Stand on the football field at Oklahoma School for the Deaf, and you realize why the quarterback feels so strongly. The facility is in need of serious upgrades. There are no lights, few bleachers and no press box.

SULPHUR — Ask Colin Larkins about the field where his football team plays, and he uses his index finger to draw an X on the palm of his other hand.

“It feels like we're put down, like we're a tier down,” Larkins signs through an interpreter. “It's like we're playing pee wee football, but we're a high school team.”

Truth be told, plenty of pee wee fields are nicer than this.

School administrators and supporters have decided it's time for a change. Starting in earnest during their homecoming game on Saturday, they are launching a fundraising campaign called “Make It Right.” They want to raise between $1.5 million and $2.5 million so they can provide all the things that the football program has never had.

Some dream of a grand stadium — “Like Jenks or Tulsa Union,” OSD coach Tommy Varner said — but most believe there's a happy medium between what they have and what other eight-man programs have.