This year’s team was supposed to be the best in school history and has limped to the finish line 7–5. The concern is that Campbell hasn’t hit any of the highest notes-when the expectations have been at their greatest, the performance has not followed.
He’s racked up five straight winning seasons, something last accomplished by the Cyclones in the 1920s. The Iowa State coach has done well with far fewer advantages in the same conference with the Sooners. He has Kentucky scraping pretty close to its ceiling this might be a good time and place to relocate with Bob there to help make the transition work. Or Bob could recommend his little brother, who has arguably been Kentucky’s most successful coach since Bear Bryant. Stoops is 61 years old he could turn in a fairly substantial second act in that position if he so chooses. Once and future Sooner savior? Stoops will coach Oklahoma in its bowl game, and it’s not difficult to foresee a scenario in which he jumps back in full-time after that endeavor. Three names make obvious sense in Norman:īob Stoops (5).
After this reality check, the school heads into its first coach search this century, since Riley was Stoops’s hand-picked, in-house successor. In a conversation with Sports Illustrated last week about the LSU vacancy, an Oklahoma source took umbrage at the idea that Riley would have the wandering eye, pointing to the repeated inaccurate reports that Stoops was headed elsewhere during his long tenure.
#The notorious b.i.g. mo money mo problems free
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Mo’ money, mo’ problems could be a reality for the notorious Big 12 turncoats. If Oklahoma slips are losing Riley and Texas doesn’t regain its footing, it would be a powerful dose of humility for the two schools that launched the latest realignment spasm. Mike Bohn is on the verge of the administrative coup that his two most recent athletic director predecessors at USC could never have pulled off. Riley looked like the best option in September, then everything went subterranean for months. The Trojans were the first to fire, and they clearly used that time to put everything in place to land the biggest catchable fish. Thus USC has won the 2021 coaching carousel-for now. He’s a man with options, and he’s prepared to exercise them. He doesn’t need to butt heads with Alabama and Georgia and LSU and Texas A&M and Florida and Auburn. Unless the Longhorns can dramatically change its trajectory, they will be one of the worst three or four teams in the SEC upon entry.) (Texas is on an even more nonsensical path. They may also get their royal asses kicked there, but hey-they can afford to build more stuff and hire more analysts, right? Isn’t that what fans want: the shiniest buildings and biggest staffs, instead of winning more games? No matter what he might say, Riley’s departure and Oklahoma’s realignment gambit probably are not coincidental occurrences.Ĭollege football has upped its considerable greed to new levels, to the point that Texas (3) and Oklahoma (4) are departing a conference that has bent to their whims for decades so they can make more money in the SEC. So is his university, which is leaving a Big 12 Conference it has dominated for the meat grinder of the SEC.