Who here actually went/goes to OU?

[Soonermagik]

I just graduated this summer and was curious who all actually went there. What year did you graduate or stop going? If you didn't go there and are a fan why are you a fan?

And no.. this isn't a thread that says you had to go to OU to be a fan.. that's just dumb. I'm just curious where this fan base is coming from on the boards. :)

[soonercastor]

Graduated in May :D from the petroleum engr program

[chad]

I'm an OSU graduate.































and an OU graduate :D
Sooner born, Sooner bred and when I die, I'll be a Sooner dead.
The few years in stillwater were pretty fun as an OU fan, especially sitting in the student section in my OU gear :)

[josh09]

Still attend, as a sophomore!

[Boomer.....]

Graduated in May 06 with a BS in Civil Engineering.

[fadada1]

89-91; 97-00 - graduated in '99

U. of Florida - MS - '02

[Jboozer]

Undergrad and law school, which isn't as fun. If you are ever thinking grad school is the way to go, well, don't do it. Take out a large student loan and go blow it in Europe or Vegas for 6 months. Then come back and get a job

[sooner59]

Graduated in May 09 with a BS in Zoology: Biomedical Sciences. Currently a grad student at OUHSC.

[misplacedsooner]

grew up with season tickets to michigans big house. came down here in like 6th grade to visit family and they took me to an ou game, watched joe washington run wild in the bone and was hooked for life. from then on i wore ou gear to all michigan games, even though i was still a wolverine fan the sooners became my passion. our jr high team colirs were yellow and blue but i painted my pumas silver with red stripes and swore they made me faster and more elusive. ive lived in stillwater for several years and have a blast with the little pokey fans here.

[mehip]

I am a life long fan of OU who did not attend the university.

I grew up in Nicoma Park and Midwest City and was sure I'd go to OU when I was an eight grader even though we were dirt poor at the time. But then my parents moved us to Arizona for work. I still applied to OU in early 91 (my senior year of HS) but when I got the scholarship offer to CalTech I couldn't rationalize going to OU after that.

I am a fan because my dad loved the sooners more than anything. He and I weren't ever really on the same wavelength (he was a welder and I was a budding physicist) except when it came to football; him rooting for me when I played OLB/DE and lettered 4 years in HS or us watching the sooners play any time we could.

[sooner518]

OU BBA Marketing in 2005. My great grandfather got his doctorate in Psychology at OU (and taught for 30+ years at East Central in Ada). My grandfather got his bachelors and masters degrees at OU. My dad got his Bachelors and MBA at OU.

I only applied to OU and Tulsa, but chose OU, mainly because I got a pretty awesome scholarship early in my senior year of high school. (I took my ACT on the day OU beat Nebraska in 2000. I got in my car after taking the test and we were down 14-0.... that day turned out really well for me)

Im at TCU now for my MBA. Will be done in May. We'll see how that whole grad school thing works out for getting an actual job..... but grad school is definitely nowhere near as fun as undergrad. I wish I could go back to undergrad for a while. I freakin loved it

[Tigeman]

98'-02' BS Microbiology & BS BioChem

[BigDeezy]

graduated in 1987 with a Masters in Social Work degree

[meoveryouxinfinity]

i'm never going to graduate..

[sooner KB]

I would really like to see a poll with this question. I know you guys have probably already done this.

[herecomedajudge]

an old law grad here. Been a Sooner fan since I was nine. Don't come here often, just when I need a real laugh.

[S.PadreIsl.Sooner]

Graduate. 1986.

[OU_Sooners75]

Been a sooner fan for a long time. Wanted to play football for them, but got an offer at a different school north of Norman that wears purple.

Attended that piece of schit school one semester then transfer to a small NAIA school to major in partying.

Now I'm 30+ and setting my goals back in order and am starting over. I hope to be at ou within a year to start working on my BS of Nursing.

[Jacie]

Attended three and a half years in Norman after a year at Central State, from fall/72 through fall/75, graduated BS (w/ a major in geology) but Sooner football fan from age 12.

Also worked for the University from September/75 - September /85.

[CrimsonRez]

Currently a Junior, Criminal Justice Major

[Boomer_Sooner_sax]

I am a prOUd Sooner alum with a degree in Mathematics.

[SicEmBaylor]

I had several debate tournaments at OU back in HS. Does that count? :D

[Ray Hefner]

GRADUATED IN 1950 WITH A BS DEGREE IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.

[reevie]

Bachelor's degree in 1994 and Master's in 1996

[MichiganSooner]

Got my degree at Michigan. Paid lots of money so my kid could study and graduate from OU.

[HBick]

5th year, grad in December with a degree in Advertising

[Aries]

I tried to enroll when I first became a Sooner fan, but they would not take 10 year olds. :-)

Never attended...

[ouwasp]

NSU grad... but I do have grad credit credit from OU.... My Dad was the first of his family to graduate from college... osu... but all the family have been proud Sooner fans since the 50s. Why?

W I N N I N G

may it never stop

[Norman Sooner]

Graduate..2003

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

Dad and 2 uncles went to OU. Grew up in OKC, and watched Bud the Stud and his OU teams whomp on the world of college football in the '50's. Went to HS in Tulsa. I'm a '67 graduate of OU, with Pol Sci major. Have been in sales all my post grad years.

[texas bandman]

Bachelor of Music Ed 1981. I grew up in Moore so I was always a Sooner fan. I was a boy scout usher in 1969 and got to be at all the home games when Steve Owens won his Heisman and was in the Pride when Billy Sims won his. I was lucky enough to be in the student section with my Dad for the Game of the Century. I bleed crimson and cream. Boomer!!

[soonervegas]

1997 Econ - but I was a Sooner fan long before then

[Boomer!!]

Currently a pre-dental junior @ OU

[OUstud]

I'm currently a junior, majoring in Letters and planning on attending law school.

[MyT Oklahoma]

B.A. (1981) and J.D. (1984) from Washburn University of Topeka including one year at KSU. A Sooner fan since the OU/KSU game in 1971.

[VaSooner]

Never went. Dad taught there. Mom went to school there. Grew up down Boyd st. Spent loads of time on campus. Figured out the right ticket taker that would let us in on game day after selling parking spots in the empty lot across the street from the house (probably not empty any longer). Spend all our sales money on sooner gear in the fan shop then went to a buddies house and replayed the game the rest of the day and all day Sunday. Switzer. Butterfingers. Billy. Selmon Bros. Boz. Jackson. Holieway. Moved when we I was 12. Went back to visit the day the King Resigned.

[bluesmagoo]

MA 1971 in Anthropology. Couldn't find work, so another BS in radiologic technology from OUHSC a few years later. Went to UNM for med school. Wish I would have gone to OUHSC for that, too.

[webfoot]

B.S. 1997

[LRoss]

Not only have I not attended OU, I've never been in the state of Oklahoma.

