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Recordings obtained by The Daily reveal divisions at the highest level of the university’s administration in the months leading up to one of the most tumultuous years in recent OU history.

Suzette Grillot, former OU College of International Studies dean, provided The Daily with recordings of conversations she had with former OU President David Boren and OU Board of Regents member Renzi Stone in February 2018 that showed the OU administration was at odds during the presidential search for James Gallogly.

Grillot discussed the search with Stone and Boren in separate phone conversations she recorded with Boren on Feb. 19 and Stone on Feb. 21. She recorded both conversations with the voice memo app on her phone. The Daily received the entirety of both recorded conversations.

The conversations took place not long before the search committee completed all of its interviews with candidates on Feb. 23 and was preparing to send the list to the Board of Regents. In early March 2018, final interviews were held, and Gallogly was named president March 26.

Oklahoma is a one-party consent state for recording law, meaning as long as an individual is a contributor of the conversation recorded, it is legal to record without permission from the other person, according to Oklahoma Statute Annotated Title 13 and 176.4.

“I mean, I think it’s really important to understand that what Renzi Stone tells us basically is that the regents failed to supervise David Boren,” Grillot told The Daily. “There was no succession plan. They say he stayed too long. They acknowledge cultural problems and sham searches. So they basically have failed in their jobs and have betrayed the public trust, and the public needs to know that.”

“THERE IS A LACK OF TRUST, AND IT’S SEWN BY (BOREN) AND HOW HE’S GOVERNED FOR THE LAST 23 YEARS.” OU REGENT RENZI STONE, FEBRUARY 2018 Grillot was among the first and most vocal critics of the confidential presidential search process that led to Gallogly’s selection.

Grillot was terminated from her position as dean of the College of International Studies on Jan. 18, 2019, but she remains a tenured professor in the college. She called for Gallogly’s resignation at the Rally to Stop Racism on Jan. 22, which was held in response to a racist video where an OU student wore blackface and used a racial slur.

On March 28, Grillot filed an employment charge with the U.S. Equal Employment Oppor tunity Commission against OU, Gallogly and OU Provost Kyle Harper under Title VII of the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 for “gender discrimination” and retaliation for criticizing the Gallogly administration. The lawsuit is still ongoing, Grillot said.

In Stone’s statement regarding his leaked conversation with Grillot, he said by having conversations with OU faculty, staff and students he has become more informed. Stone said while he is pleased with what interim OU President Joseph Harroz has done so far, that the regents “all recognize more needs to be done.”

“This conversation was secretly recorded a year and a half ago by a vocal critic who is currently suing OU,” Stone said. “I encourage everyone to listen to the full recording.”

In previous interviews conducted for different stories, The Daily has recorded conversations with permission from both Stone

and Boren. The Daily verified the voices in those recordings were the same as the ones in Grillot’s recordings.

In the recording, Stone said Boren left because of the regents.

“And if I could tell you anything, you have six regents — we used to have seven — who are the reason that he’s not staying,” Stone said.

In Stone’s conversation with Grillot, he said Boren “stayed too long” and would have no input in the search.

“We are aligned and on the same page on helping move (Boren) to the next phase of his life and get a new person in and help him not taint the new person when the new person comes in,” Stone said. “And, I can assure you, it is not his decision nor ... does he have a voice that’s going to be of any real consequence in how the final decision is made.”

However, in Grillot’s conversation with Boren three days before, he said he did not have much input in the presidential search process, but he would “probably have more input into it once it goes to the regents.”

Boren said he remembered comments during the provost search Grillot and committee members had given him in a memo about their issues with Harper. Boren said if he had not “tried to push (selecting Harper) so hard, it probably wouldn’t have happened.”

In Stone’s conversation with Grillot, he references how Boren pushed for Harper to be selected.

“There is a lack of trust, and it’s sewn by (Boren) and how he’s governed for the last 23 years. ... I was appointed (to the provost) search committee,” Stone said. “You know what I was instructed? — ‘We’re looking for somebody that looks a lot like Kyle Harper.’”

But Boren said he was concerned about Harper becoming president. Boren didn’t explain his reasoning for the shift in his opinion of Harper in the recording.

Harper was named senior vice president and provost on March 10, 2015. He initially served as the interim senior vice president and provost in 2014 before he was appointed. “(Harper) would not be my choice to see what would happen out of this — for him to end up there,” Boren said, referring to the presidential search. “Hopefully he won’t.

