Did Oklahoma State coaches hide Barry Sanders’ high school tape from other programs?
“I think when (OSU running backs coach George) Shimek and (OSU assistant George) Walstad were up at Sanders’ high school, there was a game film where they kind of featured Sanders as a wingback on a counter play and it opened your eyes a little bit,” former head coach Pat Jones said.
The only other major colleges to recruit Sanders were Tulsa and Iowa State. Sanders likely would have had additional suitors if more eyes had been exposed to his film, but YouTube did not exist in the 1980s.