The year of the Stoops brothers: College football coaching’s first family on the loose

When asked if active fanbases on twitter had anything to do with teams like Ole Miss and Kentucky being ranked ahead of them in the recruiting rankings, Stoops responded:

Since this is Bob Stoops, we’re not entirely sure if he’s kidding or if he just doesn’t know exactly what he’s saying. Unfortunately, he’s not the first coach to advocate fans tweeting at recruits, as Vanderbilt head coach James Franklin and Kentucky wide receivers coach Tommy Mainord said something similar.

I had just gotten done writing about Bob Stoops saying something silly, but here we have Bob Stoops saying something else different on a totally different topic. Summer of Stoops!

Bob Stoops was asked about the intense restrictions rival coach Mike Gundy placed on quarterback Wes Lunt, preventing him from transferring from a whopping 37 schools. Stoops supported Gundy’s move, saying that if coaches want to heavily restrict their players options if they decide to transfer, they should be allowed to. From ESPN:

In the 2013 offseason, Bob Stoops has gone from “hello!” to much more complex statements, and they keep getting better.

Other recent quotations from the Book of Stoops were his claim that the SEC wasn’t as strong top-to-bottom as the Big 12, and his claims that the BCS system was unfair without realizing that Oklahoma totally benefitted from the BCS over and over again.

Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops turned a few heads in early May when he questioned the notion that the SEC is the strongest conference in the country and suggested that the Big 12 is deeper from top to bottom. Some SEC coaches responded, though Nick Saban didn’t really have much time for that crap.

The numbers aren’t on Stoops’ side in this argument, but he has his supporters. They are Big 12 coaches, obviously. Self-described “numbers guy” Charlie Weis said he thought Stoops had a point. (Incidentally, Weis’ Kansas team is not helping with the whole point-making thing in this particular case.) And now there’s this:

It’s been a busy offseason for the Stoops Brothers. Brother Mike, Oklahoma’s defensive coordinator, implied Heisman winner Johnny Manziel will be in jail someday. Brother Mark is hard at work making Kentucky into a football school. And Brother Bob ... oh, Brother Bob.

Between declaring the bottom of the SEC is subpar to complaining about the BCS system, Brother Bob seems like he needs some time off. The whole Stoops clan needs a vacation. Good thing they’re taking one.