NORMAN, Okla. — Oklahoma Coach Bob Stoops said on Wednesday that the star running back Joe Mixon would be off the team if he had punched a woman now instead of two and a half years ago.
In 2014, Stoops was criticized sharply after he suspended Mixon for a year after Mixon punched an Oklahoma student, Amelia Molitor, at a Norman, Okla., restaurant. Mixon returned last season and helped the Sooners reach the College Football Playoff, and he has been a standout again this year for No. 7 Oklahoma.
Stoops said in 2014 that he believed Mixon, who was 18 at the time, could redeem himself.