There are some other choices that I think would be good.”

Stone said Boren complicated the succession process because he “absolutely refused” to plan for it.

“And so, as a result, the Board of Regents found out about (Boren) resigning at the same time the public did,” Stone said of the news that became public on Sept. 20, 2017.

Stone said because there was no succession plan, the board used the process the regents used to select Boren as president in 1994.

“And that path limited our ability to source candidates,” Stone said. “It limited our ability to vet candidates early in the process. It limited our ability to screen out people that maybe we thought shouldn’t be a part of the process for whatever political or other reason.”

However, OU hired a search firm to aid in the search for Boren’s successor, and the firm was paid upward of $200,000.

Judith Wilde, a professor at George Mason University who has conducted research on presidential searches, said the board should have worked out a succession plan regardless of Boren’s feelings.

“The fact that Boren is not assisting with the succession plan — it shouldn’t really affect the board’s planning for the future with one caveat,” Wilde said. “If they have no idea of a date that he’s going to leave, that makes some of it a little more difficult. However, the board is considered to be the highest-level administrators in a university, so whether Boren or anyone else wants to agree with them, it’s still their job to move forward.”

In Grillot’s conversation with Stone, she said while the process to hire Boren was considered a closed search, someone who was there during that time told her Boren’s candidacy for the presidency was “as secret as a sunrise.”

“It was not a secret,” Grillot said in the recording. “It was not confidential. He was clearly in the running. He was clearly scoping it out. He came to campus several times. He met with people, there were meetings, there were discussions — it was an open secret that he was going to become president of the University of Oklahoma.”

In the recording, Grillot told Stone that OU has changed dramatically over the past 25 years, and she did not understand why the board would use the same process when higher education is so different now.

“I mean at the end of the day, if you take the whole conversation and context, they

have complete authority over who they hire,” Grillot told The Daily. “And clearly, when they did hire Jim Gallogly, they had complete and total control over that. So I don’t really know what (Stone) meant, nor do I really buy it.”

The search for Boren’s replacement was kept confidential.

The committee would not release candidate names, interview questions or the schedule of the interviews, which meant OU students and faculty were unable to give any input on who should be chosen.

In the recording, Grillot discussed concerns she had heard about the presidential search and told Stone the biggest way the board could mess up the search is by keeping it “completely secret.” Stone responded that it’s secretive because it’s “reflective of Boren.”

“What I just heard from you is reflective of how we feel, too,” Stone said. “And so we know that it’s a disaster in a lot of ways. We know that there are all sorts of morale issues. ... We are aware of a lot of these things.”

Gallogly retired from the presidency less than a year into his administration. His presidency had many challenges, starting with his hiring. Gallogly was planning to accept a position at a company but was nominated for the presidency by unknown members of the OU community before the interviews started in February 2018.

During his presidency, Gallogly laid off about 78 OU employees in various departments in two rounds of cuts, received criticism for his handling of racist incidents on campus, denied rumors that surfaced about a feud between him and Boren and was viewed in a negative light by many OU students and faculty.

In May, the regents announced Harroz would serve for at least 15 months and that the new presidential search committee may not form until summer 2020. However, the search committee for Boren’s replacement was formed only a month after Boren announced his retirement in September 2017.

Grillot said she decided to bring her recordings to The Daily because the conversations indicate that the university’s administration needs to make changes.

“I mean, overall I think what both these conversations tell us — again, in their voices — they tell us that there has to be significant change,” Grillot said. “That this university at the very top is rotten and broken, and it can’t be fixed without leadership change.

And it can’t be fixed without oversight changes. So there has to be leadership change, and there has to be structural reform.”

To listen to the Renzi Stone and David Boren recordings, visit our online story at bit.ly/2k5Xrk1.

The Daily attempted to reach a spokesperson for former OU President David Boren for comment but did not receive a response before publication. A university spokesperson said OU would not have additional comments since Stone spoke with The Daily directly.

Nick Hazelrigg contributed to this report.

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Studio art sophomore Dez Marshall poses outside the recently closed Basic Knead restaurant in Cross Village Sept. 6. Marshall worked at Basic Knead before it closed.

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Two days. Dez Marshall learned on July 30 that in 48 hours, her time as a student worker in Cross Village would come to an abrupt end.

Marshall, a studio art sophomore, worked at the Cross restaurant Basic Knead.

