Bob Stoops. "Know excuses."
A whine fest from the coach formerly known as a no nonsense, no excuse man's man. Courtesy of the Tulsa World News.
Keep in mind that after half a dozen disappointing bowl losses including a 55-10 national championship pantsing by USC and a loss to a full TD underdog LSU, Stoops is reduced to whining about the media not mentioning well, uh, excuses for his last two bowl losses. Evidently Demarco Murray's absence or the absence of five starters in the bowl loss vs. West Virginia should have been shouted from the rooftops by media outlets everywhere. Or as Bob Stoops would say, the media needs to throw him and his excuse laden team a bone. It wasn't enough that his team continually gets boned between the white lines in games vs teams with any semblance of a defense.
Of course what Stoops conveniently leaves out is the abject bullshit lottery of events that allowed his team to get to the conference and national championships to begin with. A sixty yard field goal in the snow from a Nebraska kicker, a computer pollster that doesn't punish teams for scheduling division I-aa opponents, among a confluence of other impractical and improbable events ranging from incomprehensible to nefarious if you closely follow historical performances of teams like Cincinnati and voting habits of Big 12 coaches.
Yes, Bob, we know Demarco Murray ruptured a hammy. Certainly a rare occurrence for a running back trained by a steroid freak. Almost as rare as winning a tie breaker against an opponent that dominated you on a neutral field by double digits.
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“I’m not going to use DeMarco’s injury as an excuse,” Stoops said. “But there is no denying that he was a major factor for our team. Everyone knew that all year, and they were writing about it.”
Hmmmm.
by Sailor Ripley on May 25, 2009 2:23 PM CDT reply actions
Bob Stoops has turned into Mack Brown circa 2001.
Awesome.
by Newy25 on May 25, 2009 3:08 PM CDT reply actions
He needs to polish up his Big Book of Excuses for this year, when he’ll end up 1-4 vs Mack out of the last 5. (I’m sure it’ll be a speech about how he once won 5 in a row, so the streaks balance out, blah blah blah.)
by BEHorn on May 25, 2009 3:13 PM CDT reply actions
Of course what Stoops conveniently leaves out is the abject bullshit lottery of events that allowed his team to get to the conference and national championships to begin with. A sixty yard field goal in the snow from a Nebraska kicker, a computer pollster that doesn’t punish teams for scheduling division I-aa opponents, among a confluence of other impractical and improbable events ranging from incomprehensible to nefarious if you closely follow historical performances of teams like Cincinnati and voting habits of Big 12 coaches.
You must have typed “lost to Tech” in an invisible font.
by ponderos on May 25, 2009 3:39 PM CDT reply actions
“A sixty yard field goal in the snow from a Nebraska kicker . . .”
57 yards and only overcast (I think the snow flurries were for Ryan Bailey’s 2006 kick in Lincoln.)
I’ll spot you the three yards and the snow, though, as long as we remember that NU was favored by 18 that day, and trailed in part because Pelini handed CU several easy scores. It was a great kick, but that result was supposed to happen.
by Parlin Hall on May 25, 2009 4:15 PM CDT reply actions
I watched the West Virginia Fiesta Bowl just the other day for the first time. It was jaw dropping just how unprepared Stoops’ team was. It wasn’t a case of WV playing over their heads for an interim coach; OU clearly was going through the motions, particularly in the first half. It seems to me Stoops should have caught a lot more shit for that particular game than he did.
by R Fourie on May 25, 2009 4:54 PM CDT reply actions
Hey, Trips.
You guys been able to pry Blake Gideon’s hands off his his own throat yet?
And what was that score of the Tech game, anyway?
by Fecal McBee on May 25, 2009 5:17 PM CDT reply actions
Hey fecal what was the score of the Texas ou game again?
Tell me when you lose to us again this year will that murder your soul? Or are you so used to it by now that you’re numb to it all?
by Flamingmonkeyass on May 25, 2009 5:23 PM CDT reply actions
So is yakking up a game in the clutch, eh?
Rent a plane, Trips.
by Fecal McBee on May 25, 2009 5:25 PM CDT reply actions
Good question, ass.
No, it won’t murder my soul.
Even if we do lose in October, you’ll choke down the stretch because your coach and your players are pillow soft.
We’ll win out, win the conference and go play in a BCS game again.
And you won’t.
