STILLWATER — Da’Wain Lofton was a junior in high school the first time he met Doug Meacham.
A star receiver at North Side High School in Fort Worth, Texas, Lofton had been invited to a camp at TCU, where Meacham had just returned for a second stint, this time coaching receivers.
“They ended up offering me about a year later,” said Lofton, now a redshirt senior receiver at Oklahoma State. “Took a couple visits up there, got to talk to Meacham and a couple other coaches there at the time.”
Lofton chose to sign with Virginia Tech rather than the hometown Horned Frogs, yet here he is, five years later, playing for Meacham after all.
And Lofton, like so many of his teammates at Oklahoma State, is excited by the new offensive style Meacham brought to Cowboy country.
“We throw the ball,” Lofton said with a smile that just kept growing. “We throw the ball almost every play and that’s a receiver’s dream. Hopefully during the season, a lot of teams give us those one-on-one matchups and we go make those plays.”
While Meacham’s offense has generated excitement, his personality has been key to blending his schemes with both returning and incoming players.
“He’s cool. He’s funny,” redshirt junior receiver Gavin Freeman said. “Yeah, I love Coach Meach. How he works and how he wants to compete.”
Meacham approaches football with a stringent focus on detail and structure, wrapped in the warm hug of a Matthew McConaughey movie character.
“I feel like his coaching style is loose,” Lofton said. “He can be out there loose. It just makes the player feel more comfortable and actually be able to show off his creativity.”
Meacham, of course, was an offensive lineman at OSU in the late 1980s and began his coaching…
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