Marshall said she loved working at Cross with her coworkers and her supervisors. She did not expect to lose her job there.

Basic Knead, along with nearly every other commercial establishment operating out of Cross, would soon close. OU publicly announced it would not renew its commercial and parking leases for Cross Village on July 31.

In the fall semester, the closures resulting from OU’s termination of the lease agreement have left students paying for one of OU’s most expensive housing options without receiving the commercial amenities they might have expected.

Cross Village was created through a partnership between the university, a nonprofit corporation called Provident Oklahoma Education Resources Group and an on-site property manager called Balfour Beatty, which was replaced

by Capstone On-Campus Management in October 2018. Many of Cross’ amenities were not yet available when it opened in August 2018, and it had low occupancy.

Cross was marketed as a luxury housing option for upperclassmen, and the price of living at Cross matches or exceeds many other Norman luxury housing options. But unlike many off-campus housing options, Cross residential units do not have ovens or stoves — residents have access to communal kitchens instead.

Many dining options were located in Cross, including a vegan restaurant, a grocery store, a gelato restaurant and a coffee shop, before it closed.

Cross also included a variety of commercial establishments, including a clothing store and cycling gym, many of which are now gone or relocating. Cross still houses a salon called Spruce.

OU paid more than $6.8 million to Provident Oklahoma for the commercial and parking spaces in the 2018-19 academic year — in its lease termination notice, the university said the $6.8 million amounts to more than double the market rate for commercial space and almost 10 times the market rate for parking spaces.

Steve Hicks, president of Provident Oklahoma, said in August that OU had agreed to pay those rates because the university received a $20 million upfront payment to finance the construction, and the lease amounts were necessary to secure adequate

bond financing.

The university’s notice also stated that “demand for the commercial retail businesses was so low that the university obtained only approximately $40,000 in retail revenue,” and dining and parking spaces were not used enough to justify lease rates.

The end of the university’s parking and commercial leases resulted in the relocation of student workers and the elimination of amenities that contributed to students’ desire to live there.

Marshall said the closures were sudden, but her bosses were able to ensure job transfers for everyone who wanted to continue working in OU Housing and Food.

“It was actually pretty last-minute,” Marshall said, “and from what I’ve heard from the people that worked at Cate when it was still open before, that also happened. It was very last-minute — all of a sudden, ‘Hey, you’re going to be working here now.’”

Mikhi Hemphill, a social engineering sophomore who works as a Cross community adviser — the equivalent of a resident adviser in other OU housing options — described Cross’ opening year as “a test

run” that “failed.” “(My residents are) all kind of upset about the food being gone because Cross is expensive, and part of Cross’ selling point was that there’s food right underneath you, there’s a gym right underneath you, there’s a salon right underneath you,” Hemphill said.

“It’s supposed to be like apartment-style living with all the accommodations.”

The elevators that once led to Cross’ restaurants are now not available for use, Hemphill said, and completing rounds with access to only one elevator is inconvenient.

Hemphill said his residents’ only options to eat on campus are farther away for residents than Cross’ former restaurants.

“It is inconvenient as a student just because I was expecting (the Cross restaurants) to be there. I was expecting to be studying in the Hive (coffee shop), or grabbing small groceries from the little market. ...

I’m really mad that the gelato is gone,” Hemphill said.

A university spokesperson said in August that students who purchased a meal plan but no longer wanted it could be reimbursed, but that may not be enough to raise occupancy in the future for Cross, as the area will still be without its primary food options for residents.

As of Aug. 23, Hicks said, 34.7 percent of Cross’ roughly 1,200 beds are occupied, with rates of up to $13,000 per academic year for a one-bedroom, one-bathroom space,

according to LiveOU’s floor plans. These rates are approved as part of the annual operating budget, which is developed by a committee made up of representatives from OU, Provident Oklahoma and Capstone, Hicks said.

Rates for Cross residents are set unless the committee meets to consider amending the budget, Hicks said.

This structure could make lowering rates — one option that could make Cross seem more attractive to students — difficult.

As a new housing option that Hicks described as “stateof-the-art,” he said he would expect Cross’ rates to be slightly higher than the competition on-campus. But the university’s decision to end the commercial lease right before the renewal period has made things challenging.

“The university can take responsibility for there not being dining,” Hicks said.

