By GUERIN EMIG Sports Writer on Mar 20, 2013, at 5:51 AM Updated on 3/20 at 5:51 AM
OU SPORTS
Cornerback Aaron Colvin returned for his senior year at Oklahoma to win some games, win some awards and put himself in prime ...
Keeping with the Big 12 vs. SEC theme of the week, I found something pretty cool from a year ago, when the two conferences ...
We're still more than a year and a half from the first College Football Playoff, and the first CFP selection committee, and ...
Lon Kruger and Steve Fisher coach against each other in Friday's NCAA first round in Philadelphia. You get the feeling they'd rather sit across a table from each other and chat for two hours.
The built up that kind of mutual admiration during their seven years coaching in the Mountain West Conference.
Here's Fisher to the San Diego Union-Tribune: "Everybody always says they're friends, but Lon and I really are friends. Our wives are friends. We enjoy each other's company. When we go on the Nike (coaching) trip, we find ways to get together, to have lunch or dinner together with our wives.
"You'd rather not play someone you have an affinity for. I'd like to have Lon Kruger go deep in the tournament. But one of us is going home after the first game."
Here's Kruger bragging on Fisher to Oklahoma beat writers: "When you think about what it was like 12 or 13 years ago when he took the job, there was no interest. No fans. No wins. All but one or two of the NCAA appearances in the history of their program have been under Coach Fisher. Even our first years at UNLV back in '04, '05 and '06, it hadn't developed yet.
"But he got it going, and it's a little better every year. It's a great homecourt advantage for them. It's as attractive as any place on the West Coast. He lines up and beats Pac-12 schools every year.
"Yeah, he's done a phenomenal job."
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