Former OSU football coach Jim Stanley dies

 
BY JENNI CARLSON, Staff Writer, jcarlson@opubco.com
Published: January 12, 2012

Jim Stanley had a favored pregame ritual for his Oklahoma State football teams.

Watching John Wayne movies.

The man on the screen mirrored the coach on the Cowboy sidelines. Tough as a nail. Stoic as a statue. Just as a frontier lawman.

“He was an intense man,” former Cowboy linebacker Daria Butler said of Stanley. “He was a man of very few words. But he was a good guy, one of the ol...


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