After 15 years atop the program, leading it back from the depressing drought of the 1990s to its rightful place among college football’s biggest winners, Stoops had earned it. Of course the regents approved the project. Plans were drawn up to improve the seating in the south end zone while at the same time adding a state-of-the-art, $160-million shrine to Oklahoma football history where Bob Stoops and his players could do their work with only the finest accommodation.Īll of this had been put into motion years before anyone knew Lincoln Riley’s name. The stadium, nicknamed the “Palace on the Prairie,” was in need of an upgrade. The school had to invest in it, and, in the boom-or-bust economy of the Sooner State, that meant drilling for donations while the getting was good. Their beloved football program didn’t just spring up out of the dusty plains winning championships. The price of oil was showing strength at over $100 per barrel, which created a hopeful mood as the University of Oklahoma board of regents met in June 2014.
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