Lincoln Riley’s first hire when he joined the Sooners as an offensive coordinator, Simmons is one of only two people to ever to coach two Biletnikoff Award winners, yet he doesn’t even have his own Wikipedia page.
Oklahoma fans may not know it, but they owed Simmons a big thank you seven years before his first day on the job in Norman. Simmons, along with a baby-faced assistant named Riley, mentored Michael Crabtree. It was Crabtree who broke through a Texas arm tackle on a fateful night in Lubbock, to break the hearts of an entire Burnt Orange fanbase and put Oklahoma back on the path to the 2008 Big 12 Championship and National Title appearance.