Oklahoma football: Bob Stoops calls on fans for Kansas State game
Bob Stoops subtly asked the OU crowd to show up with energy on Saturday. That’s all you need to know for how big a game is Kansas State.
Fans celebrate with OU's R.J. Washington after the college football game between the University of Oklahoma Sooners and Texas Tech University at Gaylord Family -- Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Okla., Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008. Photo by Bryan Terry, The Oklahoman
In 2008, Stoops urged OU fans to show up loud and proud for the Texas Tech showdown, even using some negative reinforcement, saying the Sooner crowd hadn’t been all that intimidating. You know the rest. In the “jump around game,” in which the crowd was crazy long before kickoff and continued deep into OU’s eventual 65-21 rout.
Monday, Stoops said “hopefully, our crowd will engage.”
Does that mean he’s calling out his fans the way he did in 2008?
OU head coach Bob Stoops bows to fans as Regent Rick Dunning, left, looks on after the college football game between the University of Oklahoma Sooners and Texas Tech University at Gaylord Family -- Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Okla., Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008. OU won, 65-21. Photo by Nate Billings, The Oklahoman
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Berry Tramel, a lifelong Oklahoman, sports fan and newspaper reader, joined The Oklahoman in 1991 and has served as beat writer, assistant...
