I don’t know if the problem is we can’t do it, but rather, we need the money, so we choose the big payout games to help prop up the athletic department.
This. We have fifty rowers to pay for. We have to collect a certain total amount from road games per year and the regional power 5s other then Arkansas Texas and Oklahoma are unable or unwilling to pay for it. We actually take a short term financial hit playing the home leg of a 2-1. That’s why we are going to Michigan Rapist Vocational School to start the season because we our big OOC opponent this year is at home. OU or whoever takes a million dollar hit or more by playing in our small stadium and loss of concessions/parking. we also scrimped on TV technology during the renovation and the networks lean on them not to come. So the big schools can’t afford to come and it causes problems for them. They used to play at Skelly regularly because it gave local fans a chance to see the Sooners but our low ticket prices were undercutting Tulsa area OU alumni attendance to games in Norman, so they could no longer justify the game.
This is the reason, for the five hundredth time, even if Jesus Christ himself were AD, we can’t afford to not go to OU, etc., we can’t afford to have OSU come here regularly without stacking our schedule with likely losing games like BB’s first year, and OU can’t afford to come here AND can’t afford to not invite schools like us into 1 offs, especially when they want the flexibility to schedule a marquee game in a neutral site against a ranked opponent with little notice for TV.
