Think nut was just poking a bit.. if you read his posts, he likes to do that. He also is quick to offer advice or help if it's needed.
I wouldn't expect the school to pony up money for fishing. Despite what we may think....fishing is pretty small potatoes in the grand scheme of college programs.
I'd encourage my kids to concentrate on grades and then finance their own activities after they graduate and get a good job. Jmo.

T54...... NO ! The OU team does not have a big maroon & white boat provided by alumni !!!
They have a big "RED & WHITE" Schooner bass boats (3) provided by: 1.) themselves 2.) Alumni 3.) OU Athletic Department
"RED & WHITE" ,,,,,, since those are the school colors ....... no maroon in Norman Oklahoma.

Don't get me wrong,,,, we do not mind maroon,, especially like A&M when they were playing UT and beating them in football.
I am certainly glad some folks stepped up and helped these guys out. Fishing 1st ...... School affiliation 2nd.
BUT,,,,,,,,I still have 2 words for ya:
"BOOMER SOONER"

heres a concept since the school should not be funding a boat for outside interest the folks that want to do this if is that big of a deal to them get together an do some work to fund it. college is supposed to be for learning an getting ready for the future life of work to sustain your ambitions. next folks that go to college will want the taxpayers to give them a new truck an boat so they will be happy.

WOW ! Really ? "the school should not be funding a boat"
Then why are they the "UT Bass Fishing Team". Why would they have UT colors flying and wear UT clothing ?
if they had to do "fund raising" for their boat then why wouldn't it just be their boat.
They are going to "College Fishing Tournaments" under the UT banner. ......... seems to me to be a good enough reason for UT or UT Alumni to step up. This is for any College or University not just UT.
Anytime a student athlete competes/represents for their school they should be supported in some shape form or fashion.

I agree with Nuts. The department I work in considers our college fishing team as an advertisment and recruitment tool and that more than justifies covering travel expenses to some major tournaments. We're not large enough to be able to fund a boat but for schools with large advertising budgets, a one-time purchase of even a lightly used boat wrapped in eye catching colors out and about every weekend wouldn't be a difficult pitch to make.

To the original poster, hope you guys get squared away. Nothing worse than boat troubles at the last minute.

+1.. you wouldn't think bass fisherman would be so eager to put young competition anglers down. Why is it so hard to believe that college kids don't have the means to get a tournament ready boat at the drop of a hat. (Just so you know, I'm a USC fan and 2006 still stings.) But college loyalties aside, I hope you guys get out there and whack em. I'm sure there's a demo boat SOMEWHERE in Texas with a dealer wrap that the shop wouldn't mind having their logo on national tv.

I went to OU, give me your boat and your rods.

I would hit up Lunkers TV on his offer, he is a UT supporter and has a nice Skeeter. You can message him here or find him on youtube.

I would also post on Orangebloods, the yahoo rivals forum, I can guarantee you that you will have luck there.

UT did not feel the same way when I was there and we were getting the team going. We weren't even allowed to use their trademarks (font for TEXAS, longhorn logo, etc) on our jerseys or website.

I was the president of the Water Ski Team at Texas Tech while I was there. We were able to get a sponsorship from a local dealer that would basically give us a boat for cost. We would use it for one year then turn around and re-sale it and buy another new boat. We had a new boat every year since we had a pretty good down payment from the last years boat. It takes a lot of work and responsibility but it would be easy to get a dealership to help with this if your team can present itself well.

Wonder why the original poster has not responded to the offers? I would think he would return often if it was important for them to get a boat. Maybe they got one already?

Hope so.

Was wondering the same thing, if you look them up on Facebook they mention Marine outlet several times thanking them for the loaner boat they used a few times the last month or so.

Hopefully the boat is not like the football team, a sinking ship.

good ole TU support!




gig'em