Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Oklahoma Sooner Football Articles and Notes
As I continue to follow the Bob Stoops involvement in the BurnLounge pyramid scheme.. GNEXTINC.com is the ONLY Oklahoma Sooners website to report involvement, as of 1:40 am Tuesday.
As now Stoops responds to involvement of BurnLounge: University of Oklahoma football coach Bob Stoops confirmed Monday he invested in an online digital music business that federal regulators now allege is an illegal pyramid scheme. "Even though this investment was less than $500, like all others I make, it was reviewed by a trusted and experienced group of legal and financial advisers," Stoops said Monday in a statement released by OU. "I have been and remain comfortable with the direction they have provided for many years." Kenny Mossman, OU associate athletics director, said Stoops did not say how much money he made off the investment or whether he recruited other coaches or players to participate. Stoops declined to comment on Spurrier's remarks (in Sunday's South Carolina The State newspaper), referring questions to Mossman. BurnLounge was not promoted on OU Web sites, Stoops and Mossman said. (More at NewsOK.com) It would be interesting to know, the time line in which Stoops recommended BurnLounge to Spurrier, Jr. (the only confirmed individual recruited by Stoops) in reference to BurnLounge's June 2006 questionable business practices being raised.. Also, any other coaches and athletes he may of enrolled in the BurnLounge program.Labels: Bob Stoops, Keeping them Honest, Oklahoma Sooners, University of Oklahoma
posted by Gilbert Sam, Jr. @ 1:49 AM |
Thursday, April 05, 2007
Oklahoma Sooner Football Articles and Notes
McRae speaks for the first time: Brad McRae, the booster at the center of the excessive-pay scheme that landed Oklahoma a date with the NCAA infractions committee, blamed the problem on OU football players Wednesday and said he had no knowledge of what was happening. "Did I tell Rhett Bomar that he could come in there and punch in and out anytime he wanted to? I did not," McRae said in a telephone interview with The Dallas Morning News. "I never liked Rhett Bomar, anyway." Asked if he felt persecuted for being blamed, McRae said: "Yes. What are you doing to me right now?" He said reporters were just writing what they wanted about the situation without regard for the truth. (More at Dallas Morning News) So why does McRae speak now? Who knows? After KFOR-TV tried to track him down months ago.
Bomar says, he didn't intend to break the rules: The former Sooner quarterback just sort of veered astray, according to comments Bomar made to ESPN.com for a story that will appear online Friday. "It started out, we went there all the time" Bomar told ESPN.com. "And then one thing leads to another, you know, and you get in trouble" Bomar took responsibility for his missteps. "Ultimately, it was my decision" Bomar said. "And I got caught up in it. My actions, you know, are there. They are clear what happened. And so, I mean, I'll take full blame" (NewsOK.com)Roommate to players at Big Red Sports/Imports speaks: A former University of Oklahoma walk-on football player accused of being paid for work he didn't perform at a Norman auto dealership regularly brought home dealership cars for his personal use, a former roommate said. Logan Brosky roomed with Jermaine Hardison, the walk-on, for about a year. Brosky said he knew several players who worked at Big Red Sports/Imports. Some of them would talk about how easy the job was. "They'd just sit there and not do anything and let the Mexicans do all the detailing," Brosky recently said the players told him. "They'd clock in and go eat." Former Big Red manager Brad McRae often threw parties at his house for players and other guests, Brosky said. "He'd buy pizzas, Chinese, Quiznos -- anything they wanted," Brosky said. "I know it happened for sure three times, and it probably happened more than that." (More at Dallas Morning News)Joe Washington joins the OU Athletics Department: Joe Washington, a three-time All-America running back at Oklahoma from 1972-75, has been named Special Assistant to the Athletics Director and Executive Director of the Varsity O Association at his alma mater. The position being assumed by Washington is newly created. It is part of a restructuring effort designed to place added emphasis on outreach to former student-athletes. OU Athletics Director Joe Castiglione made the announcement. Washington will assume his new duties in May. (More about the announcements at SoonerSports.com)
Go inside spring practice No. 11: SoonerSports.com
Receivers gain ground: Tulsa WorldLabels: Jermaine Hardison, Joe Washington, Keeping them Honest, NCAA Investigation, Oklahoma Sooners, Rhett Bomar
posted by Gilbert Sam, Jr. @ 12:11 PM |
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Oklahoma Sooner Football Articles and Notes
Former Sooner Bomar highlighted on ESPN Outside the Lines: The Oklahoman has learned that Bomar will be the subject of a segment on Wednesday's Outside the Lines program, which airs at 2:30 p.m. on ESPN (Cox 29) (DirecTV 73 HD). He's not the focus of the show, but part of one segment. ESPN reporter Joe Schad recently visited Bomar in Huntsville, Texas, where the former Sooner bad boy is trying to revive his career with Sam Houston State. Schad tells The Oklahoman that Bomar spills forth no new revelations. (NewsOK.com) Update: ESPN did not air the Rhett Bomar piece, due to Outside the Lines special coverage of the death one of the Greatest coaches in college history, Grambling State's Eddie Robinson dead at 88. No word on later air time.
