Location Lexington, Kentucky, United States Regions Southern US Gender Male
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Mike Stoops, named the defensive coordinator at Florida Atlantic University in January 2021, is beginning his 33rd year in coaching, having to this point been exposed to a veritable who’s who of the profession’s brightest minds.
He played for Hayden Fry at Iowa, and later began his coaching career under the Hawkeyes legend. Mike Stoops also worked
under Bill Snyder at Kansas State and Stoops’ older brother Bob at Oklahoma. Fry, Snyder and Bob Stoops are all in the College Football Hall of Fame, and Nick Saban, under whom Mike Stoops served as defensive analyst at Alabama in 2019-21, seems certain to be.
In all Mike Stoops has been on the staffs of teams that have gone 298-107-2, played in 24 postseason games, won eight conference championships and two national titles. The latter came in 2000 at Oklahoma and in 2020 at Alabama.
