Donors Opening the NIL Checkbooks for Transfer Portal Players

I've spoken with several people over the last couple of weeks about the expectation for how aggressive OU will be in the transfer portal, and one message I've heard consistently is that OU donors have expressed a much higher level of excitement about paying out a lot of money for transfer portal players who have shown what they can do at the college level.

Based on conversations I've had, it sounds like OU has already been laying the groundwork in some areas and I'm expecting the Sooners coaching staff to push hard for several big-name targets as well as some other very good players that might not be household names just yet.

With the news of Jimbo Fisher's firing being imminent, that is a domino OU has been anticipating for a while now and according to a source both the OU staff and donors are in sync about pursuing some specific targets.

It's about to get very interesting.