Skip Johnson's emotional message should inspire every Oklahoma fan in 2027

It's been an emotional few weeks for all of Sooner Nation, especially for Skip Johnson and his national championship Oklahoma team.

Just days after leading the Sooners to their third national championship in program history thanks to an unbelievable run, Johnson was a guest on The Dari Nowkhah Show on The REF and admitted how important it was to him that so much of Sooner Nation made the trip to Omaha, about 6.5 hours from Norman, to support his squad and witness it do the unthinkable.

"It really gets emotional. Puts tears in my eyes because that's what you envision, that's what you want to happen," Johnson said. "Like the David Allan Coe (song), you know, can you make people cry when you play and sing? You're so passionate, you do stuff so good, that they want to drive hours to watch you play. Man, that's what it is. It really is. It's what it's about."

The pleasure was really all ours, though. Fans made that trip and spent the money because that team was worth it. That same level of care from Sooner Nation should continue as Oklahoma defends its title in 2027, though, and in Norman down the road at Kimrey Family Stadium, not just in Omaha.

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This Sooner team was counted out after going 33-21 during the regular season and stumbling into the NCAA Tournament having lost seven of its last 10 games. In all honesty, even the most faithful of Sooner faithful had lost hope in this Oklahoma team at that point.

But Johnson had his team still believing. Some of his players admitted that they had been convinced since February that they'd be national champs, even while enduring SEC losing streaks and staring down daunting deficits with their entire season on the line.

The Sooners sparked a little bit of hope when they mounted a pair of back-to-back comebacks and ultimately took down No. 2 national seed Georgia Tech with Dayton Tockey's walk-off home run that sent them to Lawrence for Super Regionals against Kansas.

But that still didn't erase all doubt. It was a performance that caught our attention, but even taking down the No. 2 team in the country didn't have any of us actually thinking national title. The Sooners then absolutely dominated Kansas to punch their ticket to Omaha, and Sooner Nation immediately started booking hotel rooms and making travel plans. The fan base included legends like Barry Switzer and Bob Stoops, and current head coaches Brent Venables, Porter Moser and Jennie Baranczyk.

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Venables even delivered an electrifying speech in the locker room that voiced the emotions the rest of us were feeling while watching this team from afar.

"This team's got something special," Venables told the team. "You guys are battle-tested. You're like America's team right now. You all know that? You're inspiring people by how you do what you do. And you know it when you see it, you know it when you don't."

What happened in Omaha will go down as history that we all got to witness in real time. It wasn't just one of the most inconceivable runs in OU history, but all of college sports. It can be compared to an 8-seed making a Cinderella run to cutting down the nets in March Madness, which hasn't been done since 1985.

For those wearing crimson in the crowd at Charles Schwab Field or even watching from home, it helped us believe in Sooner Magic again. Johnson was appreciative of the support, but the feeling is mutual and should grow even stronger as the title is defended.

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