Burnt Orange Nation: An SB Nation Community

Navigation: Jump to content areas:


Sports blogs for fans, by fans.
Around SBN: Cal RB Jahvid Best Seriously Injured, Carted Off Field

What's Happening up in Norman??

This is:

Stoops shakes up OU staff

03:54 PM CST on Monday, February 6, 2006
By BRIAN DAVIS / The Dallas Morning News

Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops hired a new assistant coach Monday and then shook up his entire offensive staff as the Sooners prepare for the 2006 season.

Northwestern offensive line coach James Patton was hired to fill a similar role at OU, the school announced. Patton had been at Northwestern the last five seasons. Last year, the Wildcats allowed just 11 sacks and the offense ranked fourth nationally by averaging 500.3 yards per game.

Patton's arrival means that current offensive line coach Kevin Wilson will now coach tight ends as fullbacks and have more free time in his role as a first-year offensive coordinator.

Also, tight ends coach Kevin Sumlin will now coach the receivers and have the title of co-offensive coordinator and passing game coordinator.

All of these moves were triggered by the departure of Darrell Wyatt, the receivers coach who left OU for the Minnesota Vikings' staff.

Stoops had said previously that he was in no hurry to hire a new assistant coach. He purposely delayed hiring a new assistant until after national signing day on Feb. 1.

OU releases 2006 schedule
School officials released the 2006 schedule on Monday, and for the sixth straight year, the Sooners will play only Division I-A opponents.

OU will play home games against Alabama-Birmingham (Sept. 2), Washington (Sept. 9) and Middle Tennessee (Sept. 23). The Sooners will play at Oregon, which lost to OU in last season's Pacific Life Holiday Bowl, on Sept. 16.

Sept. 30 will be an open date, and then OU will meet Texas in the Red River Rivalry on Oct. 7.

In addition to its regular Big 12 South schedule, OU will also play Big 12 North teams Iowa State (Oct. 14), Colorado (Oct. 21) and go to Missouri (Oct. 28).

The annual Bedlam Series game against intrastate rival Oklahoma State is scheduled for Nov. 25.

All comments, FanPosts, and FanShots are the views of the reader-authors who create them.

0 recs  |  Comment 1 comment

Story-email Email Printer Print

Comments

Display:

Wait
So help me out. Is the same coach that drove off all of those offensive linemen still around?

by Eric on Feb 7, 2006 2:11 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

Comments For This Post Are Closed


User Tools

Welcome to Burnt Orange Nation, a blog dedicated to University of Texas athletics. Get BON updates via Twitter.
Start posting about the Longhorns »

Join SB Nation and dive into communities focused on all your favorite teams.

FanPosts

Community blog posts and discussion.

Recommended FanPosts

Ut_vs_fau_8-30-2008_049_small
Tebow Apologizes, Resumes Place at Right Hand of God

Recent FanPosts

Small
Throwback jerseys for A&M game
Texas_old3_small
Defense performance vs. non-conference
2401104_1__small
The Almost Perfect Day of College Football
Jackut_small
Can we stop talking about the Aggies now?
Small
Texas-Baylor 2nd Half Thread Photo Recommendations
Img_0095_small
This week's petition to the AP from OU
Elephantlogoorange_small
BCS System Alternatives
Small
Mock BCS talk between Fla, Bama, Tex, Iowa
Clock_tower_small
Weekly BON Hit Award osu
Small
TCU?

+ New FanPost All FanPosts >

SPONSORS


Site Editors

Pb6_small Peter Bean

Dark_pumpkin_small awiggo

Menbooger_small GhostofBigRoy

Contributing Authors

Jersey_front_small 54b

Zombie_profilepic_small Horn Brain

Gse_multipart20834_small 40AS

Pigeons_small billyzane

Small whills

Brandedbevo1024x768_small dimecoverage

Rosebowl_small txtwstr7

Small TheElusiveShadow

Me_small burnt in ny

Official Partner of CBS Sports