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
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