I grew up in SW South Dakota, and of course we had no D1 teams (USD went FCS last year for the first time, go 'Yotes!). I loved football (and all sports) though, I thought the colors and helmet looked cool, I loved watching the wishbone, the word "Oklahoma" was fun to say and rolled off the tongue -- and maybe most influentially, I was surrounded by Nebraska fan base that I found overwhelmingly obnoxious and of course in the 80's OU was their most despised rival. So it was a fit, and I've been a fan ever since.

I know that makes me a bit of a poser, so thanks for having me and for the most part at least the fans on this board make me feel good about supporting them.

[PLaw]

BSME TTU '83,

4th Generation Okie from Garvin Co. Dad grew up in Norman and was a NHS All-State OT/DE in '49. Growing up, he sold concessions at the stadium and helped the equipment manager after practices. He tried to walk on at OU, but he was too light and too slow.

Warren Petroleum transferred dad to West Texas in '63. We made several stops including Crane; Lovington, NM; Pampa; and Odessa. Graduated from Pampa.

Like Barry sez, "A lot of folks start life on third base and think they hit a triple." That was not my case and out of state tuition didn't work. Tech was the next best option.

My Sooner fandom started at Christmas '62. I got my first OU helmet and football. Dad was convinced I was the next OU HB AA. It's a darn shame he didn't do well in biology in school - my mom was only 5'0".

First OU Game Attended: 1971 Nebraska.
Last OU Game Attended: 2010 FSU

Bucket List: Attend winning OU National Championship Game with my son.

BOOMER

Oh yeah, my son will be enrolling at OU next fall in the aviation school.

[Collier11]

OU grad, 2006

[Dan Thompson]

BS Math/Computer Science 1972 Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, CA

[jrsooner]

'89er myself, 5 great years there.

[Williesan]

B. Arch - 1998. First of my family in this generation to graduate from OU. Before me though, there are too many degrees from OU in my family to count!

Williesan

[StoopTroup]

My first serious girl friend was a dancer at Walter Mittys. I've been a fan ever since seeing Dr. Death make people walk on the otherside of street or die. ;)

[Legendarybud]

I graduated from a different university but have been a Sooner fan forever. I became acquainted with Mary Wilkinson, Bud's first wife, and Jay, his son, when he spoke at an event I chaired several years ago. At that time I learned something special about some material that Bud had written and for the past several years I have hounded Jay to do something with it. Finally, in 2009 he had time to devote to the project and sent me the material and asked for my opinion. After reading it, I was very impressed, actually, overwhelmed. When I sent back my opinion, we decided to move forward. So, since then we have been working very hard on this special "Bud" project about which I will have more info by November. Right now I am sworn to secrecy. We spent most of this past summer both writing and editing and finally finished in September. Devoting this much time to the "Bud project", I learned much about Bud that I never knew before, and Jay and I became good friends. If I hadn't been a Sooner fan before, this experience did it.

[MeMyself&Me]

Graduated from OU in '98. Got to watch the end of Gibbs, all of Schnelly, and the beginning of Blake... WOHOOO!

At least student season tickets were only $40 (if memory serves).

[SouthCarolinaSooner]

My dad coached a basketball player who was at OU from 96-2001, Tim Heskett, I think he's third all time in 3 pointers made in school history? I was 5 years old at the time sent me back all these OU highlight tapes (not many football highlights at first ;)) so I became a Sooner pretty much as soon as I could comprehend sports. I wasn't able to go to any OU games (except women's basketball vs south carolina in 2007ish since OU hardly ever comes east) until I flew out for the A&M game last year. I want to transfer to OU if I can as well.

[ccmike9]

I'm here right now, Philosophy Major

[C&CDean]

Old topic, new thread.

MHR, 2000. Who GIS anyhow?

[setem]

Will graduate in May with a degree in Social Studies and a Minor in Sociology.

[PhilTLL]

Me! B.A. history 2007, M.Ed. end of next year?

[ouduckhunter]

Sooner born, and Sooner bred!! BBA 1981 and 1 year of OU Law school before basically flunking out due to excessive partying!!

Both of my parents went to OU as did sisters and brother. I grew up in Miami, home of Steve Owens, and Tinker too! Boomer!

[OUTrumpet]

Graduated with a B.A. in mathematics summer 08.

[CrimsonCommando]

Went from 90' to 95' grad with B.A. Also Beta Theta Pi.

[SanDiegoSoonerGal]

Me. BA in English 1984.

Not Sooner born nor Sooner bred (the product of sports-hating parents) but I found the crimson and cream path and when I die I'll sure as hell be a Sooner dead.

@ Duck Hunter: SOONER!

[Sooner74]

Err...Taking a victory semester right now. That last lap is the worst. I think I am schooled out.

[cvsooner]

Graduated with a BA in Journalism, 1978. Also Phi Beta Kappa. Have a sister who graduated with a bachelors' and masters' in library science.

[BrockLanders]

I got my BBA in marketing and MIS in 1999 at the Price College o' Business before all the cool renovations, then law school at Tulsa in 2000-2004.

[oudavid1]

Well

My grand-dad, as well as my entire family is from the Great State of Tennessee. My granddad, like my dad, grew up in Memphis. My grandfather.....
http://www.corbisimages.com/images/67/4365F1BF-F42C-4C57-9D93-8408EA3DE972/U1269005INP.jpg

This guy^^^
was offered by OU and came and played left half back from 51-54 (and also played on the baseball team).
My dad, born and raised in Memphis came out here to go to school and met my mother (who is from Oklahoma City, if you know of Cullen Lumber than thats her family) and my parents met in Dallas, after an OU/Texas game (we won :) ) and got married. I have 2 older brothers (one graduated from UCO and works for Jenco Roofing and is married, and the other one is a SO at OU and a sig ep like my dad was). I have an older sister who graduated from OCCC and works in Times Square now, and then me (Currently at UCO, but there is a plan to move and go to school at OU next year, but i really dont care where i go to college right now). I have one more little brother still in HS. I have only missed 1 OU home game since 99, and i have been to the 04, 06, 07, 08, 09, and 2010 Red River Rivalry (im 3-3). I want to coach football and i am a lifelong Sooner Fan and i really enjoy watching any team play though since OU is my team a watch and study them the most.

[En_Fuego]

I use to go out with a Stripper from Sugars in the Alley. She was going to OU at the time. Does that count ? :cool:

[MamaMia]

I grew up 'mostly' in Oklahoma and first went to Dodge City Community College, where my father had been transferred. I then attended St. Marys of The Plains . Back then it was an all girls school. I moved back home and transferred to OU to finish my degree in Political Science. It took me a while because I had a baby and was also working 3 nights a week at the Mont, during the Barry Switzer years. I finally graduated with my bachelors and then took some law courses while working part time for a law firm in the city. There was a Private Investigator who worked in our law office who had the Workman's comp. account for General Motors. We became good friends. I also did some work for him. I enjoyed it so much that I switched gears and with the help of my father I bought his firm when he retired. I honored his contract with the law firm, kept the General Motors account but eventually decided to go out on my own. I did that for 20 years. I then became heavily involved in politics. I ran for the Oklahoma House of Representatives and from there I've been a political consultant/campaign adviser along with helping my husband with his dental clinic.

