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Merv Johnson
Director of Football Operations

Football Coaching Staff

Coordinates the day-to-day activities off the field for OU football players and deals with on-campus recruiting efforts.

Serves as color analyst on the Sooner Radio Network.

COACHING ACCOMPLISHMENTS

In his 20 years as an OU assistant coach, he amassed a 150-67-5 record, a national championship, five Big Eight Conference titles and seven bowl game victories.

Produced 19 All-Americans.

Coached on staffs that won four national championships (Oklahoma, Notre Dame and Arkansas).

Inducted into the Oklahoma Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2002.

First recipient of the National Football Foundation Integrity Award in 2003. The award was subsequently named in his honor.

Received the All-American Football Foundation's Mike Campbell Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001.

Coach Johnson
Hometown	King City, Mo.
High School	King City, 1954
College	Missouri, 1958
Family	wife, Cindy two grown children seven grandchildren

Coaching History

1998-present - Oklahoma
Director of Football Operations
Special Assistant to the Athletics Director

1979-1997 - Oklahoma
Assistant Coach

1975-1978 - Notre Dame
Assistant Coach

1962-1974 - Arkansas
Assistant Coach

1960-1961 - Missouri
Assistant Coach

1958-1959 - Arkansas
Graduate Assistant

ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS A PLAYER

An All-Big Seven tackle for Missouri where he was an academic all-conference selection as well.

Co-captained and played in the Blue-Gray All-Star game.

Academic All-Big Seven selection and was honored as the league's most Outstanding Student-Athlete of the Year.

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