Quinn defends himself, calling penalties harsh: JD Quinn telling the Tulsa World.. "All I did was take cash," Quinn said. "I didn't break any laws and I get kicked off the team, but there's people on the team that are breaking laws and failing drug tests and stuff like that, and there's nobody getting kicked off the team for that type of stuff." Quinn, 21, refused to give any details of his allegations about other players. He was in legal trouble at OU before last summer's incident. In 2004, Quinn was convicted of two misdemeanors (actual physical control of a vehicle while intoxicated and possession of a fake ID). When asked to clarify his allegations in a second telephone interview on Tuesday, Quinn said, "I said that, but I wasn't really regarding as much about Oklahoma. I was just saying around the country. I wasn't saying it in the context of Oklahoma. There's just people I've heard of doing things." OU football coach Bob Stoops and Oklahoma on Tuesday declined comment, other than associate athletic director Kenny Mossman saying, "the university has turned over all of our material to the NCAA and we stand by that dialogue." (Much more at the TulsaWorld.com) Its obvious Quinn, has little if any remorse, only that of being caught breaking NCAA rules and regulations.. A selfish act of putting self in front of team.Labels: JD Quinn, Keeping them Honest, NCAA Investigation, Oklahoma Sooners, Rhett Bomar
posted by Gilbert Sam, Jr. @ 10:03 AM |
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Oklahoma Sooner Football Articles and Notes
Oklahoma Memorial Stadium to receive new Video Board/Scoreboard: The University of Oklahoma Board of Regents are expected to approve plan this week that will allocate $10.1 million for new video boards and a new sound system at the school's football and basketball facilities. According to the regents' agenda, OU president David Boren will recommend the board award a contract not to exceed $10.3 million to Daktronics, Inc. Athletic director Joe Castiglione could not be immediately reached for comment. Approximately $2.16 million is earmarked for upgrades in the north end zone of Oklahoma Memorial Stadium before the start of the 2007 season. A new LED video board and scoreboard ribbons will be installed. (Dallas Morning News) Phase 3 will be complete by 2008 football season.
Note of Interest: From Wizard of Odds, is Oklahoma State lowering the bar? A dramatic increase in the number of alternative admissions given to student-athletics at the university has caught the attention of officials. Oklahoma State's alternative admissions program "allows a certain percentage (currently 8%) of each new freshman class to attend OSU without meeting all the regular admissions requirements, but who meet minimum criteria and show potential for success," according to the university's website. In 2001-02, athletics accounted for 6.7% of all students enrolled through alternative means. This year, 11.2% of Oklahoma State's alternative admissions were student-athletes. (More about OSU lowering the bar)
University of Oklahoma stance: Alternative admissions standards were a key topic at the Knight Commission's meeting Jan. 22 in Washington D.C. There, Joe Castiglione, athletic director at the University of Oklahoma, told the commission that alternative admissions are a simple reality in college athletics."You cannot compete if you are the only ones not to have special admits," Castiglione said. "It's nothing to run from or make fun of. It's just true. "Transcripts of his presentation show Castiglione told the commission that 25 percent of OU's student-athletes struggle with their classes -- particularly members of the Sooners' football and men's basketball teams. (Daily O'Collegian)
Sooners seek upgrades for sports venues: Tulsa World Labels: Keeping them Honest, Oklahoma Sooners, Stadium
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