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End Of Days: 20 Years Later

By Staff Reports
Published: 6/14/2009 2:25 AM
Last Modified: 6/14/2009 3:41 AM

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Switzer was a star in race relations. A timeline chronicling the end of Barry Switzer's 16-year tenure as OU head coach:

December 19, 1988: The NCAA placed OU's football program on three years probation for 20 violations over an eight-year period, with sanctions banning the Sooners from bowl games in 1989 and 1990 and television in 1989.

Jan. 13, 1989: As players are lining up in the athletic dorm for haircuts, cornerback Jerry Parks confronts offensive lineman Zarak Peters about a borrowed cassette tape. Parks leaves and returns with a .22 caliber pistol. After more arguing, Parks shoots Peters in the chest. Parks flees and is later apprehended without incident by university police. He is dismissed from the team and charged with shooting with intent to injure. Parks is later convicted and spends 82 days in jail.

Jan. 21, 1989: An Oklahoma City woman alleges that five OU football players gang-raped her in Wilkinson Hall. After a 2 1/2-week investigation, Cleveland County prosecutors charge running back Glenn Bell, offensive tackle Nigel Clay and tight end Bernard Hall with allegedly gang-raping a woman in the athletic dorm. Bell is later acquitted.

Jan. 26, 1989: Quarterback Charles Thompson sells 17 grams of cocaine to an undercover FBI agent.

Feb. 13, 1989: Switzer tells Thompson he's under FBI scrutiny, which the FBI later says undermined a larger investigation. Hours later, Thompson turns himself into the FBI for arrest on charges of selling cocaine.

Feb. 27, 1989: Sports Illustrated's cover shows Thompson in an orange prison jumpsuit and handcuffs getting into a police car under the headline, "Oklahoma: a sordid story / How Barry Switzer's Sooners terrorized their campus"

March 21, 1989: OU interim president David Swank tells Texas newspaper executives in Austin that Switzer has about a year to shape up the OU program, "or changes will have to be made."

June 19, 1989: Switzer, who owns college football's best active winning percentage (.844), resigns after 16 seasons at a 2 p.m. news conference.

Read more timeline at tulsaworld.com/outimeline By Staff Reports

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