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Originally Posted by LiveSteam

Meh. Texas has the best of the best & they still suck. Big game Bob won his NC with someone else'es players

Nebraska fans jsut make stuff up. You guys are just amazing:




IT'S STILL pretty amazing to think how Bob Stoops pulled it off.

When he arrived at Oklahoma in December 1998, the program had zero verbal commitments. Zero official visits scheduled.

And somehow, in two months, Stoops and his skeleton staff assembled a class of 21 misfit, castoff and overlooked football players that became the heart and soul of a national championship team and helped restore a glory that continues today.

"It's amazing how well that group performed," said longtime OU aide Merv Johnson, "and what all they accomplished."

Less than a week away from signing his 14th recruiting class, Stoops must look back at how the recruiting landscape has changed, and how frenzied those first weeks were.

"Getting started late like that today would just about wreck you," Johnson said. "If you're not working a year ahead or more, you're way behind."

When John Blake's tenure ended, Oklahoma was more than behind. The program was in disarray. And with an empty recruiting cupboard, the immediate future looked impossibly bleak.

http://www.tulsaworld.com/article.as...1_cutlin267292