Berry Tramel

Tulsa World Sports Columnist

STILLWATER — Parker Robertson would speak to most everyone he passed in the OSU football facility all summer. Robertson is from Rockwall, Texas. That’s the way things are done in the still-small-but-booming town east of Dallas.

Only one problem. Robertson didn’t know everybody’s name.

“You’re always so busy, you can’t catch a name,” said Robertson, a safety who’s in his fifth Cowboy season. “You’re just like saying, ‘what’s up?’”

When OSU football camp started a few weeks ago, Mike Gundy still was pushing his mandate: introduce yourself to two teammates a day and engage them in 30-second conversations. You know, the kind of stuff they do at Boys State, or maybe freshman orientation at Broken Arrow High School.

“Man, it is crazy,” OSU defen

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