OU and Texas’ imminent departure from the Big 12 to the SEC, announced last year in a bombshell that has tipped the scales on the power structure within college athletics and set off a reckoning of realignment, was nothing more than a move for money, Mike Gundy said in an ESPN interview that published on Monday.
“Let’s just cut to the chase. They made a choice to financially secure their athletic departments for the next 12 to 15 years,” Gundy said via ESPN. “People can talk about all the reasons, but that’s why they did it, all for the money, and took a lot of history out of this league and a lot of history out of college football with them.