Influencing Switzer
Most OU fans know the great influences on Barry Switzer . Frank Broyles , his college coach and first football boss. Jim Mackenzie , who brought Switzer to Oklahoma in 1966. Merv Johnson , the "rock of Gibraltar ,” as Switzer calls him, and an Arkansas graduate assistant during Switzer's playing days.
But here are three people from long-gone Arkansas days who set Switzer on the road he traveled:
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