What's your connection to The University of Oklahoma?

[Ardmore_Sooner]

What is everyone's connection to OU? Did you go to school at OU? Just like football? Live in Norman?

Just curious to how everyone wound up connected to OU.

I've been going to football and basketball games for most of my life, decided to go to school here and graduated last May.

[yankee]

student. i'm a sophomore.

[delhalew]

Attended back in 1994-1996. Due to a general lack of direction, I went off to pee on as many different parts of the country as possible. Landed back here to raise a family.

[fadada1]

i are a graduate!!!!

[SoonerInKCMO]

Grew up here; class of '92.

[JohnnyMack]

Starting Free Safety 1987-88

[Tulsa_Fireman]

I'm Barry Switzer.

[Collier11]

graduated in 06, lifelong fan

[PrideTrombone]

Graduated 2004.

[sooner59]

Graduated in '09 after 6 years of undergrad. Now in grad school.

FYI: Pick a good major early. Don't change to something completely different halfway through.

Oh, and lifelong fan.

[ouduckhunter]

Life long fan, undergrad degree from OU, and went to OU Law School for a while before excessive partying made me rethink a career in law! :D

[SanJoaquinSooner]

I was a resident of Norman for 13 years, 9 years of which I was an OU student.

[soonersis]

Class of 2000

[C&CDean]

Indoctrinated by my 4th grade teacher in Tucson in 1965 or so and became a football fan. Move to Norman in 1991. Master's from OU in 2000.

[Sooner04]

Do to a general lack of direction, I went off to pee on as many different parts of the country as possible.
Looks like other factors may have been involved.

[reevie]

Bachelor's in 94, Master's in 96. Life-long fan.

[OhU1]

Norman schools since 4th grade, Norman High grad, OU undergrad. OU Law.

[MojoRisen]

Old man played hoops 58-61 business school hall of fame grew up a fan as soon as I could count TD's!

[SoonerJack]

Fan since Tinker Owens and Jack Mildren.

[SunnySooner]

Born into a family of rabid Sooner fans in Oklahoma, alumna, married to a fellow alum. I haven't lived in OK in a long time, but watching my beloved Sooners always makes me feel close to home.

[yermom]

started school in '94, worked there '97-'08

[SbOrOiNaEnR]

Student 2004-2008, 2008 Graduate, full-time employee 2009-present.

[pilobolus]

life long fan of the sports program, current grad student, lived in Norman for three years

[John Kochtoston]

Fourth-generation Sooner, BA 1999; JD expected in May.

[royalfan5]

OU plays the school I root for on a regular basis due to conference affiliation.

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

Uncle Dick Favor started on OU football team in '36-38. Dad graduated in '46, I believe, after returning from phillipines in WWII. I went to OU '63-67, and graduated in Pol Sci. Have been a lifelong fan. Saw several games as a kid during the 47 game winstreak...Today is America's Trasformation. I'm gonna miss the old country.

[salth2o]

My uncle is a doctor at Norman Regional and has had season tickets for nearly 50 years. I have been indoctrinated in all that is OU and raised a Sooner fan. Never went to school there, would loved to have, but it was not in the cards.

[ouwasp]

Been a Sooner fan since my young days back in the early 70s (osu grad/OU fan Dad turned me onto them). Went elsewhere for school, but did get 1 grad credit from there! :D

[BudSooner]

On the way back from Texas during a trip to my family in Irving as a child, I took a **** just before crossing into Oklahoma, once across the border Barry Switzer stood there in the flowing white robes(striking I might add)and blessed me with the holy water from the duck pond.

He said he probably would not have done that had I not sharted and it sounded like Royal coming out. :D

Life long fan since birth, born in it, raised in it, love it.
Sis was born in Waco when dad was stationed at Fort Hood, and of course she claims to be a native Texan but I love her anyway. ;)

[IB4OU2]

Born and raised in Norman, attended OU 72-75 Undergrad in 75. Lived about 3/4 of a mile from Owen field during that time. Attended or worked at OU games from 65 through 07. Grandfather worked at OU for 48 years and worked in the pressbox every year during that time and my father worked in in the pressbox as a statistician from about 70 through 97 with Mike Treps and company. Went to highschool with Blevins, John Carrol, Joe Simpson, Bob Barry Jr., Frank Barry and Chuck Fairbanks Jr. to name a few. Was friends with Leroy Selman and many other players throughout the years. It's in my blood...Sooner Born and Sooner Bred.

