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Before Les Miles returns to Stillwater this weekend, some of his former players reflected on the extensive preparation and unshakable optimism he used to motivate the Cowboys.

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‘A magician’: Former players reflect on Miles’ meticulous preparation, unyielding optimism that changed Cowboy football H ALLIE HART CO-EDITOR-IN-CHIEF @ HALLIEHART

Les Miles restlessly walked across the stage as a baffled audience of Oklahoma State football players waited to see what he would do next. It was Nov. 30, 2002, and a storm of emotion and adrenaline was brewing inside the Student Union Theater. This wasn’t part of coach Miles’ usual pregame routine. Typically, he scrawled out a few keys to the game on a whiteboard and reviewed them with his players. Sometimes, he spoke in a murmur so soft that someone sitting on the row farthest from him could barely discern his message. Although his team knew him as a quirky, passionate coach, his speeches in the theater weren’t flashy or over-the-top. This time was different. The Cowboys were preparing to wrap up their regular-season schedule with a home game against then-No. 3 Oklahoma, and during the previous year, OSU had shocked the Sooners — and college football fans across the nation — with a 16-13 victory. Miles and the Cowboys were out to show people that the upset wasn’t a coincidence. So Miles shuffled around the whiteboard, forcefully breathing in a way that

made the players wonder if he was angry at someone, said former tight end/ offensive tackle Charlie Johnson. Then Miles shouted and walloped the whiteboard, sending it to the ground and stirring his players to respond with the same energy he conveyed. The Cowboys hopped up from their chairs, roared and took off on “The Walk” to the stadium, where they stunned OU 38-28. “It seemed like we were floating on the way to the field,” former quarterback Josh Fields said. “…I was a quarterback, and I wanted to hit somebody (during) that game.” Miles, OSU’s coach from 2001 through 2004, had methods of motivating the Cowboys that, quite literally when he struck the whiteboard before the Bedlam game, packed a punch. Now, in his first year of coaching Kansas, he will return to Stillwater with OSU as his opponent at 11 a.m. Saturday. With a losing record for the past 10 seasons, the Jayhawks aren’t often seen as a serious threat, but several of Miles’ former Cowboys aren’t dismissing Kansas. They recognize the ingredients he brings to a team. “We would walk away from (team) meetings thinking we would beat anybody in the country,” said Corey Hilliard, a Cowboy offensive lineman from 2003-2006.

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Miles greeted recruits with charm and amiability, the kinds of qualities that made student-athletes such as Johnson and Hilliard want to become Cowboys, though they had little familiarity with him or his program when the recruiting process began. “He just kind of had this natural ‘it’ factor of knowing what to say, knowing how to say it,” said Johnson, who played for OSU from 2002-2005. “He can make you feel like you can do anything you want to, and I think that that’s why he’s such a good football coach.” When they played for Miles, they learned more about his gregarious but off-the-wall character. Former players chuckled at the mention of his name and enjoyed reflecting on humorous memories of the times when his voice would rise in pitch during animated speeches. On the field, the version of Miles who wore a grin and cracked sarcastic jokes subsided to welcome Miles, the intense competitor. His practices often lasted more than three hours on Wednesdays. Players suited up in full pads, expected to not hold back from physical contact. Before the long sessions, Miles conducted offensive walkthroughs for about 20 minutes.

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Former Oklahoma State football coach and current Kansas coach Les Miles (left) speaks with late OSU mega-booster T. Boone Pickens.

OPEN YOUR HEART TO GOD! “Open your heart and let him in. God will remove all your sorrow and sin. He may not pass this way again, so open your heart and let him come in.” These are words from an old hymn. Many struggle so hard to take this step, not wanting to give up their independence; not wanting to humble themselves before God. In the Psalms, David said: “When I refused to confess my sin, my body wasted away, and I groaned all the day long. Day and night your hand of discipline was heavy on me. My strength evaporated like water in the summer heat. Finally, I confessed all my sins to you and stopped trying to hide my guilt. I said to myself, ‘I will confess my rebellion to the Lord.’ And you forgave me! All my guilt is gone.” (32:3-5 NLT) It seems so simple, and it is! Yet, so many struggle with honesty and humility. These

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qualities are of great importance with God. The truth is another has paid the penalty for your sins and mine. That is the good news! What we could not do (get rid of our sins), Jesus did by dying in our place. Therefore, “Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him.” (Ro.4:7-8 NIV) Again, blaming friends or relatives will not help; getting religious does not help, thinking you are among the “better” people does no good. Trust what God has done for you through Christ. Get honest and humble yourself before God. Confess your sinfulness, and God will freely forgive. You will be free of guilt and stand innocent before God. Then you can begin a lasting and fruitful relationship with this great and loving God.

