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TU’s new AD must be a dynamic fundraiser

As much as most of us don’t like it, the reality is NIL is here to stay. NIL is a huge part of athletic success. TU just lost its top men’s & top women’s basketball player. TU must hire a dynamic fundraiser as their new athletic director.

TU has a small alumni base, but is the best sports entertainment option in a metro area of over 1 million people. TU must find a way to attract new fans and donors that are not alumni. We need a dynamic fundraiser to connect with the Tulsa area business community.

If we are to have athletic success in today’s NIL world we must truly become Tulsa’s team. That starts with hiring a new AD that has the personality and energy to lead that drive.
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🏈 Recruiting June 1 weekend Official Visitors

Tulsa hosted a round of official football visitors from the 2025 class this weekend. The Hurricane is looking to notch its first few commitments in this recruiting cycle, and TU is heavily involved with numerous highly-ranked and highly-recruited prospects.

This weekend's visitors include two players on the offensive side of the ball, as well as two defensive backs.

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🏈 Recruiting Official Visitors this weekend

Tulsa hosted a round of official football visitors from the 2025 class this weekend. The Hurricane is looking to notch its first few commitments in this recruiting cycle, and TU is heavily involved with numerous highly-ranked and highly-recruited prospects.

This weekend's visitors include two players on the offensive side of the ball, as well as two defensive backs.

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Walter's finally going to be done ?

Is this the beginning of the end of this clown? He is the ultimate embarrassment.

Best burger in Tulsa?

Went to lunch at Bill's Jumbo Burgers and this dawned on me as a good topic. As a rule, I'm telling you up front these should be locally owned/operated places and generally not chains, as opposed to McDonald's and Red Robin. I'm looking for local places . . . you can get that kind of chain stuff anywhere. Plus, if you post it I'll make fun of you.

My list:
1) Bill's Jumbo Burgers; Xanthus and Admiral. Funky little wooden building. Weird fundamentalist stuff on the walls. Really damn good. Has always been really damn good.
2) Weber's; Brookside. This place doesn't get enough love. Root beer is really the draw (get the root beer freeze). The comination of great root beer and burgers makes it #2.
3) JJ's; 6th and Peoria. Weird as hell. Overpriced. Doesn't keep normal hours. Don't call it a hamburger, whatever you do. Gourmet ribeye burgers are great.
4) Claude's; Brookside. They finally got rid of the "we grind our own meat" sign a few years back. Always got a laugh out of that since they are across the street from a funeral home. Anywho, nothin' wrong with this place at all. Good prices, too. Got food poisoning there once, so it's lower on my list than the quality indicates.
5) (My curveball) The Mediterranean burger at Wild Fork; feta and other good Greek stuff on pita. I thought my lady was nuts when ordered this. Now I live for it.
6) Green bean burger at Brother's Houlighan; weird, but strangely wonderful.
7) Ron's. Ron's used to be an easy #1. But they moved in around the corner from me and I've become a regular. I've decided that their frito chili pie and chicken are better than their burgers. Their burgers are very good, but I'm not sure they are as good as they used to be.


There are others, but I must stop or I'll have to eat something.

FWIW, I'm not ranking the McNellie's burger because I think it's the most overrated thing in this town since Hanson. Nice burger, not remotely worth the hysteria on Wednesday nights.

Maybe the Coolest article I have ever read about the TU basketball glory days of 1999-2000 by the NY Times

Don't know how I ever missed reading this one as many of us were on this same trip in TU basketball.

Florida?

I know this might trigger Huffy but...

We are in Fort Lauderdale right now for a couple of days before a cruise, right on the beach. It is miserable hot and muggy! Every time I have been here (always summer or spring) it is unconfortably muggy and usually way too warm. I don't even want to go outside.

Perhaps if I visited in December I would have a different opinion. But I feel like, if I had to live here, I would be compelled to go somewhere else at least half the year. I don't like it at all. California is so much better for beach life. Or even north Atlantic like Delaware or Maryland - those trips were so much more comfortable and enjoyable.
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