<table> </table> Rhett Bomar has tried to forget.</p><p>Since you last saw him, he enrolled at Sam Houston State. He sat out a full season, playing scout team quarterback at the Division I-AA school in Huntsville, Texas. He tore his ACL and rehabbed six months. He became a team leader for the Bearkats, one of the team&#8217;s hardest workers. Yes, a lot happened in the past two years to help separate Bomar from his past.</p><p>But this weekend, when he takes the field against Kansas at Memorial Stadium, Bomar will be forced to remember. He&#8217;ll be facing a Big 12 opponent &#8212; one that he beat three years ago as Oklahoma&#8217;s starting quarterback &#8212; and there will be 50,000 fans rooting against him. Thing is, he&#8217;s missed you.</p><p>&#8220;Playing in front of 85,000 people every week,&#8221; Bomar said, &#8220;it gets your blood pumping.&#8221;</p><p>He plays in front of 14,000 now, a far cry from the life he once lived. Bomar was the No. 1 quarterback recruit in the class of 2004 out of Grand Prairie, Texas, and he started as a redshirt freshman at Oklahoma. He won eight games in 2005, and the Sooners were a trendy pick to win the national championship in 2006. Bomar felt untouchable.</p><p>&#8220;In that state especially, they don&#8217;t have a pro team,&#8221; Bomar said. &#8220;That is their pro team. They used to always tell me the most recognizable people are the head coach and the quarterback.&#8221;</p><p>Bomar found out how true that was in August 2006, when word leaked out that he had been receiving improper benefits from a Norman car dealership. Bomar and teammate J.D. Quinn didn&#8217;t show up for work, yet they were on the payroll. Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops acted swiftly when the news surfaced, kicking Bomar and Quinn off the team.</p><p>&#8220;Rhett was stupid,&#8221; says Jerry Bomar, Rhett&#8217;s father. &#8220;He listened to the wrong guy. He was 19, 20 years old, the MVP of the Holiday Bowl, and he was full of himself. Up there, you&#8217;re treated like a king.&#8221;</p><p>In shock that Oklahoma cut its ties with him, Bomar had to make a quick decision. He chose to go the Division I-AA route because he wouldn&#8217;t have to miss a full season; the precedent on cases like his suggested the NCAA would suspend him for a significant number of games, but not a full season. Bomar packed up and went to Sam Houston State, but it turned out he would have to miss all of 2006 after all.</p><p>The NCAA grilled Bomar about Oklahoma, trying to get him to blow the whistle. But Bomar took the high road.</p><p>&#8220;I have a lot of feelings toward that situation,&#8221; Bomar said. &#8220;I just didn&#8217;t say a lot of stuff. I didn&#8217;t want to rat out anybody or say a bunch of negative things.&#8221;</p><p>In July 2007, the NCAA punished Oklahoma by stripping it of the eight wins Bomar orchestrated in 2005. The Sooners appealed to the NCAA, and the wins were restored.</p><p>Jerry Bomar thinks that his son was made into a scapegoat by Oklahoma. That&#8217;s about all he&#8217;ll say about it, though. For now.</p><p>&#8220;Nobody knows the real story but Rhett and I,&#8221; Jerry said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to come across as Rhett being innocent in this deal. But he wasn&#8217;t driving a Cadillac.&#8221;</p><p>Bomar played the first eight games of his junior season, throwing for 2,209 yards before going down with an ACL injury. This season, Bomar is healthy again and looking to stay that way so he can be in position for a shot at the NFL, his ultimate goal all along. Sam Houston State coach Todd Whitten said that more NFL scouts have been around his program lately.</p><p>&#8220;You go to a smaller school,&#8221; Bomar said, &#8220;but it&#8217;s not like my talent got any less. They tell me they don&#8217;t care where I am.&#8221;</p><p>The KU defense will face a determined, talented quarterback on Saturday.</p><p>&#8220;Rhett,&#8221; Jerry Bomar said, &#8220;has become self-motivated to where it&#8217;s almost an obsession with him.&#8221;