Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield is a former walk-on at two different schools. He didn't receive an FBS scholarship offer out of high school, and like most hyper-competitive athletes, he took that pretty personally.
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Fast forward a few years, and he's a star for the Sooners, but that doesn't mean he's forgotten about the teams that didn't offer him as a recruit. When asked about it at an Orange Bowl media session on Monday, Mayfield said the offer that never came that hurt him the most was TCU.
“TCU,” he replied without hesitation. “They told me they were gonna offer me a scholarship and kind of drug it out, and I told other schools I wasn’t interested because I thought I was going to go there, and I truly believed they were going to offer me because they told me that. They disappointed me and kind of hung me out to dry right before signing day.”
TCU head coach Gary Patterson, himself a man prone to getting pretty fired up, had some curt words for Mayfield in response.
Asked Sooners' walk-on sensation Baker Mayfield today which school disappointed him most for not offering him a...
Posted by Bonnie Bernstein on Monday, December 28, 2015
For those of you keeping score at home, that’s a head coach calling out a rival team’s quarterback, one that’s coming back for 2016. If you weren’t planning on watching Oklahoma-TCU next year, maybe you should find some room on your schedule.
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