Maybe if the Sooners think like the Tide, they'll play like them
Published: 12/27/2009 10:22 PM
Last Modified: 12/27/2009 10:22 PM
Now that the Florida bomb has been defused, let's connect Bob Stoops to another SEC superpower -- Alabama.
According to Jon Solomon of the Birmingham News, the Oklahoma coach has reached out to a high-tech Seattle think tank known as The Pacific Institute. Its mission:
"We affirm the right of all individuals to achieve their God-given potential. The application of our education empowers people to recognize their ability to choose growth, personal freedom and personal excellence. We commit ourselves to providing this education, all over the world..."
Sounds a little deep for college football programs. But Nick Saban signed up his Crimson Tide in the spring of 2008, and things have worked out pretty well for him.
Since coaches are copycats, and Saban and Stoops are pals, it comes as little surprise that OU wants a piece of the action.
"Bob Stoops' words to me were, 'I want exactly what Alabama got,'" Pacific Institute instructor Antowaine Richardson told Solomon.
So the Sooners, who fell a tad short of their God-given potential in 2009, can look forward to "mental conditioning" classes this offseason. Should be interesting. It could work as well as it did for the Tide.
Or it could do absolutely zilcho. Something else Richardson told Solomon was that Florida State worked with The Institute this season. The Seminoles went 6-6 and were so inept at times that they forced Bobby Bowden into retiring.
-- Guerin Emig
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Guerin Emig
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