Bob Stoops did it his way, and he’s going out the same way

It’s been 24 hours since the Bob Stoops bombshell was dropped on Norman, Okla., and spread like an enormous backdraft throughout the college football universe, and the after effects are still both shocking and sentimental.

Former college and NFL coach Steve Spurrier may have put it the best, when he described the announcement of his friend and former assistant’s retirement as “a surprise, but not a complete shock.”

Eighteen years as a college football head coach at the same institution is extremely rare, particularly in this day and age when there is so much pressure on head coaches to win. With the exception of Bill Snyder at Kansas State, who has coached the Wildcats in two separate stints…