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  1. That rule was stupid- and besides, how did that asshole Hayden Fry get in the HoF with a poorer win %?
  2. -Greedy: nothing wrong with that -Vindictive: read the part about “Big Dog” trying to subpoena “The Frontier” for their internal records -Asshole: do I really need to explain?
  3. Really, what was he thinking? They want to start a sports media venture, and borrow the money from people associated with the sports they intend to cover? Even if it had made money, how was it going to work when they wanted to criticize Venables or Castiglione, and Stoops, as their financier, calls them in to make them stop?
  4. Many years ago, I wrote a ten part series for Barking Carnival about the history of cheating in recruiting. The premise was that recruits differentiate among offers based on perceived value. In a world where there are no illegal inducements, a scholarship to the University of Texas, to play football, has greater value than the same from any of our regional (and most of our national) peers. Bags are needed to overcome that, and it’s no coincidence that so many of our rivals were dirty as hell. Around 1982, Texas had to decide if it was going to compete in recruiting (requiring bags) and the Tower decided, “No, we aren’t doing that”, and we had those miserable years result. I think the subsequent period of NCAA prnalizationnof OU and the SWC, along with realignment, controlled the bag game for a while and Texas ascended again. In 2020, with NIL and the portal, Texas had to make a decision again- compete or basically relegate ourselves. This time, the Tower decided to compete, and that is the world we live in. I enjoy the recruiting success. I don’t enjoy calling for our most successful boosters to fund recruiting out of their personal largesse- that makes me feel small as a fan. I absolutely am thankful for their contributions and wish they could have more recognition for it. Immamac has alluded to a future where about $15M (from “the House Settlement”) would be allocated to football (the same as other P4 schools), and that would be the baseline pay. Stars would get more pay from corporate (“real”) NIL, and the idea is that the Austin economy is vibrant enough that Texas will still be super-competitive in pay for play. I hope that works well.
  5. Forgive me. I just can’t get enough of Okie icons behaving awfully. https://thelostogle.com/2024/10/28/stoops-co-take-berry-tramel-lawsuit-to-vindictive-extremes Googling shows about 20 years of Tramel writing about Stoops, the standup guy, Stoops the molder of men, Stoops the visionary. He never seemed to write an article about Stiops, the greedy, vindictive asshole.
  6. I am sorry this happened to you. Here is something everyone should do (you, too, if you haven’t already): https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/taxes/tax-identity-theft-ip-pin-irs-ab021643?st=DPHj1X&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink Wiler, if you discover someone else has already opened a SS# account with your wife’s SS#, you have to address it (well, you don’t HAVE TO, but you really need to)
  7. Tramel just declared bankruptcy after giving all his money to Stoops, Switzer’s SIL and the Toby Keith estate, after a failed venture. He is thinking, “I can eat enough at the free breakfast buffet to get me through the day, and pocket the per diem meal allowance…”
  8. Tangentially related to OU- Jim Donnan was OC at OU from 1985-1989 (replaced Mack Brown!). (still researching Switzer’s misdeeds) How is Jim Donnan not in jail? He ran a $90 million Ponzi scheme 2010-2012, with this other guy that did go to jail. They told ”investors” that they had purchased goods that already had ready buyers at high profits, and it was guaranteed to return great profits. They paid returns out of the funds from new investors. Donnan, from his career as a coach and TV talker, knew a lot of fairly high worth people (coaches and players) that were fairly unsophisticated about finance. it went to trial (in Georgia, I think), and Donnan’s claim that he didn’t know it was a scam worked in court (the Feds had a lot of evidence that he absolutely knew it was a scam). Are juries just biased to believe (somewhat) successful coaches? Side note- it sounds like Switzer and his SIL were early investors, and helped introduce later investors. As the scheme was unraveling, Switzer was able to get Donnan to give him his nut back, but then had to surrender that to the feds for repayment to others, as they investigated and took over control. Switzer was sued by later investors, but won in court.
  9. It will be awesome (and completely foreseeable) if Bentley commits to OU, O’Neal goes elsewhere, and then Arbuckle ends up somewhere else in 2027, taking Bentley with him.
  10. The Ags really are phenomenal baseball fans. Is there any other fanbase with greater support for less results? I almost suspect that part of it is a sick reaction to how great Texas baseball is.
