When Bob Stoops was defensive co-ordinator at Florida, Steve Spurrier then the head coach was dropping this kids name all over the southeast how this kid was going to be a terrific head coach someday. So the press and media picked up on this real quick and he started turning some heads. As you well know Oklahoma holds the record for 47 games in a row back in 1957 or 56. This was a big thing back then and it still remains an item to expound upon in todays media world. And in todays world of colledge football that record is never gonna be broken.
But to some believers they still think its going to happen. Bob Stoops when hired at Oklahoma, then all head were turned in that direction to see what he would create. He choose a little kid named Josh Hypell to lead them to fame and his defensive strategys worked hand in glove with the people he brought into make it work. And we they beat the "Almighty" Bobby Bowdens FSU football team in the 2000 N/C game, well that was the icing on the cake and it lifted Oklahoma back to national prominence where the news media and journalists thought they should be. And the way they beat Florida State was huge news down here in Florida. His defensive magic was lifted up as no other in the country. Again he was young and good looking, spoke with eloquence and his freshness was surley captured and embraced by the pollsters and news media. Its just like anything else in our sportsworld. The news media creates a Pied pyper and everybody follows along.
The same with Michigan after Bo Schembechler brought "Woody" to his knees in november of 1969. And before all that occured Ohio State was known as the team of the century and could not be beaten. We had the "Super Sophmores" back then and it all came crashing down on November 24th 1969. I was part of that era. Even then the press was hailing Ohio State as the next team to break Oklahoma's win streak of 47. We were the darlings then and have been religated ever since. "Woody was King then until Bo knocked him off his throne. And Bo stayed up there for quite ahwile and Woody had a hard time accepting that.
I'll bet my last dollar if we could have beaten Miami by greater numbers than we did and kept Maurice Clarett clean for him to stay, don't you think for one minute we might have alot more respect than we get now? Another N/C would have been close to being in our grasp, had not all the dirty laundry appeared in Columbus beginning in may of 2003. My apologys for being so long winded here, but it just got my ire up and i had to vent what i felt. Thats the way i feel.