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[Norm Peterson]

I wanted to take a brief respite from the current angst over players leaving/recruits coming in that's affecting both the men's and women's teams right now and recall one of the most amazing threads I've ever seen on any message board anywhere.  And this year is actually the 10th anniversary of the story, so it's timely in that sense. 

 

I'm doing this from memory so details might be slightly off here and there; however, to the best of my recollection, it went down something like this:

 

Fellow signs up for a new account (1st red flag) on the Texas Longhorn message board (2nd red flag if you know anything about that board) to announce he is a Texas A&M fan (3rd red flag) who lives in Norman, Oklahoma. (4th red flag). 

 

Supposedly, his girlfriend (5th red flag) worked for a car dealership in Norman (sure she did) that was owned by a major booster (aren't they all? 6th red flag) and that the OU starting QB whose name he was unsure of (7th red flag) was getting paid to work there but wasn't doing any actual work.

 

And the brand new poster wanted to know if anyone else had heard about this and whether it was a violation of NCAA rules (8th red flag.)

 

 

Nearly everybody in that thread -- and it was a long thread -- called bullshit on this poor chap.  Nice first post.  Why are you coming here to talk about OU?  If you really had this info, you'd be doing something else with it.  Sure, you don't know if this is an NCAA violation.  Riiiight.  Never seen such a troll try to pull something like this.  You think we're going to fall for this bullshit?

 

Wait, wut?

 

A few months later, August 2006, it's announced Bomar won't be returning to the team.  OU admits 2 players have been dismissed for violating NCAA rules but won't say who (Bomar.)

 

As it turns out, it was all true: Rhett Bomar really was being paid by the booster-owners of Big Red Auto for work that he didn't actually perform.

 

Amazing.  First time posters who seem like they're trolling ... sometimes aren't.

[Navin R. Johnson]

Understand I like to know the inside poop as much as anyone and being a fan I think they owe that to us up to a point, but with that being said I think the message board thing might be getting a little out of hand at times.  I think there are things that we just don't need to know and might be better off if we did not.  Social Media has changed things, but not necessarily for the better.  If you think of it in context of your job, there is stuff, truth or not, that you might not want floating around. There could be some fond memories of our favorite athletes tarnished if we had this technology years ago.

[AuroranHusker]

I recall that it was Rhett Bomar and one other player (but I can not remember his name... I looked it up: J.D. Quinn). Both "worked" at Big Red Sports. Yeah, they put in time, all right. On the gridiron but not on the sales floor.

 

Texags got the scoop back then, and now there is a TMZsports. Gahhh.

[Norm Peterson]

Another of the amazing threads I've gone through was the one where that poor, unfortunate lady from Iowa got drunk at an Iowa-Minnesota football game, wandered into a men's room, and had some dude start getting busy with her in one of the stalls until security were summoned and arrived. 

 

Leave it to the Hawkeye faithful to figure out her name, track her down on social media and start posting pictures of her and debating whether they'd "hit it" or not.

[49r]

That Minnesota - Iowa rivalry is Legen (wait for it...)  DAIRY!  GET IT??  DAIRY!!!  HAAA HAHAHA  You know because there's lots of dairy farms in Iowa and Minnesota???

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

...it's okay, I'll show myself out...

[AuroranHusker]

OH, MY!