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The Plight of the University of Tulsa's "Struggles" Continue
This time though,
It's w/n its own Administration......

HEAVY SIGH

Bill Haisten, TULSA WORLD: A pointless delay in the renovation of TU’s football locker room

In 19 years since Reynolds Center construction was completed, the University of Tulsa men’s basketball locker room has been changed on six occasions.

For coaches Bill Self, Buzz Peterson, John Phillips and Doug Wojcik (twice), there were changes. Some minor and some significant.

For current coach Frank Haith, there was a complete, donor-funded makeover of the locker room. It is believed to have been a $1.5 million undertaking.

During the past 10 years, the Golden Hurricane football program has outperformed its basketball counterpart.

For TU basketball, there hasn’t been an NCAA Tournament victory in 14 years.

For TU football in 2007-16, there were seven bowl appearances and five finishes of at least 10 wins.

However, the football locker room looks the same today as it did in June 2007, when construction of the Case Athletic Complex was completed.

After the 2016 Hurricane squad closed with a 10-3 mark and returned from a victorious Miami Beach Bowl trip, an appreciative donor responded with money for an extensive locker room renovation.

It was expected that the project would begin a few days ago and be finished by the start of preseason camp in early August.

It’s not happening.

It supposedly will get done eventually, but not now.

A source said that the locker-room project is delayed because of university red tape — because “everyone dragged their feet” — and because TU leadership figures were concerned about the possibility of a disapproving response within the university community.

There apparently was concern about the perception of a football improvement coinciding with university budget problems and the loss of support-staff jobs.

A source close to the Hurricane program indicated that coach Philip Montgomery has graduated from frustration to anger.

If so, it might be due to scar tissue from previous disappointments.

When Montgomery was hired in December 2014, he was told that TU was committed to building an indoor practice facility.