{"id":58832,"date":"2024-07-02T01:27:59","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T06:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/?p=58832"},"modified":"2024-07-02T01:27:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T06:27:59","slug":"bob-stoops-believes-oklahomas-sec-move-was-the-only-responsible-thing-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/bob-stoops-believes-oklahomas-sec-move-was-the-only-responsible-thing-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Stoops believes Oklahoma\u2019s SEC move was \u2018the only responsible thing to do\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is official: the Oklahoma Sooners<\/strong><\/a> are now a part of the Southeastern Conference. To commemorate their monumental move to the SEC, the university is hosting a ceremony and celebration at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.<\/p>\n

The SEC Network team is on-site, taking in all the fanfare, along with a who\u2019s who list of Sooner royalty. As the celebration was roaring within the stadium, the SEC Network team welcomed legendary head coach Bob Stoops<\/a><\/strong> to the set.<\/p>\n

To start their Q&A with Stoops, host of SEC Live<\/em><\/strong> Dari Nowkhah questioned the former Sooners head coach about his thoughts about the move and whether or not he knew about it during the early phases.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, I was consulted about it, not that I was making any decisions, of course,\u201d Stoops said. \u201cBut in my opinion, to fill this 85,000-seat stadium week-in and week-out, all the new sky boxes, and everything that we have\u2014 the TV revenue \u2014financially, to me, it\u2019s the only responsible thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur fans want to see us Tennessee coming to town, Alabama coming to town. They want to travel to those places. So, in the end, you can either stay put, but very little in life stays the same forever. We had an opportunity to meet with a major one, and I got it. In my opinion, it was the right thing moving forward for the next 5000 years. This is gonna be good for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although he is not fully part of the program, Stoops is well respected and revered throughout Norman, OK. As he saw it, this was the best move for Sooners University moving forward. Oklahoma\u2019s transition from the Big 12 to the SEC not only comes with a more lucrative TV revenue deal but also with what most believe is a higher quality of competition.<\/p>\n

Making the jump to the SEC with Texas is neither here nor there for Stoops. What matters to him is the continued flourishing success of the university. And the former Oklahoma headman knows what joining the Southeastern Conference means for the Sooners and the long run and is all for it.<\/p>\n

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