Around the same time Mike Stoops was finally fired as defensive coordinator at OU, rumors began circulating on the always credible and accurate college football message board circuit that Stoops and an OU linebacker got into some sort of fight or altercation in the locker room at halftime of the Texas game.
Although just about everyone in the local media who covers OU said the rumor wasn't true, The Sports Animal's Regular Jim Traber – a rightwing truther conspiracy theorist who believes everything he reads on Internet message boards and comment sections – ran with the story as if it was a proven documented fact, kind of like his .227 career MLB batting average.