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SP ORT S Fields, a freshman in 2001, said after his first practice, he told his parents he wasn’t sure if he could stick with the grueling routine. Clay Coe, a defensive lineman who was at OSU from 2000-2004, recalled the rare occasions when Miles would scratch everything and re-start the Cowboys’ practice after a couple hours if their progress wasn’t good enough. Johnson said as an NFL rookie, he was surprised to learn that minicamp practices were typically shorter than Miles’ Wednesday sessions. “Everybody knew if you could just get past Wednesday, you’d be all right,” Hilliard said. Although the Cowboys sometimes dreaded the repetitive, taxing practices, Miles’ meticulous preparation fostered determination and confidence. At LSU, Miles became known as “The Mad Hatter,” but

Fields suggested a different title. “He was a magician for holding people accountable, holding his coaches accountable, preparing, probably more than the other coaches would prepare,” Fields said. “And then having just a positive attitude.” Miles tailored his messages to his team’s mood, whether he reminisced on his time as a player or channeled the intense nature of the Bedlam rivalry. In the spring, he had night practices, allowing Fields to play baseball during the day before crossing the street to be the Cowboys’ quarterback. Johnson described Miles as “in tune to his team.” Beyond preparation, Miles’ unshakable optimism spread among the Cowboys. In 2000, the season before Miles became the Cowboys’ coach, they went 3-8. To some,

it might have seemed that Miles was living in a fantasyland, an imaginary world in which OSU was a top-tier team. But there was a glimmer of hope, a contagious quality, that he conveyed to the Cowboys and used to help them sneak up on opponents few expected them to defeat. Entering the 2001 Bedlam game, OSU was 3-7. That didn’t stop Miles from treating the situation as if he were leading a powerhouse. “He was probably the only guy that thought that we were gonna win that game, and maybe he was lying to himself, I don’t know,” Coe said. “I didn’t think we were gonna win, and I remember we, as players, you don’t really talk about that. It’s just, ‘We’re not very good, they’re a lot better than we are.’” The players surprised themselves. The next season,

by the time Miles punched the whiteboard and yelled “a few choice four-letter words,” as Coe said, many of them, too, believed they could win. Earlier in the 2002 season, the Cowboys edged Nebraska in a game John Helsley described as “a turning point” for OSU in an article for The Oklahoman. Something was changing in Stillwater. In 2003, Miles led the Cowboys to a 9-4 season, including a Cotton Bowl appearance. The next year, OSU finished 7-5 after making it to the Alamo Bowl, but that was the end of Miles’ reign. Gossip swirled throughout the team hotel in San Antonio. Was Miles leaving? The coaching job at LSU was open, and some people speculated that Miles was taking it. Coe and Johnson said before the bowl game, Miles gave a speech that included something about how

he wasn’t going anywhere, but players weren’t so sure. “Walking away from the bowl game, I didn’t know if he was gonna leave or not, but I kind of had a sense that something might happen,” Hilliard said. “Even then, it didn’t really hit me until he actually left.” A few days after OSU’s Alamo Bowl loss, it was announced that Miles was headed to LSU. Many OSU fans felt betrayed when he left, but for Johnson, the positives about playing for Miles outweigh negatives about his departure. “I can see why just the way he did it was probably not the best way to do it, but for me personally, I just think of what he provided me and the opportunity he gave me,” Johnson said. “And I think about that stuff and I think about all the games we won, and all that kind of overrides the way he left for me, personally.”

Offensive coordinator Mike Gundy, who then had short, spiky hair instead of a mullet, became the Cowboys’ coach. Meanwhile, Miles spent more than 10 years at LSU but was fired in 2016. He re-launched his coaching career when he took the reins at Kansas to start this season. The Jayhawks upset Texas Tech and nearly beat Texas this year, but those weren’t big surprises to everyone. Miles’ former players know how he can inspire a losing team, call gutsy plays to clinch unexpected victories and turn a mediocre-at-best program into something more. “I think that Coach Miles was kind of the kick-starter of all that,” Johnson said. “And then Coach Gundy’s done a tremendous job of building on it and making it even better.”

