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University funds underutilized OU will try to better invest endowments ANNA MAYER news reporter @AnnaMay136

OU’s provost is urging the university to find a more efficient way of dealing with unassigned scholarships and endowments in the face of increasing education cuts from the state. In the last September Faculty Senate meeting, a monetary issue

was brought up for the first time and caused confusion among many. According to the Faculty Senate minutes, OU Provost Kyle Harper said OU had almost $20 million in unexpected endowments and scholarships in non-interest bearing accounts. With the way endowments work, a donor generally specifies the way in which the income is to be spent, whether to purchase new library books, create a new department position or even to simply pass spending direction to

the university, according to Emory University finance division. Due to the restrictions, the university is unable to spend the primary endowment but is able to KYLE spend all or some HARPER of the income generated through the investment of the gift. Most endowments have terms that specifically impose that the university maintain the original

balance of the endowment. The university has a legal and ethical obligation to honor the terms of the endowment. The OU Foundation currently has $1 billion endowments in university programs, said Guy Patton, OU Foundation president and CEO. A 5 percent dividend is put into accounts for immediate spending demand deposits. Although originally confused as to what Harper was referring to, Patton said the fact that those moneys are not in current non-interest bearing accounts is not

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unusual, but it would be unusual if that money were to go unused. That is exactly the point that Harper was getting at. Harper did not intend to imply that $20 million was lying in a single non-interest bearing account. The $20 million is actually divided up among 3,000 accounts, Patton said.

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In his State of the University address at Monday’s Faculty Senate meeting, OU President David Boren said government budget cuts would be likely if his penny tax proposal does not pass. Boren painted a bleak future for the university if the petition for the one-penny sales tax is not passed to combat the education crisis in Oklahoma. Boren said that teachers are leaving Oklahoma for better pay in states like Arkansas, which offers about $4,000 more annually than Oklahoma jobs. He also worried that the payment for education has become more of a private service rather than public. Therefore, Boren proposed the penny tax. “We’re proposing a one-penny sales tax. I’m not the biggest fan of the sales tax. It’s not solely my plan. I’m happy to take the blame for it, because I believe we have to do something. Our education system is crumbling. This would raise $615 million. The greatest beneficiaries of this would be the education system. This would give $60 million to early childhood education and $120 million to higher education every year. Under the formula, that would be an $18 million increase for the Norman campus if we can get it passed. If you add in the Health Sciences Center and the programs in Tulsa, well over $30 million would come to the University of Oklahoma SEE BOREN PAGE 2

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OU honors veterans this week Student leaders express respect for sacrifices made ANNA MAYER news reporter @AnnaMay136

OU is taking this week to honor veterans. The opening ceremony for Veterans Recognition and Appreciation Week at OU kicked off at 9 a.m. Monday in the Unity Garden on the South Oval. The week will be dedicated to honoring the services of veteran students, alumni, faculty and staff. The South Oval will display yellow ribbons all week for the veterans, as well as a Prisoner of War/Missing In Action flag display on the North Oval. “Our veterans have done so much for us,� Student Government Association President Alex Byron said. “It’s a continual effort and sacrifice that they’re making, their families as well. The least we can do here at the University of Oklahoma is recognize that, not just with one day but with a week. And honestly, we should be doing more than that. The most important thing is doing what we can here on campus.� “Personally, I think what is incredibly important of getting out of this week is that there are resources available for all students to know ab ou t,� Un d e rg ra d u ate Student Congress Chair Emily Sample said. “Many times, our veterans are sitting in our classrooms and we don’t even know, or they’re the non-traditional students. We should raise awareness with that. They’ve done (immeasurable) things that we should never forget.� Byron and Sample

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Student Government Association President Alex Byron presents bill author Taylor Kelling with the framed signed bill. The bill establishes that the week of Nov. 11 on be recognized as Veteran’s Recognition and Appreciation Week at OU.

expressed their reasons for passing the legislation to officiate the Veterans Recognition and Appreciation Week, and presented the framed bill to its authors Taylor Kelling and Jordan Miller. According to Byron, Kelling and Miller were the major driving forces behind the bill. “Taylor was the one who helped draft the legislation with Emily, and he was the one who came to us and stressed the need for this event,� Byron said. Byron and Sample also added a large yellow ribbon after speaking to a tree next to the Unity Garden to

“It’s a continual effort and sacrifice that they’re making, their families as well.� ALEX BYRON, SGA PRESIDENT

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Veteran Vern Babcock holds one of the small tokens that he gifted to other fellow veterans. The star was cut from a retired military American flag and comes with a description that reads: With your service you may have become tattered and torn. Please carry me as a reminder that, WE WILL NOT BE FORGOTTEN!

