Like I said, I think there is some truth to this being loosely based on the Daugherty's and some of the ridiculous issues that family has had/continues to have...
I know ORU has a crazy rep and rightfully so. The individuals that run that school now are so wrapped up in their own egos and $$$ it's sad. Even Oral himself had some moments. I will tell you from meeting him (and I don't consider myself a rah rah evangelical AT ALL...I'm more of a reserved Methodist), there was something about Oral that you found genuine when you met him and he was speaking with you. In meeting Billy Wilson and some of the other evangelical pastors they bring in to preach chapel services, you felt a little dirty speaking with them...like you could physically see the grift oozing out their pores. Oral was not that way. I can't explain it...there was a very different vibe about him.