NORMAN — Dressed in a navy suit with a crimson-and-gold striped tie, David Boren took a seat on the aluminum bench in between tight end Mark Andrews and left tackle Orlando Brown on the sideline during last Saturday's football game.
If the university president plopping down on the team bench between two massive football players surprised anyone around, they didn't show it.
Other than being about 55 years older than the guys sitting on either side of him and wearing a collared shirt, Boren hardly seemed out of place.
By this point in his nearly 23-year tenure, Boren was as much a part of the football team — and any athletic team, for that matter — as the head coach, the athletic trainer or the water boy.