[NU Sports] What's in a million? (fwd)

[Roy Lamberton]

Barry's downfall was a long list of marginal recruiting violations and the loss
of that recruiting system that found great running backs in small towns in East
Texas.

The scandal with Larry Lacewell's wife led to the loss of his recruiting
coordinator, right about the time I was working at KGOU in Norman. This was back
when most folks didn't have a full time RC - Barry, at OU did.

Anyway, Barry committed the cardinal sin at OU - he lost too many games, and was
stuck in a formation that folks finally figured out how to defend and that
tailbacks didn't want to run in. 

You see Barry's wishbone required tailbacks to really block when they were the
other deep back in the 'bone, and it actually required more than one top
tailback or the whole thing broke down. 

Anyway, another OU joke, 3 OU linemen were out in the woods when a naked women
jumped out of the bushes and yell, "I'm game."

So they shot her.

Go Cats

rsl

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Roy S. Lamberton - Senior Associate
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and Publisher of Purple Reign, 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com 
> [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of Mike Nolan
> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 1:21 AM
> To: nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com
> Subject: RE: [NU Sports] What's in a million? (fwd)
> 
> 
> > If that is the case, a coach can live very comfortably on 
> > $250,000-300,000 of that gross with well over half a 
> million sheltered 
> > in various other projects. FWIW - Barry Switzer didn't need to do 
> > anything, ever again after he left Oklahoma, but the call 
> of the NFL 
> > and the chance to win a Super Bowl was just too strong.
> 
> As I recall, Barry Switzer was made a partner in a number of 
> oil ventures with OU alum, I think the tax problems those 
> created helped lead to his 
> departure at OU, but as a very rich oil person, far more than 
> what he got 
> from OU or the shoe contracts.  (I think one of those 
> partners was his 
> employer-to-be at Dallas, Jerry Jones.  In fact, weren't they 
> roommates 
> or frat brothers in college?)
> 
> Yeah, Barry's driven by that call.
> 
> He is also one of the funniest public speakers I've ever 
> seen, he's WORTH 
> his fee!  Here's a joke he told in Nebraska once, about a 
> year before he 
> resigned at OU:
> 
> OU had an off week, and the team was kind of beat up, so I 
> gave them a weekend off.  Two linemen decided to go hunting 
> for bear, having been told 
> that bear hunting was one of the most exciting and 
> challenging of sports.
> 
> So they flew up to Montana, bought some rifles, rented a car, 
> and drove off 
> into the woods.  They saw a sign that read "Bear Left".   So 
> they went home.
> --
> Mike Nolan
> 
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