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The University of Oklahoma is well on its way toward becoming an institution run almost exclusively for its football team.

The football coach makes millions and keeps getting raises. Everyone else gets cut after cut. Eventually the school will be little more than its football team.

Margaret Soltan, February 8, 2016 9:04PM
Posted in: sport

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5 Responses to “The University of Oklahoma is well on its way toward becoming an institution run almost exclusively for its football team.”

  1. Mr Punch Says:

    The OU football team was once coached by a Pulitzer-Prize-winning English professor. Not lately, though.

  2. Margaret Soltan Says:

    “Taught British literature, organized the department of English, coached the football team, played on the baseball team, edited the campus newspaper, and tried to beautify the campus.” Wow.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Louis_Parrington

  3. dmf Says:

    clearly a liberal elite parasite gotta purge those outside agitators:
    “He published little and in 1908 he was fired due to pressures from religious groups who wanted all “immoral faculty” fired”
    now that sounds like OU.

  4. theprofessor Says:

    They need to remember the apocryphal quote often attributed to Bud Wilkinson (former OU coach back in the 50s) about OU’s academics: “We need to build a university our football team can be proud of.” It was actually the OU president, George Cross, who said it.

  5. Margaret Soltan Says:

    tp: It has taken its mythic place next to Gordon Gee’s “I’m just hoping that the coach doesn’t dismiss me.”

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