STILLWATER -- Like most around the state on a Friday night, Madill High School fans and players gathered on the football field. Win or lose, they had to rehash key moments and take photos.
In the background, a scrawny kid was running up and down the field or stadium stairs without his shoulder pads.
Micah Cooper wasn’t playing as a sophomore, but he wasn’t taking a night off.
“That was ol’ Coop,” Milton Cooper, the former Madill coach and Micah’s uncle, said with a hearty laugh.
No longer just in the background, Micah is the toast of Oklahoma State’s football team and the small community east of Ardmore.