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🗓️ 31 March 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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0:00.0 | Well, in the Big 12, there is a lot of news coming out of the state of Oklahoma. |
0:14.5 | And when you think about the state of Oklahoma and the sports scene, I think, |
0:18.0 | and I know many of you think about very Trammell of the Oklahomaan who now |
0:22.0 | joins us. I'm Pete Mundo. Great to have you on for another week. And Barry, let's just start |
0:27.3 | off with the Sooners who now are looking for a new basketball coach. Long Kruger announcing |
0:33.0 | he's retiring. Two-parter here, how surprised were you by this news and how surprised was the university by this news? |
0:43.6 | I don't think anybody was surprised. |
0:45.9 | I was not. |
0:46.8 | I don't think OU was surprised. |
0:53.0 | It's come out that Lawn was looking at retirement in 22. |
0:57.3 | He had let his staff know that was probably so. |
1:00.2 | I know that OU Athletic Director Joe Castiglione had sort of seen this day coming at some point. |
1:07.7 | And then two weeks ago, UNLV, Nevada, Las Vegas lost its basketball coach to Iowa State and promoted Kevin Krueger, Lon's son, was promoted the head coach. |
1:21.9 | And when I saw that, I thought, you know what, this might be it for the lawn because lawn came from UNOV. |
1:29.4 | He and his wife loved Las Vegas. |
1:31.7 | They really felt close to the UNLV program. |
1:36.0 | And when I saw that Kevin, who played at UNLV, when I saw that he was the new head coach there, |
1:41.7 | I thought this might be the thing that puts lawn over the top and decides, you know what? |
1:46.8 | Time to spend more time with the grandkids, time to support Kevin, time to help his career |
1:52.8 | with UNLV and maybe right off into the sunset. |
1:55.7 | So that's what happened. |
1:57.8 | Kruger was 10 years at OU, did a phenomenal job as a coach. But I think, |
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