John Shoop was born on August 1,1969 and is an American football coach and former quarterback, who is the current head coach of the Nordic Storm in the European League of Football.
18 Facts About John Shoop
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John Shoop has coached in the National Football League and at the collegiate level.
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John Shoop was a member of the Tigers football team from 1987 to 1990, starting from 1988 to 1990.
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John Shoop began his coaching career as a volunteer quarterbacks coach at Dartmouth College in 1991.
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John Shoop served as a graduate assistant at Vanderbilt University from 1992 to 1994, where he earned a Master of Education degree from Vanderbilt's Peabody School of Education.
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John Shoop spent four seasons with the Carolina Panthers, where he began his NFL coaching career at the age of 25.
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John Shoop was an offensive quality control assistant for the Panthers from 1995 to 1996.
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John Shoop served as quarterbacks coach for Carolina from 1997 to 1998.
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John Shoop served as the quarterbacks coach in 1999 and 2000.
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John Shoop was named offensive coordinator for the last four games of the 2000 season following incumbent Gary Crowton's departure for the head coaching position at Brigham Young University.
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John Shoop then spent the next three seasons as the offensive coordinator.
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John Shoop was quarterbacks coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2004 under head coach Jon Gruden.
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John Shoop then coached for the Oakland Raiders where he served as quarterbacks coach in 2005, the tight ends coach in 2006, and as offensive coordinator for the final five games of the 2006 season.
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In January 2007, John Shoop left the Raiders to become the offensive coordinator of the North Carolina Tar Heels football team.
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On January 24,2013, Purdue University head football coach, Darrell Hazell hired John Shoop to be the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the Boilermakers football team after taking a year off from coaching.
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John Shoop is an advocate for players' rights in college athletics.
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John Shoop's older brother Bob Shoop is a football coach.
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John Shoop made a recovery from prostate cancer but was later diagnosed with Langerhans cell histiocytosis.