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Labeling Stoops an exercise in futility

By Gene Wojciechowski
ESPN The Magazine

Sunday, January 2, 2005

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- The convenient way to describe Bob Stoops is to reduce him to something he isn't. He isn't a genius. Geniuses split atoms, discover penicillen, invent the microchip. He isn't Sun Tzu with a whistle, or Schwarzkopf with a visor, or Churchill in a Nike shirt. He isn't profound, unless you're a big fan of his favorite four-letter word: Work. But as Stoops' coaching legacy grows exponentially, the temptation is to start constructing pedestals, to create a myth that excee ...

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