BEREA, Ohio -- While on the road recruiting seven years ago, Bob Stoops kept hearing the same strange rumor -- that Baker Mayfield, then a freshman at Texas Tech, was transferring to Oklahoma.
"I'm like, well, he hadn't called me, I hadn't heard from him," Stoops recalled. "And then I asked my coaches, any of you guys heard from Baker Mayfield? I hear he's coming to OU. And no one had heard. I said, 'Well, we'll see when we get back from break if he's here.'"
Sure enough, Mayfield showed up to Norman from Lubbock, unannounced and uninvited.