OU President Gallogly

[soonerheart]

Ryan Aber


@ryaber

OU President Jim Gallogly says undergraduate student fees will remain flat for next academic year. Says it's the first time in a decade they haven’t risen. #Sooners

[Jersey Boss]

According to multiple sources a toxic atmosphere was not uncommon. People hated it when Molly showed up. In this atmosphere with no pay raises, benefit reductions, turf wars that never seemed to end... people grew biter some left for other jobs or retired. Unless you’re like Rick, living under a rock... it’s not hard to understand why. For many years this was tolerated by OU’s BOR and others who shared Boren’s thoughts. Some were going along to get along yes people and have been fired.

Your reply failed to answer any of the questions I posed.

[soonerheart]

Nice...With this and OU's much improved recruiting and hiring better coaches Riley is going to be at OU for a very long time.

We do need to start seriously considering how we complete the very major stadium improvements to the west and north sides of the stadium.

https://twitter.com/GuerinEmig/statu...52991123128322

If my math is right, here's what Lincoln Riley is getting over terms of new 5-yr deal:
2019 -- $6 million
2020 -- $6.15 mil
2021 -- $7.3 mil
2022 -- $7.45 mil
2023 -- $7.6 mil

[Pete]

Clay Bennet just resigned from the OU Board of Regents due to health reasons.

If you've seen recent photos of him, he looks very gaunt.

[soonerheart]

You should see him in person....the photos don’t do his situation justice. This shouldn’t be a shock
The man needs our thoughts and prayers

[hoya]

Clay Bennet just resigned from the OU Board of Regents due to health reasons.

If you've seen recent photos of him, he looks very gaunt.

I just Googled him. Crap, he looks like he's got one foot in the grave. That sucks.

[soonerheart]

https://twitter.com/CareyAMurdock/st...20091162357762

Was told earlier tonight that Clay Bennett didn't step down as the Chairman of the University of Oklahoma's Board of Regents because his health is degenerating. Just that he's battled issues and was comfortable stepping away now. So no need for panic that things are dire.

[FighttheGoodFight]

Also interesting note that OU sold 2.4 million dollars worth of land to the City of Norman on Hwy 77. I assume where the senior center is going to go for the city. I found it interesting that OU even owned that land over there.

[PhiAlpha]

Also interesting note that OU sold 2.4 million dollars worth of land to the City of Norman on Hwy 77. I assume where the senior center is going to go for the city. I found it interesting that OU even owned that land over there.

You’d be surprised where all universities own surface land and minerals. Not sure if the history on this parcel (probably a university purchase) but schools often get real property donations sometimes they are willed the properties and other times just outright donated.

[soonerheart]

The land is supposedly next to the YMCA. OU still owns a significant amount of land in the area near the airport.
The airport was used as a WWII training base. Once the Navy decided they no longer needed this base the land and buildings were donated to OU.
FYI: Clay Bennett has been battling cancer for the last several years.

[Jersey Boss]

This deal was supposed to happen last year when there were simultaneous discussions about a new arena to be built in the UNP area. After the failure of the arena deal OU quit talking about the land sale on North Base. Interesting coincidence that the same day Bennett resigned from the BoR for health reasons OU made the sale of North Base lands to the City of Norman.
https://www.normantranscript.com/new...1d0c00cc2.html

[Rover]

https://twitter.com/CareyAMurdock/st...20091162357762

Was told earlier tonight that Clay Bennett didn't step down as the Chairman of the University of Oklahoma's Board of Regents because his health is degenerating. Just that he's battled issues and was comfortable stepping away now. So no need for panic that things are dire.

That's an interesting spin.

[FighttheGoodFight]

That's an interesting spin.

I think it is health reasons. At least that is the quote from the new Chair.

https://twitter.com/jordanrmillerr/s...37815699292166

"Chairman Bennett has resigned from the board, effective immediately due to health reasons, acting chairman Leslie J. Rainbolt-Forbes says."

[Pete]

Bennett has a big scar on the side of his head, has lost most his hair and dropped a bunch of weight.

Having gone through this with a loved one, I'm all too familiar with the unmistakable signs of serious brain cancer.

[soonerheart]

https://www.tulsaworld.com/news/stat...1e1617f44.html
OKLAHOMA CITY —
Meeting at the OU Health Sciences Center, four of the five regents present took turns speaking in support of Gallogly.
The fifth regent, Phil Albert of Claremore, said afterward that he agreed with the others. “Don’t take my silence to be any less supportive of what the other regents said,” Albert said.
Gov. Kevin Stitt will appoint a replacement for Bennett.

[Pete]

^

It's the same exact group that selected him.

[soonerheart]

^
Yes it is and they all unanimously voted to make Gallogly OU president.

With this report from the media its confirmation of other post in recent days that had indicated the OU BOR was still supporting Gallogly.

You can bet your very last dollar that Governor Kevin Stitt appoints OU BOR members who are just as willing to support Gallogly or a person much like him for OU’s president over the next 8 years.

