BPS Converts from Football Stadium to Concert Venue for Boys of Oklahoma

Thanks to Dr. Shrum, Mr. Shrum, Chad Weiberg and Kyle Waters for your visionary and action oriented leadership knowing that major college athletics, especially football that generates the $$$, has drastically changed and requires big money to compete. It is too bad the OSU supposed "elite alumni leaders", with political power and wealth, seem to not get it and put pettiness in front of OSU's future. May their time in those roles end soon so OSU is not competing in the MVC. GO POKES!!!

TUSKAPOKE said:

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Thanks to Dr. Shrum, Mr. Shrum, Chad Weiberg and Kyle Waters for your visionary and action oriented leadership knowing that major college athletics, especially football that generates the $$$, has drastically changed and requires big money to compete. It is too bad the OSU supposed "elite alumni leaders", with political power and wealth, seem to not get it and put pettiness in front of OSU's future. May their time in those roles end soon so OSU is not competing in the MVC. GO POKES!!!

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Yes, very visionary leadership as it is estimated $3.5 to $4 million will be designated for NIL purposes which is big for the Athletic Department!!!

There is an interesting opinion piece in the Oklahoman today about our illustrious BoR and their excessive spending on meetings that could go for better uses...

"OSU regents shouldn't live high on the hog while serving the public interest | Opinion
Our regents are doing nothing to curtail the expectation that presidents and schools must pay dearly for board members to attend obscenely expensive junkets and entertain them while they're doing the

Janelle Stecklein
Guest columnist/Oklahoma Voice"

.....Maybe it is time there was an "external" audit of their activities. I contacted the State Auditor and they are not allowed by statute to do audits of the OSU BoR activities. "Isn't that special!"....as the Church Lady would say.

A few items noted in the article:
* $69,000 for 13 meetings
* $11,000 for mileage
* Article mentions lavish meals when they meet as 1 in 5 OSU students are food insecure but a recent OSU survey indicated it was more like 50%.....
* All the schools they "lead" have increased tuition.
* Open bars at meetings with "Night Cap Socials" with "Whiskey Tastings" paid for by the OSU Foundation???
* Article mentions these meetings wracking up $50,000 in catering costs and fresh flowers....

All are appointed by Gov. Stitt as the state looks to reduce state services and save tax funds. Seems to me this smells like a load of sanctimony ..."Do as we say not as we do!"....

These activities are the norm, not the exception.

I'm just shocked that folks would take exception to executives being compensated for their time and expenses.

These amounts are not even outlandish.

They don't get paid, but yet they are apparently expected to foot their own bills for providing service to the system. That is the crazy part, the expectations of the onlookers (if you will).

The system that I am most familiar with do something similar, but they also get paid a small stipend per meeting, and alcohol is provided through donations managed by the Foundation (donated for that purpose).

While I was at OSU in the late 70's I was the bartender for the board meetings. Free open bar, and quite a few of them wanted very heavy pours. (go figure).