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Who's going to pay the Big 12 refs now?

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/11/t-boone-pickens-oracle-of-oil-and-corporate-raider-dies-at-91.html

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/big12/2019/09/11/t-boone-pickens-oklahoma-state-sports-benefactor-dies-91/2289856001/

I don't think I have to explain the title to this post. Over the years, most recently the past 5 years, Oklahoma State has benefited from a slate of bad to arguably hostile calls when their football team has faced off against the University of Texas.

He was a huge philanthropist, including gifts to the Oklahoma State football program so I don't intend this post as a mean spirited rant or insult.

Despite living in Texas, Pickens maintained close ties to his alma mater, donating a total of $525 million to OSU that was nearly equally divided between athletics and academics.

His gift to Oklahoma State athletics is the largest to any university's sports program in collegiate history. Since he provided much of the funding for a 2009 renovation, the Cowboys now play their home football games at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy wrote on Twitter that it would have been difficult for the Cowboys to have climbed as high as they have without Pickens.

You got that right, Mike.

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