Former Sooners Heisman quarterback shared some powerful words after the baseball team won the National Championship
The Oklahoma Sooners are finally National Champions in college baseball, and it has to be an amazing feeling.
Former Oklahoma Sooners Heisman quarterback Kyler Murray congratulated the Sooners baseball team after their National Championship victory on Monday night. Murray, who played both football and baseball at Oklahoma before becoming the No. 1 pick in the NFL Draft, posted his excitement on social media following the program’s biggest moment in years.
“Long time coming,” Murray said. “Shout out Skip and the boys on bringing home the National Championship.”
Murray always had a deep connection to baseball. He was a talented shortstop who played multiple positions growing up, and the Oakland Athletics drafted him before he ultimately chose football. At Oklahoma, he won the Heisman Trophy and led one of the most electric offenses the program had seen. Murray has since moved on from the Arizona Cardinals, where he spent the first several years of his NFL career.
He’s now set to be the Minnesota Vikings‘ starting quarterback, hoping to jumpstart the second chapter of his professional football career on a team that gives him a better chance to show what he can do. You know Murray was locked into every single minute of Monday’s game. He lived it as a baseball player at Oklahoma, and watching coach Skip Johnson and the Sooners pull off what they did had to feel personal.
Oklahoma Sooners baseball capped off one of the best stories of the college baseball season
The Sooners’ run to the national championship was anything but smooth. Oklahoma finished SEC play under .500 and failed to win a single game in the SEC tournament. Most teams with that kind of conference resume don’t sniff a deep postseason run, let alone a national title.
Then something changed. The Sooners trailed Georgia Tech, one of the greatest offenses in college baseball history, 8-2. Oklahoma came back, won that game, and never looked back. Their only loss from that point forward came against North Carolina in the College World Series. On Monday, the Sooners closed out North Carolina with a dominant 13-2 win to capture the championship.
Johnson and his staff deserve enormous credit for keeping the team together through a rough stretch and finding another gear when it mattered most. The turnaround from an under-.500 SEC record to a national title is the kind of story that sounds made up until you watch it happen.
Murray knows what it feels like to compete at the highest level in both sports at Oklahoma. Watching his former program bring home a national championship in baseball had to hit different for a guy who once stood in both worlds. That 13-2 win on Monday night gave him, and every Sooner fan, plenty to celebrate.