... the sweltering heat of Arizona in 2004. The move to the desert allowed for the sun to shine on Mike and purged him of the shadow cast by older brother, Bob Stoops, head coach at the University of Oklahoma.

Bob Stoops has had the most head coaching success to date at Oklahoma, cruising to a 117-29 record since 1999. He’s also won six Big XII championships, appeared in the National Championship game four times, and succeeded in winning a National Championship, with Mike Stoops as his defensive coordinator, in 2000.

Bob Stoops was the beneficiary of solid recruiting at Oklahoma when he took over in 1999. He was able to build on a team that already had J.T Thatcher, Josh Norman, Roy Williams, and Rocky Calmus. The states of Oklahoma ...

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