Not to be picky, just to inform. Mickey's senior year was 1969, no 68. He was listed as the starting quarterback on the depth chart through the spring and the first half of the pre season of 1969. Back then, we didn't start the 10-game season until the third weekend of September. But Jack was moved up to the top of the depth chart late in August, and started the game against Wisconsin in Madison in the opener. Mildren threw a 70 something yard touchdown pass on his first throw as a Sooner, and we put up over 500 yards total offense on the road, and won 48-21.
Mickey was a quality guy. His senior year, things kind of fell apart, when we lost two starting OLinemen and the defense. maybe the only time in the last 80 years when OU ran a three deep secondary, got torched in the conference and despite having his senior classmate Steve Owens win the Heisman, we went only 6-4, including three blowout losses in the conference. In Retrospect, if Mickey had played all year, and Jack had redshirted, we might have had the best team ever had Jack been around for the 1972 season.
A Sooner friend and I were talking about that today, having not heard this sad news. So many guys from the Sooner football team in my four years at OU, are no longer with us. Prayers' for Mickey's family.
