Thanks for the history. I was in stationed at Ft. Sill for a couple of years during the Switzer era. I'm a college football fan, and like good, hard, well-fought games. I watched games live over the yearsr in the Pac 10, the Southern Conference, the Big Ten, the Ivy League, and others, but I've never seen anything like what I saw in Norman. I don't like the fans booing injured opposition players off the field, and cheering when there is an announcement that an injured opponent has a serious injury, which I witnessed in Norman. The crowd was bloodthristy, not merely enthusiastic. I've seen the blood lust in a mob, and it was the same thing.
I don't know about now, or even the distant past. I've only heard good about Bud Wilkinson as a coach and supporter of good sportsmanship.
MOST OU fans that I know never even went to college. Like all of my Okie family members, have never even been to the OU campus. They are rabid fans, too. I don't understand it at all.