Former Oklahoma Coach Bob Stoops to be Honored Sept. 18

Stoops will be feted as part of the National Football Foundation's Hall of Fame On-Campus Salute when the Sooners take on Nebraska next week.

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Former Oklahoma Coach Bob Stoops to be Honored Sept. 18

Former Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops will be honored during the Sooners’ home game with Nebraska on Sept. 18 for his induction into the College Football Hall of Fame.

The ceremony is part of the National Football Foundation’s Hall of Fame On-Campus Salute for its inductees.

This year, due to the COVID-19 shutdown, the NFF will induct members of both the 2020 and 2021 classes.

Stoops, in the 2021 class, will be enshrined into the College Football Hall of Fame during a December ceremony in Las Vegas.

Stoops coached the Sooners for 17 seasons and is the winningest coach in the history of the program with 190 career victories. He resurrected the OU program after a decade of mediocrity and won the 2000 national championship in just his second season, coached in three other BCS title games and finished with 10 Big 12 Conference championships.

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Published Sep 8, 2021

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.

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