It’s what happens when your program is pussified.
by Fecal McBee on May 25, 2009 5:28 PM CDT reply actions
“Yakking up a game in the clutch”? I can only only assume you’re talking about No Game Bob. We win our bowl games. We win in Dallas too.
by Flamingmonkeyass on May 25, 2009 5:29 PM CDT reply actions
Which team is pillow soft?
Here’s the game in a microcosm if you have ADD.
But Ryan Reynolds was hurt, right?
by Trips Right on May 25, 2009 5:48 PM CDT reply actions
Nerve’s still exposed, eh?
Can’t say as I blame you. It must be really painful to choke in your chance to reach the natty title game, and then make a fool of yourselves and your program whining like titty babies for weeks and weeks after.
Good luck in October. You’re going to need it.
by Fecal McBee on May 25, 2009 5:52 PM CDT reply actions
“When we lose in October we’ll embarass the conference again and go lose in a BCS game…again.
FIFY
So if we’re pillow soft and a pussified program and we’re kicking the dog shit out of you, what’s that make ou? Rosie O’Donnel’s vagina?
by Flamingmonkeyass on May 25, 2009 5:54 PM CDT reply actions
Bob Stoops=6 conference titles.
Old Yeller’ Teeth=One conference title and one bill to rent a Cessna.
Seems like it makes sense to Ahmad Dixon. Can’t see why it can’t get through to you fellows.
by Fecal McBee on May 25, 2009 5:56 PM CDT reply actions
Let’s see we go and when our BCS game in dramatic fashion. Again.
You lose your fifth BCS game in a row. Yeah we’re the ones making a fool out of ourselves.
And speaking of touching nerves, why exactly are you on a Texas blog again?
by Flamingmonkeyass on May 25, 2009 5:58 PM CDT reply actions
Excuse me “win”. Being a Longhorn I should obviously know better.
by Flamingmonkeyass on May 25, 2009 6:00 PM CDT reply actions
Nice first sentence. You must be James Hale.
You know, I bet we would have won a BCS game if we’d choked a game away in November and gotten matched up with Sweatervest Tressel and his flying wedge offense. But it’s just a theory.
by Fecal McBee on May 25, 2009 6:00 PM CDT reply actions
Little bobbie is also 1 and 3 against Mack in his last 4. Does that burn like your pee?
by Flamingmonkeyass on May 25, 2009 6:05 PM CDT reply actions
Yeah and if the coaches had sent the better football team to the NC game the sooners wouldn’t have had to get their asses handed to them in Jan. again. And Texas would be celebrating it’s second national title in 5 years.
Has stoopsie checked with Vick yet to see if there’s any potential ou recruits he met while serving out his sentence?
by Flamingmonkeyass on May 25, 2009 6:13 PM CDT reply actions
This is what happens when the kids don’t have to go to school.
“Good luck in October. You’re going to need it.”
Nope, we didn’t hear that one last year.
by Captain Call on May 25, 2009 6:18 PM CDT reply actions
The biggest joke in college sports is how Stoops is “tough” and “no excuses”.
by RansomStoddard on May 25, 2009 7:27 PM CDT reply actions
Man, watching paidoff, overrated ou “student athletes” get their clocks cleaned just never gets old does it?
by RansomStoddard on May 25, 2009 7:28 PM CDT reply actions
Big-12 bowl season played out quite nicely didn’t it?
by thirtyand0 on May 25, 2009 7:36 PM CDT reply actions
Bob Stoops doesn’t make excuses for his players; he makes excuses for himself…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48890-2005Jan5.html
Quoted- "Oklahoma Coach Bob Stoops, generally generous to his players after the game, let Bradley have it for the mistake.
“I have no idea why Mark would have done that,” he said. “Of course, I was shocked like everybody in the stadium. How do you explain that? I don’t know. That goes back to Pop Warner football. . . . That’s as bad as any play there is.”
by TaylorTRoom on May 25, 2009 7:54 PM CDT reply actions
Fecal McBee ou need all the luck with that weak ass oline
by big t on May 25, 2009 8:05 PM CDT reply actions
Wow, there’s a lot of ignorant crap on both sides being spewed.
TaylorT, Mark Bradley grabbed for a loose punt whilst surrounded by about 5 USC Trojans. He got about 1 finger on the ball before USC picked it up. Your example just makes you look like another dumbass who is neck deep in burnt orange kool-aid. Taylor, for you that is truly rare.
