Mike Stoops is a slam dunk hire, and will bring an interesting defense to FAU.
There’s a new defensive coordinator for the FAU Owls football team, and his name is Mike Stoops. Stoops, who was announced as the new DC Thursday, spent most of his coaching career as a defensive coordinator at the University of Oklahoma, beginning in 1999 and ending in 2018, with stints in between as the head coach at the University of Arizona from 2004-2011. Most recently, he was an analyst for the University of Alabama.