“The university is the one who chose to shut down their dining operations. So they left us with a vacancy right at the start of the semester, they backed out of their lease agreement as of Aug. 1, essentially, and they had moved all of the equipment out.”

Hicks said Provident Oklahoma is working with Capstone On-Campus Management to identify potential tenants for the commercial space in Cross, but any potential tenant would also need to be approved by the university before it could open.

“We just wish that the university would support the

project that they had us build for them, that they would just do what they agreed to do,” Hicks said. “We built exactly what the university requested that we build, and now they have turned their back on the project.”

Hemphill said he probably would not have his Cross community adviser position if his residents knew the Cross restaurants would close.

“Most of them have just been cooking in (the kitchen) right now, so I guess that’s how they’re going to try to get by as long as they can,” Hemphill said.

Hicks said Provident Oklahoma is interviewing a parking operating company that may be interested in operating the parking facility.

The facility remains open for parking for residents of Cross Village, Hicks said.

Marshall said she is sad to be separated from her coworkers following the closure of the Cross restaurants.

“I’m hoping that they reopen it, kind of like what they did with Cate, but it just seems like Cross and Cate have this unspoken rivalry almost,” Marshall said. “Why can’t they just both exist at the same time?”

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Long wait times persist for OU counseling Goddard continues to face high influx, understaffing issue ARI FIFE @arriifife

Despite the addition of staff members, long counseling session wait times still affect some patients at the Goddard Counseling Center.

Goddard hired two staff psychologists before the start of the school year and is working to hire a case manager to transition patients from off-campus in-patient care to counseling at the university, staff psychologist Brittany St e w a r t s a i d . T h e c a s e manager w ill take on a small caseload of patients as well.

Stewart has been employed at Goddard since her internship there in 2015, and said traffic at the counseling center often increases at the beginning of the school year. Goddard employees accommodate for the back-to-school rush of patients by hiring new staff and allowing psychology students to see patients as part of their internships,

Stewart said.

Stewart said the frequency of new hires varies, and the new positions are funded by student activity fees.

“We’ve definitely noticed an understaffing need — and then have been supported by the student body and been supported by the administration to bring in additional employees, additional psychologists, to help meet some of that need,” Stewart said.

Long wait times at Goddard are not new, as a 2017 story by The Daily found limited staff and tight budgets meant significant wait times for students seeking mental health care.

Human relations junior Noah Nichols started seeing a Goddard therapist a week before school started this year, when he felt his mental health was particularly turbulent.

His therapist explained that she wanted to try meeting once a week, and Nichols agreed. Hours later, he received a call from the therapist saying that according to university policy, they could only meet — at the most frequent — every three weeks.

This was not the only time Nichols had had

to wait for on-campus counseling.

Hi s f re s h ma n yea r i n 2017, Nichols repor te d feeling alone and tried to sign up for a counseling appointment on campus, but Goddard staff told him a time slot would not be available until October.

To avoid the wait, Nichols opted to return to his hometown and visit a primary-care physician there instead.

A year later, he was diagnosed with severe depressive disorder, and he and his physician decided that visits with a Goddard psychiatrist to manage prescriptions were best.

In the summer between his sophomore and junior year, though, Nichols decided to transition from a m e d i c i n e - b a s e d p sy chological solution to behavioral therapy. He was then assigned a university-based therapist and faced session limits.

The normal therapy limit for OU students is 16 sessions per school year, but Goddard staff is willing to make exceptions to the rule if necessary, Stewart said.

In addition, urgent care appointments are available if students feel they need to

be seen before their next scheduled appointment.

Nichols said he found Goddard’s therapy effective because a lot of the therapists were younger and easy to connect with.

“That’s why it was so frustrating, because (the therapy sessions) were very, very helpful, and I felt like the only way they could be more helpful was increased frequency,” Nichols said.

Linguistics sophomore Robert Lamb did not have much of an issue with frequency of visits, as he only required Goddard’s counseling services twice in the middle of the spring semester, but said it was a fairly efficient process to get his appointments scheduled.

“It might take you a while (to get it scheduled),” Lamb said. “It also depends on the time of year, but once you’re in (the Goddard system), you’re in there, and it’s easy to get things done.”

Lamb’s only complaint with the Goddard appointment system was the time it took to get the intake survey and intake appointment completed due to lengthy questioning, but he “definitely” found the therapy helpful.

