NORMAN — Players and coaches shuffled through the Lloyd Noble Center practice facility Thursday afternoon as a kid’s camp was wrapping up. There were the unfamiliar faces of incoming freshmen De’Vion Harmon, Jalen Hill and Victor Iwuakor, and the absence of some older ones.
Lon Kruger is entering his ninth season at Oklahoma, but his first without Chris Crutchfield next to him on the bench. After Lew Hill and Steve Henson took head coaching jobs three years ago, Crutchfield became the last remaining assistant from Kruger’s inaugural staff.
But late last month, new Arkansas coach Eric Musselman tabbed Crutchfield as his associate head coach.