Most days, Texas Tech football fans don’t spend all that much time fretting over the price of oil (unless of course you are employed in the oil and gas industry). But now that a number of geopolitical events have begun to portend the twilight of the nation’s most prosperous and longest oil boom we’ve seen in our lifetimes if ever, all Tech football fans should know that it could put a damper on the program’s long-term plans.
Make no mistake, college football is a money game. It takes hundreds of millions of dollars to keep pace in the modern-day arms race that universities are engaged in as success on the field almost always comes as a result of what can be found outside of the stadium.