Who Owns Tulsa's Portal House?

Hello and welcome to FOIAball 2026, where we are giving you the only thing we can: More FOIAball.

We’re here early with a fun little short story because we missed you last week. Then you’ll see us later in the week (tomorrow?) with the launch of FOIAbites. And also, hopefully, our usual Thursday feature. It’s a lot. So strap in.

Who won this year’s transfer portal? I don’t know. Texas Tech, probably, bringing in Brendan Sorsby. We here at FOIAball do not profess to know ball.

We much prefer the circus around the sport. And this transfer portal, our inaugural Three Ring Award goes to the University of Tulsa. The Golden Hurricanes opened the sport’s first-ever portal hype house, where the team’s top brass is living Real World-style for two weeks, trying to entice transfers through a 24/7 social media stunt.

The school’s coach, GM, and both coordinators will all be staying in a local Airbnb, turning their recruitment efforts into endless content and, hopefully, top-tier talent.

Tulsa, alas, is a private university. So FOIAball can’t just ask for invoices to see how much the whole deal cost.

But records requesting isn’t our only skill. We still remember how to do some other forms of journalism. It only took us a few minutes to track down the listing, which reveals the two-week stay will cost the team about $17,000. (And which, we later learned, had already been sussed out by The Athletic’s David Ubben.)

The house Tulsa picked is the exemplar of Zillennial group vacation bait—every nook and cranny an Instagram opportunity—with a pool, a putt-putt course, an oversized chess set, an arcade, a karaoke room, and a fire pit.

You can check out the listing here.

And because why not, we DMed the owner, Jonathan, through the site to see if he’d be willing to chat. To our surprise, he was.

Here is our conversation, which has been lightly edited for clarity.