Tulsa Public Schools has a football problem, and Eric McCurdy said it plainly: “We have to get better in football.” The district’s varsity teams finished the regular season 20-70 overall and 5-56 in district play, a record that left five teams winless in district games.
That is why the question around Jason Garrett is landing now. McCurdy’s warning comes as Tulsa Public Schools is spending a combined $768,568 on nine varsity head football coaches during the 2026-27 fiscal year, a sizable payroll for a program that produced so few wins.
The numbers point to more than one bad season. They describe a district-wide football struggle, with results spread across varsity programs rather than tied to a single team or a single coach. Tulsa Public Schools has not identified the individual head coaches or the schools involved, and McCurdy did not lay out a detailed fix when he said the district must improve.
That leaves the next step unclear, but the message is not: Tulsa Public Schools is being pushed to turn a large coaching investment into better football, and McCurdy is now the person accountable for making that happen.
