huskeraddict Posted August 4, 2006 Share Posted August 4, 2006 I went to the Big Red Sports/Imports website to see if they had anything clearing them of wrong-doing and this popped up The current ownership of Big Red Sports and Imports, headed by David Hudiburg, took over managment in April of 2006. Since that time, Big Red Sports and Imports has not employed any athletes from the University of Oklahoma. All the current allegations involve conduct under the previous ownership and management. The current ownership has complied with all requests by the University of Oklahoma for information related to this situation.Jeff Atkins, Counsel for Big Red Sports/Imports Check it out for yourself Quote Link to comment
HuskerfaninOkieland Posted August 4, 2006 Share Posted August 4, 2006 I read an interesting tidbit of information today while waiting to get a haircut. It seems AD's dad was just released from a Texas prison and transferred to an OKC halfway house where he took a job with Jackie Cooper automotive (dealer in town) who is also an OU supporter. Additionally, OU will probably not face the "repeat offender" violation because this happened before the OU basketball team was disciplined however the "loss of institutional control" violation is still a possibility. Pretty interesting article in today's Daily Oklahoman: By Berry Tramel The Oklahoman NORMAN - The best part of the 21st-century Oklahoma football Renaissance was not the from-out-of-nowhere emergence by the Stoops Troops. Not the gambling, daredevil tricks that almost always paid off. Not even the sudden surplus of all-stars after OU went more than a decade with barely an all-American. The best part of the Stoops saga was the pristine nature of Sooner football. Oklahoma football has a glorious history. Glorious, but also sordid. Scandal, rule violations, multiple trips to the NCAA hoosegow. Under Stoops, the Sooners not only won, they won the right way. Oklahoma football could hold its head far higher than ever before. Good while it lasted. The Rhett Bomar dismissal is the latest in a string of dubious events that have rocked Sooner athletics. OU’s reputation is retreating; the gains of recent years have been lost. That is no small thing. Don’t get the wrong idea. These aren’t the Deadwood days of 1989. No bullets flying around the Bud House. No huge trials in the Cleveland County Courthouse. No Sooners in orange jumpsuits on the Sports Illustrated cover. But Dusty Dvoracek cracked a skull and Adrian Peterson drove a Lexus he didn’t pay for and now Bomar and J.D. Quinn were ghost workers at Big Red Sports & Imports. The NCAA certainly will parachute in to open a file on Sooner football, and the bloodhounds should know their way around, since they just dropped the hammer on OU basketball. The guilty have been identified. But some accomplices must be named. Bob Stoops and Joe Castiglione have been asleep at the wheel. Stoops and his boss are not to blame for any single discretion. Truth is, they played bad cop with Bomar and acted decisively. Perhaps their terrible swift sword will sober up many a Sooner. But collectively, there can be no question that something is amiss in Soonerville. That standards have gone lax. A spirit of permissiveness - either through lack of oversight, or recruiting the wrong kinds of players, or general boredom - has come back to a program must at all times fight to eradicate the same. “You have no idea how much this distresses me,” said Castiglione. “This is not who we are and what we’re about.” Not so long ago, Joe C. was as good a candidate as any for nation’s best athletic director. That’s a ladder he’ll have to reclimb in the national perception. This is who the Sooners are. A program whose two marquee players now have swam in scandal with the same Norman auto dealer. Peterson escaped trouble - for now - by returning the Lexus. Bomar fell into the pit. Again, Bomar is mostly to blame. He’s a goofball. But I assumed elementary monitoring of summer jobs was standard. Apparently not, lest why would any Sooner be working at Big Red? Football programs and car dealers have had a queasy alliance for more than 50 years; local car dealers have been involved with probations at both OU and OSU in the past. Cars and 20-year-olds are a combustible mix. Diligent compliance would include severing ties with all car dealers, much less one as volatile as Big Red. Anyone who’s been around Norman more than 15 minutes would question Sooner players’ involvement with the previous Big Red management. More from as the Car Lot Turns: Nelson Peterson, Adrian’s father, recently was released from a Texas prison to an Oklahoma City halfway house and landed a job at a Jackie Cooper dealership in Edmond. Jackie Cooper is a past subject of NCAA investigations. The NCAA will find that all very interesting. Get out of the car business, OU, get out now, and every other athletic department in America should follow suit. Coaches like their car deals, but this isn’t 1963; assistants aren’t making $16,000 a year. They are making 10 times that much. Go buy yourself a set of wheels. Stoops joked Thursday of coming to OU in 1999 and finding it difficult to land a car deal for his staff. “I