Bob Stoops, American football player and coach
Robert Anthony Stoops (born September 9, 1960) is an American football coach who was the head football coach at the University of Oklahoma from 1999 through the 2016 season, and on an interim basis during the 2021 Alamo Bowl. He led the Oklahoma Sooners to a record of 191–48 over his career. His 2000 Oklahoma Sooners football team won the 2001 Orange Bowl, which served as the BCS National Championship Game, and earned a consensus national championship. In 2020, Stoops was head coach and general manager for the Dallas Renegades of the XFL.Stoops played college football at the University of Iowa as a defensive back from 1979 to 1982. Prior his tenure at Oklahoma, he held various assistant coaching positions at the University of Iowa, Kent State University, Kansas State University, and the University of Florida. Stoops was awarded the Paul "Bear" Bryant Award in 2000 and the Walter Camp Coach of the Year Award in 2000 and 2003. He has been nicknamed "Big Game Bob" by both supporters and detractors.Stoops was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 2021.