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Not sure, but I do know the presence of an extension office in almost every county (I think there maybe 2 that lost their offices due to cuts) gives OSU a much more important footprint than ou.
The Sooners have fans “from Cheyenne to Vian” but that support is generally, as they say, “an inch deep and a mile wide.” T-shirt fans are not invested like alumni, parents with kids in 4-H and FFA, folks who do master gardening classes, and others who interact with the university on human and environmental science issues (notice I didn’t mention Ag producers..which are part of this, but extension touches much more than farming and ranching). They fill up stadiums and watch games for sure. But when it comes to pressuring elected officials, local politics can matter and we have in the past “punched above our weight.” That’s why Boren saw the importance of partnering with OSU (notice his name is on the vet school...he was governor and a US Senator..say what you want about him, he knew politics) and Burns saw the strength of ou’s growing bio-med footprint and saw benefit in tying in with the pull of t-shirt fans as well as ou alumni (He was a political cat too).
There is a reason investment in the two schools have pretty well mirrored each other...Boren did get more aggressive on the private side (again, US Senators tend to have lots of contacts...especially one viewed nationally as an “intellectual”) but the down side is once a facility is built, you gotta keep funding it (note their budget issues). We have done our fair share too (just look at the campus..McKnight center anyone?) but now that continued revenue to support the school is up for grabs...I would propose to my legislators that the days of “ou gets a dollar, OSU gets a dollar” are over.
I want OSU to get a dollar—-ou can sell another hat at Walmart. I’ll take the appropriations. They can take a hike.
The Sooners have fans “from Cheyenne to Vian” but that support is generally, as they say, “an inch deep and a mile wide.” T-shirt fans are not invested like alumni, parents with kids in 4-H and FFA, folks who do master gardening classes, and others who interact with the university on human and environmental science issues (notice I didn’t mention Ag producers..which are part of this, but extension touches much more than farming and ranching). They fill up stadiums and watch games for sure. But when it comes to pressuring elected officials, local politics can matter and we have in the past “punched above our weight.” That’s why Boren saw the importance of partnering with OSU (notice his name is on the vet school...he was governor and a US Senator..say what you want about him, he knew politics) and Burns saw the strength of ou’s growing bio-med footprint and saw benefit in tying in with the pull of t-shirt fans as well as ou alumni (He was a political cat too).
There is a reason investment in the two schools have pretty well mirrored each other...Boren did get more aggressive on the private side (again, US Senators tend to have lots of contacts...especially one viewed nationally as an “intellectual”) but the down side is once a facility is built, you gotta keep funding it (note their budget issues). We have done our fair share too (just look at the campus..McKnight center anyone?) but now that continued revenue to support the school is up for grabs...I would propose to my legislators that the days of “ou gets a dollar, OSU gets a dollar” are over.
I want OSU to get a dollar—-ou can sell another hat at Walmart. I’ll take the appropriations. They can take a hike.
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The goons, whorns, ESPN and SEC made a purposeful move to remove OSU and the rest of the Big XII from competing against them for subscribers. Don't salute them for their tending to their "best" interests. They want the rest of the Big XII to be Tulsa with a better history of competition. When I write "they" I mean all four entities.
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I’m not saluting anyone. I just respect the fact they took action to better their own situation in a high stakes, multi-billion dollar BUSINESS, rather than taking a more passive approach like clearly Holder and Harris did. If the situation was nearly the same, except maybe we were talking about OSU and KU brokering a deal to the BIG, I suspect your opinion (if you were honest about it) would be quite different.
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