Stewart said nationwide

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university counseling center utilization rates have increased roughly 30 to 40 percent over the last few years, citing a report from the Center for Collegiate Mental Health.

“I think this generation of students is doing a phenomenal job of reducing the stigma around mental illness and around mental health, and they’re seeking

services at rates that are much higher than they’ve ever been before,” Stewart said. “That is why we see some of that congestion sometimes and some of those sessions being pushed out a little bit.”

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Cutie Pies return to state fair Sweet food truck will bring winning treats back to OKC KELCI MCKENDRICK @kelciimack

Belinda Garrett-Winslow and her family own a “onein-a-melon� food truck.

Garrett-Winslow, owner of the Cutie Pies Concession food truck, started making her famous watermelon pie for parties and other events.

It was always a hit, so she decided to turn it into a fulltime gig with the food truck in 2016 at the Medieval Fair in Norman. “(Watermelon pie is) very uncommon, and that’s ‌ exactly why I started Cutie Pies is because of the watermelon pie,â€? GarrettWinslow said.

Selling watermelon pies, water melon lemonade and other mouthwatering dishes, Cutie Pies is a vendor at events all over the state. Its next stop will be at the Oklahoma State Fair in Oklahoma City.

Last year at the fair, Cutie Pies entered the “Great Taste of a Fair� contest for the first time and won the “Sweetest of the Sweet�

category and the “FAIRest of Them All,â€? which is the best overall category, for the famed watermelon pie: a chilled, creamy and delicious treat. “It was amazing,â€? GarrettWinslow’s daughter, Chante Garrett, said about winning. “We were shocked. We thought we might place, but we didn’t think that we were going to beat out all these amazing people. ‌ It was just kind of the icing on the cake, so to speak — or the whipped cream on the pie.â€?

People were lined up for the pie, Garrett-Winslow said, and as soon as she would make more, they’d be gone, but for her that was the best part. “It’s unique,â€? she said. “It’s unusual. It’s mine ‌ It’s just very gratifying.â€?

Garrett-Winslow runs Cutie Pies along with her husband Michael Winslow and Garrett. Her son D.J. and other daughter Shae help out when needed, she said, along with a few other faithful employees. “It has its ups and downs,�

Garrett-Winslow said. “We live together, we work together, we want to kill each other once in a while ‌ but we do OK, we do good.â€?

Garrett has worked with

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Belinda Garrett-Winslow (left), husband Michael Winslow and daughter Chante Garrett pose with competition trophies from the 2018 Oklahoma State Fair.

her mom ever since Cutie Pies opened. She is the smiling face customers see at the front window, a job she said she loves. “I get to meet all these interesting people,� Garrett said. “I would be happy just sitting at the mall and people-watching, and now I get

to go to all these cool events and meet cool people.�

In March 2018, Garrett was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. She went through six rounds of intense chemotherapy and had three surgeries. Her family and others rallied around her, and she went into remission

in October 2018.

Because of her sickness, Garrett was unable to work at Cutie Pies last year. She was only able to start working again this March because, although she was in remission, she still had a battle to fight, she said.

She lost hearing in her left ear, had to relearn how to walk on her own, and still goes to physical therapy. Despite her difficulties, she went back to working at Cutie Pies in March and said she’s looking forward to being at the front window this year.

Garrett said she hopes Cutie Pies wins at the fair again. “I think that we should win every year,� she said with a laugh, “but that’s because I have a biased opinion.�

Other treats Cutie Pies sells include banana cream cheesecake pie, peanut butter chocolate chip pie, watermelon salsa, chicken and corn Frito pie and animal cracker pie, which Garrett said is a hit with both kids and adults because of nostalgia.

Garrett-Winslow is a creative person, Garrett said, and just comes up with recipes like those. One, the

caramel apple pie, was created to simplify the muchloved treat. “C a r a m e l a p p l e s a r e amazing, but sometimes t h e y ’ re j u s t s o h a rd t o eat,� Garrett said. “We just thought, ‘What could make this easier to eat?’�

In the future, GarrettWinslow said she hopes to make Norman the permanent location for Cutie Pies. “I tell people all the time, ‘Every pie just gets us that much closer to having something permanent’,� Garrett said.

Cutie Pies regularly comes to OU for First Street Eats and will be north of WalkerAdams Mall near the Cate Rock Garden on Thursday, Sept. 26, Garrett-Winslow said.