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alone from this. It would make a huge difference,� Boren said. However, if the penny tax does not pass, Boren said the governor told him that all state agencies should expect at least a 10 percent cut, which comes to about a $14 million to $15 million cut from the Norman campus alone. “I can’t tell you how hard that is to make up,� Boren said. “We have some small reserves to get us through a year. If we just know that there’s light at the end of the tunnel, you can almost live through anything for one year if you know that help is coming. We won’t know if help is coming, however, until the presidential

“Since the spring, we have been working with deans, chairs and directors to make the most efficient use of our resources in light of possible coming budget cuts from the state government,� Harper said in an email. “Among these efforts we have looked closely at all endowment accounts and tried, where possible, to maximize the amount of funds on the principal side where they will be invested by the OU Foundation’s world class investment team and earn interest income for future use.� Harper plans to move ahead, looking for the most “efficient�

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President David Boren attends Monday’s Faculty Senate meeting.The Faculty Senate met in Jacobson Hall to discuss the residential colleges among other topics.

election next year.� Currently, the university is operating on $100 million less than in 2008, Boren said. “We’ve had to adjust tuition fees and keep an eye on the demographics. I worry that we’re losing out

on first-year generation students and other young people that have tremendous potential,� Boren said. Brianna Sims Brianna.M.Sims-1@ou.edu

strategy to earn more off of the endowments. According to a story by the NPR, the year of 2014 showed record levels in university endowments. In one year, colleges and universities raised $37.45 billion, according to the Council for Aid to Education. However, much of that sum went to elite universities, with $1 billion going to Harvard alone. Stac y Palmer of the Chronicle of Philanthropy said in an interview with NPR that there are thousands of colleges that just struggle to be able to raise private sums. Public

institutions are not getting as much money from the states as they used to, she said. Palmer did a survey recently and found that 75 percent of young people said that they would favor giving to another kind of charity over giving to their college. She believes that it is not a done deal that people are going to keep giving as generously to colleges. Harper praised the OU Foundation for producing the best results thus far and said that his aim is to just work with the foundation to be even more efficient in the future.

“Since the spring, we have been working with deans, chairs and directors to make the most efficient use of our resources in light of possible coming budget cuts from the state government.� KYLE HARPER, OU PROVOST

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SGA seeking to reward groups Organizations can apply for awards until Feb. 12 BRIANNA SIMS News Reporter @briannana18

Student organizations will have the opportunity to be recognized by the Student Government Association for their hard work in recruitment, participation and philanthropy next semester. SGA has resurrected an old initiative this semester that will allow student organizations to fill out an application in hopes that they win one of the Registered Student Organization Awards. “The Awards of Excellence program encourages and recognizes outstanding contributions made to the University of Oklahoma community by Registered Student Organizations. Applications will be made available soon,” according to the SGA website.

“It’s a great way to recognize RSOs who have gone above and beyond for the community, and we just want to thank them,” SGA Vice President Avery Marczewski said. “We’ve noticed that with that ball dropping and that initiative not being carried out that these student organizations weren’t being given the recognition they deserve.” Jack Schaefer, SGA’s assistant director in the department of student organizations, said SGA used to have the awards, but there was a break due to the loss DAYTEN ISRAEL/THE DAILY of files needed to create the Members of the Student Government Association vote on policies Oct. 20. SGA recognizes Registered application. “We were able to remake Student Organizations for their outstanding contributions made to the University of Oklahoma community. the application, so it’s back up again,” Schaefer said. with 51 or more,” Marczewski In the past, SGA gave away be decided upon until the A b o u t 1 0 o r 1 2 M o s t said. trophies for the awards, but spring,” Schaefer said. “Early Outstanding RSO awards will Marczewski believes this this semester they haven’t next semester we’ll decide be given to the best organiza- award, as well as the award decided on whether to give upon what the actual awards tion, either small, midsize or for the Outstanding RSO out trophies, plaques or cer- will look like.” large, Schaefer said. Leader, are prestigious. tificates, Schaefer said. SGA hopes to work “The organizations range “Beyond that, there are “I’m not sure if we’re want- with the Leadership and from small, with 20 or fewer awards for best in philan- ing to do the same thing or Volunteerism Office to do an members; midsize, with thropy, best in programming not, because the winners of awards ceremony with them, 21-50 members; and large, and so on,” Schaefer said. the awards won’t actually Schaefer said.

