Former Oklahoma Sooners head coach Barry Switzer has come forward to say that he actively played a role in covering up crimes committed by his players when he was serving as the team’s coach.
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“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 told 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.
“This is back before social media and the Internet and all that. And most colleges ran it that way. Most coaches ran it that way. We all did.”
It isn’t exactly the most surprising bit of news coming from a football head coach, but it does show us that this stuff is a lot more common than we would like to believe. It is more difficult to keep things under wraps in today’s day and age, but when Switzer was running the show he could quickly make sure no one knew if a player was behind bars.
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