ESPN.com · Dec 29, 2015
Bob Stoops keeps on ticking and Oklahoma keeps on winning
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — After Brent Venables resigned from Kansas State to join Bob Stoops at Oklahoma, Bill Snyder made one last-ditch attempt to keep his linebackers coach in Manhattan, using a carefully crafted question.
"How do you know," Snyder asked Venables, "that he’s gonna win, though?"
To Venables, the possibility Stoops wouldn't win never occurred.
"That didn't come anywhere in the equation," Venables recalled. "I'm like, 'That's just gonna happen. It's Bob Stoops.'"
Seventeen years later, now the longest-tenured head coach in college football, Stoops continues to win at Oklahoma.