Workout violations? Player drug busts?
Eh, minor potholes.
2010 was a smooth ride for Bob Stoops compared to the tumultuous, injury-plagued 2009 campaign for OU that ended with an 8-5 record. Oklahoma went 12-2 this season, finishing with a Big 12 Championship over Nebraska and a Fiesta Bowl victory against an overmatched UConn squad.
And the powers that be are seeing to it that they reward Stoops for that improvement.
According to records from the Tulsa World, Stoops has been given a raise of $1 million to bring his yearly salary to $4.875 million. The coaching staff as a whole will make nearly a combined $7 million. Stoops’ raise makes him the third-highest paid coach in the FBS, behind only Alabama’s Nick Saban ($5.16 million) and Texas’ Mack Brown ($5.1 million).
The raise could also, believe it or not, be an incentive to keep Stoops in Norman. Stoops was rumored to be a candidate to replace Urban Meyer at Florida in early December, although Stoops emphatically denied the whispers as “not true, whatsoever”.