Looks like the odds are leaning toward Jim Knowles (Ohio St and former OSU DC) being the next DC at OU. Big time hire if they can close the deal.
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Looks like the odds are leaning toward Jim Knowles (Ohio St and former OSU DC) being the next DC at OU. Big time hire if they can close the deal.
I will believe it when I see it... it's a long shot that doesn't make sense on many levels, but I'll gladly take it, if it happens!Quote:
Originally Posted by PhiAlpha
Makes a lot of sense if he wants to come back to OK for his fiancé, still wants a high paying job with a blue blood program and Brent really wants to concentrate on being the HC. But outside of that, yeah it seems like an expensive overkill solution. Definitely down for it though.Quote:
Originally Posted by bamarsha
Probably a leverage play to get a raise from tOSU.Quote:
Originally Posted by bamarsha
I don't see BV relinguishing control of the D.
I guess the fiance and Oklahoma lost out to returning home.
Report: Sooners defensive coordinator target Jim Knowles accepts job at Penn State
Report: Sooners defensive coordinator target Jim Knowles accepts job at Penn State https://search.app/BSXy8yzakfWRiWFP6
Porter has to go. Completely inexcusable loss.
I’ve seen this posted a few times on social media from folks as well. I didn’t watch the game but 7 points in final 20 seconds with a 4 point & 3 point play. Woof. I’m sure there’s more to it than that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Richard at Remax
It’s been clear for awhile now that the program is in a complete free fall & not improving. It’s a terrible product & IMO unacceptable for a school like OU. I don’t expect to be competing for national titles but I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect a quality program that can at least compete in conference which we couldn’t do in Big 12 either last several years.
It’s not unreasonable to expect OU to at least make the NCAA tournament which hasn’t happened under Moser. The program is in a dark place, I think you have to fire him and start over.
“We have a path,” Moser said. “It’s a hard path, but it’s an attainable path.”
https://www.oklahoman.com/story/spor...s/78803579007/
Trust the process.
23 - 43 in conference play under Moser :rolleyes:
Feels like they are going to have to buy out Moser and move on. It's pretty bleak.
Good point.Quote:
Originally Posted by floyd the barber
If you fire head coaches and put them on a short leash it is going to be difficult to hire a quality replacement. Moser was lured away from IIFC Chicago Loyola and many OU
fans were happy with the hire. Some mocked Sister Jean at the time when Moser was hired. What is destroying college sports is the NIL money, where players are invited to participate in a game of musical chairs changing from one institution to the next. This IMO favors the larger institutions with the funds to go out and raid the other colleges that don't have a wealth of NIL funds.
Then it's back to the portal where the process rinses and repeats itself.
I've historically loved following college sports, but I will say this NIL has really allowed me to become disinterested. Gone are the days of following a group of young players mature as a team from Freshmen up to their junior or senior years. That's what I loved. I loved that so much more than professional sports. Even if there weren't majorly successful seasons, we went to many games to see them play because we had invested in them as fans, knew who they were and what they were about, etc. Now, the rosters change literally every single season so by the time the season is half way into it you've just started really knowing who they are, etc., and it's already half way over, and if they're bad well it's human nature to not want to invest the time in who you don't know. Heck, even the pro teams don't have complete team turnover season after season.
What attainable path? It is over! 13-0 to missing the tournament is a joke! Porter has to go!Quote:
Originally Posted by floyd the barber
Another 20+ point loss. Rinse, wash, repeat. This might actually end up being the worst OU basketball season since Capel’s last year, at least in 2016-17 the team kept fighting until the end and we also knew that Trae was waiting in the wings (even though that didn’t really work out, it was at least cause for hope at the time). The entire program is completely in the wilderness at this point.
Man, the wilderness would be an upgrade. I feel like we’re at the bottom of an empty well staring up a guy demanding that we rub the lotion on our skin or get the hose again.Quote:
Originally Posted by SEMIweather
The one silver lining of the current moment is if we ever decide to put money into the program, it’s possible to turn a roster over and turn things around very quickly these days (look no further than Mizzou, who will likely receive a protected seed this year after going 0-19 in conference play last year). Am I optimistic that we’ll suddenly invest in the program, no, but at some point someone will figure out how to make things work here, there’s too much money at stake to just continue to let it wither on the vine. Not to mention we clearly squandered a ton of talent last year given how well Oweh and Uzan are currently doing at Kentucky and Houston, so if nothing else, we could stand to bring in a coach who can actually maximize whatever NIL budget we do have available.Quote:
Originally Posted by PhiAlpha
It sounds like the athletic department is more interested in OU Football. Now I admit I don't really know. I'm just repeating what I hear on the Sports Animal.
But if this is true, it's laughable because OU Football is in a downward spiral.
OU's always been and always will be a football school, regardless of how good the basketball team might be. Not sure why you find that laughable, but there are probably 75-80 schools that would like to be in OU's position as it relates to football.Quote:
Originally Posted by floyd the barber
That is weak sauce rationalization.Quote:
Originally Posted by barrettd
Bama, Auburn, and Florida are so called football schools, yet are projected #1seeds for the tourney.
In addition there are 6 more SEC schools in the top 25. Other than Kentucky, "football schools". When you have an AD that recognizes you can excel in both sports you have success. It is not a binary choice. I question if Joe C can walk and chew gum at the same time.
OU has the 3rd most final four's off ALL SEC teams .. (tied with florida)Quote:
Originally Posted by Jersey Boss
Thanks for adding to my pointsQuote:
Originally Posted by BoulderSooner
I have to say that I have zero idea what makes a winning college basketball coach right now. The entire "system" has been rocked to it's core and flailing around for the last 4-5 years, with no clear vision of the future. No clear vision of the next 2-3 years exists. You can fire Moser, and I'm not saying you're wrong. But, can you tell me you're six million dollars certain you know what a winner looks like? Or even have a clue what a winner will look like for the next 5 years? I don't.
Let's put this a different way: OU has always had terrible support for basketball. Even when good, OU fans are very lukewarm and don't generally show up and aren't loud. I used to call the LNC "the library" back in the day because of how quiet it often is during games. The donors don't pay up for basketball either. OU was long able to have success because of good coaching hires. Those days are gone, and now OU basketball is not financially competitive enough to likely be regularly good anymore. Add that to being in an old, terrible arena, and it's not likely that OU will have the same success it had in the pre-NIL era. I'm not saying OU can't have good seasons, but I suspect they'd struggle to keep a coach who has any success because he's going to be at a constant NIL disadvantage.
But, yeah, Moser should have been fired at least one, if not two, seasons ago. Even if NIL isn't his fault, he's just not a good Xs and Os coach. His teams often fall apart late in games when they're running terrible sets or Moser fails to manage the clock. He's not the answer, but it's also not a very attractive job anymore.
Your post indicates you have no or little knowledge of crowd size during the Tubbs era, or most of Sampson era.Quote:
Originally Posted by dankrutka