NORMAN – In November 1998, OU football was involved in its third head coaching change in 48 months. That is a plan designed to fail.
Even the removal of coaches clearly ill-suited for the job, like Howard Schnellenberger and John Blake, comes with side effects. An assembly line of coaches is not conducive to a quality program. Constant turnover leads to consistent mediocrity.
Sooner football needed to plug the flood. And Bob Stoops did just that.
Everyone could see quickly that OU had found its man. From when his first team started playing in 1999. From when he was introduced on Dec.