Inside Bob Stoops' Office - View 1
Stoops has a family photo taken the night the Sooners won the national championship in Miami
"We were up in the hospitality room celebrating," Stoops said. "That was special."
Nobody could have predicted the Sooners' meteoric rise. OU had been mired in relative mediocrity since Barry Switzer had resigned more than a decade earlier. But in Stoops' second season, the Sooners kept winning games, even as a double-digit underdog to Florida State in the Orange Bowl.
The Stoops family celebrated late into the night. By morning, Stoops realized the magical run was over.
"The thing I remember the most, the really empty feeling about 7 in the morning when we were all finished, going into the hotel room with my wife. It's over. It's almost disappointing. Like, the next day, you're not chasing it anymore. Whereas going into it, the chase, the fight for it, that's what's so exciting. Then you have it. And that's cool, I'm not saying it isn't. But at the end, you have this feeling of, 'Oh geez, tomorrow is going to be boring.' You don't have it."
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