[soonermix]

i bought a piece of paper from OU claiming i gots my book learnin from there

[badger]

Graduated in 2005, husband NP graduated in 2004. Brother graduated in 2002 (I think) and 2004. My granddaddy was the first one from his farming family to rebel and attend college... but he went to Oklahoma A&M :eek:

[Fraggle145]

Undergrad from 1998-2002. Went off to UGA for a while to get my MS. Now I am back getting my PhD.

[1890MilesToNorman]

2 uncles and 2 cousins graduated from OU. Did a lot of partying in Norman with the cousins in the early 80's. As far as sports go, I've been to about 30 home fball games, 4 Red River War games and have seen them play at USC in 73? and one game in Syracuse in the 90's. Several home hoops games and a few baseball games in Norman.

[TheHumanAlphabet]

Came to OU because the Director of the School of Meteorolgy sent me a letter stating they wanted me at OU. Lived in GA at the time and never thought of OU prior. Ended up with 3 degrees from OU.

BS in Meteorology - 1982
MS in Industrial Engineering - 1987
Ph.D in Industrial Engineering - 1997

EDIT: I guess this makes me a real and legit fan according to the aggots.

[BillyBall]

My pops, brother and sister went to OU. Grew up going to football and basketball games and went to undergrad where I graduated in 2002.

[Ike]

PhD, 2007

[Jacie]

Fan of OU football as a child since 67, though attended a game before then.

Student OU from 72-75, graduated with a B.S. (major in geology).

Started to work for OU in September of 75 and was there 10 years.

Still a fan . . .

[Jello Biafra]

walk on august 87...booted 6 oct of same year ;) Fan since i met billy sims in the santee lounge when i was 8.

[Bourbon St Sooner]

BBA '96.

Grew up in OKC and we had season tix to watch Barry's boys kick ***. Then I go to school during the Gibbs-Schmelly days:mad:

[soonerbrat]

My mom was a student at OU when I was little and we lived about a half mile from campus...on Saturdays I used to hear the crowd and the band and stuff and fell in love with it. My uncles took me to my first game when I was 13 and I was hooked. I went to school there one semester but I studied boys and beer more than anything else, so I ended up getting my degree at UCO.

[oumartin]

Got it on with a girl at Brandt park!

[SoonerStormchaser]

Got my B.S. at OU...as did the wife, her oldest son, both her siblings and both her parents. Got rejected for a masters program at OU as well...

[SoonerAtKU]

Worked with Yermom, afs, and SteelPanz from about 98-2001.

[yermom]

those were the days :D

[HBick]

Father, Grandfather, & Great Grandfather all went to OU. Grandfather did not graduate due to joining the Army and being in the North Africa campaign of WWII.

Grandmother attended OU in the 30's and 40's.

I attend OU and I am currently a senior. I've missed a total of 3 home games in the last 18 years. A KU home game when I couldn't get off work in high school, THE mizzou game of the century, when game day was in town and also during homecoming, I had a wedding that I couldn't skip. And the Nebraska home game last year because I had a little too much on Lindsey in the 6 hours leading up to the game, no excuse there, I was a bad sooner that day.

I attend basketball games and baseball games when I can make it.

And for the record, who the f*** sets their wedding during football season, especially on a home game? Oh wait I know, a stupid aggie.

[I Am Right]

Grad 1980, kids 4th generation grads

[GKeeper316]

degree in broadcasting

[TheHumanAlphabet]

Got my B.S. at OU...as did the wife, her oldest son, both her siblings and both her parents. Got rejected for a masters program at OU as well...

If it was in Meteorology, then that isn't a bad thing...One of the toughest majors and programs in the country.