I came across an article in a New Yorker magazine about the teachers' strike in Oklahoma. What a dismal failure from the strikers' point of view.
Apparently the Oklahoma Lege has starved their public schools, reducing funding over the last several decades as costs (of course) climbed. Okie public schools have reached the point where several districts only operate 4 days a week, to reduce utility expense. Several teachers were interviewed, and the teachers pointed out that Oklahoma teachers' salaries are seriously lower than Texas, and even Arkansas, teachers'. One interviewee was a former administrator in a middle school. He and his teacher wife relocated to Duncanville, and their combined salaries are about $40,000 more. Both are teachers in Duncanville; neither is earning an administrator's salary.
The point is-- when will financial pressure make a difference at OkSU? I know that defunding the athletic department there is not like defunding the English department. It likely isn't at any B12 school.
But t-bone can't (or probably wouldn't even if he could) completely float OkSU. It's hard to imagine OkSU covering its nut with tuition receipts as many if not most all private schools do.
So--- what happens to Gundy's program and the rest of OkSU's athletic department if the school itself hits really, really hard times?