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Crutchmer, Lawal have beginning, end to careers at Bellator 233 sam lan e Asst. Sports Editor @ samlan eo k

THACKERVILLE - The birth of one and the end of another, Bellator 233 was a milestone event in the careers of two former Oklahoma State wrestlers. In his Bellator debut OSU wrestling alum Kyle Crutchmer defeated Robert Gidron by unanimous decision to win his first match while Muhammad Lawal, also known as King Mo, lost the final fight of his career via TKO one minute and 22 seconds into the first round. Prior to making the move to Bellator, Crutch-

mer was 4-0 with two submission victories. Lawal was 21-9 all-time heading into tonight’s fight with 13 career knockouts. Crutchmer, a Tulsa native, dominated his match from the beginning. He showed off his wrestling background from the start taking down his opponent multiple times to maintain control of the fight, despite Gidron missing the fight’s 170-pound weight-limit. “My wrestling kind of speaks for itself,” Crutchmer said. “I’d be dumb to not at least attempt it in the first. (Gidron) was big. People don’t realize he missed weight by five pounds.”

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After his first win, Crutchmer was exuing confidence and was ready to take on anyone who walked through the door. “I’ll fight the f-----Rock if he walked in her right now,” Crutchmer said. After being controlled throughout the first, Gidron tried to throw some new moves at Crutchmer, who was only fazed because of the unorthodox nature of the tactic. “In the second he just randomly started sprinting at my a--,” Crutchmer said. “Where I train no one really does that. It’s a little bit more high-level stuff.”

Two years into his MMA career Crutchmer has one simple goal. “I’m in this to prove that I’m the baddest m----------- in the world and if I’m turning down fights, or if I’m saying ‘no’ to somebody then why am I doing this,” Crutchmer said. Instead of seeing his hand raised one last time, Lawal had to watch his opponent, Andrew Kapel, get the satisfaction of a knockout. Lawal is known as a knockout expert, but had his career ended the way it t.c. brewster/O’COLLY was made. Kyle Crutchmer takes on Robert Gidron on Friday as part

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OSU wrestling: Takeaways from the OCU open sam lan e Asst. Sports Editor @sam lan eok

The Oklahoma State wrestling team wrapped up the OCU open with nine individual titles as well as the team title. Here are my takeaways from the first action of the season: Boo Lewallen Heading into the OCU open, there were fewer question marks than Boo Lewallen. At his best, he is an AllAmerican and possible national title contender. The problem for Lewallen is that he has the worst injury history of any OSU wrestler and has missed multiple seasons due them. He managed to wrestle in two duals last season, but had to forfeit both due to injuries suffered in the match. Lewallen had something to prove coming into the tournament. Not only that he was back and healthy, but he won the last two tournaments and had a title to defend at 149 pounds. He did that, and then some. Lewallen totaled 24 team points on his way to winning his third title, which was third on the team. Reece Witcraft could be the real deal

Coming in as a true freshman to your first collegiate tournament can be a daunting task that overwhelms many athletes. Reece Witcraft was not one of those athletes. Witcraft injured his left knee in his first match of the day at 133. A knee that would have to be looked at throughout the day to make sure he could continue competing. In his first match, a 17-7 major decision, it was not a defining factor. In his second, however, it almost cost him a title. Down 13-4 to Mikey Mascarenas of Northeastern Oklahoma, Witcraft had another injury timeout to check his injury. When the timeout was done, he went outscored Mascarenas 12-1 on his way to a quarterfinal victory. Two matches later, he clinched his first collegiate title, totaling 26 points to lead OSU. 184 is the Cowboys strongest weight

At the end of last season, 133 was no question going to be the Cowboys strongest weight. OSU had national title runner-up Daton Fix and All-American Kaid Brock to choose from. One Olympic Redshirt and one torn ACL later

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Oklahoma State’s Dakota Geer takes on UCO’s Heath Gray on Saturday during the Oklahoma City University Open at Abe Lemons Arena in Oklahoma City.

