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Stoops insists he was not forced out at Oklahoma; now lends brief legitimacy to XFL

Sparring with Bob Stoops is fun, mostly because he’s game and has some spunk.

And since the former head coach at the University of Oklahoma left the Sooners abruptly in June of 2017, the popular theory is that he was forced out by administrators and influential people who didn’t want to lose Lincoln Riley, among other priorities.

Shortly after Stoops was introduced as the head coach/GM of the new XFL franchise at a press conference on Thursday in Arlington, I asked him just that.

“You were waiting for the other shoe to drop weren’t you?