After losing to Alabama in the CFP, the temptation for some fans was to wonder whether the #Sooners should look elsewhere at QB, especially with a few intriguing quarterbacks in the portal. That was never entertained by OU. It wanted to build around Mateer. “No, absolutely not. Not at all,” Nagy said. “We’ve known John’s the guy. We felt that way from everyone in the building. That was never a consideration.”

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After losing to Alabama in the CFP, the temptation for some fans was to wonder whether the #Sooners should look elsewhere at QB, especially with a few intriguing quarterbacks in the portal. That was never entertained by OU. It wanted to build around Mateer. “No, absolutely not. Not at all,” Nagy said. “We’ve known John’s the guy. We felt that way from everyone in the building. That was never a consideration.”

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John Mateer has worked on himself in every way this offseason. But maybe the biggest part of Mateer improving are the players around him. “We have the utmost faith that we can win a championship with the guy,” Jim Nagy told me. Part III of my series ➡️

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