The first time the XFL called agent Neil Cornrich to inquire about Bob Stoops, Stoops shot down the idea. Ditto for the second time. And the third. But finally, XFL commissioner Oliver Luck got himself on the phone with the former Oklahoma coach, and that’s when Stoops began to warm to the idea of a return to the field.
“I’m nothing if not persistent,” Luck says.
For Stoops, retirement was all he dreamed. It also was all he had worried about when he decided to step down as the Sooners’ coach in June 2017.