NORMAN, Okla. -- Bob Stoops has declared it before and Jerry Williams swears it to be true.
Williams and Stoops met in the third grade in Youngstown, Ohio, and quickly bonded over sports -- including sharing the same favorite college football team, which happened to be 1,100 miles away.
“We couldn’t really deal with that Ohio State stuff,” said Williams, who would later be in Stoops’ wedding, and Stoops in his. “But we loved the style of OU football back then. They’d put the ball on the ground six times and still beat you 56-14.
“We loved it.