Bob Stoops, the longest-tenured coach in college football, will tell the Oklahoma Sooners on Wednesday that he retiring after 18 seasons, according to The Oklahoman.
Stoops joined the Sooners as a rookie head coach in 1999, and he guided OU to the 2000 national championship, 10 Big 12 titles and had reached double-digit wins in 14 seasons, including a 11-2 mark in 2016.
"When I accepted this job, I knew it wasn't a stepping-stone job, where you do well here and get a better job," Stoops told ESPN prior to the 2016 season. "I thought all along this was the best job.