The Stoops dynasty
Published: 5/10/2009 6:55 PM
Last Modified: 5/10/2009 6:55 PM
Last December, a few days before Oklahoma won its sixth Big 12 football championship in nine years, I suggested to coach Bob Stoops that he was presiding over a conference dynasty.
He got a sour look on his face and shifted uncomfortably in his chair. Bragging is not something Stoops cares to do, and certainly not when prompted by the media.
I wrote the OU-as-Big 12-dynasty story anyhow, figuring I didn't need a quote to do so. The facts, and numbers, were indisputable, even before the Sooners' 63-21 clotheslining of Missouri.
Five months later, ESPN.com Big 12 blogger Tim Griffin has dished out some of those same numbers in an analysis of Big 12 coaching records. One in particular continues to blow the mind.
Stoops is the only Big 12 coach to have captured more than one league championship. He has six, against just one defeat.
The records of the other conference coaches to have competed in the title game are as follows:
Mack Brown 1-2
Bill Snyder 1-2
R.C. Slocum 1-1
Gary Barnett 1-3
Frank Solich 1-0
Gary Pinkel 0-2
Tom Osborne 1-1
Bill Callahan 0-1
John Mackovic 1-0
-- Guerin Emig
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Guerin Emig
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