Video Gurus Work Behind the Scenes

NORMAN, Okla. -- The clock pushes past 8 p.m. and the Switzer Center is empty. Bob Stoops, having just disposed of Texas, is at home with his wife and three kids. Freshman phenom Adrian Peterson, having already rushed for 225 yards, is resting in his dorm room. The day-to-day commotion of Sooner football has been replaced by silence.

Except on the second floor. There, a disco ball spins next to a spotlight, reflecting miniature beams of light throughout the dimly lit office. "Play that Funky Music" blasts from a computer-driven stereo system. And a pair of white guys in their 20s bounce around like they own the place.

"This is how we celebrate each win," explains Mike Nobler, one of the two men behind the music. "It's how we get groovin' before we get to work."

Nobler and Brian Martin are Oklahoma's video gurus, the guys who both spend some 80 hours a week videotaping each game, uploading the video to a digital network and coordinating video exchange with opposing schools. When everybody else's work ends, their's begins.

"The dream is to hop into a car after the game and head home like everybody else," Martin said. "It isn't quite that way yet."

Their office is like a Best Buy warehouse: Twenty-three VCRs. Nine television monitors. Four DIRECTV Tuners. Three TiVos. Two DVD recorders. Six universal remote controls. And a disco ball...

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