“They do a banquet every year, but I don’t think that’s going to happen,” Schaefer said. “I’m not sure if there will be a banquet or a ceremony or if we’ll just announce and distribute the trophies. I assume there will be a ceremony, but that is still in the early stages of planning.” Schaefer believes that the awards advocate for participation and recruitment in student organizations. “I believe that any kind of reward for your performance will definitely encourage organizations to both recruit people and to really try their best,” Schaefer said. The applications opened o n N o v. 2 a n d w i l l b e available until Feb. 12. Marczewski and Schaefer said they encourage all registered student organizations to apply and be recognized for the work they have done for the university and their community. Brianna Sims

Missouri president resigns amid protests Departure related to indifference to racial discomfort COLUMBIA , Mo. (AP) — The president of the University of Missouri system and the head of its flagship campus resigned Monday with the football team and others on campus in open revolt over what they saw as indifference to racial tensions at the school.

President Tim Wolfe, a former business executive with no previous experience in academic leadership, took “full responsibility for the frustration” students expressed and said their complaints were “clear” and “real.” For months, black student groups had complained that Wolfe was unresponsive to racial slurs and other slights on the over whelmingly white main campus of the

state’s four-college system. The complaints came to a head two days ago, when at least 30 black football players announced they would not play until the president left. A graduate student went on a weeklong hunger strike. Wolfe’s announcement came at the start of what had been expected to be a lengthy closed-door meeting of the school’s governing board. “This is not the way

change comes about,” he said, alluding to recent protests, in a halting statement that was simultaneously apologetic, clumsy and defiant. “We stopped listening to each other.” He urged students, faculty and staff to use the resignation “to heal and start talking again to make the changes necessary.” Hours later, the top administrator of the Columbia campus, Chancellor R . Bowen Loftin, announced he would step down at the end of the year and shift to leading research efforts. The school’s undergraduate population is 79 percent white and 8 percent black. The state is about 83 percent white and nearly 12 percent black. The Columbia campus is about 120 miles west of Ferguson, Missouri, where Michael Brown was killed last year in a shooting

that helped spawn the national “Black Lives Matter” movement rebuking police treatment of minorities. In response to the race complaints, Wolfe had taken little public action and made few statements. As students leveled more grievances this fall, he was increasingly seen as aloof, out of touch and insensitive to their concerns. He soon became the protesters’ main target. In a statement issued Sunday, Wolfe acknowledged that “change is needed” and said the university was working to draw up a plan by April to promote diversity and tolerance. But by the end of that day, a campus sit-in had grown in size, graduate student groups planned walkouts and politicians began to weigh in. Sophomore Katelyn Brown said she wasn’t necessarily aware of chronic

racism at the school, but she applauded the efforts of black student groups. “I personally don’t see it a lot, but I’m a middle-class white girl,” she said. “I stand with the people experiencing this.” She credited social media with propelling the protests, saying it offered “a platform to unite.” At a news conference Mo n d ay , h e a d f o o t b a l l coach Gary Pinkel said his players were concerned with the health of Jonathan Butler, who had not eaten for a week as part of protests against Wolfe. “During those discussions,” athletic director Mack Rhoades said, “there was never any talk about anybody losing their job. It was simply and primarily about a young man’s life.”

