cowboysooner
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Recently, Penn State announced that they were considering terminating its men's basketball program due to poor performance and attendance. Going to decide after next year.
Question for the Board: Who would be in favor of just terminating the men's program until a new gym is built and the 1Oklahoma basketball NIL account is big enough to be competitive. Then, hire a new staff and start the program over. With the portal and NIL, you wouldn't be too far behind as you could buy a ready made team in a year's time. The women could choose to keep playing in the Lloyd Noble or go to the fieldhouse.
You could then role all of the money saved into football until it is up to speed. Then, maybe turn your big money donors towards a new gym and Bball NIL.
Or, do you prefer our current course of just being as good as we can be with a poor gym and bottom of SEC NIL. Just take what you get until you get lucky with a massive money donor that loves basketball. Doing it this way, Porter has at least been able to scrap together bottom level portal guys and put together 3 winning seasons and 1 NCAA tourney in 4 years. Unlikely, we can keep him if a job comes along with better NIL support but you just hire the best guy you can find that will operate under our situation and again, just have him do the best he can with what he is given.
Question for the Board: Who would be in favor of just terminating the men's program until a new gym is built and the 1Oklahoma basketball NIL account is big enough to be competitive. Then, hire a new staff and start the program over. With the portal and NIL, you wouldn't be too far behind as you could buy a ready made team in a year's time. The women could choose to keep playing in the Lloyd Noble or go to the fieldhouse.
You could then role all of the money saved into football until it is up to speed. Then, maybe turn your big money donors towards a new gym and Bball NIL.
Or, do you prefer our current course of just being as good as we can be with a poor gym and bottom of SEC NIL. Just take what you get until you get lucky with a massive money donor that loves basketball. Doing it this way, Porter has at least been able to scrap together bottom level portal guys and put together 3 winning seasons and 1 NCAA tourney in 4 years. Unlikely, we can keep him if a job comes along with better NIL support but you just hire the best guy you can find that will operate under our situation and again, just have him do the best he can with what he is given.
