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Published Jul 30, 2016
ChampUBBQ shows the lighter side
Carey Murdock  •  OUInsider
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Water balloon fights, pie eating contests and a baseball game. These are things you never thought you'd see on Owen Field, home of the Oklahoma football team.

But times have changed in Norman as Bob Stoops put on his first recruiting BBQ Friday evening inside the 'being renovated' Memorial Stadium.

Social media told the story all throughout Friday as coaches, recruits and their families captured the action on the Owen Field turf.

For more tweets and news from OU's big #ChampUBBQ weekend, check out our extensive thread in the Crimson Corner.

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Bob Stoops, whose father was a baseball coach as well as a football coach, took to the mound to throw some batting practice to recruits. Here's a photo and some video of Stoops' getting taken deep.

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After the BBQ, recruits took on coaches such as Bill Bedenbaugh and Kerry Cooks in a pie eating contest. But as 2017 Oklahoma City Douglass DB Justin Broiles" mom was taking video of the event, things turned into a pie fight quickly.

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That wasn't the only craziness captured by the parent of a 2017 commitment as Ronnie Robison, the father of Chris Robison, Lincoln Riley's 2017 quarterback commit, showed the OU staff luring the recruits into a corner of the endzone for a water balloon fight.

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And as Bill Bedenbaugh points out, there were no hard feelings about that eating contest turned into a pie fight.

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