NORMAN — Former Oklahoma football coach Bob Stoops writes extensively about the process of coming to terms with stepping away from the Sooners in his soon-to-be-released book “No Excuses: The Making of a Head Coach."
“I had probably stayed at OU too long,” Stoops wrote in the book, which is co-authored by ESPN’s Gene Wojciechowski. “And in the not-so-deep recesses of my mind, I didn’t want to risk dying on the side of a football field as my dad had done 28 years earlier.”
The Oklahoman was provided an advance copy.
In the book, which will be released Sept.