The moment Larry Sanchez glanced at Oklahoma State University and Stillwater in late 1998, he knew he was in the right place.
As he drove around the town and saw families play with their children in the parks surrounding the town and marveled at OSU’s campus, he called his wife. With a small shift of his tone of voice, his wife already knew and said, “We’re moving, aren’t we?”
“At first, I came more to see what the NCAA thing was all about and wasn’t thinking about leaving New Mexico State,” Sanchez said. “But once I came to Stillwater, I fell in love with the town.