re: How long before A@M goes on death penalty

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Since OU didn’t get the death penalty handing out Corvettes and tens of thousands of dollars to Brian Bosworth, et al., 1984-1986, under Switzer, not likely legal NIL deals will be infractions.

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It was worse than that though. OU in the 80s was easily the greatest example of lack of institutional control I have ever seen. The University goaltended for a bunch of felons. It was easily the most deserving of the death penalty of almost any program before or since.


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There is another Sooner legacy, however a legacy that fans would rather forget.

That legacy is one of rape, robbery, assault, manslaughter, racketeering and cocaine trafficking.

The darker side of OU football was brought all too close to home recently when three incidents rocked the program. Cornerback Jerry Parks was charged with shooting a teammate; football players Nigel Clay, Bernard Hall and Glenn Bell were charged with gang rape; and star quarterback Charles Thompson was charged with selling cocaine.

In 1982, two OU alumni, halfback David Overstreet and Outland Trophy winner Greg Roberts, were charged with raping a 22-year-old student in a Norman motel room.

The woman later dropped the charges, telling prosecutors she had received numerous harassing telephone calls concerning the incident.

Two years later, Overstreet died in a high-speed crash near his East Texas hometown. Authorities said he was intoxicated.

Roberts was arrested in 1987 in Tampa, Fla., on racketeering and cocaine trafficking charges. Authorities who raided his home said Roberts kept a loaded shotgun in his bed, two loaded pistols at the headboard, an automatic pistol in his car and a fused pipe bomb hidden in a baby carriage in his garage.

Waymon Clark was a full-fledged star at OU in 1973 when the junior fullback gained 1,014 yards on 209 carries and scored six touchdowns.

In May 1974, Clark was arrested on the H.E. Bailey Turnpike and charged with speeding and driving under the influence. He forfeited his $365 bond.

The following month, he was charged with a misdemeanor in an alleged assault on an East Texas State University maintenance man.

Two months later, he ordered a piece of weather-stripping from a Norman car parts shop and walked off without paying for it. He returned a couple of hours later and paid the $4.50 bill, but was dismissed from the OU football team for "disciplinary reasons" that afternoon.

In 1975, Clark was arrested in Texas and accused of raping two women in the University of Texas area. After spending a year in the Rusk State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, Clark was found innocent of five burglary and rape charges by reason of insanity.

The list of troubled Sooners goes on and on.

Former OU football player Stanley Wilson of the Cincinnati Bengals was one day away from playing in the Super Bowl earlier this year.

Instead, he got high. Wilson's cocaine problem was so severe that he went through three suspensions and five rehabilitations, prompting one writer to refer to him as the "NFL's world champion drug recidivist."

Tony Peters, former OU defensive back and Washington Redskins star, was arrested for conspiracy to distribute cocaine in 1983. A judge sentenced him to probation, fined him $10,000 and ordered him to perform 500 hours of community service.

Steve "Dr. Death" Williams, a former OU all-conference lineman turned professional wrestler, was arrested by U.S. Customs agents while attempting to board a flight to Tokyo in January 1988. Customs inspectors reported finding three grams of cocaine in his pants pocket, 22 grams of marijuana in his sock and two grams of psilocybin mushrooms and assorted barbiturates in a black purse. In his luggage, agents said they found more barbiturates and marijuana, 241 steroid tablets and 28 milliliters of a liquid steroid. A federal charge of attempting to export cocaine was filed, but later dismissed.

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That is less than half of what is mentioned in that article. Still stunning to this day.

I remember us thinking the illegal payments to Rhett Bomar during the Stoops regime were so innocent by comparison.

NCAA exists In name only.

I’m guessing OU might beat a top ranked SEC team first. So since that one’s not happening anytime soon. I guess the answer to both is neither.

Are their machine guns in the athletic dorms like during the Switzerland years? Is that what you allege?

OU has cheated for generations.! That is the only way they recruited anyone to that god-forsaken wasteland known as Oklahoma.

Does the NCAA even dole that out anymore? Has it ever happened to any school other than Southern Methodist?

@ is not used like you think it is

Death penalty for what?

Poor chokelahoma. Can't afford a good team at today's prices and can't afford to buy their way out of the BDF. Little brother tu won't loan you the money, coach got tired of not getting paid and QB's are moving on to greener pastures.

Y'all still sure you want to join the SEC?

You have to be an extra level of stupid, then have half your brains blown out, to get the death penalty in this environment.