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The home of OU students Brad Thompson, Danial Gebreili and Ryan Lewis looks like that of typical college students — a pingpong table bearing pictures drawn with neon chalk is folded in the garage, black lights take the place of normal light bulbs, and framed photographs of comic book and video game characters litter the walls. H o w e v e r, t h e p h o tos reveal a hobby that is much bigger than a love of gaming. The roommates are members of Impact Props, a business where they build costumes and weapons of popular characters, make videos with them and sell them, among other things. Thompson, a mechanical engineering senior, started building costumes and props as a freshman in high school. His dad’s carpentry led him to an interest in building, and his love of video games directed his projects, he said. “I loved video games. I loved ‘Halo.’ I really wanted to make something,� Thompson said. “I started off when I was super bored in a summer, and then I just started building by myself. I kept going and started building these costumes.� T h o m p s o n u s e s E VA foam, hot glue and resin to build the costumes and prop weapons. He started Impact Props with his friend Eric Newgard, who lives in California. The two have a website where they

sell their projects. W h e n h e g o t t o O U, Thompson wore a costume of Master Chief, the main character from ‘Halo,’ on campus one day. It was then that Lewis, a supply chain management junior, saw him on the South Oval, and they hit it off, Thompson said. Gebreili, a microbiology junior and friend of Lewis who enjoys photography and vide ography, s o on joined them, and they threw around the idea of expanding Impact Props with videos of Lewis doing things in Thompson’s suits. Now three years later, the three have turned their hobby into a passion, Gebreili said. When they are not busy with schoolwork, they brainstorm new projects to do with the costumes. Thompson and L ewis have both worn the costumes in videos where they portray Master Chief, Iron Man and other characters riding motorcycles, wakeboarding and having dance battles. They post videos on YouTube and Facebook, where they have developed an online following, Gebreili said. As well as making videos, the roommates go to Comic-Con and similar conventions a couple times a year with the costumes. “The people who follow us online are in that crowd, so going to those lets us meet the people who really follow our stuff and appreciate it,� Thompson said. “That’s really fun. It’s pretty gratifying.� Thompson said he is sometimes commissioned to make helmets or props, and he is often able to meet the people he sells them to

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at the conventions. “It’s pretty cool to see s o m e o n e e l s e ’s a r m o r topped with your helmet,� Thompson said. Gebreili said the group’s online following has opened cool opportunities for new projects.

“It’s pretty cool to see someone else’s armor topped with your helmet.� BRAD THOMPSON, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SENIOR

Earlier this year they made calendars of Lewis posing next to expensive cars in a Master Chief costume to poke fun at ‘hot model’ calendars. Recently, an owner of Scissortail Skydiving in Shawnee wore Thompson’s Master Chief suit, and he and another owner videotaped as he

skydived in it. “I think my favorite part is how everything comes together at the end and how well we work together,� Gebreili said. “Seeing the final product is by far the most fulfilling part of the whole process.� Although the three do not always agree on what direction to take projects, Lewis said the hobby has made them close. “We do have different opinions sometimes, but we always find a way to work through that,� Lewis said. “These are my best friends, and having this random hobby become something that we can all do together is so much fun. Who else gets to go see Ferraris and Lamborghinis and crazy expensive cars and build a calendar with their best friends?�

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Jessie Barber, a&e editor dailyent@ou.edu • phone: 405-325-3666 oudaily.com/life&arts • Twitter: @OUDailyArts

Season of releases is upon us New video games include significant sequels for classics Every year, the month of November is full of the biggest video game title releases. 2015 is no different. Either you plan on buying one, two or all of them, so here’s my list of what I’ll be spending my bottle caps on.

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‘Fallout 4’ Playstation 4, Xbox One, PC If you didn’t understand my bottle caps reference, chances are you have never played the ‘Fallout’ series. The open world, massive RPG developed by Bethesda Studios is set in a post-apocalyptic United States. The previous installment, Fallout 3, had players explore a devastated Washington, D.C. as they battle humans and radioactive monsters alike.

Critically acclaimed, the game received numerous “Game of the Year� awards. Hopefully Fallout 4 is the same. Fans aren’t worried, though. Bethesda has a terrific track record in high quality video games, with the highly regarded Skyrim also being under the company’s belt. If you want an immersive, detailed, mysterious openworld game to lose yourself to, this is it. The final game

drops on Nov. 10.