[Leroy Lizard]

I use to go out with a Stripper from Sugars in the Alley.

An appropriate place to take a stripper on a date.

[OK2U]

Got my undergrad at the University of Utah (2008) because they offered me an academic scholarship I could't turn down. I still live in Utah, but just took the LSAT and and applying to the OU College of Law next year.
(I'm the first male in three generations in my family NOT to get a degree from OU--YET)

[Spanish Sooner]

BBA in International Business and Management in 08, Current 3rd year law student

[GKeeper316]

journalism 02... just started back in a graduate program.

*edit ok technically its broadcast media, but w/e

[BRS]

First in my family to proudly graduate @ OU in 2000 but come from a long line of Sooner fans before that......as my husband always says-we all like winners.

[SoonerBacker]

Bachelors in Secondary Ed, Social Studies - 1980
Masters in History - 1990

[kevpks]

BA 2004; MA 2007

[allanace16]

B.S., Industrial Engineering - 2009

Hopefully I'll be finishing my M.S. in the same by 2011. Always said I wanted to see OU win an NC in football as a student, so I keep biding my time with more degrees.....lol

[yermom]

should graduate in May

been a student and/or employee off and on since '94

[MelloYello]

B.S. in Meteorology, 2006
M.S. in Meteorology, 2008

Born and raised in North Carolina. Knew not a soul in Oklahoma, had never even been there before, when I started school. All I knew was it had one of the world's best meteorology programs and that I was going to see some damn good football. Played tuba for 4 years in the Pride.

[SCSooner71]

I have been a die hard sooner all my life however I did not attend the University or live in the great state of Oklahoma. I was born in Augusta, Georgia and lived all of my life in a small town in South Carolina. My dads side of the family is from Oklahoma and we made yearly trips out there to visit family. So Im a South Carolinian by birth and a sooner by the grace of god!

[KantoSooner]

OU Law '87
Mother and Father OU 1960
Grandfather would have been class of 1935, I believe, if the depression hadn't intervened...

[ouflak]

Graduated in '98.

[hawaii 5-0]

I was a Cate Center dorm rat from 1971-1974. Fairbanks was turning the reins over to Barry. The 3 Selmons took the field together.


5-0

[Soonermagik]

I'm really enjoying the history stories about families, jobs, degree majors and where you were originally from. Great stuff.. let's hear some more.

[texaspokieokie]

a little bit

[NOVSooner]

Never went to OU nor lived in OK. had some family outside Tulsa and had a boss who graduated from OU. told me I really should get on board with a great program, so in 99 i became a Sooner fan and ever since then i bleed the crimson and cream. I've read much on the past years and tradition of the Sooners and feel honored that I can be welcomed as a fan without ever attending the university.

[IGotNoTiming]

graduated in 1993....

boomer sooner

[w0lfe]

Graduated in may 2009 with my Bachelors in Business Administration and a minor in Geography

[OUinFLA]

GRADUATED IN 1950 WITH A BS DEGREE IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.

Wheww, I was afraid I was one of the oldest. Thanks!

Went to OU in the 60's graduated from SOSU.
Dad got his Masters at OU in the late 40's I was 2 when we lived there.
Been a fan as long as I can remember.
Uncle played for OU in 27, 28
Cousin played for OU in 29

Another Uncle of mine used to own this farm out west of town in the "sticks".
It had a dirt road in front of his farm named after him.
You might know the road. It's Berry Road

[deweydw]

Grew up a Sooner fan in Ft. Worth. Grandmother and uncle lived in Norman. My uncle graduated from OU in the late 70's. Both of his kids graduated from OU. My niece graduated from OU last year. But sadly, niether one of my kids wanted to go to OU. My son graduated from UNT. My daughter is in her jr year at U of Houston Clear Lake (cheaper and close to home).

[aj44mc]

My Mothers side of fam is from OK. I grew up a sooner fan in AZ wore #44 when I played football in HS. I was accepted in 99 to OU but decided to stay instate and graduated from ASU with mech engineering degree. I have various family members who have graduated from OU.

I am currently looking at grad school and OU is on my list.

[jharkins]

Dad went to texas
Mom went to texas
Grandfather and uncle played ball at texas
10+ cousins/aunts/uncles went to texas

I defected and graduated from OU in '08 with BS in Civ Eng, one sister graduated in '09 and the other will graduate in '10.

Now my family has been season ticket holders at OU for 5 years. I must admit the RRR is still a little weird....

[SoonerLVZ]

BA Sociology/Criminology in 2003.

My grandfather was born in Oklahoma but with WWII never went to college and started a lumber yard in Arizona; he died before I was born. My dad went to Arizona State. My graduation present from my grandmother was a picture of my grandfather in Japan during the occupation with a note on the back saying how proud he would have been having a grandson graduate from OU.

Sooner Breed

[owenfieldreams]

My Godfather was an A.A. @ OU in the late 30's. He was killed in WW11. My first team was the famous "aerial circus" @ SMU in the late 40's, early 50's with Freddy Benners, Gil Johnson, Johnny Champion, Herschel Forrester, Doak Walker & Kyle Rote.

Became an OU fan in the early 50's after moving back to Tulsa from Dallas. Later married a girl who attended OU and who's brothers played for Bud. One brother went on to serve as president of the B.O.R.

I actually attended Westminster College in Fulton, Mo.

[BillyBall]

should graduate in May

been a student and/or employee off and on since '94

:D

[Jeronimo]

long time Sooner fan. Dad had season tickets some time in the 80's til about 1994 (he only lost them cause he went to prison) and I was only 15, so I couldnt keep them. Kept coming down for games through the Blake years buying tickets outside the stadium anywhere from $5 to $20. I paid $20 for a 50 yard line ticket to the Cal game that we lost like 12-9 or something like that. Every year I have found a way to get season tickets from various friends who had extra. Met my wife who was going to osu at the time, but converted her. Shes been a die hard Sooner since 2001 and graduated from OU in 2006. Inspired me to go back to school and I walk this December. All the while tailgating like crazy every home game and football parties for away games.

[Jeronimo]

oh and after 10 years on the waiting list, I finally have my very own pair of OU season tickets. :)

[Soonersince57]

My first serious girl friend was a dancer at Walter Mittys. I've been a fan ever since seeing Dr. Death make people walk on the otherside of street or die. ;)

You are awesome.

