Stoops Speaks
All the rumors of Bob Stoops coming to ND just took a huge hit:
Notre Dame needs a football coach. There is a popular Internet-driven opinion the Irish are going to find one in Norman, Oklahoma. There is just one problem, however.
Bob Stoops isn’t leaving the job he already has.
“I fully intend to be at Oklahoma for a long while,” he declared Monday afternoon.
The Internet- and Chicago-based reports he was interested in Notre Dame?
“I can’t help what’s said,” Stoops replied. “But I couldn’t be more excited and pleased with what we’re doing here and what the future holds…
“I intend to be at Oklahoma. I will never confirm or deny things I talk to with anybody. And I won’t be interviewing for any jobs.”
Stoops just completed the toughest of his 11 seasons at OU. The injury-riddled Sooners went 7-5, prompting some to consider that Stoops had run his course in Norman, and that, being a Catholic with midwestern roots, he would be a natural replacement for Charlie Weis, the coach Notre Dame fired Monday.