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Oklahoma Sooners Unofficial 40

Jason Kersey: Confessions of a former OU beat writer

Oklahoma Sooners Unofficial 40

SoonerScoop.com

Sports, Football

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2016

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

2:30 - Jason talks about leaving the Oklahoman and his dad taking exception to his going away party details on the Sports Animal and his families allegiences to OU. 4:30 - Kersey's love for Kelly Clarkson and her music and how it led to a drunken Cotton Bowl media party and a conversation he doesn't remember with Joe Castiglione. 13:15 - Kersey and Carey discuss their love and debate their differences of the Counting Crows. Kersey also judges Carey's record collection. 19:00 - Kersey has never listened to an actual record. 23:50 - Kersey gets into his journalism career and how he became the Oklahoman's lead beat writer covering Oklahoma. 26:21 - Kersey talks about the challenge of taking over as the OU beat writer. 28:30 - Professional turmoil on the OU beat and how things got better. 31:00 - Kersey on covering Bob Stoops and the professional relationship he experienced. 35:00 - run-ins with Bob Stoops. 37:00 - dealing with Twitter and interacting with fans. 38:35 - The media vs. the fans vs. Joe Mixon. 43:00 - Kersey admits talking politics on Twitter is a bad idea. 45:55 - Kersey's legacy at the Oklahoman as an OU beat writer. 47:00 - Kersey on Eric Striker contacting him to do an exclusive story during the SAE controversy. 53:00 - Kersey on what he wished he could have done more while covering OU. 58:00 - Bob Stoops being intimidating. 59:25 - Kersey's next adventure Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Okay, so we've decided to go a little podcast crazy.

0:04.0

We have your recruiting podcast, which is known as the unofficial 40.

0:08.0

We've got your team podcast that Eddie, Joe, and I do.

0:11.0

And now we've got an interview podcast that I wanted to do where I just set up

0:16.8

interviews with interesting people trying to do it every week and we going to call this the sooner scoops sit down and

0:24.8

this week we've got Jason Cursey who is now a former OU beat rider just left

0:31.8

the Oklahoma he is heading to Fayetteville, Arkansas to cover the

0:35.4

Arkansas razorbacks for a website called SECcountry.com. And I wanted to talk to Jason

0:41.6

before he left. He's been a big part of my professional life just being on the beat and seeing him all the time and

0:49.8

Became very good friends and wanted to just kind of sit down with him and talk to him about his experiences of

0:56.2

Covering Oklahoma and just some random things that

1:01.2

We've talked about over the years,

1:03.0

Twitter, Bob Stoups,

1:06.0

you know, the Oklahoma and general,

1:09.0

and just kind of give you an insight into

1:11.0

what it's like a little bit to live that OU Beat Rider life.

1:15.0

So this is what we will now refer to as the sooner Scoob Sit Down featuring the former Oklahoma Beat Rider for the Oklahoma

1:25.0

for the Oklahoma, Jason Cursey. Oh, All right, so what we're going to do today is we're going to do today is we're going to talk.

1:48.6

I don't know if we call this, should we call this your OU beat writer exit interview?

1:53.4

I had an exit interview at the Oklahoma, but this can be

1:56.9

part two.

1:57.5

The funner exit interview.

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