All dessert pies and Frito pies are $7, and the watermelon lemonade goes $5 for a regular size and $7 for a large.

Cutie Pies w ill be set up at the state fair in the Entertainment Plaza beside the Sky Eye Wheel from Sept.

12–22. “C o m e g e t y o u s o m e yum,� Garrett-Winslow said.

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Fred Jones to add new artwork to galleries Museum to change collection for first time in decade MOLLY KRUSE @mollykruse98

The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art is in the process of adding new artwork to its permanent gallery spaces, some of which has never been on display before.

There will be new pieces in almost every gallery, including the temporary exhibition space, the Eugene B. Adkins Collection and the Asian and Oceanic Art Collection, said Kaylee Kain, director of communication for the museum. “We’re just trying to update some things within the

galleries aesthetically,� Kain said. “As for the artwork, we’re rotating our permanent collection, and some of the works we’ll be putting on display have never been on display before.�

The museum has 20,000 pieces in its collection, but this is the first reinstall of the permanent collection in about a decade. “ We d o n ’ t have n ea r enough of the wall space to display everything, and a lot of our objects are on campus, in colleges and offices being displayed,� Kain said.

The reinstallation began in early July with the closure of the Adkins Collection. After the museum’s current temporary exhibit, “Between the Isms,� closes this weekend, visitors will only be able to see

the Weitzenhoffer Collection and “Art Since 1960� in the Sandy Bell Gallery until the renovations are finished, Kain said.

The museum will also reopen with a new temporary exhibit, “The Great Society,� which is a collection of photographs by an Oklahoma native, Kain said. “(Visitors) will hopefully see things that they’ve never seen before. ... I think anyone who’s visited the museum in recent years will have a big surprise when they walk in,�

Kain said.

Kain said the renovations will be finished by Oct. 4.

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2019 ASTROGRAPH by Eugenia Last Stop fussing over things you cannot change and start making adjustments to what you can improve.

Take the initiative and control your destiny. Your power lies with your knowledge and ability to use whatever is available to make your life better. Make personal gain, romance and respect priorities.

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SPORTS

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

OU vs. SOUTH DAKOTA

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1 Junior tight end Grant Calcaterra jumps up in

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an attempt to catch the ball.

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2 Sophomore wide receiver Charleston Rambo stiff-arms his opponent.

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3 Freshman wide receivers Trejan Bridges and Theo Wease celebrate a touchdown.

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4 Senior quarterback Jalen Hurts runs down the field.

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5 Junior linebacker Kenneth Murray pursues the ball carrier.

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6 Freshman wide receiver Jadon Haselwood dives into the end zone.

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‘Bookie’ makes breakthrough Radley-Hiles scores first career pick-six for Sooner defense GEORGE STOIA @GeorgeStoia

As Brendan “Bookie” Radley-Hiles trotted into the end zone for his first career pick-six at Oklahoma, his family couldn’t help but be overjoyed.

Radley-Hiles’ brothers, Brian and Lucky, along with their mom, Brenda, watched from a distance — the 50-yard line on the away side about eight rows up — as the heralded sophomore defensive back had the breakthrough game of his Sooner career in a 70-14 win over South Dakota.

“We know he’s always ready and has been working hard,” Brian told The Daily after the game. “We’ve kind of been waiting for him to have a breakout game and make some big plays. ... It was only a matter of time.”

Lucky added, “It was refreshing to see him making plays like we know he can.

That’s who he is.”

It wasn’t a feeling of redemption, but instead satisfaction for Radley-Hiles and his family.

“It was just a game. Just got to make sure I go into the next game as hungry as ever, make sure I provide plays like that for my team,” Radley-Hiles

said.

“I’ve had, multiple times, visions of having games like this throughout the entire time I’ve been in high school and college growing up. But really being able to have the reality strike, it was a great experience for me tonight.”

Radley-Hiles was thrown into the fire his freshman season. A five-star recruit out of IMG Academy, he was expected to be the savior of Oklahoma’s defense.

He was anything but.

He started in 11 games at safety for the Sooners, making few plays and too many mistakes. He was eventually benched during the West Virginia game and didn’t even see the field in the Big 12 Championship game against Texas. For the first time in his football career, he didn’t live up to expectations.

“Those ups and downs were expected. He was a true freshman, playing ball on some of the biggest stages in college football,” Brian said. “They were to be expected, he understood that. He took the criticism on the chin and didn’t make any excuses about it. He went back to work.

