Comments on: Broncos “Very Serious” About Stoops

By: AtwaterFan27

AtwaterFan27 — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:26:19 +0000

I thought that Bill Romanowski said it best ” its time for a fresh coat of paint” I love Mike Shannahan and think hes one of the all time greats but man its time. Our defense is LOUSY and has been since 2005. Only Shannahan is the one to point the finger at. He should have done alot more with his hiring and firing of his defensive coaches. But hey, 2009 looks promising with the 5 head coaches so far that Pat Bowlen is looking at. Hopefully he will not select Stoops, not that Stoops isn’t a great coach, but the track record of a college coach coming into the NFL isn’t so hot. Especially HIGH PROFILE college coaches like, Spurrier, Saban, and Petrino.

By: AtwaterFan27

AtwaterFan27 — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 08:13:24 +0000

StOOPS? Are you serious? Come on now Pat Bowlen. Go after Marty Shottenhiemer or that Defensive back coach from the Bucs. My god lets look at the last 6 years of college coaches in the NFL. Stoops might pull what that coach in Atlanta did and jump ship back to the NCAA

By: olen

olen — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 04:46:50 +0000

Stoops fattened up against teams that had some real bad defenses .

By: Ian Henson

Ian Henson — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:16:38 +0000

I really don’t see why Denver would have interest in him. I think that it may be preemptive Stoops talk to deny that he will want to take the job. Why would he want to piss off his team the weekend before the biggest game of their lives?

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:15:50 +0000

There is a big part of me that doesn’t want Stoops to take this job, that part being that of a lifelong Sooner fan and we have the best coach in college football, who if he stays will become a legend.

The Bronco fan in me would be happy with Stoops coming to Denver because he fits those three areas I talked about earlier that are necessary in a good NFL HC. 1. Superb evaluator of talent (coaches and players), 2. Motivator, I can guarantee you that if some of the players on the Broncos team put forth the lackadaisical effort some of them have put forth here lately they would have a fire lit under their arse so quickly by Stoops they would be gone or either performing at a professional level. 3. He is a great decision maker who seems to have the knack for making the right call in a close game.

Stoops has always brought great talent into OU and has had many assistant coaches go on to great success and has always replaced them with great quality coaches. Right now people are down on him for not winning some big games of late, but what he has accomplished at OU in the past 8 years is envied by every college coach except one. If he were to replicate what he did at OU in the past 8 years, then in the next 8 years the Broncos will have won 6 AFC west championships, will have been in 4 Superbowls and won 1 or 2 of them (we’ll know Thursday if it would be 1 or 2), if you wouldn’t take that over the next 8 years in Denver then you are crazy.

As far as college coaches not making it in the NFL. Like I said earlier no matter what category you look at (NFL assistants, college coaches, previous NFL coaches, position coaches, whatever you want) the majority of them fail. As a matter of fact, I bet if you did some statistics on it, it would be pretty close statistically the number of NFL assistants that fail as compared to college coaches. It just seems that NFL assistants have more success because we see more of them succeeding but in reality that is because its probably 5-1 the number that get the chance as compared to college coaches.

By: jchase8410

jchase8410 — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:28:55 +0000

Thank God, and thank you Stoops for not even considering this

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:43:44 +0000

If Stoops coaches as well as he dresses….

By: kerry

kerry — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:14:06 +0000

Stoops isnt a Candidate. he said it himself on ESPN today. plus he just got a 3 million dollar bonus from Oklahoma.

By: East

East — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:46:48 +0000

This is just ESPN spewing crap all over the place like they usually do. If you go to the broncos main site they don’t even mention Stoops in their coach search article.

By: AtomicLeo

AtomicLeo — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:35:42 +0000

Good point, rcsodak.

Best football job in the world is a BCS head coaching job. A couple of tough games a year and the off-season is a breeze compared to the NFL. I doubt Carroll would ever think about coming back. Stoops can stay in OK where he will have a job for life like Joe Pa.