Wow Bob Stoops Retires!!

[BengalHawk62]

(06-07-2017, 08:20 PM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: I doubt it.
The new HC Riley, has been the talk of the town and we didn't want to lose him and have him coach another team. It might not have been Bob's plan to retire just now, but his dad died of a heart attack at the same age that Stoops is now. There's no investigations or health problems going on. Stoops has recently purchased a house in Chicago, so I think this was quietly being planned.

I think you hit the nail on the head here.  Bob didn't want to follow in his father's footsteps and die on the football field. Little known fact....his father was buried in a Iowa Hawkeye jersey.  I think Bob's own mortality thoughts may have caught up with him.



On the local sports talking show, one of the guys couldn't believe that Bob Stoops retires before Bill Snyder.  He said, "Bob Stoops retires so he doesn't die on the football field.  Bill Snyder doesn't retire so he can die on the football field."  the old silver fox just keeps on a going.