Bob Stoops had already started to groom Lincoln Riley

“There’s two aspects of this story that I think you have to throw into the ‘shocking’ narrative, whether it’s shocking or expected.

One is that it happened at all. Those of us in college football knew that Bob Stoops was starting to groom Lincoln Riley, Oklahoma was starting to groom Lincoln Riley, and that this was a matter of time.

Remember now, Lincoln Riley got a three-year contract from the University of Oklahoma. That’s the first three-year contract that any assistant coach has ever gotten in the history of the program.

At that point, I understood that there was a clock on Bob Stoops, and it was three years.”