NEW ORLEANS — For the first time since Joe Mixon’s attorneys released the video from Pickleman’s Cafe to the public, Oklahoma president David Boren talked with a small group of reporters following the Sooners’ 35-19 win against Auburn in the Sugar Bowl.

Throughout the 10-minute interview, he reaffirmed his decision to allow Mixon to stay on campus after the 2014 altercation.

“As a university president, I want to help young people learn from their mistakes and get on the right path,” Boren said. “I’m not in the business as a university president of destroying the entire lives and entire futures of young people. If they want to get someone else to be university president that’s in the destruction business, get ’em. I’m in the education business.”

Two and a half years ago, Boren watched security camera footage of then-freshman Mixon punching Amelia Molitor. On coach Bob Stoops’ recommendation, Boren and athletic director Joe Castiglione made the determination that Mixon should be given a second chance at Oklahoma.