Former Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops to receive Bear Bryant lifetime achievement award
Bob Stoops won a national championship in just his second year at the helm for the Oklahoma Sooners. 191 wins, several more national championship game appearances, and 10 Big 12 conference titles later, and the College Football Hall of Famer continues to receive accolades well after he officially retired from the Sooners back in 2017.
Stoops is set to receive the Bear Bryant Lifetime Achievement Award sponsored by the American Heart Association.
“It is an honor to receive the Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Heart Association,” said Stoops. “I have spent my career dedicated to developing players both on and off the field. To be named amongst the coaches that have come before me that have made a legacy in college football is a distinction that I do not take for granted.”
Stoops will be honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award as one of four national coaching honors given during the Bryant Awards Ceremony, presented this year by Marathon Oil, on January 11, 2023, in Houston, Texas.
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