RR: How did you handle it when you were in high school and even in college when people would come up to you and kind of give you the business because your dad was a preacher? I’m interested, because I know how it happened to me.
WT: Well, my father is pretty well-known around the city of Tulsa. I’d tell them to look at him. You know, he’s a person that you can talk to and most of the time I would tell them to go talk to him, “and you’d see how proud I am, why I’m so proud of my father.” And I like people to come up to me and talk to me about my father because, you
RR: Did it give you an opportunity to be a witness?
WT: Definitely. Definitely. My father, the way he preaches in church and it just gives me more inspiration to be a witness.
RR: Did you ever get opportunity to get some of your teammates to come on over to the church and hear your dad preach?
WT: Right. In college I did, a couple of my teammates used to come over and play instruments. Tim McAlister used to, he’s a singer, he’d come and sing solos and, you know, most of the basketball team would be practicing. And Oklahoma basketball team really didn’t practice on Sundays, so we got to come home. And most of us were in church.
RR: Well, I want you to know, Wayman, that it took me a long time to forgive you–
LR: Now you’re going to get it, Wayman.
RR: It took me a long time to forgive you for not coming to ORU. I have forgiven you, but it took me a long time to forgive you. Because I can only imagine what our basketball program would have been in those years had you been here at ORU. But I want you to know I have freely forgiven you. And about six feet ten, it didn’t take me quite as long. (Applause) Now I know, I see our athletic director, ORU Athletic Director and head mens basketball coach, Ted Owens, here. Ted, would you come over for a minute and join us? Give him a good welcome. (Applause) Is there a microphone–let’s see, Wayman, I think right under here there’s a mike. Hello, Ted. I think I’ve got a microphone for you here, Ted. If I keep pulling it, there’s no telling what I’m liable to find under that couch.
