re: OK Sooners, get in here

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I’m not asking about that, dickhead. I’m asking about their traditions… y’know like your tradition of standing on the steps of the university not letting Black people in or killing harmless trees on rival campuses or your head coaches slapping secretaries around. Traditions, knowhadamean?

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Ah, you should have said so.

Let's see. Norman was a "sundown" town from 1898 when a black guy got beat up for being on a white guys work crew until 1967 when the University hired a Black dude for the faculty and he was actually able to buy a house in town.
(The University and football team had been integrated well before then).

There was a riot in 1922 when a Black jazz group (The Singie Smith Singers) continued performing after dark in the student Union ballroom. The students protected the group from the townspeople trying to get at them for violating the sundown laws.

Signs indicating that Norman was a "sundown town" existed on Main street until the early 1960s.

A University VP and Chemistry professor was head of the Oklahoma KKK in the early 1920s. Years later his name was removed from the building named after him and the street named after him in town went through a name change.

Obvious resistance to integration of the University. First integration was in 1949 of the Law School and Grad school. Case went to the SCOTUS forcing OU to integrate. Undergrad integrated in 1953. Football and basketball integrated in 1956.

Main coaching scandals were Switzer. In the 1970s and 1980s if you had a daughter at OU who was hot there is about a 50% chance that Barry had hit on her. And if he didn't the wrestling coach at the time, Stan Abel probably did.

Larry Cochell was NC winning baseball coach who got fired for saying the "N" word.

And Dave Bliss coached at OU for a few years.

Hope that helps.