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The Longhorns set their Red River Showdown
points record Saturday in a 48-45 win over the Sooners, and
Texas piled up 501 total yards.
"I'm extremely disappointed in my ability to get this team to
play at a higher level," Stoops said Saturday. "It takes
everybody pulling the same way. Certainly, I take a lot of that
responsibility. That's for sure."
Oklahoma (5-1, 2-1 Big 12) ranks 96th in the FBS in total
defense, allowing 421.2 yards per game. The Sooners are allowing
27.3 points per game, which ranks 79th in the country.
Stoops, 56, was in his second stint as Oklahoma's defensive
coordinator, with his first run from 1999-2003 occurring while
his brother Bob was the Sooners' head coach.
Mike Stoops left Norman in 2004 to become the head coach at
Arizona. In 7 1/2 seasons at Tucson, he produced a 41-50 record
and guided the Wildcats to three bowl games. He was fired after
the team got off to a 1-5 start in 2011.
He returned to Oklahoma as the defensive coordinator the next
fall and remained in that role through Saturday.
After playing safety for the University of Iowa in the early
1980s and a brief stint with the Chicago Bears as a replacement
player during the 1987 NFL players strike, Stoops served as a
defensive coach at Iowa and then Kansas State before moving to
Oklahoma.
According to the Oklahoman newspaper, the leading candidates to
replace Stoops on the Sooners' staff are defensive tackles coach
Ruffin McNeill and defensive analyst Bob Diaco.
--Field Level Media
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