Anyone remember Roy Finch at Edmond North?
Published: 10/19/2010 9:44 PM
Last Modified: 10/19/2010 9:44 PM
So we're crowded around Roy Finch after Oklahoma practice Tuesday night. He's reliving his glittery debut last Saturday night, and telling us all about pretending to be Reggie Bush as a kid… And then all of a sudden he drops this into the conversation:
"A lot of people don't know I lived here for a year, and went to Edmond North."
Roy Finch, who has Sooner fans more than half-convinced he's Bush reincarnated, went to Edmond North? Played for Edmond North?
"Tenth grade… I had 1200 yards rushing and receiving."
Edmond is a half-hour (fast) drive from Norman. North is a 6A school. This was 2007.
How did I miss this?
Did everybody miss this?
"I was kind of a new guy on the scene. Nobody really knew about me, but I was trying to make a name for myself."
As far as I can tell, the only ones who caught on were the writers at the Edmond Sun. I Google'd "Roy Finch Edmond North" and thanks to the Sun, discovered that Finch led the Huskies with 74 yards in their regular season-ending victory over Memorial.
Any Charger fans/parents/trumpet players recall Finch from that Thursday night at Wantland Stadium?
Anyone anywhere recall Finch rushing for 744 yards and receiving another 517 (his '07 stats, per the Sun)?
The sophomore dynamo blew into town after his uncle was stationed here, then blew right back out when his uncle was re-stationed near Niceville, Fla.
Filing out of the interview room Tuesday night, none of us supposedly-alert sportswriters could remember Finch's Oklahoma high school cameo. Surely he made an impression on somebody.
Oklahoma sure made an impression on him.
Said the onetime Bush/USC superfan: "When I was here, I just fell in love with OU."
-- Guerin Emig
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Guerin Emig
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