RUF/NEKS smoker

The RUF/NEKS smoker.  PHOTO: Michael Runyan

A close up of the sign.  PHOTO: Michael Runyan

     Friday the University of Oklahohoma RUF/NEKS held their annual smoker, an event during which they and their sister organization, the LIL' SIS's, recruit new members.  The smoker is usually a barbeque as well, but not this year.  RUF/NEKS President Bobby Nash. said that issues with getting organized forced that part to be dropped.

     The all-male spirit squad of 11 was seeking five additional members for it's 2012-2013 run, despite the fact that it was raining.  The group has been active at OU for 96 years.

      Nash said that the name RUF/NEKS originates from the time when former some varsity football players appeared at a basketball game and "they were being really rowdy, an elderly woman just yelled at them and refereed to them as a bunch of rufneks." After that, the name stuck.

     When asked what it was like to be a lil' Sis, Cassandra Nguyen talked about riding in the front of the Sooner Schooner.  "It's just like  you're going through this  roller coaster in a way.  It's like more fun than a roller coaster."

     Next for the RUF/NEKS is the OU spring football game.  For more information about them, click here.