Bob Stoops lived the coaching life we all would like to live. He didn’t climb the head-coaching ladder; Stoops took over a blue-blood program at age 38, turned Oklahoma around and won a national championship at age 40. He kept the Sooners near the top for 15 more seasons, and now he’s a fixture on Fox’s Big Noon Kickoff.
Mark Stoops, the youngest of Bob’s five siblings, is living the coaching life that is closer to reality. In 2013, Mark took over at Kentucky, where the only blue-blood program plays in shorts for John Calipari. Stoops took over a program that had won four SEC games in the previous three seasons.