seattle or Denver, or Buffalo). Also, Thank You for signing my OU Helmet in Gold in 2009 in Norman. I've made 33 Home Oklahoma Sooners Games since 2002 from Granbury and Weatherford, Tx. As for TOBY KEITH, their will Never be Another TK, Original and 1 of A Kind as it gets. I've ate at Toby Keiths I ❤ this Bar and Grill in Bricktown 40 or 50 times, Garlic Mashed Potatoes are Best on Earth 🌎.. Much love and Blessings to All of the Stoops and Keith Families.
We were his “Boys in Afghanistan and Baghdad City.” He had millions of friends in camouflage!!!! Can we please get him buried with military honors? #21GunSalute
I first met Toby in 1994, when, prior to the County Fair, he did a signing at Borders. He was literally "Larger then Life!" He was a very kind, giving soul. A TRUE Gentle Man
I need to see the Stephen Colbert tribute. I wondered if he would do something because you could always tell they genuinely liked and respected each other even though they were on the complete opposite ends of the political spectrum.
Was Toby for sure on the opposite side? His dad was a Democrat and he was until a few years ago. I think he was more an independent. Regardless he was a good man.