[Soonersince57]

Bachelor's from OU in '79; Master's in '81. In Pride in '75 and '76. Went to my first game in '62 when I was 5. Should pass my 150th home game this year.

[SoonerPr8r]

Graduated 2010 BS in Industrial Engineering. I am not from a family of big football fans but I found my way to the promised land anyway.

[TheHumanAlphabet]

OU Grad:
B.S. in Meteorology 1982
M.S. In Industrial Engineering 1987
Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering 1997

P.S. I had hella good seats with the total # of hours at OU policy. 50- yarders at saxet.

Pride member 1978-1981 Tuba

[Shakadoodoo]

Wrestled at OU. But I didn't graduate from OU - I was your typical college athlete that, (took a free ride to college for granted, to immature to handle success, never missing a party, quick to miss class, blaming my problems on the coaches........) - yea - I was that guy.... Then reality kicked me in the azz. I graduated from LU Tulsa - 10 years later. Guess I am a slow learner.

[jkm, the stolen pifwafwi]

2000 graduate of pokey state

[OhU1]

Norman schools since the 4th grade. OU undergrad in 1987. OU Law 1993.

When I was a kid I accepted as fact that OU never lost and was always number one. OU was such a mythical entity that you could not even see them on TV like other more common teams! To see OU in person was unlikely as well as only a select few could get a ticket.

Then the unthinkable occurred on 11-8-75: Kansas 23 Oklahoma 3. It was as if a violation of natural law occured in Norman that day. But order was restored when we won the national title anyway! (Thanks UCLA for beating #1 tOSU and whoever beat #2 Texas A&M)

[BoomerJack]

B.B.A. in 1973.

[soonersweetie]

went OU in 85-86 PR major

[Howzit]

BSIE '87

[olevetonahill]

I've been to some Football games there. Pretty cool:P

[oudivesherpa]

MBA 1969, From OU.

Best game that I ever atttended OU v. ND 1956
Dad and brother were Notre Dame Alums

[stoops the eternal pimp]

University of Phoenix Online- Quarterback

[btb916]

My father was a young man in 1957 when Dick Lynch rolled into the North Endzone at Owen Field to snap OU's 47-game win streak. He was three rows up in the north endzone at the time, and he says he cried like a baby. Last year was the first year of his life that he didn't attend an OU game. (I got him out this year for the Utah State game.)

So I've been a Sooner fan my entire life. Currently in law school at OU. This is my final year.

[BoulderSooner79]

Graduated in (you guessed it) '79
Masters at Stanford in '80 - (stick with red/white theme)
OU fan well before that - '71.

[OU Engineer]

Mom and Dad both graduated from OU.

Dad was Associate Dean of the College of Engineering for quite some time.

I will graduate in 3 short months with a BS in Industrial Engineering.

Was always wondering this question, but also: what percentage of fans in the GFOMS on Saturdays attended/ graduated?

[prrriiide]

If you look @ my sig pic, I am in it. Graduated in'97.

[pac10SUX]

Born & raised in Florida. Mom went to Miami, Dad went to Troy (AL), Brother to Florida, sister to USF, and I graduated from West Florida ('85). Most of my friends growing up ended up going to Florida. I married into the Sooner Nation back in '94 while in Dallas. I always call myself a Sooner-In-Law. Been a huge fan ever since.

[Howzit]

University of Phoenix Online- Quarterback

So that's why you have such a penchant for sacks...

[stoops the eternal pimp]

and why I always line up behind you

[Howzit]

I used to be a tight end.

[badger]

Graduated in 05. NP graduated in 04.

[Sooner02]

I'm an OU graduate, class of 2002!

[stoops the eternal pimp]

I used to be a tight end.

I remember that

[Soonerfan88]

Sooner born, Sooner bred with deep roots in this soil. My great-grandfather owned a trading post in what is now Osage County.

I was one of those that just wanted to see something else in the world, so although I was accepted into OU, I took another route. Joined the Army, hoped to see Europe but got orders to Korea instead. :) I did eventually take a couple of classes through OU online programs though.

[Mississippi Sooner]

Sooner born, Sooner bred with deep roots in this soil. My great-grandfather owned a trading post in what is now Osage County.

I was one of those that just wanted to see something else in the world, so although I was accepted into OU, I took another route. Joined the Army, hoped to see Europe but got orders to Korea instead. :) I did eventually take a couple of classes through OU online programs though.

I hear ya. I had a scholarship from the OU journalism department, but decided I had to join the Marines first. My advisor (Dr. Paschal?) said don't worry, he'd still make sure I was taken care of when my hitch was up. Then life got in the way and yada, yada.

Still, I've been a faithful fan of all things Sooner since The King's early days, through the good times and bad.

[CatfishSooner]

Grew up in Norman...my dad used to take me to games when I was little...during this "dark period" I actually asked my dad: "Dad, has OU ever been good at football?" :eek: Graduated in '08 (history major)....3rd year of law school now (still get student tickets!!)...

[TUSooner]

Six hours in the summer of 1976. European history (Reformation thru Napoleon) with an excellent Grad Assistant & Philosophy 101 with J. Clayton Feaver, former invoker of divine blessings at football games.

But my Dad & cousins & uncles have a boatload of OU degrees, and I saw my first game when Bud was still the coach (his last year maybe). Hardly missed a game between the mid 60s and mid-70s

[Oldnslo]

BA with Distinction (thank you) 1986
JD 1989

[agoo758]

I did not go to OU. The reason I am a fan is because my late grandfather, Lee Mills. Was an alumni, gave several million to the university, and met every single coach from wilkenson to Stoops. I also like to cheer for the underdog, and well my first year watching football, SmellsofBourbon was there.

[BetterSoonerThanLater]

graduate. 2001 Political science major/ crim just minor. grew up in norman (lived off lindsay til i was 17).

[Sooner Among The Pack]

BS Meteorology, Class of 2004.
MS Atmospheric Science, NC State University, Class of 2006

Hence the "Pack" in my screen name

[King Barry's Back]

Norman schools since the 4th grade. OU undergrad in 1987. OU Law 1993.

When I was a kid I accepted as fact that OU never lost and was always number one. OU was such a mythical entity that you could not even see them on TV like other more common teams! To see OU in person was unlikely as well as only a select few could get a ticket.

Then the unthinkable occurred on 11-8-75: Kansas 23 Oklahoma 3. It was as if a violation of natural law occured in Norman that day. But order was restored when we won the national title anyway! (Thanks UCLA for beating #1 tOSU and whoever beat #2 Texas A&M)

That story reminds me so much of my childhood. I am just the right age that I could comprehend football beginning with Barry Switzer's first season at the helm, and some of us remember that 1973 season we went 10-0-1 -- with the only non-win to USC in the Coliseum. (I was there!)

Then, in 74 we went a perfect 11-0, and opened up with consecutive wins in 75.

