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OU football: Drake Stoops not the first son of a famous coach

NORMAN — Two catches for 16 yards. An impressive feat for a walk-on receiver making his college debut. Though a more immense achievement for Drake Stoops, and perhaps an impossible one, will be establishing his own name without being mentioned in the context of his father's.

After all, it's still strange to hear the name and not think of the coach.

Deep and drawn-out chants of Stooops reverberated throughout Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium last weekend, just 15 months after Bob Stoops ceded the job he held since the turn of the century to Lincoln Riley.

But this time they were cheering for one of Bob and Carol's twin boys.