When he took off the headset at the conclusion of the Red and White game 371 days ago, Bob Stoops had no idea he'd just coached his final game on Owen Field.
Neither did the players on the turf with him nor did the 43,723 in the stands.
And yet, less than two months later, he turned the program over to Lincoln Riley, stepping down as OU's coach after 18 years tugging that headset over his signature visor.
A little more than a year after coaching his final game, Stoops and nearly 1,200 friends, family and former players gathered at the Bennett Events Center on the state fairgrounds to celebrate the man who still refuses to wax poetic about his legacy.