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‘Call of Duty: Black Ops 3’ Playstation 4, Xbox One, Playstation 3, Xbox 360, PC ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops 3’ is a multiplayer first-person shooter developed by Treyarch, one of the three developers of Call of Duty. Its campaign takes place in 2065 and follows a team of black ops supersoldiers. The campaign is never the

reason to buy a Call of Duty game, though. The multiplayer and zombie survival modes are the two main features of ‘Black Ops 3’. Multiplayer is as polished as ever and includes new features like specialists and exo abilities. I st r u g g l e d to d e c i d e whether or not I should put this game on my list but ultimately decided to because of ‘Shadows of Evil’, the new zombies survival map. Set

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in a neo-noir, fictional city, players fight hordes of zombies round after round, trying to survive as long as possible. Zombies have always had a special place in my heart. Grabbing three other friends and jumping into this mysterious city is going to be a blast. I recommend you do the same. ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops 3’ launched on Nov. 6.

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‘Star Wars: Battlefront 3’ Playstation 4, Xbox One, PC Oh man, I am excited for this game. ‘Star Wars: Battlefront 3’ is the highly anticipated multiplayer first person shooter developed by DICE. Based off the beloved sci-fi space opera ‘Star Wars’, the game is packed with gleeful nostalgia. Jedi, Sith, lightsabers, blasters and X-wings grace the screen with beautiful, polished graphics. Also included are iconic heroes and villains like Boba Fett, Han Solo and Princess Leia. I got a chance to play the beta and, based off that, I’m sold. It’s not just a multiplayer game with a ‘Star Wars’ skin tacked on. DICE was very genuine in their approach to creating ‘Battlefront 3,’ photo-copying actual props from the films into the game. When you play the game, you are the game. What else could a Star Wars fan want? The final game drops on Nov. 17. Max Root is a creative media

International business sophomore Tyler Amburgey and art sophomore Jordan Satepauhoodle play Rock Band in Couch Center Nov. 9. “Fallout 4,� “Call of Duty: Black Ops 3� and sophomore “Star Wars: Battlefront 3� come out this month.

Lab Theatre staging ‘The Laramie Project’ Production will run this week, include free Sunday show MADISON MASTERS a&e reporter

O U ’s p r o d u c t i o n o f “The Laramie Projectâ€? will be one to remember. The show tells of how the people of Laramie, Wyoming, responded to the murder of a homosexual young man, Matthew Shepard. “The play is not about Matthew Shepard’s death,â€? acting senior Austin Lucas said. “It’s about how everyone reacted to it.â€? It is a very human play, based around how people were feeling and perhaps inspiring the same feelings in others, he said. The biggest challenge of this show is playing multiple different characters, acting sophomore Peyton Storz said. It is not a very large cast, and the show is designed so that each actor is playing several different people. “In this show the audience has to see you transform from yourself to a character, to yourself, to another character,â€? Storz said. This is a difficult feat not only for the actors to mold themselves into different personalities but to play them realistically. Lucas said that each of them had to “learn the extremes of what you can play honestly.â€? These are real people that they are playing and to do the story justice, they can’t make them “caricature-y,â€? acting senior Morgan Vesper said. “There was some challenge in orchestrating the whole thing ‌ to create each environment with ourselves,â€? Vesper said. OU’s production will be

special because during the pre-show, the actors are actually setting up the stage. There’s no curtain — nothing to hide behind — and the actors are on stage the whole time. They are either in the scene or sitting on the sidelines. The play is very minimalistic by nature. “Laramieâ€? is not a spectacle show and that is one of the reasons why it plays better in a more “intimate space,â€? where the story will hit close to home for many, Vesper said. “We are not pushing for people to be weeping in the aisles ‌ we’re looking to have people walk out engaged, questioning their beliefs and being inspired to keep moving,â€? Lucas said. All three actors invite the public to come to the show with an open mind. PHOTO PROVIDED “If you’re not comfortable “The Laramie Projectâ€? is about the people of Laramie, Wyoming, responding to the murder of a homosexual young man names Matthew with homosexuality, that Shepard. doesn’t make you a bad person,â€? Vesper said. The great thing about this play is that it presents most, 3UHVLGHQWLDO 'UHDP &RXUVH if not all, sides of the issue, %,2/ /LIH DW WKH ([WUHPHV according to Vesper. There 3XEOLF 6HPLQDU are characters with any and every mentality, so each person is bound to find one 2Q D :LOG *RRVH &KDVH IRU WKH that they can resonate with, :RUOGÂśV +LJKHVW )O\LQJ %LUG Vesper said. “The Laramie Projectâ€? will show in the Old Science 'U /XF\ +DZNHV Hall Lab Theatre Nov. 10-14 8QLYHUVLW\ RI ([HWHU at 7:30 p.m. with a special, free showing on Sunday in the Reynolds Performing Arts Center at 3 p.m. Tickets for the Lab Theatre performances are $8 for adults, $6 for students, OU faculty and senior adults, and they can be purchased at the Fine Arts Box Office. /HDUQ DERXW WKH SK\VLRORJ\ RI RQH RI WKH ZRUOGÂśV PRVW DPD]LQJ DQLPDOV &5(',7 1DWLRQDO 6FLHQFH )RXQGDWLRQ