and the Cowboys were left reeling to find other weights to lean on while the new starter at 133 is figured out. That weight might just be 184. Dakota Geer, an AllAmerican last season, and Anthony Montalvo have competed all offseason to determine a starter at the weight with the backup possibly moving up to 197. With the field that this tournament provides, there is usually a chance for two Cowboys to face-off in the final for a weight. There were four weights in which that happened on Saturday. One of those, and possibly the most inter-

esting of the four, was 184. This was the lone case that coach John Smith chose not to have his wrestlers face off. They instead forfeited the match. Smith has said that there would be ranking matches next week to determine the starters and that seems to be the reason as to why he chose to skip this matchup. The No-Shows OSU featured 28 total wrestlers both attached and unattached, but when looking at the bracket there were three notable absentees. Kaden Gfeller, Joe Smith and Neal Putnam

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the projected starters at 141, 174 and heavyweight, respectively, were not present. This could be due to a number of reasons, but there are two that would make the most sense. 1. They suffered some sort of injury or illness during the past week and could not physically participate. 2. John Smith decided that there were wrestlers that needed the experience more than the trio. Either way, there are no signs that they will miss any time beyond Saturday and should all be ready to go against Drexel next Friday. Despite not having usual starters at 141 and 174, OSU had a pair

of wrestlers that took the opportunity and ran with it all the way to an individual title. Redshirt junior Dusty Hone was Kaid Brock’s backup at 141 for most of last season and projects to do the same for Gfeller this time around. On Saturday, however, it was his time to shine. Hone won all three of his matches and finished with 23 team points. At 174, redshirt freshman Gavin Stika won a title of his own. He totaled 21.5 team points capped off by a 6-0 decision against Gage McBride of UCO in his final match. PAGE 4

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“The Lighthouse,” the second film directed by Robert Eggers, is a dark, psychological thriller that stunned audiences upon its release. This film, though disturbing and confusing, has stunning cinematography and a chilling underscore. It focuses on two men, Ephraim Winslow (Robert Pattinson) and Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe), temporarily stationed on an island in the cold climate of New England. The two men in the movie violently flip between nemesis and close friends, contingent on the amount of alcohol consumption during the scene. A collection of disturbing events cause his sanity to take a drastic decline. Shot entirely in black and white, the film accurately depicts the cold, antique quality that perfectly matches the theme. Contrasts of light and dark emphasize the mood and emotion in the scene. For example, the use of candlelight at their dinners create a haunting ritual of tension between the two men. The ever-present shine of the lantern room casts an ethereal glow on the island, reinforced by the men’s delusion and paranoia. A long, low horn sporadically calls throughout the movie. This call reflects the haunting

monotony of the island rock and chills the setting further. The island is rocky and rugged, covered in brine and blanketed by a foggy haze. “The Lighthouse” depicts multiple cinematic themes that tie the film together, including the presence of the ornery seagull. This seagull is later discovered to be symbolic of an even darker twist in the story. Willem Dafoe’s portrayal of the mysterious and gruff Wake deserves the highest praise. The authenticity of his sailor accent complemented by the colloquialisms of 19th century New England are convincing enough to place the audience right on the rock. Dafoe perfectly embodies the mystery and rough edges of his role. Throughout the film, the men have a similar sense of secrecy and are equally enthralled with the rock. The spiraling of the two’s relationship, initiated with the tension and distrust between them, is met with the eerie setting of the rock. Never knowing the time, what the other is really doing or thinking, and the endless paranoid episodes from Winslow breed confusion in the audience. This confusion is perfectly balanced with the mysteriously dark lighting and camera angles throughout the film. The strong sense of

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symbolism in the movie is reflected by the gull, the lighthouse, and the two men themselves. The supernatural sexual gratification that each man experiences with their respective counterpart is disturbing in the least, but is a key contributor to their insanity, along with constant confusion and distrust. The themes in this movie are translated throughout. There are many reviews on “The Lighthouse” that connect the characters to the stories of Greek mythology, including the comparison of Howard to Prometheus. Wake is thought to be an embodiment of Proteus, Poseidon’s son who was half man, half octopus. This theory is reinforced by his god complex, and other examples that are reflected throughout the course of the film. Without giving too much away, the literary and cinematic parallels are clear. If these connections are true to the composition of the movie, “The Lighthouse” is a strike of cinematic mastery. The ability to send the audience into a whirlwind of confusion that matches the character’s moods through lighting, cinematography, and thematic qualities is immaculately done. Overall, “The Lighthouse” is a beautifully ee rie tale with intricate moving parts, and leaves the audience stunned.

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