For at least a generation it will be the same basic situation with any republican governor who is elected in our state. This is in part due to the situation that Boren left OU in but also the dem’s swing to the very hard left... This makes it virtually impossible to see a Dem governor appointing regents in this state for a very long time.

IDK many details but the same basic situation is supposedly occurring in other states.

[Pete]

History is filled with incidences of lots of public support by superiors quickly followed by them dropping the ax.

Not saying that is going to happen here, but when a group feels compelled to restate their support for someone they just hired few would regard that as a positive.

[Rover]

History is filled with incidences of lots of public support by superiors quickly followed by them dropping the ax.

Not saying that is going to happen here, but when a group feels compelled to restate their support for someone they just hired few would regard that as a positive.

This BOR is in lock-step politically and Gallogly is of the same ilk. Diversity of opinion is not in their vocabulary.

[soonerheart]

History is filled with incidences of lots of public support by superiors quickly followed by them dropping the ax.

Not saying that is going to happen here, but when a group feels compelled to restate their support for someone they just hired few would regard that as a positive.

The show of support the OU BOR is very genuine. It would be a mistake to think that it’s anything else, or that it changes. They and others of note have been reaffirming their support in other settings.

By one report OU leaders are learning things they did not know about OU almost every day that had been hidden from them either by design or by incompetence under Boren.

The BOR, much of OU business community and a significant percentage of the states elected leadership knows that OU stands at a cross roads but they also know that OU has a very real opportunity to advance its self securely into the AAU... if OU will continue on the present path with the needed changes and take full advantage of all opportunities that advance OU.

One of those opportunities is the Oklahoma’s Simpson Group that’s magnitude is just now starting to be understood... (There are also similar out of state opportunities that can benefit OU interest)

The leadership knows there is nobody in the world who is better qualified to find benefits for OU in this huge (dollar) opportunity than Jim Gallogly. This is a transformative historical opportunity for OU and our state... if we handle our resources efficiently. OU and our state cannot reach its full potential by wasting resources that have very low rates of return to OU and the state.

OU leadership at virtually every level will not let a very small number of loud Gallogly critics who they know are almost entirely coming from the extreme left, mostly driven by ideology, instead of what is best for OU block the changes, the goals and opportunities that can help make OU a truly great university.

Many OU people did not like how Boren handled several issues and programs at OU. Until his last few years most people were not that critical. I don’t believe anyone wanted to see Boren fail like we see a small number of people (in the grand scheme of things) so invested in wanting to see Gallogly fail.

As L. Rainbolt Forbes (a democrat) said it's time to move on... IMHO as an OU person you’re either on board with the goal that makes OU one of the best public universities in the nation... or you are not! There is no in-between!

As Bob Stoops indicated many times there is a season, time and place for everything...This is the time and place for the abilities of Jim Gallogly...In another 5 to 7 years OU will be in a much stronger position and Gallogly will likely be ready to see the job of OU’s president handed to someone else.

[Rover]

LOL. Soonerheart = Sarah Sanders.

Next to come ... God wanted Gallogly at OU

[hoya]

This BOR is in lock-step politically and Gallogly is of the same ilk. Diversity of opinion is not in their vocabulary.

As I said above, I think Boren pissed some people off and Gallogly was hired to come in and be a hatchetman. I think there's a lot of anger over how ultra-liberal a lot of other universities have become, and Boren was seen as sympathetic to those positions.

Now maybe Gallogly's "bull in a china shop" approach is exactly what they wanted, but I don't think it's in OU's best interest as an institution.

[checkthat]

As I said above, I think Boren pissed some people off and Gallogly was hired to come in and be a hatchetman. I think there's a lot of anger over how ultra-liberal a lot of other universities have become, and Boren was seen as sympathetic to those positions.

Now maybe Gallogly's "bull in a china shop" approach is exactly what they wanted, but I don't think it's in OU's best interest as an institution.

Wasn't Boren more of a blue dog Democrat?

Could you provide some examples of other universities becoming "ultra-liberal" or taking a "very hard slant to the extreme political left?"

What "extreme leftist policies" were Boren sympathetic to? Did he advocate for no tuition and free housing for everyone on campus or something similar?

[Jersey Boss]

Wasn't Boren more of a blue dog Democrat?

Could you provide some examples of other universities becoming "ultra-liberal" or taking a "very hard slant to the extreme political left?"

What "extreme leftist policies" were Boren sympathetic to? Did he advocate for no tuition and free housing for everyone on campus or something similar?

A real wild eyed lefty while in the Senate
https://newsok.com/article/2215425/b...s-conservative

[mugofbeer]

Wasn't Boren more of a blue dog Democrat?

Could you provide some examples of other universities becoming "ultra-liberal" or taking a "very hard slant to the extreme political left?"

What "extreme leftist policies" were Boren sympathetic to? Did he advocate for no tuition and free housing for everyone on campus or something similar?

He was definitely a southern Democrat and voted for things, like tax cuts and SCOTUS nominee Robert Bork, that would have excommunicated him from the party today.