OT: Sooners Basketball Considering Relocation From Norman

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Per the OU Daily. No, this isn’t an April Fools joke.

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Ridiculous, these schools are getting more greedy than pro teams.

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Lol they see what UH has in NIL potential and wants the same. Nope. Stay out of the metro areas OU.

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Well Norman is in the metro of Oklahoma City. It’s built up all the way from Norman to OKC.

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For reference, if OKC was downtown Houston Norman would be about where Alvin is.

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Just play some games at the Thunder Dome.

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Any excuse to leave Norman is a valid one.

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Alvin is 31 miles from downtown Houston and Norman is 20 miles from OKC downtown.

It’s more like HWY 6 and I-10 to downtown which is still in the city of Houston.

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Just drove through OKC/Norman on the way back from Nebraska, and it’s totally developed between the two. In Houston terms, Norman wouldn’t even be a suburb, just a different part of town.

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Its Oklahoma, 20 miles seems like 31 Texas miles its so boring.

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Prediction: If they do this, they will move back.

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You ever driven from Downtown Houston to Louisiana border! The worst . :nauseated_face:

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You mean going through Boremont and Vidor isn’t exciting enough?

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Horrific. My aplogies, but just not into the whole refineries, industrial look mile after mile.

Ooops i forgot abt the 397 Convenience stores along the way.

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second, i went to both ou and osu a few years ago while in oklahoma city, ou may have been sepreate 25 years ago, its a suburb now.

i can’t blame ou for this college sports is all about the money more than ever before and that’s going to increase as long as people line up to pay.

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Was born in Port Arthur, grew up in Groves (shout out to my PN-G boys who won the state title this year!), and I can confirm that it is most unpleasant to be surrounded by refineries, and all the pollution, all the time, on all sides. I won’t even get into the very high rates of cancer in the area. I escaped to UH as soon as I could! I used to joke with people that I moved to Houston for the clean air- only it’s not a joke. As the saying goes, the Golden Triangle is a good place to be from. And goodness, the drive from Houston to Beaumont is hideous, for too many reasons to list here.

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