Superb piece about The King in today's Tulsa World [Archive]

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Okla-homey

6/14/2009, 08:20 PM

cool imbedded video too.

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A sign at Big Red Sales reflects the sentiment of OU fans the day Barry Switzer resigned as head coach.-Tulsa World file

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During his 16-season run as head football coach at Oklahoma, Barry Switzer savored three national championships. MIKE SIMONS/Tulsa World

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http://www.tulsaworld.com/sports/article.aspx?subjectid=92&articleid=20090614_92_B1_During476927

Crucifax Autumn

6/14/2009, 08:38 PM

Awesome!

Soonerus

6/14/2009, 08:47 PM

Great stuff...Thanks...

wisconsincowboy

6/14/2009, 09:30 PM

yeah great find!!! KING

CrimsonJim

6/14/2009, 09:50 PM

Thanks homey! Fantastic article and video!!

olevetonahill

6/14/2009, 10:13 PM

Long live the King :cool:

Mjcpr

6/14/2009, 11:16 PM

Great articles in today's paper about The King. It is always a shock to me when they print his age. Barry Switzer is 71 years old! I just can't believe that.

Mjcpr

6/14/2009, 11:24 PM

Yep, that was a good video. If you haven't watched it, watch it.

One of the articles mentions that Switzer and David Swank live just a few blocks away from each other and see each other often. Also, and I know this but I guess I forget it, Switzer's resignation was 100% his own doing. He was going to be given more time to straighten things up but ended up resigning. Man, what a bleak time that was for the program.

goingoneight

6/14/2009, 11:36 PM

We SOOOO need a Switzer smiley for everytime someone types the word "king."

OK2U

6/15/2009, 01:38 AM

mad spek
long live the king

Fraggle145

6/15/2009, 01:42 AM

"We would have hung a half-a-hundred on a bunch of people and won a lot of games," Switzer said last week. "I would have won. I know we wouldn't have lost. I would have kept (recruits) in state. ... My coaches would have coached well, and we would have won football games. I had been through tough times before. I had been through (NCAA) probations before. ... We would have evolved. Our offense would have evolved."

This makes me happy.

olevetonahill

6/15/2009, 04:31 AM

This makes me happy.

YUp
:D

AlbqSooner

6/15/2009, 06:14 AM

A great coach, a great mentor, a great man. 31-1-1 is a pretty good way to begin a career as a head coach.

soonerfan28

6/15/2009, 01:18 PM

Nice article, but everytime they show Charles Thompson on the SI cover in that orange jumpsuit it makes me sick.

walkoffsooner

6/15/2009, 01:28 PM

I bought him a greyhound thats the smile he had

Blues1

6/15/2009, 01:43 PM

I can't help to Wonder what two Colleges offered Barry a Job.....??

Anybody got a Clue....??

Rock On'

OUDoc

6/15/2009, 01:45 PM

How Barry Switzer's Sooners Terrorized Their Campus

Funny, I was at OU from 1986-1990 and was never terrorized by anything other than the University of Miami (****ing thugs). :)

LosAngelesSooner

6/15/2009, 02:17 PM

Thanks for sharing. That was a good article and a fun video to watch.

LONG LIVE THE KING!!!!

OKC-SLC

6/15/2009, 05:20 PM

Long live the King.

boomersooner28

6/15/2009, 05:44 PM

I could listen to Barry Switzer tell stories all day long. And then wake up the next morning and do it again.

ouwasp

6/15/2009, 10:50 PM

I can't help to Wonder what two Colleges offered Barry a Job.....??

Anybody got a Clue....??

Rock On'

I know I read a column by the late Bill Connors of the Tulsa World that alluded to some movers and shakers at Okie St considering the King, at one time; I suppose when Pat Jones left.

Now wouldn't that have been weird.

Pricetag

6/16/2009, 12:13 PM

I think the entire Sooner fanbase would have committed suicide had something like that come to pass. As good a recruiter as Blake was, he wouldn't have held a candle to Barry, so we would have been that much worse.

Dio

6/16/2009, 12:51 PM

nm...comments about "fiction writers" got no place in a thread about the King

OKLA21FAN

6/16/2009, 01:02 PM

I can't help to Wonder what two Colleges offered Barry a Job.....??

Anybody got a Clue....??

Rock On'I'd lay pretty good odds that Arkansas was one of them (after they fired Joe Kines in just one season in the early 90s)

Pricetag

6/17/2009, 09:16 AM

I had forgotten that Coach Switzer resigned in the summer. Does anyone remember spring football in 1989? I'm sure it probably wasn't covered then like it was now, and I definitely didn't follow it back then. What was the mood coming out of it? Who was supposed to be the starting QB?

boomermagic

6/17/2009, 11:44 AM

Long live THE KING !

cjames317

6/17/2009, 02:56 PM

Had he stuck around, think he'd kept up with Paterno and Bowden for all-time victories?

Okla-homey

6/17/2009, 08:07 PM

postcript:

I sent this email to the writer today:

Bill,

Thank-you very much. I loved your article. That man was and remains one of my heroes. I posted a link on a Sooner sports message board I frequent and folks literally from around the world were thus able to access it, many of whom commented extremely favorably about the delightful read.

<Homey>

he wrote back:

Thank you, <Homey>. I've gotten to know Barry very well since he became the Dallas Cowboy coach. Donnie Duncan was correct when he said that anyone who actually knows Barry Switzer can't help but like the guy.

Crucifax Autumn

6/18/2009, 12:16 AM

Had he stuck around, think he'd kept up with Paterno and Bowden for all-time victories?

He'd be way ahead! He's the damn King!