FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — From the outside, all we saw were the pictures on TV: Oklahoma football players, and even coach Bob Stoops, missing spring practices and marching arm-in-arm in protest over a racist song that had been sung by SAE frat house members and captured on a cell phone.
From the inside, it wasn't that simple. It wasn't that the united front was a lie for cameras. The united front was true enough, but there was a process behind it. There was hard work, tears, sleepless nights, yelling, doubts and fear behind it. There was some dissension behind it.