You were probably one of the Brooks bashers calling for him to be fired during and after his third season. Then we went to five straight bowls.
Brooks was a cagey old veteran but It took Brooks three years to get to the point of at least breaking even every year (6-6 occasional 7-5).
Stoops came in here to be greated with a skunk of a team and talent in his first opportunity as a head coach.
That is a heck of an undertaking for even a experienced coach. Despite having to learn on the job I am going to give him his due for taking on this challenge.
He has brought in better talent, convinced the powers to be to invest in the program with facilities upgrades and a state of the art new training facility.
Despite the setbacks on the field he has this program heading in the right direction. The direction he envisioned, the one he risked his name and career on when he took the job.
Next year he will be at a new starting point (similar to Coach Brooks) and I am rooting that his vision for our program and its future will be more successful then Brooks.
Yep. It's headed in the right direction, then in the opposite direction, then in the right direction...
It's called circling the bowl.
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