As quickly as Lincoln Riley exited as Oklahoma’s head coach, in steps Bob Stoops to stem the tide of frustration and disarray surrounding Riley’s departure for USC. Stoops, not a stranger to big moments, seized the day to remind everyone that “this is still Oklahoma.”
While the University of Oklahoma conducts what it hopes will be a quick coaching search, Bob Stoops will take the reins as interim head coach. His purpose, to steady the program as uncertainty drives some players into the transfer portal and recruits to decommit.
In a state of the program address that featured Oklahoma President Joseph Harroz, athletic director Joe Castiglione and Stoops, the trio successfully calmed the storm that raged around the program before getting to work on righting the ship.
Living up to his word, Stoops traveled to Broken Arrow to meet with Robert Spears-Jennings. Stoops will be active in persuading current players to stay and prospects to come to Norman, selling the program’s long run of success that even predates Bob Stoops himself.
Like we did in the aftermath of Lincoln Riley’s departure for USC, let’s take a look at how some former players and others reacted on social media to the return of Bob Stoops.