Bob Stoops Coaching Tree
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Thawki
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Chuck Long, Mike and Mark Stoops.
kameltoez102
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How are the Stoops perceived to be with player treatment? The three mentioned have all had major issues with student athletes. I know Mike Stoops could be fiery but don't know much about the other Stoopes. Chuck Long always seems low key. Would have been some interesting practices.
HawkGold
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Poor results. The other 3 abuse players.
Thawki
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I live in KC and understand Mangino, probably better than most. I am not a huge fan, by any means. But Mangino was railroaded out of Lawrence by his AD and former Iowa basketball player Lew Perkins. And it probably didn't help that his body appearance wasn't that of a typical big-time coach. It probably made it easier to make him out as a guy that needed to go. He didn't abuse players (I guess someone might make the case he verbally abused them, but I don't know if that is even truly the case), though his approach was fairly "Bobby Knight-like" when it came to how he talked to them. He didn't physically put them into the types of situations that Wilson seems to have and that Leach was reported to have.
Mangino is not a real politically correct kind of guy in how he presented himself. But he is a good coach and he cared about his players. If he was an assistant coach at Iowa, I would have no problems and we would probably be a better team if he was.
Mike Leach was railroaded out of Lubbock after something resembling a media conspiracy, and the AD that fired him for "abuse" that never really happened had just hired Bobby Knight to coach the basketball team.
Don't forget the guy at South Florida, who was from the same Bill Snyder coaching tree as the Stoops brothers, also got fired for off-the-field stuff.
Don't forget the guy at South Florida, who was from the same Bill Snyder coaching tree as the Stoops brothers, also got fired for off-the-field stuff.
Jim Leavitt.
MelroseHawkins
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Bring him on as an O coordinator. Would be interesting. Anybody that can get Kansas to the Orange Bowl deserves a job.
IAHAWK1982
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Didn't Rhoads bring him in at ISU and I don't think that went very well.
Thawki
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You can call it being railroaded, but there was a big problem with how he treated at least one player that had concussion issues and it was Craig a James' son, so it was pretty high profile. Unless I am mistaken, those issues were born out by an investigation and that got him fired. We're there other similar issues? I don't know. But that did happen.
Correct me if I am wrong?