One day we will look back on the time when a few football players were also pursuing an education, smile fondly at those innocent and virtuous days, then return to crowing about the recent natty we bought won
I joked to my wife a couple days ago that we will forever be thought of as the New York Yankees of college football. Hated as the team that has the best players money can buy with the highest payroll. When we win people will talk about how we bought the championship and when we lose everyone will laugh at us for having the highest payroll yet still can't win a championship. We already get some hate for having everything but can't win. Moving forward expect that to be magnified times 100. Like it or not we might just become the most hated team in the country for it.
If money was all it took to be good, Harvard would be the best team in the nation. Most people already hate us, so whats a few more?
Don’t think it will change one way or the other. Like many pull against Ala, IF we start winning, a few will shift to us in addition to those who already hate us. Personally I don’t think the ‘buying’ the best will change the landscape of the top 7 or 8 that much, heck Jackson State got a 5 star. It’s just going to cost more.
Damn, y'all make me feel older than I should. I remember Third Ward buying the best DL in the state for $4,000 and $800/month to his mother. Then a few years later, SMU became the first school to buy a house for a mother and get her a better job. That house probably cost about $125,000 back then. Now we are talking 6/7 figures for kids that haven't done a damn thing.
"SMU became the first school to buy a house for a mother and get her a better job. " Barry Switzer says hold my beer.
^Excellent point. The standard saying in that era was that ou players didn't turn out early to the NFL because they didn't want to take the pay cut.
OU has a long and distinguished history of this. Anyone remember Brandon Everage? All American safety at OU? He was the QB on the 1A state champion Granger Lions just a few minutes from where I live. He was a hell of an athlete and very poor. Shortly after signing with OU his mom moved into a new house and was driving a brand new Cadillac. It was the talk of the town for several years.
Thems were the high days of cheating back in the SWC. Aggy bought Dickerson a car and he still went to SMU. We were pikers. We only got caught with some booster buying Marcus Dupree a pair of cowboy boots.
That wasn't the only car the Aggies "lost". There was an infamous Cutlass parked by Moore-Hill for four years. Anybody know this guy? FWIW, Marcus' mother had given him money, but Fred didn't want him to spend it until his mother approved it. The salesman at Shepler's let him walk out in the boots.
I have no idea about the Cutlass. Not for one minute do I believe the guy who claims to have driven the TransAm with the suitcases to Sealy. Never ran into the guy until about 2018, and he was bragging about it.
So he walked out with $300 boots and a certain former Coach just happened to leave $300 by the register?
That never happened. First of all, they weren't $300. Secondly, they were charged on an American Express card.
Then there was RB Kenneth Davis in the 80's (from Temple, TX) TCU coach Jim Wacker booted Davis and six other players off the team for accepting cash payments from boosters. Davis has estimated receiving $38,000 while at TCU. SWC back then was the wild wild west.
Like it or not we might just become the most hated team in the country for it. based on the number of schools and clueless fans throwing Horns down, we may already be that team....amazing that many of these jokers have no idea why they are throwing Horns down, they probably see it so they do it......it's nationwide!!!!
Yes but they were not as accomplished at it as that team north of the Red. Trying to compete with those guys and doing it legally was not easy. Enter the likes of Ron Meyer. SWC had some dirty programs but it has always p-ssed me off when my OU friends gloat over how the SWC went upside just doing the same sh- t that was being done in spades in OK. I was living in iOK City during those years……not fun.
