re: Your preseason Top 10?

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You do realize OU has 3x the budget for athletics arkansas does right? Revenue is like double for football. Also the expansion was split into two phases so the stadium would be half done for the tOSU game. The other side is being done next year and both will equate to the originally quoted 300 million.

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3x's the budget eh? Here is what I know...When Arkansas wants to build something, it gets built with a quickness. The state of Oklahoma is in a budget crisis as we speak. Oil is low, which is what they all blame it on. Oklahoma has old, run down facilities across the board. Oklahoma State has nicer facilities than OU, in fact.

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Those plans, which also called for a renovation of the west side upper deck of the stadium in a different phase, had to be scaled back in large part due to sagging oil prices.

“In one week, when half the net worth of our major donors was wiped out by the fallen oil prices,” OU President David Boren said of when he started realizing there could be a problem. “You know you are sitting there and someone is worth so many million dollars and three days later, they are worth half that — that’s exactly what happened to a lot of our major donors and supporters. Also, then you look at what it does to the rest of the economy, what it does to the rest of the university. So we had to take that into account immediately.”

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