Ransom, good to see you’re still not contributing anything of value. Make sure you get both of your testicles beneath the x-ray machine and hold still for about a minute.
by NateHeupel on May 25, 2009 8:40 PM CDT reply actions
“It’s what happens when your program is pussified.
Feces McBee, you are about as entertaining as reading the aggy board. We’ve kicked your ass 3 of the last 4. You’re like the little guy in Monty Python who had his arms cut off, blood squirting everywhere and said “you only nicked me”. Well, you’re really entertaining. Give us some more of your macho, Okie bullshit!
by Horn7 on May 25, 2009 8:55 PM CDT reply actions
flamingmonkeyass, UT had to struggle with Ohio State, and you think UT would’ve beaten Florida? Wow. UT still doesn’t have a competent running back, and Florida was more than fast enough to kill UT’s only truly effective play: the 7 yard slant to Shipley/Cosby.
Fecal, and anyone else calling UT “soft”: They have scoreboard. THEY. HAVE. SCOREBOARD. If they’re soft, then we’re Egyptian cotton. Stow it.
And, Trips, saving the worst for last. A “whine fest”? I’d ask if you were mentally challenged, but you’ve just got the orange kool aid bleeding through you. You probably look like a middle age Plano housewife fresh out of a Mystic Tan right about now.
809 words. 150 from Stoops including this gem:
“It’s fairly simple. We didn’t quite execute well enough. End of story.”
What a whining pussy.
by NateHeupel on May 25, 2009 8:59 PM CDT reply actions
Nate, any excuses in a BCS showdown lost by 40 points are ridiculous.
Texas has to make no apologies for beating a Buckeye team loaded with NFL prospects trying to break a BCS losing streak (sound familiar?). Given that the Utah win the day before snapped the last thread of hope for a split MNC, Texas still came out and played well. No apologies for a win.
OU, meanwhile, managed to score 14 against a good, but not legendary, Florida defense. OU didn’t show up.
by TaylorTRoom on May 25, 2009 9:14 PM CDT reply actions
Just for the record…
The Citadel scored 19 on Florida last year.
Just sayin…
by Captain Call on May 25, 2009 9:58 PM CDT reply actions
Texas beat a talented Ohio State team, despite having a broken spirit by not getting the NC birth they deserved. Despite playing in a game I doubt many if any of the players wanted to be in, they still found a way to come out on top. Do I think a team that has that kind of heart, a team that beat your sooners by double digits in Dallas, a team who’s defense was only getting better and better could beat a Florida team that frankly looked rather pediastrian at times against ou? Hell yes I think they could. Would they have? I have no idea but I would have loved to have found out.
by flamingmonkeyass on May 25, 2009 10:03 PM CDT reply actions
What an outstanding board of cunning linguists you guys are. Yeah, you guys are loaded. Your defensive line is a joke – as long as none of them bring semi-automatic weapons to the game.
Speaking of felons, please check over at Windmills where they’re having trouble sorting through all your felons to put up a “Texas garbage team.”
And don’t feed Blake Gideon any chicken …
Now, who’s your next recruit to ditch you for Koresh Tech?
by Fecal McBee on May 25, 2009 10:18 PM CDT reply actions
Newy nailed it.
The Ole Small Coach has officially turned into Mack Brown circa 2000-2003. And it is a fucking thing of beauty to watch. I used to hate that attitude with a passion. It must kill any objective Sooner to know that whenever they get kicked in the teeth, Small Game justs takes his ball and goes home. No fight, no heart. I fucking love it.
by Bartoncreek on May 25, 2009 10:25 PM CDT reply actions
Fecal McBee got his feelings hurt, didn’t he? McBee, I take it that you agree with Stoops’ excuses?
by TaylorTRoom on May 25, 2009 10:34 PM CDT reply actions
T@W is running a copycat article? Stunning.
You run along and read that now, Fecal. That will make two of you who read it.
We’ll let you hit Colt if you let us hit your punter.
by Captain Call on May 25, 2009 11:10 PM CDT reply actions
Yawn. I heard all of this last year fecal. In fact we’ve heard all of this the last four years. The fact remains one team plays with character and heart and toughness in Dallas ever October. The other team is ou. Maybe Badford will get lucky this year and Sergio will hit him hard enough to uncross those eyes of his.
by Flamingmonkeyass on May 25, 2009 11:20 PM CDT reply actions
“Natty Title”?
