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Published: October 20, 2006

Oklahoma didn’t offer Jacob Gutierrez a scholarship until late in the 2003 recruiting process. Size — Gutierrez is even now just 5-foot-6, 186 pounds — was one issue.

Something, however, kept drawing Bob Stoops back to the San Antonio star.

“I just kept watching him,” Stoops said. “And he wore 22. And I kept thinking, ‘Dang, that’s Quentin Griffin .’”

Once Gutierrez...


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