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Hey Coach, Loan Me Twenty
Published: 11/10/2009 2:50 PM
Last Modified: 11/10/2009 2:50 PM

According to USA Today today (Tuesday), the OU football coaching staff is the highest paid in the country!

Let that waft around you and sink in.

Stoops makes about $1.98 less than USC media charmer Carroll, who earns $4.4 million.

Imagine earning more than four million per year and then having the gall to be snippy with the press.

Concerning OU's staff being the nation's highest paid, here's a question.

Why?

This staff has never won a national championship.

Has never even won a BCS bowl.

So it's wishful thinking accounting for all the bread going out in stressful economic times. Oh. That's fine then. Go Sooners, stomp the Aggies, there's probably an incentive bonus waiting.






Reader Comments 20 Total
soonerguy (3 years ago)
Picker, by my count I beat you by three games this week. TW tally shows two. I've gone over the list three times now, and can't catch it. What gives?
THE SCOUT (3 years ago)
STOOPS CAN'T WIN THE BIG GAME THEY CHOKE. THAT COMES FROM THE COACHING. THIS COACHING STAFF CAN'T ADJUST AT HALF TIME. AND THEY ARE REAL SNODDY WITH THE PRESS THEY DON'T LIKE TO BE ASKED WHY. TO ME THEY ARE NOT WORTH $200.00 A WEEK THEY CAN'T RECRUIT THEY SIGN DUD PLAYERS THAT CAN'T PLAY HALF THE TIME. IT AN OVERKILL
MexiMike (3 years ago)
Scout, your love for CAPS and incoherent rambling is the overkill.
scottybegood (3 years ago)
THIS IS AN OVERATED PROGRAM IN A SMALL FOOTBALL STATE.
1. DOES NOT HAVE A PRO SPORTS TEAM. THATS RIGHT THE COUNTRY DOES NOT COUNT THE THUNDER PROS.
2.THE ROOSTER HAS MAYBE 25% OF IN STATE KIDS.
3.AND WHAT BOWL DOES THE STATE HOST?
justanotherokie (3 years ago)
Players come players go.  Planning to fill the gaps is a key component of coaching. 

The O-Line is the toughest.  It takes 2 years minimum to grow a great lineman.

Clearly the management of OU's team has collapsed this year.  Considering the O-Line next year will look bleak also. 

Go Juco for a quick fix?

Bob is in the same poslition as a CEO go for short term gains or long term profitibality.  Bob will go short term, count on it.
Steff M (3 years ago)
Ditto on scottybedumb, Mexi.  Wasn't there a Jim Carrey movie about them?
scottybegood (3 years ago)
YEA:small state small minds!!!!!!!!!!!!
MexiMike (3 years ago)
Scotty, how does the OKC Thunder not count as a pro team? Last I checked they played in the National Basketball Association. It doesn't get anymore professional than that.

Unfortunately, the only small-minded person here is you. Keep typing in CAPS, though. It's doing wonders for your credibility.
scottybegood (3 years ago)
OK THANKS FOR YOUR PERMISSION. GREEN CARD MIKE.
Dash Riprock (3 years ago)
Pick, you think answering a question truthfully takes 'gall'? Stoops says that anytime you ask a question, be ready for the truth, not always the answer everyone wants to hear. Yes, he did say it was BOTH the coaches and players who are to blame for the mistakes of this season.

The CURRENT staffs at Texas, USC, Ohio State and Alabama haven't won national championships either...check their salaries.
The Picker (3 years ago)
Rash Diprock, why does the head coach always seem to get a free pass?

Lose all the bowls? Not his fault.

Lost all the close games? Not his fault.

Lose so many road games? Not his fault.

No recruiting depth? Not his fault.

PS: OU is the only team that gets injuries. 
BobSmith007 (3 years ago)
You would think a couple mil would at least buy some humility. Some responsibility?
juanstah (3 years ago)
Sure have been a lot of injuries, but they don't explain the decade full of bowl losses and Stoops being so sure he doesn't want to talk to the media.  He sure seems to be the antithesis of how he was in his first two or three years.  He now accepts winning a weak conference as his calling card.  Just win one of those BCS games, and maybe he can act presumptuously.  Someone needs to get his attention and say something like, "Watch all that tape from 1999 and 2000, go back to that,  and stop being so standoffish."  Just going back to what got him there and being gracious enough to be interviewed on the sidelines, by the ding-bat OKC press, and accepting the fault that goes his way would be a positive change.
MexiMike (3 years ago)
Speaking of injuries Pick, as I mentioned in the other blog, isn't it time someone starts questioning the Strength and Conditioning coach?

Everyone wants to put blame on the coordinators but in reality, OU's season has been plagued by injuries. Are these the most unlucky kids in college football? Or is the S & C coach not doing his job to the fullest by getting the athletes in good enough shape to withstand the blows week in and week out?
The Picker (3 years ago)
Concerning all the injuries, somebody emailed in that they hold lots of people out in the pre-season contact stuff, who knows what that means if anything.

Lots of OU guys get hurt in the pros, too, don't they.
OU_Glenn (3 years ago)
I don't think the strength and conditioning coach is the cause of injuries. They've had the same guy, Jerry Schmidt, since Stoops came to OU. There have been years that OU has had few injuries. Last year, OU did not have this many injuries. Football is a physical sport and people get hurt. In the pros, quite a few careers have been ruined by injuries. It's hard to know what has really caused all these injuries. A lot of it is bad luck, I guess.

In regards to OU's failures on offense, they have been caused by lack of development of the offensive line and receivers, and failure to properly judge talent at the wide receiver position.
hootie (3 years ago)
, please go back to Seattle!
hootie (3 years ago)
scottybegood, please go back to Seattle!
eglkeeper (3 years ago)
Making love is a physical sport, Football is a violent sport.  If OU was 10-0 there would be many athletes in Norman taping the injury up and playing.  When losses accumulate and the team looses cohesiveness so does morale and the desire to be physically associated with the less than stellar play.   It's easier to pull out, not suit up and disassociate ones self from the losses recorded, I refer you to Team Pansy Syndrome...

Seee Yaahhh-
WillyJ (3 years ago)
I'm no fan of Stoops- I think he's overrated and OU has been handed more undeserved BCS opportunities then anyone else in the country. . but. . .

You don't lose a QB the caliber of Bradford and just keep trucking along like nothing happened.

If Florida lost Tebow in the first half of the first game of the season or Texas lost McCoy would they be undefeated or even in position to win their conferences?

No way.. .
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