Reaction to Stoops' millions
Published: 6/26/2009 3:44 PM
Last Modified: 6/26/2009 3:44 PM
A guy gets paid nearly $5 million to coach a college football team, people are going to notice. Here's what they're saying about Bob Stoops' latest contract...
"Oklahoma knows what it's doing. Bob Stoops is about to become the game's first $5 million coach (with bonuses by 2011). I have no problem with that. You shouldn't either. You pay for victories. You pay for championships. You pay because your university has not been disgraced. That's the way it is these days. Heck, didn't Phil Fulmer get a raise last year?
-- Dennis Dodd, CBSSports.com
"It still surprises me that, after 10 years and a flood of early rumors, Oklahoma's main motivation seems to be paranoia that someone will snatch their Stoops away... Thirty million over six years to stay put: That's a lot of money to coach football, especially for a career college coach whose name -- unlike perpetual rumor-bait like Carroll, Saban and Kirk Ferentz, with their NFL backgrounds -- seems to have largely faded from the annual gossip mill; Stoops seems like a guy who's entrenched for the long haul."
-- Matt Hinton, Yahoo! Sports
"Florida, the ball is in your court now."
-- Matt Murschel, OrlandoSentinel.com
"People with the vision to see beyond their own wallets understood then (when Saban was hired) that Alabama was smart to invest heavily in a proven commodity. Alabama is just as smart now to re-invest in its most valuable asset. That's the kind of forward thinking going on at Oklahoma, which just ratified a raise and extension for Bob Stoops. Did Oklahoma have to give Stoops a new contract? No, but the school just made it harder for someone else to give him one."
-- Kevin Scarbinsky, Birmingham News
-- Guerin Emig
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Guerin Emig
Sports Writer