told Joe I was getting ready to walk to work,” Stoops said. Stoops spoke last week how a sense of entitlement has crept into his players. How some of them feel like they deserve status they haven’t earned. Yet there he was Thursday, talking about how it was hard to get a free car before he ever coached a game, and talking about how now, making $2.5 million a year, Ferguson Pontiac/GMC outfits him in a Yukon. Hey, Stoops works hard. Coaches hard. He’s driven to succeed and he has succeeded, and you can make the argument he’s worth his salary. Oklahoma should be glad to have Stoops. But that sense of entitlement might start in the mirror. Both Stoops and Castiglione talked about OU’s high standards and following the rules and how they will not tolerate violations. Which is exactly as it should be. But here’s the question I had for Castiglione. Rhett Bomar broke NCAA rules and was shipped out immediately. Kelvin Sampson broke NCAA rules and was not asked to leave. “Fair question,” Castiglione said. His defense was that by the time the OU basketball case was settled in May, Sampson already had an Indiana address. In defense of Rhett Bomar, let’s point out that his case has not even yet gone to the NCAA. Holding everyone to the same standards would be a good place to start. Bomar was high up the food chain. Sampson was higher. Look, I think Stoops and Joe C. want to do things the right way. But the right way, especially at Oklahoma, especially now, includes due diligence. It means staying on top of the program. It means knowing where Rhett Bomar is working and what Adrian Peterson is driving. It means reviving that spirit that anything short of pristine is unacceptable. Quote Link to comment
HuskerfaninOkieland Posted August 4, 2006 Share Posted August 4, 2006 Oh..on a funny note!!! An OU merchandise store in Norman received about 100 Bomar jerseys (#7) right after Bomar was dismissed from the team. The owner thought he was stuck with em until the next player who wore #7. Instead, a Texas woman bought the jerseys and is going to take them to Austin and resell em...just in time for the Red River Rivalry. I can't wait to see how the Teasip fans modify these jerseys Quote Link to comment
ttheKid1*18 Posted August 4, 2006 Share Posted August 4, 2006 Oh..on a funny note!!! An OU merchandise store in Norman received about 100 Bomar jerseys (#7) right after Bomar was dismissed from the team. The owner thought he was stuck with em until the next player who wore #7. Instead, a Texas woman bought the jerseys and is going to take them to Austin and resell em...just in time for the Red River Rivalry. I can't wait to see how the Teasip fans modify these jerseys That's funny. I wonder if she got a discount. Quote Link to comment
KansasHusker Posted August 4, 2006 Share Posted August 4, 2006 I saw this over on the big 12 espn board and had to bring it over. Quote Link to comment
ttheKid1*18 Posted August 4, 2006 Share Posted August 4, 2006 That was a brutal hit on him. That is one of the hits that makes me happy I just watch football instead of play it. Quote Link to comment
ttheKid1*18 Posted August 4, 2006 Share Posted August 4, 2006 According to 1620 the zone, Texas A&M Commerce wants Bomar to come play for them. They are asking that he is released from his scholarship at OU so they can get him. A&M Commerce is a d2 school just to let you know. Quote Link to comment
Nate Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 How stupid was this whole thing? Rhett Bowmar is a complete idiot, along with everybody that was involved in this whole deal, why not just give him cash under the table unstead of having him in the payroll? 80 bucks an hour, working 5 hours a week, IF THAT!, and getting paid for 40 hour weeks, give me a break. Im proud to be a Husker fan in Oklahoma Watching all the Sooner fans cry over this deal is almost as good as the Huskers winning a National Championship. GBR! Quote Link to comment
HSKRNOKC Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 Bomar will surface somewhere. He has too much talent to not show up again. Quote Link to comment
HuskerfaninOkieland Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 Rumor was, TCU was wanting to talk to him Quote Link to comment
AgMarauder04 Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 Texas A&M Commerce decided not to pursue him Quote Link to comment
HuskerfaninOkieland Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 Probably just a little too much baggage with taking Bomar. I've heard his dad is pretty influential with his son's college career. Would not be surprised if Bomar's dad tried to work a "deal" for his son. Quote Link to comment
AgMarauder04 Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 Oig. Kid is gonna me more trouble than he's worth...hell, he already is. Quote Link to comment
TrueHuskerFan20 Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 I wouldnt be against us letting the kid have another chance!!! Quote Link to comment
ttheKid1*18 Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 He is most likely going to N. Texas. I guess they will take his baggage. Quote Link to comment
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