OU hired Bob Stoops 20 years and six months ago. Pretty good hire, all things considered. So good, ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg ranks it as the fourth-best college football coaching hire of the last quarter century.
Hard to argue with the top two: Alabama’s Nick Saban and Clemson’s Dabo Swinney. Give Bama credit, but Saban was a proven commodity. Give Clemson even more credit; Swinney was not at all a known commodity. In fact, several years ago, before a Clemson-Bama national title game, I wrote about Clemson’s hire of Swinney, which came courtesy of former OSU athletic director Terry Don Phillips.