2009 OU Spring Football Guide

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Media Information

The Sooners

Media Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Spring Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Sooners at a Glance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Player Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Fall Newcomers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

2008 Season Review

2009 Preseason

Team Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Scoring Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Defensive Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Individual Game-by-Game Statistics . . . . . . 74 Starting Lineups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Player Participation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Situational Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Season Superlatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Game-by-Game Comparisons . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Scoring Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Game Recaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Big 12 Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Sooner Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Sooner Offense Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Sooner Defense Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Special Teams Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Outlook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Rosters / Pronunciation Guide . . . . . . . . . . . 14 2008 Honors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Coaches & Staff

Bob Stoops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Brent Venables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Bobby Jack Wright . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Kevin Wilson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Cale Gundy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Jay Norvell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Josh Heupel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 James Patton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Jackie Shipp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Chris Wilson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Jerry Schmidt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Matt McMillen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Merv Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Greg Tipton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Scott Anderson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Support Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

University of Oklahoma Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 University President David L. Boren . . . . . . 94 Director of Athletics Joe Castiglione . . . . . . 95 SoonerSports.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

WRITERS

Kenny Mossman, David Bassity

GUIDE DESIGN David Bassity

COVER DESIGN Scott Matthews

EDITOR

Debbie Copp

CONTRIBUTORS

Jason Bodin, Tyler Knowles, Craig Moran, Phillip Rogers, Jennifer Van Tuyl

RESEARCH ASSISTANCE Mike Brooks

PHOTOGRAPHY

Lisa Hall, Mark Kraus, Jackson Laizure, Jerry Laizure, Ty Russell, Shevaun Williams and Associates, John Williamson, Cal Sport Media and OU Athletics Media Relations Archives. Special thanks goes to the OU Touchdown Club for its help in paying for this publication.

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Athletics

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The 2009 Oklahoma Spring Football Guide was printed at no cost to the taxpayers of the state of Oklahoma. The University of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity institution. (February 2009)

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NATIONAL CHAMPIONS


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