  11. Great idea. When you’re president, every week brings a moment like 4th and 1 against the Eagles. https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/s/7g3gxWTIk5 Switzer talks a good game…
  12. Not really. They were Jews. https://www.wsj.com/us-news/the-final-moments-of-two-promising-lives-cut-short-by-a-gunman-fixated-on-gaza-7f6bcba0?st=U9nUxn&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink The killer registered for the event (as typical for Jewish events in the western world, you have to register to find out where it is, for safety of attendees), an intra-faith meeting on alleviating suffering in Gaza, so he could execute (the article explains how he shot them from behind, finishing off the girl as she tried to crawl away) a couple of Jews. Despite all the noise on this thread, it wasn’t Likud he was targeting, or Zionists or Israelis. He was looking to kill Jews. Somewhere along the way, this guy decided he really hated Jews, a condition that has existed in this world for a couple thousand years, without interruption.
  13. It’s actually interesting case law now. He lied his ass off, to avoid prison, of course. It is so weird. You’d think OKC would be a big city, but the same grifters seem to have their hands in every grift, like a low budget 1980’s movie.
  14. That’s fantastic. Let me tell you, you go down some interesting and crazy rabbit holes when you google “Barry Switzer arraigned”, “Barry Switzer charged” and so on. I’m going to write a long post about it. Nack to “Sellout Crowd”- an Okie should know better than anyone that Switzer being attached to a project is a warning, not an enticement.
  15. Thx. Googling, it does look like “Big Dog Holding” was the founder of “Sellout Crowd Media”. Yes, Tramel should have had an attorney look at the loan. Yes, if the dudes in “Big Dog Holding” were decent guys doing business with someone they have known professionally for decades, signing papers they knew he was unfamiliar with, they would have made sure he understood that he was personally on the hook for the loan, and not the venture. Given who they were, you could argue Tramel should have known they weren’t good dudes, … except he had spent most of his career explaining to his readers that they were admirable guys.
  16. Was the “Big Dog” group associated with the creation of the failed venture? Or, was Tramel offered an opportunity to have an ownership share, and he sought out “Big Dog” for help in funding? The former looks a lot worse than the latter. Also, is OKC not big enough to have other people involved in shady ventures than Switzer and his SIL? Because it looks like they are attached to every scam and scheme.
  17. Ha-ha! I didn’t realize I had done that (reference to Indian Territory)
  18. Reading more, evidently, when Tramel borrowed the money, he didn’t realize that it was written as a personal loan to him, and he is personally on the hook for it.
  19. I think this story belongs here, and not the new 2025 Sooner thread. It is a weird one. https://www.readfrontier.org/stories/funders-of-defunct-sellout-crowd-media-startup-sue-over-business-debt/ Some Oklahoma sportswriters (including Berry Tramel) started a news site exclusively for Oklahoma sports. They borrowed money from “Big Dog” (evidently the nickname of Bob Stoops. The site failed and Big Dog wants its money back (it’s gone). Big Dog is funded by Stoops, Toby Keith’s estate and Hunter Miller (Switzer’s SIL and partner in that -again weird- Ponzi scheme Switzer and Donnan ran about 15 years ago).
  20. The Oklahoma media is trained. No one goes off the reservation
  21. If they get blown out by Michigan (in week 2, I erred above in saying Game 1), they are a crappy team. Michigan is probably starting true freshman Bryce Underwood, and as talented as he is, he is a work in progress. Id love to see it, though.
  22. We will know about Oklahoma by their sixth game, the RRS against Texas. Their first six games have three sacrificial lambs - Illinois State, Temple and Kent State. Game 1 is hosting Michigan, which should be a little worse (a little better on offense?, definitely worse on defense) than the team that Texas played last year. Game 4 is Auburn- a really good roster in a “prove it” year for Frieze. Game six is Texas. If Venables were to circle three games for extra focus next year, those three would be it. Mateer will be playing hero ball in those games and dishing against the three scrubs. Texas is the game they most want to win, but they really, really don’t want to lose to Auburn, led by Jackson Arnold (who, despite all his flaws, QBed OU in its signature win against Bama last year). If OU starts 6-0, they have a great shot at the playoffs, even with the murderer’s row they finish with. 5-1, and Venables has a good shot at keeping his job.
  23. I’m just happy that the “Hale” that wrote this article isn’t the “James Hale” that was an OU insider-writer for so many years, after getting out of prison for running a Pinzie scheme.
  24. The concern would be DeLoitte instituting a de facto salary cap, while the good ole boys go back to dropping bags under the table. There is an alternative, if things work out that way. Like minded schools, that don’t need a salary cap (Texas, yes, TAMU, tOSU, ND, Michigan, maybe UGA, certainly Oregon, maybe Florida, Miami) could form their own league. The only league without a salary cap will, in short order, be a premier league. (And the ratings for this league will be amazing).
  25. https://sports.yahoo.com/college-football/breaking-news/article/power-conferences-working-on-contract-to-bind-schools-to-new-enforcement-rules-with-strict-punishments-005652210.html
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