Bill Haisten

Tulsa World Sports Columnist

It was a roll of the dice, taking important donors and university personnel to the Pacific Northwest for the Oklahoma State-Oregon football disaster.

Had the Cowboys played well in a close loss, or played extremely well in an upset victory, this exercise would have been regarded as having been strategically brilliant.

Instead, there was a 69-3 Cowboy loss, and now there are these questions.

Might such a demoralizing outcome have a pronounced and possibly disastrous effect on athletics fund-raising?

Has Cowboy athletic director Chad Weiberg been working without a contract for two months because he won’t receive a new contract?

Among donors, does a head-coaching change feel (A) possible, (B) likely or (C) certain?

From conversations with info

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