Mason Young

Tulsa World OU Sports Reporter

NORMAN — Auburn quarterback Jackson Arnold’s hardly the first former Sooner to take on his old team.

What’s it like when an ex-Oklahoma player or coach comes back to Norman, or has to welcome the crimson and cream to their new home?

Or, how about when an OU transfer player returns to their old stomping grounds?

The modern era of college football and the transfer portal has made reunions, good or bad, all the more common.

Houston transfer Darrell Shepard quarterbacked the Sooners against the Cougars in the 1981 Sun Bowl, but that was before the internet and social media stirred up vitriol.

Austin Kendall also had a fine experience when he played OU as West Virginia’s quarterback in 2019. Kendall had no ill will towards OU, even as Lincoln Ri

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