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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 •

SPORTS

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Dillon Hollingsworth, sports editor dailysports@ou.edu • phone: 405-325-3666 oudaily.com/sports • Twitter: @OUDailySports

Players expect shootout in Waco Clock management will be crucial to stopping Bears DILLON HOLLINGSWORTH sports editor @DillonJames94

Baylor played its closest game of the season last Thursday when the Bears held off Bill Snyder’s Kansas State Wildcats for a 31-24 victory. It may have been freshman Jarrett Stidham’s first career start, but the 31 points is the fewest Baylor has produced in a game all season. Part of that can be credited to Kansas State’s gameplan. The Bears can score in a hurry — all they need is the ball. So the Wildcats decided to play keepaway. Baylor finished the game with 11 offensive possessions, averaging just over 2.8 points per possession, and lost the time of possession battle to Kansas State by 16 minutes. The slow play helped the Wildcats come closer than anyone this season to toppling Art Briles’ Bears, but don’t expect to see Oklahoma follow their lead when the Sooners head to Waco Saturday. “Yeah, no, there’s not a lot of correlation in Kansas State’s offense and ours,”

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Sophomore fullback Dimitri Flowers runs the ball in for the first touchdown of the game against the Iowa State Cyclones Saturday. Flowers scored one touchdown during the game.

coach Bob Stoops said. “That’s pretty simple. So I don’t see us all of a sudden abandoning what we’re doing and trying to do what they did.” The Sooners score pretty quickly themselves. In last week’s win over Iowa State, Oklahoma had three touchdown drives of less than 15 seconds. “Time of possession’s never really been our thing

so far this year,” quarterback Baker Mayfield said. “We strike pretty quickly, and we can score very fast. So I mean, for us it’s about just holding the ball and manage it on our own pace. It’s not about what they’re going to do, it’s about holding it to our pace and not turning it over.” Scoring at that pace Saturday will mean handing the ball back to the nation’s

leading scoring offense. While that is worrisome, Oklahoma does have reason to believe it can be a recipe for success. On the other side of the ball, the Sooners are the Big 12 leaders in total defense, scoring defense and passing defense. “They’re playing lights out right now,” Mayfield said of OU’s defense. “It’s at a good time of the year, that’s for sure.”

So while the Wildcats presented one way to keep Baylor close, Oklahoma is confident in its own style of play. “We’ve got to be able to eat some clock at times, but we’ve got to take the fight to them,” center Ty Darlington said. “We can’t change our identity and who we are and start trying to be a milk the clock offense. We’re going to strike, and we’re going to

take it to them fast, and we’re going to play with some tempo because that’s what we do. We’re not going to change what we do for anybody else.” Dillon Hollingsworth dillon.j.hollingsworth-1@ou.edu

Sooners find magic in meeting after Texas Loss in Cotton Bowl sparked change in attitude SPENSER DAVIS football reporter @Davis_Spenser

Lincoln Riley knew something had to change. In its first season, Riley’s iteration of the air-raid offense was inconsistent at best through the first four games of the season. Oklahoma averaged 42 points per game — good but not great — in its first four contests, notching wins over three non-conference opponents and West Virginia. OU’s offense was especially slow early in games, totaling just 27 combined points in the first quarter of those games. Then, in his fifth game as offensive coordinator in Norman, the Sooners posted just 278 yards in an

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Senior wide receiver Durron Neal breaks a tackle and scores a touchdown at Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium on Oct. 24. Neal led the Sooners with five receptions in the 63-17 victory over Texas Tech.

embarrassing 24-17 loss to Texas in the Cotton Bowl. It was puzzling when it happened but is even more so now. The Sooners are winners of four straight, averaging 58 points per game in the process.

