- ABC News
- July 20, 2016
NORMAN, Okla. - Ironically, it was one of Bob Stoops' closest confidants, Steve Spurrier, who once suggested that head coaches in college football probably shouldn't stay in one place for too long. The son of a Presbyterian pastor, Spurrier remembers his own dad moving from church to church when the Head Ball Coach was a kid. "Sometimes, congregations just sort of get tired of your words. It's the same way with coaches and why guys move around," Spurrier said. "It's not their choice a lot of times. But you look around, and I'm not sure we'll see many guys staying at one school for 15 or 20 years anymore." Stoops is one of the rarest of exceptions, and even with his remarkable consistency over the past 16 seasons, there are winds of unrest blowing across the Oklahoma plains. Only one other FBS head coach enters the 2015 season with more uninterrupted seniority at the same school than Stoops: Frank Beamer, who is entering his 29th season at Virginia Tech. Beamer, too, is dealing...