“He knew he had to pay his dues.”

Radley-Hiles showed his full potential against the Coyotes Saturday night. He’s never going to be a guy that fills that stat box, but he is a guy that makes game-changing plays. He’s a ballhawk, and he

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Sophomore defensive back Bookie Radley-Hiles before the game against South Dakota Sept. 7.

showcased that with his interception and fumble recovery.

He credits new Oklahoma defensive coordinator Alex Grinch for this success. He said Grinch has made his job easier, letting him be free to make plays in a simple defense.

“I give all the credit to my coaches,” Radley-Hiles said.

“Coach Grinch’s defense is very simple. You have maybe three jobs total on a playcall.

And if you understand his defense, you can go from point A to B to C very quickly.”

Grinch knows his defense will need Radley-Hiles to continue to make plays like he did Saturday.

“Through two weeks, I’ve been pleased with him, and you obviously see some bigtime plays,” Grinch said. “The message for him is to be confident not comfortable. ... I’m

excited for him and I’m excited for us. We need playmakers on this defense.”

Radley-Hiles still has a ways to go, and a good game against an FCS opponent is nothing to write home about.

But for the kid from Inglewood, California, and the family that continuously supports him, Saturday was a stepping stone and a glimpse of what he brings to the table for a national-title-contending team.

“This is just the beginning. ... It was well overdue,” Lucky said. “It was very exciting to finally see him put it all together. And it’s time for that. It’s time to put the masterpiece together.”

George Stoia

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Rattler promises bright future

True freshman dazzles in Saturday win over Coyotes VIC REYNOLDS @vicareynolds

It’s 4:42 p.m. at Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. The sun is out, and Spencer Rattler strolls onto Owen Field. The freshman quarterback is wearing a red Oklahoma tank top and is listening to music with his Apple AirPods.

He’s warming up with all the swagger to be expected from a former five-star recruit. He’s dribbling the football as if it were a basketball between throws, and he’s catching the ball with one hand when it’s thrown back to him.

More than four hours later, the sun is down and Oklahoma has a 63-14 lead over South Dakota in the fourth quarter. Most of the 82,181 fans have left the stadium, but the ones who are still there are clamoring for Rattler.

“We want Spencer!” the crowd in the north end of the stadium chanted.

N o t t o o l o n g l a t e r, Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley gave them what they wanted.

Cheers filled the stadium

as Rattler ran on the field for his first game action as a Sooner. He proceeded to execute the drive with precision and showed why he was the top-ranked quarterback in 2019.

I n t h e 1 0 -p l ay d r i v e, Rattler accounted for 65 total yards and capped it off with a touchdown pass to fellow freshman Trejan Bridges.

“The puppy came in and did a good job too,” Riley said. “Spencer did a good job and had a nice drive.”

Oklahoma had the No. 5 ranked 2019 recruiting class on Rivals, and Rattler played a big role in that. He was one of four five-stars — the others being Bridges and wide receivers Jadon Haselwood and Theo Wease Jr. — who have the potential to take Oklahoma’s offense to historic heights in the coming years.

After each accounted for touchdowns, the four displayed their potential to lead Riley’s prolific offenses.

“First you have to recruit the right one, then second you just coach them. They got to know they’re good enough, and if they don’t, then again you didn’t get the right ones,” Riley said. “They got to know they’re good enough, they got to have confidence in what you’re doing, and then you gotta trust them enough to let

them out there and let them go play.”

While he was impressive Saturday, Rattler likely won’t see the field much in 2019.

He’s the third-stringer behind senior Jalen Hurts and redshirt sophomore Tanner Mordecai.

Hurts is often lauded by his teammates for his leadership ability and maturity, and he looks like a front-runner for the Heisman Trophy.

Getting to play behind an experienced and accomplished quarterback and learn Riley’s system for a year could prove to be valuable in the long run for Rattler.

“It was cool to see them go out and play,” Hurts said.

“They work hard, too. They prepare, too. It was good to see both of them go in there and have that success.”

After he took a knee on the game’s final snap, Rattler roamed the field with a maturity beyond his age. He shook hands with his opponents and took pictures with fans, then quietly jogged back to the locker room.

It was just 10 plays, but it showed Sooner Nation just what they might be able to expect for the Spencer Rattler era.

