Thiefery, that cavalier attitude is what's gonna do people in someday. Schools thinking they are bullet proof is what will lead to their inevitable demise. Here's a post I made last Friday. I got a phone call asking me if I'd be willing to pony up money for future "obligations". I asked what "obligations" and was told how OU was going to have to spend a LOT of money to be competitive with what was already SEC-standard spending but the spending in the future was going to skyrocket. Full disclosure: I told my wife about the phone call and she's a stickler for supporting the academic side of OU as much as the athletic side. The woman is merciless about that. When she asked me if I was also prepared to open a vein for the academic side, it gave me pause and I've been thinking about this a lot since then. All this runaway spending really makes me concerned for the future of college football and the universities too. Here's my post from last week.
Finally heard something that is no shit. There is a
lot of discussion about OU's willingness to spend the money necessary to bring it up to the level of commitment Oklahoma will need in order to be competitive in the SEC and more than one candidate has raised tough questions. Resources cost money and it's really waking some people up about what success in the SEC is likely going to demand. The head coach's salary isn't the issue; it's more about recruiting budgets, assistant coaching salaries and some damned expensive improvements in facilities, etc. Here is the conundrum: OU hiring anyone who doesn't have the resources to do the job right in the SEC is a recipe for eventual failure. But asking the donors to pony up the money + using a substantial portion of the expected higher revenues from SEC membership to make those resources available is a helluva financial commitment to make. Resources. But apparently it's THE elephant in the room. And if we do spend a God-awful amount of money, how is it spent....how is it raised....and who will be the HC/staff trying to leverage it? OU was pretty comfortable in the Disfuctional XII and this whole move to the SEC is proving to be a lot for OU to bite off.