That is the central point about Stoops. It's always the same story: An accumulation of small f***ups, that add up over a game. It's the most CONSISTENT thing ABOUT his coaching.
I'm confident Stoops has never heard of this:
The Game Book.
"At some point every Saturday, on college football sidelines around the country, there comes a moment when head coaches must make a game-changing decision.
And when they do, they often rely on the teachings of a single, 87-page volume they all keep on their bookshelves.
It isn’t a manual authored by Bill Walsh or Nick Saban or any of college football’s greatest minds. Nor is it a classic of military strategy like Sun Tzu’s Art of War. This seminal text is a color-coded guide written by a suburban dad from Atlanta who never played a down of competitive football.
Michael McRoberts is a Northwestern graduate in biomedical engineering who spent much of his career designing debt-collection strategies for a credit bureau. But his most impactful work is a compilation of football strategies that he assembled into something called “The Game Book.”
"On every page, McRoberts presents the best course of action in specific situations, from when to go for it on fourth down to late-game clock management. The company he founded, Championship Analytics Inc., now has a client list that includes more than 100 major-college football programs. And his loyal readership counts some of the most successful coaches in the game.
“If you really follow it,” said Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin, who has been using the book for six years, “you’re going to be much more aggressive than the old way of thinking, the one we were all raised around or watched.”"
It turned out that the calculations McRoberts used in his day job could also predict prudent courses of action for football teams. He began building the book, which grew to have a color-coded system readable at a glance: red for punt, yellow for attempt a field goal and green for go.
The book also says when to try for a 2-point conversion, whether to attempt an onside kick or to kick deep and how to manage the two-minute warning—nearly everything outside of Xs and Os."