I am now reading that the reduced contract was instituted before Nagy, under the Venables regime, and that Nagy cleaned the mess up, realizing what a black eye this is.
A couple of comments- NIL has verbs few rules, but one rule that exists is that it can’t be performance-based, yet that is exactly what OU gave Stone initially.
For all the complaints the Sooners had about other teams tampering with their roster- Nagy absolutely tampered with the RB, Ott, before the portal opened, and they are all fine operating that way. Ethics, in Soonerland, are situational, as they always have been.
it is almost 20 years since the Sooner Big Red Auto scandal. Stoops got a lot of mileage out of kicking his starting QB, Bomar, and his backup OL off the team as a consequence of getting paid for little work. It never gets mentioned that AD Peterson and his father were also getting (bigger) pay for no work from Big Red, and there were no consequences for them. The truth is- they were kind of ready to move on from Bomar,or at least, they weren’t ready to go to the mat with the NCAA over him.