Berry Tramel   Oklahoma State: Tales from a Les Miles walkon  By
Berry Tramel Modified: September 12, 2013 at 2:00 pm •
Published: September 11, 2013  I received an email today from
Russ Cornelius, who was an OSU walkon from Dickson during the
Les Miles era. Or at least tried to be. He had a fascinating
take on the Sports Illustrated report, and I thought it was
worth sharing. Great insight.  “Full disclosure about me: I
walked on to the OSU football team as a wide receiver in the
spring of 2002. I went through spring workouts and then spring
football. At the end of the spring I had a meeting with Coach
Miles during which he congratulated me for making the team. Two
weeks before the season started, he cut me. No hard feelings,
OSU was stacked at wide receiver and needed the roster spot. He
told me to come back the following spring, which I did, and the
exact same thing happened again. That was it. I was a practice
dummy who never played a down. But I was present in the locker
room and I knew who every player