RING OF HONOR AND LESLIE O’NEAL. THESE FOUR NAMES AT THE TOP OF BOONE PICKENS STADIUM ARE COWBOY LEGENDS. YOU MAY RECOGNIZE A FEW AND ALL OF THEM ARE RUNNING BACKS. BUT AT HALFTIME VERSUS ARKANSAS, OKLAHOMA STATE FOOTBALL WILL MAKE SURE THEIR FIRST OFFENSIVE PLAYER IN THE RING OF HONOR FEELS THE LOVE FROM THE LOYAL AND TRUE. IT’S FITTING THAT THE FIRST DEFENDER TO GO UP IS THE MOST DOMINATING PERFORMER IN OSU FOOTBALL HISTORY. ON THAT SIDE OF THE BALL, YOU KNOW, LIKE MOST SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE, HE WAS AN OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL OFF THE FIELD. HE’S VERY INTELLIGENT AND ARKANSAN TURNED COWBOY IN THE 80S, MADE OKLAHOMA STATE’S DEFENSE LETHAL. YOU LOOK IN OUR RECORD BOOKS AND HE’S ALL OVER IT. I MEAN, 16 SACKS IN A SINGLE SEASON STILL STANDS AT NUMBER ONE. AND HIS ALL TIME RECORD OF 34 SACKS IS ALSO AT THE TOP OF THE OSU LIST. AND NOW WHEN THEY PLAY ARKANSAS, OSU IS ENSHRINING LESLIE O’NEAL AT THE TOP OF BOONE PICKENS STADIUM NEXT TO SOME PRETTY BIG NAMES. YOU’VE GOT THURMAN THOMAS WINNING FIRST. HE’S OUR ALL TIME LEADING RUSHER. BARRY SANDERS WENT IN NEXT. HE’S THE THE GOAT. THE GREATEST RUNNING BACK OF ALL TIME LESLIE GOING UP INTO RING OF HONOR WITH THOSE PLAYERS. IT SAYS A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HOW GOOD A PLAYER AND GOOD A PERSON HE WAS. O’NEAL WAS COACHED BY OSU LEGENDS INCLUDING PAT JONES AND HALL OF FAMER JIMMY JOHNSON. LESLIE O’NEAL WAS ONE OF THE BETTER RECRUITS THAT WE HAD IN MY TIME AT OKLAHOMA STATE, BUTCH DAVIS RECRUITED HIM, PAT JONES COACHED HIM AND HE WAS JUST AN OUTSTANDING PLAYER, OUTSTANDING PERSON IN 2020, NUMBER 99 WAS INDUCTED INTO THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME. I THINK YOU HAVE TO HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF MEANNESS IN THERE. YOU JUST HAVE TO HAVE TO HAVE A LOT OF WILL TO GET TO THE BALL ALSO. BUT SOME AT OSU HAVE ALREADY STARTED CAMPAIGNING TO GET HIM TO A HIGHER HONOR FOR HIS TIME WITH THE THEN SAN DIEGO CHARGERS. LESLIE, YOU KNOW, WITH THE CHARGERS, YOU KNOW, YOU REALLY DID AN OUTSTANDING JOB. YOU KNOW, HE WAS A PERFECT FIT AS A DEFENSIVE END AND A PASS RUSHER. WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE ALL TIME SACK LEADERS, WHEN HE RETIRED HE WAS NUMBER SEVEN ON THAT ALL TIME NFL SACK LIST. HE’S NOW TIED FOR 14TH. THAT MEANS HE’S TIED WITH ALL TIME NFL GREAT LAWRENCE TAYLOR. AND COACH JIMMY JOHNSON SAYS IT’S TIME. I’VE COACHED 17 OF THEM IN THE PRO FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME, AND LESLIE FITS RIGHT IN THERE WITH ALL OF THEM. GETTING HIM TO COME TO OSU. GROWING UP IN ARKANSAS, FAN WAS NO SMALL TASK FOR THE COWBOYS AND PAT JONES TO BE ABLE TO GO IN THERE AND TAKE A GUY OF LESLIE O’NEAL’S CALIBER IS A BIG DEAL AND REALLY LED TO SOME GREAT TEAMS AND THE BEST DEFENSIVE TEAMS OSU HAS EVER HAD. WELL, BUTCH DAVIS IS AN OUTSTANDING RECRUITER. I WAS ALWAYS AMAZED WHEN I WOULD GO INTO THE HOMES OF THE MOTHERS AND FATHERS OF RECRUITS, AND BUTCH WOULD TAKE OVER, AND HE WAS A PRETTY GOOD SALESMAN. SO THEY SAY THERE’S NOT A MORE FITTING OPPONENT THAN THE HOGS TO GIVE HIM HIS FLOWERS. WITH HIM BEING A LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS COWBOY THAT WE THOUGHT, MAN, IT JUST MAKES SENSE FOR US TO BE PLAYING ARKANSAS. AND AT HALFTIME WE’LL UNVEIL THE NAME LESLIE O’NEAL AT THE TOP OF BOONE PICKENS STADIUM. AND IT WILL FOREVER BE THEIRS. COWBOYS AND RAZORBACKS WILL COME TOGETHER TO HONOR A MAN WHO’S MADE HIS MARK ON THE FOOTBALL WORLD. IT’S GOING TO BE A SPECIAL FOR BOTH STATES. I KNOW ARKANSAS IS PROUD OF WHAT LESLIE O’NEAL HAS DONE IN HIS PLAYING CAREER. AND YOU KN