Imagine you are a kid of 9 years old. I had never ever really experienced a Sooner loss. I remember attending a game in Norman with some friends of my father, and they were trying to teach me a life lesson that we all have to deal with losing.

I said, "OU never loses!" And they said, "Oh, yes, OU will lose. As long as you keep playing, eventually everybody will lose."

I thought they were totally nuts. In my world, OU DIDN"T lose and NEVER HAD lost a game.

Seven days later I had my first big reality check. Could be worse. My folks could have gotten divorced, or my brother gone to prison, or what have you. But I can still remember that little boy joy and certaintly at knowing that OU didn't lose.

[King Barry's Back]

OK, my story.

I have been a Sooner fan since before I can remember. My family has had season tickets since the 1973 season-the season when I turned 8 years old. In 1973, we sat on the second to top row of the stadium, but that was before there was an upper deck.

My mom hated to walk all the way to the top of the stadium, so my Dad asked OU to move our seats lower. In 1974, we got seats on row 12 and my family still sits there today. (Wish I got to sit there more often, myself.)

As a student: BA-1988, MA-1993, and a couple years of PhD work.

You people didn't/aren't having fun in grad school? Jeebus, grad school was the best years of my life, bar none. I had a FREAKING blast.

Nine years of school at OU meant my student tickets were top notch, by the way.

In my undergrad years, I got to see Barry win a national championship, and I personally attended all four Orange Bowls (the first one marching in the Pride).

My grad school years were pretty dreary, as the shocking campus scandals hit, then King Barry resigned, we welcomed Gary Gibbs, and the rest of my time on campus was marred by disappointing football. (But thank heavens for Billy Tubbs brightening my outlook!)

Man, I have had one GREAT life, and OU football has been such huge part of it. My poor Italian wife just doesn't get it.

One other note: I now live in Germany, and OU offers graduate courses through the US military here in Stuttgart. I am considering enrolling in a masters program -- and have been wondering if my priority is still in tact and I can go ahead and order a premo set of student tickets. Bet I'll be on the 50 at the Cotton Bowl.

[Ground_Attack]

B.S. Meteorology
Class of 2000

[TheHumanAlphabet]

To Sooner Among the Pack and Ground Attack...

How is Fwed Cahr??? Does he still like Ice Cweam? ;)

[MikeInNorman]

B.A. 1979
J.D. 1982

[CobraKai]

B.A. in 1993

[Cornfed]

Attened football camp at OU in 83 and 84. Graduated from USMCU ;)

I've ben an OU fan since I took my first breath, as my father before me did.

I remember sats as a small boy watching "crosswhite up the middle".

[SoonR4Life]

B.A. Management and B.A. Economics - 2007

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

That story reminds me so much of my childhood. I am just the right age that I could comprehend football beginning with Barry Switzer's first season at the helm, and some of us remember that 1973 season we went 10-0-1 -- with the only non-win to USC in the Coliseum. (I was there!)

Then, in 74 we went a perfect 11-0, and opened up with consecutive wins in 75.

Imagine you are a kid of 9 years old. I had never ever really experienced a Sooner loss. I remember attending a game in Norman with some friends of my father, and they were trying to teach me a life lesson that we all have to deal with losing.

I said, "OU never loses!" And they said, "Oh, yes, OU will lose. As long as you keep playing, eventually everybody will lose."

I thought they were totally nuts. In my world, OU DIDN"T lose and NEVER HAD lost a game.

Seven days later I had my first big reality check. Could be worse. My folks could have gotten divorced, or my brother gone to prison, or what have you. But I can still remember that little boy joy and certaintly at knowing that OU didn't lose.Visualize the Soonerfans' shock after 47 wins in a row, when we lost to the domer in 1957. That was the entity that last beat us in 1953, and whom we shut out 40-0 the year before losing to those essoBs in '57. I was 12 yrs old when we lost that game.

[fwsooner22]

Graduate '83. Neighbor across the street (43rd and Blackwelder) had season tickets took me to games. I was hooked.

Wow. What an awesome read that was....Thanks to those of you who took it seriously. Some of those stories were absolutely great !

[Judge Smails]

BBA 1986

[soonergregmsw9802]

1998 Bachelor of Arts in Social Work
2002 Masters Degree in Social Work Administration & Community Planning

[Ruf/Nek7]

Graduated 2009 B.A. Human Relations
RUF/NEK RDPC 2005-2008 (Keeper of the Guns 06-07)

BOOMER SOONER!
FADADA
SS10

[GottaHavePride]

Graduate of '03, '05, and '10.

[Sallisaw_Sooner01]

business finance '09

[BigTip]

I grew up in Norman. I use to sell cokes and ice cream at the games. I didn't miss a home game between 1970-1974. The only time I ever paid to see a game was vs The Condoms in LA in 1981.

Oh yeah, we use to ride our bikes down for Media/Picture Day. I got on TV once jumping up and down behind the interview. I laugh every time I see some stupid kids doing that on TV now.

[Cinco Ranch Cougar]

'70 graduate of the University of Oklahoma from Duncan. A proud SAE and Sooner now living in Katy Texas with my son a true freshman (one of my four children) on full scholarship playing football at Rice University. Red-shirt this year.

[MojoRisen]

My old man played BBALL at OU 58-60 and graduated from School of Business. Been a fan since I could watch Football at age 5 remembering the UW game and hotel rooms full of Smoke just to watch the Stanford game before cable was the norm. Dupree breaking out against ASU

[76soonergrad]

BA 1976.

The Kansas loss happened on Dad's day weekend that year.(1975) We won our 2nd national title in my four years there. Spoiled? Yes. Pulling for Wisconsin this week after the Sooners, goes without saying.



___________________________________
Roll on BigRed, Roll On! - Cecil (spell his last name. ) RIP

[dmbfan61]

BS: 2005
MD: 2009

[Soonerntxs]

My story,

All my life I have been surrounded by OU Pharmacy Grads., from my great grandfather to my father; uncles, aunts, cousins...they all hung their Licenses in their Pharmacy and all were proud to bear the title of OU Grad. (Phi delta Chi), < I think thats right?? I however was young and full of stupidity and had to take Drivers Ed, two weeks after HS graduation in order to get my diploma and go off to the ARMY. This is where it all got interesting; see I had the principal of my HS as my Drivers Ed instructor and he told me "I would never accomplish anything in life" I have made it my duty to prove him wrong & 20+ years later, I still hear his words from time-to-time!

