Quote Originally Posted by SEMIweather View Post
GIA is a classic example of expanding too much. Extremely difficult to ever sell that place out. For that matter, when OU finally gets around to renovating or replacing the LNC, I would hope they reduce capacity to 10k or less.
I was in school there during the second run up for Eddie. My first year hardly any of those guys from the final four team were there, except McFarlin. They finished 4th in the big 12 that year, and each and every home game the student section was packed, even mid week against a nobody. Weekends were always full. And any game against, OU, Texas, Kansas and Missouri, didn't matter what day or what time it was. Only slow times I saw was Winter break, where the schedule is also a bit light with only a couple of home games.

So it can be done. They have just had such an underwhelming run for well over a decade now. Even with all the talent in the world Ford could muster up, it hasn't made a difference. Over history, OSU has only really had two good coaches. Frankly, OSU is not a basketball school. Two coaches just defied the odds. It literally took two of the greatest coaches the NCAA has ever seen to get OSU to the power house level. Right now it's a stepping stone (Brad Underwood for example) if they can muster some success.

I say all this as a fan and allum. It is what it is.