NORMAN — Longtime Oklahoma football assistant and athletic administrator Don Jimerson died Friday morning.
Jimerson was 83.
“He was a class act,” former Sooners head coach Barry Switzer said. “I liked him when I met him in high school. Everybody liked Don Jimerson.”
Jimerson had suffered from Alzheimer's disease.
Jimerson was first brought to OU in 1967 to coach the freshman team after three years as the head coach at Lawton High.
Then-head coach Jim McKenzie hired Jimerson after the young coach picked his brain about the I-formation.
The next year, he moved to an assistant's role and stayed there under McKenzie, Chuck Fairbanks and Switzer coaching running backs, tight ends and receivers.