Oklahoma's most recent public numbers show private donor contributions of just slightly under $63,000,000 and corporate sponsorship of $14,000,000. The private donor contributions for Texas are about $53,000,000 and corporate sponsorship of $47,000,000. It wouldn't make any difference which player(s) chose to egregiously defy the donors at either OU or Texas; if push came to shove, the donors control the University's purse strings and that's where the AD's ultimate loyalty is going to be. Of course no one wants the players upset any more than you would want a disgruntled coaching staff or any other kind of serious friction in an athletic department. But no player or players, who are just passing through, are going to wag the dog. If a group of players at OU decided "it's either us or Boomer Sooner" they would have just made a career move. The donors, the fans and the administration would just bite the bullet and move on without them......no matter what the W/L record was.
