Sooner Nation Honors Coach Barry Switzer's 50-Year Legacy At The University of Oklahoma

News 9's Tevis Hillis has been in Norman all day to celebrate the former OU head football coach.

Thursday, September 7th 2023, 5:39 pm

By: Tevis Hillis

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NORMAN, Okla. -

Sooner Nation is celebrating Coach Barry Switzer and his 50-year run with the University of Oklahoma Thursday.

"The only thing that's going to help us is the fact that we'll get better at throwing the more we throw and when we do throw we gotta better chance to compete and be successful,” Switzer said in 1978.

News 9 has been in Norman all day to celebrate the former OU head football coach.

Tevis Hillis

An Oklahoma native, Tevis Hillis joined the News 9 team in 2020 as a multimedia journalist. She now anchors the weekend morning newscasts. Passionate about shaping the future of journalism, Tevis also serves as executive producer and adjunct professor for OU Nightly, mentoring and teaching more than 160 students.