It was on the way home from the debacle in Dallas that Riley knew change was necessary. Riley called a meeting on the following Sunday and challenged the offensive leaders to decide what they

wanted to be as a unit. “We sat down in a room, and we said ‘what do we want this offense to be from here?’” receiver Sterling Shepard said. That meeting proved to be impactful.

“Coach Riley brought everyone together and challenged us,” receiver Durron Neal said. “That was definitely an aggressive and heartfelt meeting. “We took it upon ourselves to dominate every game and to come out starting fast every game. We wanted to keep the pedal to the metal and show why this offense is what it is.” Riley wasn’t specific about what he told his team on that Sunday afternoon. But whatever it was, it worked. “Guys’ attitude totally changed from that moment on,” Shepard said after OU’s 62-7 victory over Kansas. Oklahoma’s offense averaged 60 points per game over the next three weeks, scoring at least 55 points in each contest. That was the first time since 2008 a Sooners offense had accomplished that. But the transformation didn’t just happen in a day.

Since that point, Oklahoma has made a consistent effort to have an edge offensively. “You learn a lot about yourself when you don’t play how you expect to play,” Riley said in reference to the Texas game. “The good thing is, nobody in this room pouted. They went back to work, put their head down, got their hands dirty and decided they were going to get better.” As for what was actually said, Riley was vague. “Nothing magical,” he insisted. “I think we found out a little something about our offense after that, and I knew the direction that we wanted to go after we talked about it as a staff on the way home from Texas. We knew the direction we needed to go with it right then without even watching the tape.” Spenser Davis davis.spenser@ou.edu

Line leading the way in improved run game Running backs finding more room to work lately BRADY VARDEMAN

assistant sports editor @BradyVardeman

T h ro u g h O k l a h o m a’s first six games of 2015, running back Samaje Perine averaged just 4.4 yards per carry, including a single performance of over 100 yards, leaving fans wondering where the Sooners’ once-powerful ground game went. After all, Perine averaged 6.5 yards per carry a season ago on his way to a 1,713 yard, 21 touchdown campaign. Suddenly, in Oklahoma’s game against Texas Tech, something changed. Perine exploded for 201 yards and four touchdowns, complemented by Joe Mixon’s 154 yards and two touchdowns. In OU’s last three games — Texas Tech, Kansas and Iowa State — Perine averaged 8.1

yards per carry. Mixon averaged 9.3. What changed? “It’s a lot of our development up front,” center Ty Darlington said. “Early in the season, I know we have the best backs in the nation, the best tandem of them. I think both those guys are fantastic. You don’t got to give them a lot, but you got to give them a little bit.” Darlington said the offensive line was largely responsible for the running game woes because of missed assignments. “We were having guys come free in the backfield,” Darlington said. “We weren’t giving them time enough to make their cuts and enough room to make a guy miss. As we’ve improved as a group, we’ve seen the running game improve.” Offensive coordinator Lincoln Riley said the line isn’t the only unit playing better. As the running backs themselves continue to improve, Oklahoma’s offense is

able to play more complete football rather than relying on the pass as it did early in the season. “Again, I said it the other night, I just think everybody’s on the same page as far as how we want to attack teams, where these backs are going, how the blocks are being set up,” Riley said. “ The run game’s one of those deals where you can do everything right, and if there’s one wrong step, one disconnect in any way, it can be blown up in a hurry.” Perine said as the season has progressed, he’s become more in sync with the offensive line. “They get better every week, and the ability to know where they’re going before they go and to know where I’m going to hit the hole, how I’m going to do this, how I’m going to make this person miss — it’s all coming along very well,” he said. An Oklahoma offense clicking both through the air

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Running back Samaje Perine warms up before an NCAA at Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium on Saturday. OU defeated Iowa State 52-16.

and on the ground creates problems for opposing defenses because it opens up the play-action pass, Riley said. Even Baylor coach Art Briles has noticed the Sooners’ potency on offense

over the last month — a span play action schemes. in which OU has outscored “They’re playing extremeits opponents 232-50. ly well on both sides of the “They have two really ball.” good running backs,” Briles said. “They’re getting them on the field more together, Brady Vardeman and that’s helping them in bradyvardeman@gmail.com

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