On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Colin Carmichael was in Tulsa.
After practicing with his semi-pro soccer team, the Tulsa Roughnecks, the night prior, Carmichael, doubling as an aspiring soccer player and the head assistant at Oklahoma State, regularly slept in Tulsa and drove to Stillwater for practice in the morning.
Like so many others, Carmichael’s morning was anything but routine.
“I remember waking up and turning on the TV and us being like, ‘Oh my goodness, what is going on here?’” the OSU head coach said. “I remember my parents calling me from Scotland wondering what was going on — (asking) 'Are we at war?