Stoops Gets Paid, Readers Whine

So, the big man gets paid. According the Tulsa World, Bob Stoops’ contract was extended to 2015, making his seven-year contract worth more than $30 million. I have no problem with that. He’s brought so much pride and success to this university that it’s hard to put a price tag on it. This pay raise, voted on by the university’s regents, also saw both basketball coaches receive pay pumps, as well as their staffs.

The World picked out the juicy parts of the news, which is all we really care about … that and erasing the memory of that effin’ Florida game. Stoops could also make as much as $5 million in the 2011 season alone, should he remain in Norman that long.

An additional bonus, termed in the contract an “Additional Stay Benefit,” of $800,000 will be paid following Jan. 1, 2011. Factoring in the $700,000 bonus already in place, as well as the automatic $200,000 annual private-funds bump also built into the contract, Stoops stands to make $4.875 million in 2011. And that’s before performance-based bonuses also included in the deal. Should the Sooners compete for the Big 12 championship and a BCS bowl that season, as is typical under the coach, Stoops would clear the $5 million mark.

But how easily we forgot where we were 12 years ago. Trust us, RDK was in school during dark days of the Blake era. So it really pisses me off when I see newspaper “readers” — more like hillbilly busybodies with Internet access and no job — say the damndest things in the comments section.

And, really, it’s my own fault. You go to and somewhat major newspaper site and the comments are full of the most asinine opinions this side of Ask A Ho. I’ve collected a random sampling — really, I couldn’t stand to read anymore — of this Web-based jackassery. Any of the typos or grammar errors are from them, not the genius of RDK.

• keep supporting the $5 millon doallar man so your year on year tuition wil go up 11% while other commodities go down.
• In it’s last five BCS Games, OU IS 0-5. For a loser, Mr. Stoops has hit the jackpot! Every game lost means big bucks for him!His overall bowl record is 4-6, with narrow wins over Oregon, Arkansas, and FSU. OU did win handily in the 2003 Rose Bowl, over Wash, St.
• Too bad donors don’t see the importance of an education verses athletics.
• would be good to see a couple bowl wins come out of all that money… I hope he doesn’t CHOKE on all of it.
• Anybody ever see the HOUSE the guy lives in? My God! Why do we make royalty out of overrated football coaches? I think it says something about our own sense of self-esteem. By the way, Stoops is NOT the most overrated coach in history. Once upon a time, in a land far away, there lived a coach named Bo Shembeckler, who won a lot of regular season games by rolling over a lot of undermanned opponents, but was something like two-for-career in bowl games.

For full disclosure, there were plenty of people supporting the school, but I’m sure there was more of the above than anything about OU. But the misinformation in those reader comments was shocking. If you didn’t know it, President Boren was slaughtering bunnies to build Stoops a platinum mansion on Main Street.