OSU,  as a university,  embraces and practices diversity.  The problem is that the football talent across the country has not.  Hard to attract football talent to a state where the center of population can't count much more than 50,000 of its almost two million as  African American.  For a black kid,  "there is no there,  there."  And then hire a coach from Mormon country with its history of inclusiveness.  Good luck.  Count the white kids in Division I NCAA top 25 teams.   And then tell me how many kids with football talent want to become farmers,  engineers,  foresters,  nuclear physicists,  chemical engineers,  software designers and code writers.   You go to Oregon to be a sports reporter,  a tv personality,  a psychologist,  to get a BA in liberal arts.  

OSU is not going to be a football power and the Riley years were an anomaly.  Live with  what it is,  what it will be,  what it will always be:  bourgeoise middle class married people with hands in the dirt, the factory,  a lab.