well, for years....
Posted on: July 16, 2024 at 10:52:47 CT
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...teams like Okie, Texas and 'Bama (see the Albert Means scandal, among others) paid up under the table on a scale others were unable to do and avoid the "death penalty".
So cries for an "even playing field" seem out of place.
Oklahoma, for example, can trace each of its three best timeframes to have occurred with clear cheating of this nature - Bud Wilkinson had multiple major violations with his slush fund, and retired when he couldn't get away with it anymore; Switzer ran anything but a clean program, and Stoops had a bunch of no-show jobs with car dealers and more (see the Big Red Sports and Imports scandal, etc.).
In between, Oklahoma football was pretty pedestrian (most of the 1960s, most of the 1990s, etc.)