Editing Bob Stoops (section)

{{Short description|American football player and coach (born 1960)}}
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{{Infobox NFL biography
|name=Bob Stoops
|image=BobStoops.jpg
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|caption= Stoops in 2021
|current_team=Arlington Renegades
|position=Head coach
|birth_date={{Birth date and age|1960|9|9}}
|birth_place=[[Youngstown, Ohio]], U.S.
|death_date=
|death_place=
|high_school=[[Cardinal Mooney High School (Ohio)|Youngstown (OH) Cardinal Mooney]]
|college=[[Iowa Hawkeyes football|Iowa]] (1979–1982)
|undraftedyear=1983
|pastcoaching=
* [[Iowa Hawkeyes football|Iowa]] (1983–1984) <br>Graduate assistant
* Iowa (1985–1987) <br>Assistant
* [[Kent State Golden Flashes football|Kent State]]  (1988) <br>Assistant
* [[Kansas State Wildcats football|Kansas State]] (1989–1990) <br>Defensive backs coach
* Kansas State (1991–1995)<br>Co-defensive coordinator
* [[Florida Gators football|Florida]] (1996–1998)<br>Defensive coordinator / assistant head coach
* [[Oklahoma Sooners football|Oklahoma]] (1999–2016)<br>Head coach
* [[Arlington Renegades|Dallas Renegades]] (2020)<br>Head coach & general manager
* Oklahoma (2021)<br>Interim head coach
* Arlington Renegades ({{XFL Year|2023}}–present)<br>Head coach
|highlights='''Championships'''
* [[XFL (2020)|XFL]] ([[2023 XFL Championship Game|2023]])
* [[BCS National Championship Game|BCS national champion]] ([[2001 Orange Bowl|2000]])
* 10× [[Big 12 Conference|Big 12]] (2000, 2002, 2004, 2006–2008, 2010, 2012, 2015–2016)
* 8× Big 12 South Division (2000, 2002–2004, 2006–2008, 2010)
'''Awards'''               
* 2× [[Walter Camp Coach of the Year]] (2000, 2003)
* [[Paul "Bear" Bryant Award]] (2000)
* [[The Home Depot Coach of the Year Award]] (2000)
* [[George Munger Award]] (2000)
* [[Associated Press College Football Coach of the Year Award|AP Coach of the Year]] (2000)
* 6× [[Big 12 Conference football individual awards#Coach of the Year|Big 12 Coach of the Year]] (2000, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2015–2016)
* [[Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Award]] (2003)
* [[Touchdown Club of Columbus#Woody Hayes Trophy|Woody Hayes Trophy Coach of the Year]] (2000)
* [[Disney's Wide World of Sports Spirit Award]] (2014)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://disneysportsnews.com/releases/2014/11/17/oklahoma-sooners-bob-stoops-and-sterling-shepard-to-accept-2014-disney-sports-spirit-award/|title=Oklahoma Sooners' Bob Stoops and Sterling Shepard to Accept 2014 Disney Sports Spirit Award}}</ref>
* First-team [[List of All-Big Ten Conference football teams|All-Big Ten]] ([[1982 All-Big Ten Conference football team|1982]])
|regular_record= NCAA {{Winning percentage|191|48|record=y}}<br>XFL  {{Winning percentage|6|9|record=y}}<br>UFL  {{Winning percentage|3|7|record=y}}
|playoff_record=XFL  {{Winning percentage|2|0|record=y}}
|overall_record= NCAA {{Winning percentage|191|48|record=y}}<br>XFL  {{Winning percentage|8|9|record=y}}<br>UFL  {{Winning percentage|3|7|record=y}}
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|CollegeHOF=2479
}}
'''Robert Anthony Stoops''' (born September 9, 1960) is an [[American football]] coach who is the head coach for the [[Arlington Renegades]] of the [[United Football League (2024)|United Football League]] (UFL). He was the head football coach at the [[University of Oklahoma]] from 1999 through the 2016 season, and on an interim basis during the [[2021 Alamo Bowl]]. He led the [[Oklahoma Sooners football|Oklahoma Sooners]] to a record of 191–48 over his career. His [[2000 Oklahoma Sooners football team]] won the [[2001 Orange Bowl]], which served as the [[BCS National Championship Game]], and earned a consensus [[College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS|national championship]]. Since 2020, Stoops has been a head coach with the [[XFL (2020)|XFL]], coaching the Renegades in [[2020 XFL season|2020]] and was re-signed for the rebooted XFL in [[2023 XFL season|2023]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Stoops back in the coaching saddle|url=http://www.soonersports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=31000&ATCLID=211789622| publisher=SoonerSports.com | date=February 7, 2019 | access-date=February 7, 2019}}</ref> Stoops' Renegades won the XFL Championship in [[2023 XFL Championship Game|2023]].

Stoops played [[college football]] at the [[University of Iowa]] as a [[defensive back]] from 1979 to 1982. Prior to his tenure at Oklahoma, he held various assistant coaching positions at the University of Iowa, [[Kent State University]], [[Kansas State University]], and the [[University of Florida]]. Stoops was awarded the [[Paul "Bear" Bryant Award]] in 2000 and the [[Walter Camp Coach of the Year Award]] in both 2000 and 2003.<ref>{{cite press release | title= Walter Camp's 2006 "Coach of the Year" | publisher= WalterCamp.org | url= http://www.waltercamp.org/newsrelease/release7.htm | url-status= dead | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071010021837/http://www.waltercamp.org/newsrelease/release7.htm | archive-date= October 10, 2007 }}</ref> Stoops has been nicknamed "Big Game Bob" by both supporters and detractors.<ref name="BigGameBob">{{cite web | url=http://www.kansascity.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/for-petes-sake/article52583025.html | title=Clemson beats Oklahoma, and the 'Big Game Bob' jokes soon follow | first=Pete | last=Grathoff | date=December 31, 2015 | work=The Kansas City Star | access-date=November 10, 2018}}</ref>

Stoops was inducted into the [[College Football Hall of Fame]] as a coach in 2021.