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Is Bo Pelini Nebraskas Bob Stoops?

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Is Bo Pelini Nebraskas Bob Stoops?

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“,”body”:” Bob Stoops and Bo Pelini.\n You have to admit, if you examine the similarities, it gets eerie.\n But let me start from the beginning.\n Both men grew up in Youngstown, Ohio, and graduated from the same high school, Cardinal Mooney High (Stoops in 1978, Pelini in 1986). \n Both men were defensive players in the secondary for Big Ten schools (Stoops at Iowa, Pelini at Ohio State), where both men got marketing degrees. \n Both men began their coaching careers as graduate assistants at Iowa under Hayden Fry, several years apart.\n After Iowa, Stoops coached in college football as a defensive coach under Bill Snyder at Kansas State and under Steve Spurrier at Florida. Then Stoops was hired as the head coach at the University of Oklahoma in 1999.\n After Iowa, Pelini coached quarterbacks at Cardinal Mooney for a season, then started a successful coaching stint in the NFL with the 49ers (two years, and Super Bowl XXIX victory), Patriots (three years) and Packers (three years). Then