OU has Frank Broyles to thank for The King
Published: 7/10/2008 9:00 AM
Last Modified: 7/10/2008 9:00 AM
You don't expect to find Oklahoma football nuggets in the Newburyport, Mass., paper. But then, you don't expect someone the stature of Barry Switzer to be accessible to reporters from Newburyport to New York.
And so it was that the legendary Sooner coach recently granted the Daily News of Newburyport a Q and A, the most interesting of which follows:
"Q: How did you get into coaching?
A: 'I've read where Bob Stoops said that he always knew he wanted to be a coach, as a small boy, because it's what his father did. Well, if I said that, I would've been a bootlegger. Honestly, I had no idea after I got out of college. I had a business degree. I was planning to go to law school. But I ran into (then Arkansas coach) Frank Broyles and he asked if I'd help out. I loved it. On a recruiting trip I went to the west Texas area, on the panhandle, and got three guys to commit to Arkansas. All three of them ended up starting. I loved the recruiting.'"
-- Guerin Emig
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Guerin Emig
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