Barry Switzer Admits To Covering up Sooners Misdemeanors

[Iceland12]

Though drunken driving can be a felony too.

“I’d have local county people call me and say, ‘One of your guys is drunk and got in a fight and is jail down here.’ And I’d go down and get him out,” Switzer explained to USA Today. “Or I’d send an assistant coach down to get his ass out. The sheriff was a friend of the program. He didn’t want the publicity. He himself knew this was something we didn’t need to deal with in the media or anything with publicity.”Keep in mind that Switzer coached in a different era. Even the smallest crimes seem to find their way to the public in today’s age, and Switzer may not have been able to keep things on the down-low as much in today’s game as he apparently could in the 1970s and 1980s. This kind of relationship would be ripped to shreds in today’s world of college football with the way it is covered. Switzer is aware of that as well.
“This is back before social media and the Internet and all that,” he said. “And most colleges ran it that way. Most coaches ran it that way. We all did.”..

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[IDFM]

Brian Bosworth's autobiography talked about that quite a bit. He really was not a fan of Switzer. It was a pretty funny read for anyone.

 

[Dr.Don]

Brian Bosworth's autobiography talked about that quite a bit. He really was not a fan of Switzer. It was a pretty funny read for anyone.

Ya, like Brian Bosworth was such an NFL all-star.