Oklahoma Sooners head coach Bob Stoops is a family-first kind of man, and that alone could be enough to keep him from even considering the soon-to-be vacant Florida Gators job.
Stoops has faced his brother (and now-Kentucky Wildcats head coach) Mark Stoops twice before when Mark was the defensive coordinator of the Florida State Seminoles. The Sooners won both games, 47-17 in 2010 and 23-13 in 2011, and Bob Stoops has seemingly never felt sicker about winning games.
“I felt the entire week that it would be a miserable experience. Then I said after the game I was sure, now that I’ve done it. I’ve never been so conflicted and miserable about winning a game,” Stoops said at the time, via Zach Barnett of NBC's College Football Talk.
“Playing your brother for a championship, that’s OK," Stoops added. "One of you is going to win a championship, and the other played for one, did well. If it isn’t that case, you spend your life fighting for your brother. You go play another neighborhood in whatever. You bring your brothers with you. They’re always on your team or you’re sticking up for them. You’re always helping each out. Then all of a sudden, you’ve got to beat each other, it’s not what you want. It’s not natural.”
If Bob Stoops was to take the Florida job, that would mean he would have to face Mark on a yearly basis - an ordeal he's not likely to put himself through.
“You just cannot separate blood. I just don’t like it and I knew that going into the game,” Stoops said all the way back in 2010, “and I’m positive of it now after the game.”
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