Stoops a financial savior for OU
NORMAN — Upon his arrival to Oklahoma 's athletic director post, Joe Castiglione found a mess.
"I had never been involved with a department that had lost money, in my entire career,” he said. "It was foreign to me.”
But that was the scenario in May 1998.
Because he wasn't there, Castiglione can't explain how or why, but the OU athletic department had accrued an estimated $15 million in debt follow...
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