Natural Title? What is that? The award for the least-groomed woman in OK? I don’t even want to know the rest of that story.
by Black Scholes on May 26, 2009 1:43 AM CDT reply actions
So what’s your excuse for losing so often to an “excuse” of a program? My theory is that you’re a bunch of land-grabbing, slacked-jawed, inbreeding, shitbag okies. As such you’re cumdump of a state can only produce so many quality football players. The rest you have to get from the great state of Texas. Seeing as how such a large majority of your team is made up of a bunch of cowardly traitors, is it really any wonder the Longhorns, the real flagship Univeristy of Texas, has so consistently kicked your ass through out history?
But you know, congrats on winning the “Beat by Texas” game this past year. Too bad that meant you had to play in another BCS game, where you once again shit the brick. BCS bowls are to you guys what Michael Jackson is to little boys. Maybe stoopsie should try and convince his little suckbags to not vote for him. He’s bound to be getting tired of getting his ass handed to him. I mean, outside of October that is.
by flamingmonkeyass on May 26, 2009 2:58 AM CDT reply actions
Uh-oh, Horns Down has his special helmet on and he’s as feisty as only a retard on meth can be.
Great, so you inbreds win more conference titles. Then you go on to embarrass yourselves and bore the nation on an annual basis. We don’t need any excuses, one conference title = 1 national championship. We get dicked out of the game we deserve to be in and we win the one we play in. All I see us doing is rising to the occasion at the end of the season. OU just does its Oklahoma thing, loud and exciting in the beginning but you always wind up sucking balls in the end. Funny how football parallels life.
by AZLonghorn on May 26, 2009 2:59 AM CDT reply actions
Sorry, left out the first one in ’96. So one out of two conference titles have netted us a NC. 6 conference title landed you in the NC game 4 times and you lost all but one. Wow, in fetal alcohol syndrome land that must be impressive, to the rest of the world you just look like a bunch of bitches.
by AZLonghorn on May 26, 2009 3:15 AM CDT reply actions
My favorite comment is where McBee says that Texas only won a BCS game last year because we were matched against Tressel, the implication being that he was a poor coach in BCS games. (Tracy Jordan voice) “Irony!” (Tracy Jordan voice)
by TaylorTRoom on May 26, 2009 5:52 AM CDT reply actions
I’m shocked that, once again, our resident douchebag sooners have done nothing but start slinging shit instead of actually addressing what was originally written. “Oh yeah, well Mack has yellow teeth and you’re soft!!”.
by Nordberg on May 26, 2009 8:52 AM CDT reply actions
Another reason Stoops deserves no sympathy. Murray and Granger were both injured during the B12 CG. The final BCS vote was the next day, and if he announced they were seriously hurt, there was a slight chance that voters might elevate Texas (remember- missing starters hurts, right?). Therefore, Stoops said Dec. 6 that both players were expected to play in the bowl game. Ten days later he officially announced they wouldn’t play. So in order to help himself, he misled on injuries, and now wants sympathy for them not playing.
by TaylorTRoom on May 26, 2009 12:59 PM CDT reply actions
“Rancid Stutterer”? My God that’s clever. And Nate, sorry I hurt your feelings. Here’s a tootsie roll. But it’s still fun watching gooners get decleated.
by RansomStoddard on May 26, 2009 2:10 PM CDT reply actions
Lets face facts: If the Big XII referees enforced the actual rules of the game, specifically the rule called “holding”, Texas would have won all of their games and by much larger margins.
The Big XII teams that benefitted most by the referees looking the other way….well let’s just say their offenses didn’t look so dominating during the Bowl season against pedestrian defenses…cOUgh choke,cOUgh choke.
by Show Horn on May 26, 2009 3:14 PM CDT reply actions
Speaking of impotence, I wish I could retroactively root for your uncle’s impotence.
by Trips Right on May 26, 2009 4:47 PM CDT reply actions
You know, they really enable Stoops too much in Oklahoma. Get this- in Dec. 2007 he campaigns to get OU into the BCS CG
…and then he whines that he can’t be expected to beat WVU with five starters out.
by TaylorTRoom on May 26, 2009 7:02 PM CDT reply actions
Stoops will not win another RRS before he leaves ou. Mark that shit down.
by Soothsayer on May 26, 2009 11:59 PM CDT reply actions
5 starters missing a bowl game is a lot. The 1969 Horns were missing, at least, Steinmark and their top 3 DT’s.
by Dave on May 28, 2009 6:12 PM CDT reply actions

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