In the last 20 years, what has Snyder done? Does he have even one BCS bowl win? Please remind me. His best team was in 1998. Undefeated and needing a win over a pretty week South champ in the XII title game in a venue where he had a crowd advantage. Got beat in OT.
He is 3-8 against Stoops and there is no question that when Bob started, KState was a better program than OU. His one bowl win in his second tour at KState was over a 7-6 Michigan team in the Buffalo Wild Wings bowl in Tempe, the other bowl game in the Phoenix area where OU fans complained when we played there.
Gary is 2-3 against Bob. His conference titles are all in a mediocre conference, unless you call last year's co championship with Baylor to be one, when they lost head to head. He does have two quality Bowl wins over Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl and a trouncing of a good Ole Miss team, missing their best offensive player in the Peach Bowl last season. Since moving to the Big XII, TCU is 23-15 overall in a Power Five conference. The conference record is 14-13.
Briles has the best record of the three. He is 3-4 head to head against Stoops. Coached a Heisman winner that gave credibility to his program. He is 55-34, but 40-12 the last four seasons. He also has back to back seasons of having the most penalized team in the country. Some would consider that a black mark against being a great coach. He is 2-3 in bowl games, 0-2 in BCS level bowls the last two season, both times against teams they were better than, but got outplayed and hurt themselves with bad penalties.
I would suggest that if Stoops had the record of any of these coaches, that OU fans would be irate, and be complaining that a replacement should be considered. But since they are elsewhere, they are lauded as model coaches to be emulated. Not exactly a reasonable comparison.
Patterson was 4-8 two years ago. But people around here want to called 8-5 unacceptable. But for Patterson, that's okay.