Stoops needs curse reverse
Published: 6/19/2007 3:02 PM
Last Modified: 6/19/2007 3:02 PM
The only way I can explain it is one of the hard-hats currently erecting that wall around OU's practice field accidentally tapped into an ancient tribal burial ground.
How else does one guy -- in this case, Sooner coach Bob Stoops -- accumulate so much wicked karma?
In less than a year, and through very little fault of his own, Stoops has been force-fed Bomargate at Big Red Sports & Imports, the Great Oregon Heist and that Disney production of a Fiesta Bowl, where Jiminy Cricket, Tinkerbell and the Boise State Broncos toppled the villainous Sooners.
So Stoops gets through spring ball, blows the country for some much-deserved Austrian R n R, and returns home to... what exactly?
Well, the Associated Press airs OU's minor-infractions housekeeping, which unfortunately includes the buzzwords "banned" and "supplements," before OU can set the record straight (that the supplements were in fact legal, only they contained amino acids which made it impermissible for trainers to distribute them).
Then a South Carolina newspaper reveals Stoops is an investor in a national internet music retailer under FTC investigation for being an alleged pyramid scheme (for this, the coach can blame his financial adviser).
And now the Shreveport Times has come up with a list of "five coaches college football fans love to hate." Ranked fourth, behind Charlie Weis, Steve Spurrier and Nick Saban... Bob Stoops.
Guess Stoops has the Fiesta Bowl to thank for that. Or maybe Rhett Bomar. Or Oregon replay booth napper Gordon Reise. Or the nutritional company that mistakenly sent OU the supplement containing those amino acids. Or that financial adviser soon to be looking for another coach to represent.
I know one thing: I might have left the shrubbery that used to hide Sooner practices alone.
-- Guerin Emig
Written by
Guerin Emig
Sports Writer
