As some of you have noticed, I'm against any "unfair" contract with our recruiting rivals OU, OSU and Arkansas - especially in football. However there is a basketball contract that I would currently endorse if the referees could be truly neutral. So what kind of contract would I be for?

Well, I'd be for offering any of those three schools a neutral site game with TU at the BOK, but with the stipulation that the contract is ONLY for the BOK and not any game to be played between the schools anywhere else like Norman or Stillwater or Fville. That's it, take it or leave it.

Our new AD needs to start acting like we are a big time university that deals from a standpoint of strength, not weakness. IMO

If those schools wouldn't like that deal, then so be it; say thank you and move on. Our programs are not dependent on being forced into any unfair contracts with those teams/schools. We will have a lot of excellent MBB/WBB teams coming to Tulsa in our new conference, we are not joined at the hip to OU/OSU/Arky any more.

BTW, I think it should be advertised that any contract offered to the above schools like this one should be made public to reveal whether those schools are truly interested in competeing on a level playing field or a "fixed" one.

(06-23-2013 10:00 AM)rabidTU2 Wrote:  BTW, I think it should be advertised that any contract offered to the above schools like this one should be made public to reveal whether those schools are truly interested in competeing on a level playing field or a "fixed" one.

I think they would prefer fixed as that's what it is right now.

I know Rabid is talking about playing our local big schools at the "neutral site" of the BOK, but I've thought about TU actually playing some AAC games at the BOK in the future. If our new conference sticks together for a while & Danny Manning gets his recruiting going, Tulsa may need to play a couple games a year at the BOK.

If TU gets it's basketball support where it was during the early days of the Reynolds Center (18 sellouts in the first 23 home games), some big AAC contests against teams like UCONN, Cincinnati or Memphis could be moved to the BOK to accommodate more fans. I sure hope TU has the need to play some conference home games at the BOK in the future.

I'd think that any game that is anticipating a crowd greater than 9,000 should be looked at at the BOK. But the way it was handled before was a major mistake IMO. Season ticket fans lost a home game amd had to buy their way into the game as an extra contest. If we make this a yearly deal, then even if it isn't played as a true home game, the contest can be manuevered as part of the home packet and simply raise the price of season tickets to a new level. IMO, we might even have a lot of those OU/OSU/Ark fans decide to get TU season tickets or possibly sell a mini-pack.