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Published October 09, 2007 11:37 pm - One Sooner who can’t wait for some cooler temperatures to set in is running back Allen Patrick. The senior missed most of the second half due to cramps against Texas. He also missed the second half of the Miami game due to the same ailment.
“It’s was like a full-body cramp. I couldn’t get over that,” Patrick said. “I was over on the sideline trying to put down a lot of fluids. It just never came back to me.”


Patrick still the starter
John Shinn's Oklahoma Football Notepad

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One Sooner who can’t wait for some cooler temperatures to set in is running back Allen Patrick. The senior missed most of the second half due to cramps against Texas. He also missed the second half of the Miami game due to the same ailment.

“It’s was like a full-body cramp. I couldn’t get over that,” Patrick said. “I was over on the sideline trying to put down a lot of fluids. It just never came back to me.”

Running backs coach Cale Gundy said Patrick tends to suffer more cramps than other players because his body-fat is so low. Patrick’s is about 4 percent, one of the lowest on the team.

“He doesn’t have a whole lot to give up,” Gundy said. “When you don’t have much body fat you tend to cramp up more.”

Patrick was OU’s leading rusher heading into the Texas game, but finished with just 10 yards on 11 carries. DeMarco Murray passed him in the team lead in both carries (67) and yards (444) with his 17-carry, 128-yard performance.

Gundy stressed there are no plans to detour from the running back rotation the Sooners have used through the first half of the season.

Patrick remains the starter.

“It’s worked out well for us,” Gundy said.

Homecoming

Saturday’s game with Missouri will serve as OU’s homecoming, but it will be the first time in nearly a month the Sooners have played at Owen Field.

Their last home game was Sept. 15 against Utah State and the three-game stretch away from Owen Field was the longest regular-season stretch without a home game since OU played at Louisville, at Notre Dame and against Texas in Dallas in 1999.

“I’m excited. I got tired of wearing those white jerseys,” OU offensive lineman Brian Simmons said. “It’s good to be home. It’s good to be around the home fans even though the Red River game felt like a home game. It was as loud as our house.”

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