(A WORK IN PROGRESS)

Age: 18 -(Married HS Sweetheart) Left Beggs, Ok. 1989 for the USARMY, Desert Shield & Storm Vet. (Scud Buster, TF843 A Patriot, 652ADA)
Age: 23 - Honerable Discharge, OKANG, Returned home, became a Police Officer
Age: 25 - Tulsa County Deputy Sheriff
Age: 30 - Ok. Military Dept. Police Lt.
Age: 32 - US Federal Air Marshal
Age: 34 - US Treasury Police Officer
Age: 40 - US Treasury Investigator, (Still Married to HS Sweetheart)

From 1997-Current, I have completed 137 college credit hours with a 3.7 GPA.

Next Semester: I begin my service to ME and I dedicate to Mr. Larry Johnston, Beggs, HS Principal (Ret.) my 1st semester, as an OU Student, "IT's TIME" This is the only goal I have set for myself that I have not yet accomplished.

[4SP_RAT]

high school class of 93
BS CE 2004

...sooner fan - as far back as i can remember!

[virginiasooner]

BBA 1982. My mother graduated in 1954. First OU game I remember watching was "the game of the century" on Thanksgiving Day (in New Jersey), and all our neighbors were cheering on the Huskers. And I then had to pay a quarter to some dork in my sixth grade class, originally from Omaha.

[cyclonesooner]

Been attending OU games since the B.Warmack and Granny Liggins days. Was recruited by OU as a senior but shredded a knee and attended the SWOSU instead. Became a rabid fan due to the wishbone era of the 70's with Greg Pruitt, Little Joe and Billy Sims.

[cjames317]

BA 1985: started in Fall 1980 and learned about Sooner Magic when Steve Rhodes caught the 2-point conversion from JC Watts to beat the Seminoles in the Orange Bowl; played football with my buddies on Sunday afternoons on Owen Field; endured the King's only weak stretch (three straight 4-loss seasons) and learned just the other day that he felt that wouldn't have happened had Turner Gill kept his promise to come to OU; helped Spencer Tillman get John Blake and Kevin Murphy through communications classes; bought Troy Aikman shots at the GOT; and got bombarded by the halftime fireworks display gone awry at the 1985 Orange Bowl against U-dub.

[humblesooner]

If you are ever thinking grad school is the way to go, well, don't do it. Take out a large student loan and go blow it in Europe or Vegas for 6 months. Then come back and get a job

This would make an Awesome Sig. ;)

[josh09]

Well

My grand-dad, as well as my entire family is from the Great State of Tennessee. My granddad, like my dad, grew up in Memphis. My grandfather.....
http://www.corbisimages.com/images/67/4365F1BF-F42C-4C57-9D93-8408EA3DE972/U1269005INP.jpg

This guy^^^
was offered by OU and came and played left half back from 51-54 (and also played on the baseball team).
My dad, born and raised in Memphis came out here to go to school and met my mother (who is from Oklahoma City, if you know of Cullen Lumber than thats her family) and my parents met in Dallas, after an OU/Texas game (we won :) ) and got married. I have 2 older brothers (one graduated from UCO and works for Jenco Roofing and is married, and the other one is a SO at OU and a sig ep like my dad was). I have an older sister who graduated from OCCC and works in Times Square now, and then me (Currently at UCO, but there is a plan to move and go to school at OU next year, but i really dont care where i go to college right now). I have one more little brother still in HS. I have only missed 1 OU home game since 99, and i have been to the 04, 06, 07, 08, 09, and 2010 Red River Rivalry (im 3-3). I want to coach football and i am a lifelong Sooner Fan and i really enjoy watching any team play though since OU is my team a watch and study them the most.

My grandfather was also there '51-'54, and also played halfback! Though he was on the "JV team", or whatever they called it back then, I'm sure there's a good chance he could have known your grandfather. We have crazy similarities, because my father went here as well and was in greek life, but as a Sigma Chi! What years was your dad here? And I have also gone to each of those Red River Rivalries, except replace '05 with '06. We have some interesting family similarities!

[Fraggle145]

BS '02 Zoology @ OU
MS @ UGA '05
PhD 06'-??? Ecology and Evolutionary Biology @ OU

Will it ever end?!

[Collier11]

NO, marriage is forever, you screwed up :D

[SoonerDood]

The Mrs. and I are both class of '05.

[ELP Sooner]

Out of state OU fan. Grew up in AZ and became a fan because of my six grade math teacher who was an OU alum.

[the_ouskull]

Graduated in 2005 (sociology, English literature) ending a very weird, bizarre, vivid, erotic, wet, detailed dream. Maybe I had malaria.

the_ouskull

[Sooner_Havok]

BA in 2007
J.D. in 2012 (I hope)

[Al Gore]

Father is a Sooner and raised me as a Sooner in Kansas. Graduated from KU.

[Al Gore]

....and I love flapjacks....

[John Kochtoston]

B.A. Journalism 1999
J.D. 2010

Fourth-gen Sooner.

[OK2LA]

OU Grad:
B.S. in Meteorology 1982
M.S. In Industrial Engineering 1987
Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering 1997

P.S. I had hella good seats with the total # of hours at OU policy. 50- yarders at saxet.

Pride member 1978-1981 Tuba

That's where you got yer name

[OK2LA]

Graduated in 1992

[TheHumanAlphabet]

That's where you got yer name

Actually got it from standing on the Lloyd Noble wall and spelled out O-K-L-A-H-O-M-A as the crowd cheered after me (like the Orioles guy) at OU Bball games. This was from 1979-1982...

There was a copy after me, but he apparently wasn't as good...

[props]

JD from OU.

[SoonerPride]

OU BFA 90.

Does that make me a real fan?

[Cornfed]

OU BFA 90.

Does that make me a real fan?

Only if you wear OU underoos

[fdubzou]

BA in Political Science 2008

[SoonerPride]

Only if you wear OU underoos

I'm in luck :)

[Soonerborn77]

I'm a fake fan, born in Norman while parents went to OU but went to SMU...

[Denver_Sooner]

1998-2006 Finance

[TheBobbyTrain]

2008 B.S. HES

[Soonermagik]

OU BFA 90.

Does that make me a real fan?

Did you read the first post? I said I think it's a dumb notion to say someone had to go to OU to be a fan. I was really interested in hearing why people were OU fans and there have been some great stories. :)

[TheHumanAlphabet]

I said I think it's a dumb notion to say someone had to go to OU to be a fan.

That's what the aggot fans would have you believe...Any Gooner fan that didn't grudumanate from UO is a band wagon gooner fan...

They don't seem to have the same requirement for sheep humping up in stenchwater.

[opksooner]

I'm an OU grad. I won't say when but.....I was there with Eddiie, Buck, and Curly.

[NMSooner'80]

B.A. from OU, May of 1980.

[pweitkem]

Mom is an OU professor and graduate. Lived in Norman all my life. I went to a private school up north.

[SoonerPride]

Did you read the first post? I said I think it's a dumb notion to say someone had to go to OU to be a fan. I was really interested in hearing why people were OU fans and there have been some great stories. :)

Who has time to read threads?

