“How do I not screw this up for them?” Grinch thought.
He didn’t, and he came through by trusting his players — none more so than two players who had been through separate up-and-down struggles during their year-plus at the school.
Redmond has battled a blood clot issue that kept him off the field for most of last season and then an injury that caused him to miss last week’s Bedlam win.
Even during the course of Saturday’s game he battled a shoulder that dislocated several times.
Bonitto considered transferring at one point during his redshirt season but stayed the course and, since Jon-Michael Terry’s season-ending injury, has been a key piece of Oklahoma’s recent defensive resurgence.