Vic Reynolds

victor.reynolds@ou.edu

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Freshman quarterback Spencer Rattler throws the ball during the game against South Dakota Sept. 7.

Freshman receivers join CeeDee Lamb’s flock Three new Sooners score after junior excels in first half CALEB MCCOURRY @CalebMac21

Ju n i o r w i d e re c e i v e r CeeDee Lamb just sat on the ground as the crowd got to its feet.

S o m e h ow , L a m b ha d pulled off a 48-yard circus catch as his legs gave out.

Lamb doesn’t know how or why he was stumbling, but his hands were in the right place as the ball sailed over his defender who was blocking his view.

“That one was actually kind of difficult,” Lamb said with a laugh. “I don’t know how I ended up falling, but I stumbled looking up. ... My hands were in the right position but my legs, they kind of gave up.

“If you’re man enough to guard me one-on-one, then you’re man enough to get got.”

On the same drive, OU quarterback Jalen Hurts found Lamb for a 3-yard touchdown. Lamb already

him drag multiple defenders to the end zone. Bridges caught for 43 yards and a touchdown from true freshman quarterback Spencer Rattler. “ They’ve been eager,” head coach Lincoln Riley said. “They’re aggressive, they’re talented, they still need to be refined, but still talented of course.”

Haselwood could’ve had two touchdowns, and Lamb knows it. The true freshman juked out defenders after catching a short pass from Hurts, running 49 yards to the end zone. With an awkward dive, he fumbled the ball right at the pylon. “ Ja d o n , w e g o t s o m e talking to do,” Lamb said.

“He could’ve had two of them, but it’s cool. We’re going to get that fixed. I CAITLYN EPES/THE DAILY promise.”

Junior wide receiver CeeDee Lamb prepares to catch the ball during the game against South Dakota Sept. 7.

It’s safe to say the three freshmen have a ways to go, had 85 receiving yards just which gave Lamb a chance and Lamb said he couldn’t obviously they all touched but with a leader like Lamb over six minutes into the first to relax and watch the game, be happier for the the ones the end zone when they by their side, the future is quarter. He finished with 144 allowing more players to get who will eventually replace needed to.” bright. on six receptions without reps. him when he leaves.

Haselwood finished the playing in the second half.

Sooner fans got a bet“I was like a proud father game with 78 receiving yards But against FCS foe South ter look at freshman re- out there,” Lamb said. “I was on three receptions on top of Caleb McCourry Dakota, this wasn’t unex- ceivers Jadon Haselwood, jumping and screaming all a touchdown. Wease had 34 caleb.a.mccourry-1@ pected. The Sooners (2-0) Theo Wease Jr. and Trejan across the sidelines. They receiving yards with a 37ou.edu rolled the Coyotes 70-14, Bridges. All three scored, did a great job today, and yard touchdown that had

Cornerback starts off strong with interception Lincoln Riley praises four-star recruit Jaden Davis AUSTIN CURTRIGHT @CurtrightAustin

Lincoln Riley had high praise for true freshm a n c o r n e r b a c k Ja d e n D av i s a f t e r h i s p e r f o rmance Saturday night in Oklahoma’s 70-14 win over South Dakota.

Davis recorded an int e rc e p t i o n e a r l y i n t h e fourth quarter inside the Oklahoma 25, and was robbed of a pick-six after an offsides penalty by Marquise Overton.

“He’s done a great job, we’re really proud of his development. Coach Manning has done a great job with him. You can tell he’s been a part of the game for a long time, coach’s kid, works his tail off, very smart player, very mature,” Riley said. “Not a guy you feel like is 18-19 years old.

He feels like he’s been here before, even though he hasn’t. There’s kind of a calm focus to him and he’s certainly very hungry.”

Davis, a four-star recruit out of Florida, has played himself into an expanded role as a backup cornerback largely due to the season-ending injury sustained by Tre Nor wood.

With Oklahoma’s inconsistent play in the secondary, Davis could see more time on the field for the Sooners.

Davis hopes to continue to turn heads and headline an already strong 2019 class for the Sooners.

“I would say what he did tonight was not surprising at all,” Riley said. “It’s great to see him make some plays, and obviously had a chance to make another one that we jumped offsides on, so it’s a promising start for sure.”

Austin Curtright

austincurtright@ou.edu

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Freshman cornerback Jaden Davis tackles a receiver during the game against South Dakota Sept. 7.