I just click on 'em and reply some non sequitur.

It's easier that way. :)

[Sooners78]

94 B.B.A. grad. Attended 90-94, the Gibbs years. Got out just before smelly burger.

[sOUnder]

Not an alum, but a Sooner by blood.

The maternal side of my family landed in Oklahoma in 1890 by way of Nebraska (*shudder*) and many still live there to this day. My mom went to OU and moved to California in 1965.

I've been an out-of-state Sooner since birth, as has my 12-year-old son. We not only love OU football, but Oklahoma and its people as well.

[Ground_Attack]

To Sooner Among the Pack and Ground Attack...

How is Fwed Cahr??? Does he still like Ice Cweam? ;)

you pretty much nailed him lol

[OhU1]

That's what the aggot fans would have you believe...Any Gooner fan that didn't grudumanate from UO is a band wagon gooner fan...

Speaking of OSU and where one graduated - the biggest OU fan I've ever met was an OSU grad. Where a normal person might wrap up a conversation and say something like "see you later" this guy would always say "go Sooners". Not only was this guy an OU SUPERFAN but he hated OSU! :D

[nmajdan]

BBA 2005

[Sooner95]

Life long Sooner fan and I attended in 94 and 95. Then went into the Military.

[ouengineer97]

Graduated 97 - sooner born & bred
in Dallas, Electrical engineer

[SoonerExpat]

BS U of Tulsa '87
MS Florida Tech '97

SoonerExpat

[TrueBornSooner]

Born @ University Hospital
OU Class of 1990

[ThatGuy65]

B.A. University of Oklahoma, Economics '08
J.D. University of Oklahoma College of Law, expected May 2011

[the_ouskull]

That's what the aggot fans would have you believe..

Heh. If that were the case, most OSU fans wouldn't even be able to be fans of their high school teams.

the_ouskull

[FlippMoke]

B.S. Aerospace Engineering '08

[3rdgensooner]

Bachelor's degree from OU.

[usaosooner]

attended for a semester, then transferred.. hence the username

[Lawton4Life]

Enrolled in 1996, Graduated in 2000 with an NC..

[Quik Sand]

B.A. Multidisciplinary Studies December 2010

[brainpimp]

BBA class of 1990
PLM

[WestLakeHillsSooner]

BBA 1991 MIS

Sooner born and Sooner bred...

[BoomerSoonerGoOU]

BA Journalism Class of 2009

Anticipated: M.Ed Class of 2011

[Boffingham]

Undergrad - Dec 2001
Masters - May 2011?

[VoiceofReality]

Went to OU for grad school from 1997-2003; PhD conferred in 2003. Season ticket holder since 97; donor since 99. OU employee from 2003-2010. Some of you have likely been in my PSY1113 course from 2003 - Spring 2010.

[Jboozer]

Went to OU for grad school from 1997-2003; PhD conferred in 2003. Season ticket holder since 97; donor since 99. OU employee from 2003-2010. Some of you have likely been in my PSY1113 course from 2003 - Spring 2010.

Yup, I was there. I think you gave me a C
http://www.soonerfans.com/forums/images/smilies/confused.gif

[ThermoProf]

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, 2005.

[VoiceofReality]

Yup, I was there. I think you gave me a C
http://www.soonerfans.com/forums/images/smilies/confused.gif

A C never killed anyone that I know of. I made a few as an undergrad myself in classes that I had no interest in.

[meandmybutt]

Class of 94, Chem E

[SoonerMarkVA]

BS Math, 1998

But, even if not, already a Sooner fan as I grew up in Norman. Spent Saturdays as early as I can remember parking cars at my Grandmother's house on DeBarr and walking afterward over to the game, picking up a ticket, and enjoying the game.

[Big D Sooner]

BS Microbiology, 2005

[RIPOUinsider]

BA MIS, 2002

[Soonerjeepman]

not a graduate....but a fan for over 35+ yrs...

Grandparents (and parents) from Medford...course every Thanksgiving..was turkey, football in the yrd and watching OU nu...


dang..can I have my post count from ouinsider? 1500? please! LOL

[SoonerShark]

Me: BA and JD. My family, which includes my degrees: 3 MDs, 3 JDs and 14 Bachelor's degrees.

[gosooner2]

BBA 61. OMG that was a long time ago.

[SoonerShark]

BBA 61. OMG that was a long time ago.

Very impressive. Happy 50th next May. Keep on keeping on.

[oufan1925]

Never attended OU but it has been a family tradition . I've watch OU play football for over 45 years, until recently I never knew that I was actually kin to the 5th Oklahoma President "William Bennett Bizzell". How cool is that. Boomer Sooner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[soonercruiser]

OU "bought and paid for " here!

Twice a WVU graduate.
(That bring back bad memories in football?)
:P

[I Am Right]

Grad 1980

[79Sooner]

BS 79. MS 92 from UT.

[RaleighSooner]

BA 1996.

Love my Sooners and really miss Norman - those of you close enough to get back there make sure you appreciate it!

[proudsoonergal]

BBA in 1998. (JD from SMU in 2001).

I'm an Army brat (never lived in OK until college) but my parents were from Oklahoma, so it was always where we went for family gatherings (Thanksgiving, summers, etc).

My dad graduated from OU in 1969 (his three brothers graduated from OU as well), my granddad graduated in 1929, and the story goes my great-granddad was an actual Sooner who settled in Norman but was forced to move because he arrived early. My mom attended graduate school at OU in the late '60s/early 70's. I have three cousins who graduated from OU as well (only one overlapped school with me, though).

Probably my first OU memory is wandering around the OU campus (and seeing the Armory? My dad was in ROTC at OU) during one of our trips back to Oklahoma in the early '80s. I think my first OU football memory was of my dad breaking a lamp while watching a game (don't know who we were playing, it was during the mid-80s). My second memory of OU football is when we lived overseas in the late '80s - I think it was 1989? - my dad taped the OU/Nebraska game (it came on at a weird hour - we were in Europe) and tried to avoid finding out the score until he could watch it. Naturally, I had already heard that we had won, but I didn't give it away (too much) while we watched the game. I think my dad suspected I knew when I accurately predicted the results of a really long FG kick. :)

We moved back to the States (Texas) in 1991, and I've been to every OU/Texas game since then (this year was my 20th in a row - record is 9-10-1). I also distinctly remember going up for the OU/USC game (1992?) and being so disappointed we ended up losing that game.

Another fun memory, semi-related to OU football - my first year at OU (1994) my friends and I would walk around the campus at night, and back then it was pretty easy to get in the stadium. Well, one night, we snuck in, and noticed something white on the far side of the field. It was really dark, so we couldn't make out what it was. One of my friends walked over there to investigate ... turns out it was a guy and girl having sex on the 20 yard line!

