ESPN stirring up Stoops trouble again
Published: 12/20/2009 9:47 PM
Last Modified: 12/20/2009 9:47 PM
First, there was Adam Schefter trying to get Bob Stoops the Notre Dame job. Now, another ESPN NFL reporter has the Oklahoma coach in play for another gig.
From Chris Mortensen's Twitter page Saturday:
"As for Cowboys, if Wade goes, sources say he (Jerry Jones) prefers some in 40's. Maybe a back to the future deal like a Bob Stoops... Not saying Stoops will be Cowboys coach -- he has said he's staying put, as has Urban Meyer. But J. Johnson and B Switzer. 3 Super Bowls."
Look, I'm still regrouping from the Stoops-to-Notre Dame soap opera, so I'd rather not dive head-first into this Mort report. Let's just dip our toe in, with something John Henderson of the Denver Post wrote last January, the last time Stoops was mentioned in connection with the NFL. It was the Broncos back then, and here was Henderson's take:
"The scrapheap of college coaches who flopped in the NFL could crowd Mike Shanahan's new family room. Butch Davis. Nick Saban. Bobby Petrino. Mike Riley. Rich Brooks. Steve Mariucci. Dennis Erickson. Darryl Rogers. Dick MacPherson. Tommy Prothro. Frank Kush. Lou Holtz. Ron Meyer. Spurrier.
"In Spurrier's first year at South Carolina, in 2005, two years after his NFL career aborted, he told me he had an inkling he belonged in college after his first practice with the Gamecocks.
"'They listen and they try,' Spurrier said."
How do you think it would sit with Stoops the first time one of the Cowboys brushed him off? It would happen. Then it would happen again. And again. We're talking about football's, maybe sport's, prima donna organization.
I just can't see it. Be interesting to see, depending on what happens with Wade Phillips, if Jerry can.
-- Guerin Emig
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Guerin Emig
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