So, of course, we laugh, we leave, and then we go around campus and chalk "First and 10 on the 20...did you score????" I heard later through the grapevine that the girl who was involved got pretty upset about the chalking and thought it was one of her friends ratting her out. (In fact, none of us knew them.)

[OUthunder]

OU, The wife did and that is good enough. Always wanted to go to the school of Pharmacy but that never happened with the kiddos.

Wanted to go to the Carlson School of Management in MN too, but life happened.

Rose State for me but our money did go to OU and OSU.

[Soonerus]

OU Grad..

[SunnySooner]

Class of '93, BBA, got a GREAT scholly to go (academic, believe it or not!), or it woulda been Jr. college for me as I worked my way thru. LOVED being a student, met my hubby there, and now we have a coupla little Sooners. Great school, great memories, great football, what more could anyone want?!?!?!

[442Sooner]

BSME 2004

[PCSooner]

BS 1999

[slh1234]

My undergrad was started, but not completed at OU. (long story. I completed my BS long after I started it, then got my MS shortly after that)

[Soonermagik]

BBA in 1998. (JD from SMU in 2001).

I'm an Army brat (never lived in OK until college) but my parents were from Oklahoma, so it was always where we went for family gatherings (Thanksgiving, summers, etc).

My dad graduated from OU in 1969 (his three brothers graduated from OU as well), my granddad graduated in 1929, and the story goes my great-granddad was an actual Sooner who settled in Norman but was forced to move because he arrived early. My mom attended graduate school at OU in the late '60s/early 70's. I have three cousins who graduated from OU as well (only one overlapped school with me, though).

Probably my first OU memory is wandering around the OU campus (and seeing the Armory? My dad was in ROTC at OU) during one of our trips back to Oklahoma in the early '80s. I think my first OU football memory was of my dad breaking a lamp while watching a game (don't know who we were playing, it was during the mid-80s). My second memory of OU football is when we lived overseas in the late '80s - I think it was 1989? - my dad taped the OU/Nebraska game (it came on at a weird hour - we were in Europe) and tried to avoid finding out the score until he could watch it. Naturally, I had already heard that we had won, but I didn't give it away (too much) while we watched the game. I think my dad suspected I knew when I accurately predicted the results of a really long FG kick. :)

We moved back to the States (Texas) in 1991, and I've been to every OU/Texas game since then (this year was my 20th in a row - record is 9-10-1). I also distinctly remember going up for the OU/USC game (1992?) and being so disappointed we ended up losing that game.

Another fun memory, semi-related to OU football - my first year at OU (1994) my friends and I would walk around the campus at night, and back then it was pretty easy to get in the stadium. Well, one night, we snuck in, and noticed something white on the far side of the field. It was really dark, so we couldn't make out what it was. One of my friends walked over there to investigate ... turns out it was a guy and girl having sex on the 20 yard line!

So, of course, we laugh, we leave, and then we go around campus and chalk "First and 10 on the 20...did you score????" I heard later through the grapevine that the girl who was involved got pretty upset about the chalking and thought it was one of her friends ratting her out. (In fact, none of us knew them.)

That's an awesome story lol.

[Kels]

Me '94
Wife '95, '02

Worked on campus since '98

[trey]

me and the wife '01

[NateHeupel]

I'm class of 2007. Wife is class of 2006. Our son is class of 2032.

[Prowler]

Wife and I class of '05.

[PhiDeltBeers]

Okie Lite Grad, but refounded the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity in Norman in the early 2000's. Does that count? I believe there was a pretty good QB that was a Phi back in the '70's.

[soonerchk]

I done gradiated from OU.

[oudivesherpa]

I done gradiated from OU.

Doin yer gratruatre work at OSU?

[DeaconBoomer]

1990 graduate

[Midtowner]

UCO '03
OCU Law '09

So no.

[tommieharris91]

Okie Lite Grad, but refounded the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity in Norman in the early 2000's. Does that count? I believe there was a pretty good QB that was a Phi back in the '70's.

There sure was.

You know the house at OU was featured on gameday before the last OU/texas game, right?

[JRAM]

Graduated in 68 with degree in ecomonics. Played baseball and a lifelong SOONER FANATIC.

[SoonerBorn]

Worked on a bachelors from 88 until 90, and was invited to explore academic opportunities elsewhere.

Returned to earn my masters in 1999.

[kbsooner]

class of '99. BS in Engineering and the lifelong scars of the Blake & Schnellie regimes...

[Whet]

OU grad '79

[ruf/nekdad]

I graduated from the proverbial school of hard knocks, spent four years in the military but wrote enough checks to OU for two kids to graduate from there. And you can kiss my arse for asking the question.

[topdaug]

Graduated in 07 with a degree in Education...even had I not somehow gone to OU, I'd still be a fan...both parents graduated from OU, as did my brother, so I was pretty much destined to, at the very least, be a fan...

[Leroy Lizard]

Graduated in 07 with a degree in Education...even had I not somehow gone to OU, I'd still be a fan...

[Poke Fan]Another Gooner that didn't even go to OU![/Poke Fan]

[PhiDeltBeers]

There sure was.

You know the house at OU was featured on gameday before the last OU/texas game, right?

Jack Mildren was that Phi Delt QB. Also, The Siegfreid family had a strong showing in the 70's as Phi's (I knew Robin and his family as our lakehouses were next door). I did not know about the gameday though. That's pretty cool. When I was at OSU, I always flew my OU flag outside My fraternity room window on gameday. I got called a lot of names, but there was a small group of us OU fans in Deadwater.

[Skysooner]

'88 BS Geology '94 MS Petroleum Engineering.

On the campus once a month helping to direct a lab project my company is funding.

[PSK2080]

Dad attended, but did not graduate.

I was all set to go...grew up my entire life wanting to go...decided to try to walkon to a small college soccer team...decided drinking beer was more fun than working out...greatly regret not going now, but at the time I wanted to give college sports a shot...that dream faded fast when I discovered that I wasn't big enough, fast enough or strong enough to ever get to play...

[sooneron]

'91 Journalism Radio/TV/FILM


My first three years we lost 3 games to miami. :(

[ThinMan]

SEOSU - Durant, Ok.

.... but outside Div II, OU is my favorite team.
:)

[VA Sooner]

'90 Mech engineering
'94 Medicine

[soonerboomer93]

well, the 93 in my name comes from my first year at OU

[delhalew]

Attended...most of the time...in '94 and 95'. Psychology.

[Jason White's Third Knee]

I was there in '89.

[the_ouskull]

I graduated from the proverbial school of hard knocks, spent four years in the military but wrote enough checks to OU for two kids to graduate from there. And you can kiss my arse for asking the question.

You should have read the first post, sir...


And no.. this isn't a thread that says you had to go to OU to be a fan.. that's just dumb. I'm just curious where this fan base is coming from on the boards.

...and not just the thread title.

the_ouskull