Hey at least we beat OSU twice, by poke standards we may as well be National Champs!
In all seriousness though it would be nice to have a consistently competitive team again. They are hard to watch, maybe things get a little easier in the SEC but still gotta be able to get the talent here to begin with.
dude. It’s okay to admit that our basketball program has been and currently is well below our standards. Losing to Texas 7 times in a row is embarrassing as hell no matter how you spin it. Especially given that Texas hasn’t exactly been KU during that time frame. You lose to Texas 3-4 years in a row in football and you probably are out of a job or at minimum on a seat that’s hotter than the surface of the sun.
Willing to give it a chance for sure but there’s nothing wrong with being realistic either. The program is not in great shape right now. It’s kinda sad that we’re to the point that moving to a weaker conference is what we’re looking forward to as the catalyst to improve the program. Literally the opposite of the prevailing theory about moving to the SEC for football.
LNC is huge liability for OU basketball. The Tulsa World slammed the arena in an article last week
https://tulsaworld.com/sports/high-s...162621c08.htmlIt’s always baffling that a university with world-class facilities like Memorial Stadium and Love’s Field is content to have unsightly Lloyd Noble Center as its home for basketball.
Before anyone at the University of Oklahoma says, “Well, we really aren’t content with the LNC,” I would counter that they’ve had many years to do something about it. OU is a football-softball school that soon will drag a sub-standard arena to the Southeastern Conference.
It is the fault of the Athletic Dept that the facility is in the shape that it is. OU needs to take ownership of this and not pass it on to the taxpayers of Norman. Maybe if they had been earning monies over the years by renting it out for concerts instead of letting it sit vacant earning nothing the University would be in better financial shape to maintain the facility for the second highest revenue sport at the school.
Back to my point about the program being in rough shape right now...rumors swirling from a bunch of sources in Chicago that Porter Moser is headed to DePaul. If the rumors are indeed true, hopefully Joe and the rest of the administration do some real self reflection on this. The program is an embarrassing shell of its former self and the issues start with LNC.
From the horses mouth, but is it fair to say Sooner Nation has been lied to before! Though I don't think we would be unfortunate enough to live through two weasels in a few years.
https://www.si.com/college/oklahoma/...-depaul-rumors
Wow. First out of the tournament. What a joke.
3 straight years of no NCAA appearance, 7 straight losses to Texas. Fire this bum!
And OU expects Norman to finance a new arena for this hot mess of a program? What a bunch of jokers.
I wonder what the O/U is on # of players transfering out after this year?
Wouldn't it be nice if you took your hyper negativity elsewhere. If a 5 win improvement over last year and a 20 win record in the Big 12 isn't good enough for you, you need to reevaluate your standards. Apparently 8 Big 12 teams in the dance was enough for the committee.
I can't wait to see you blow a vein calling for Venables resignation when the football team loses 5 next year in the SEC.
OU should have been in ...... 5 bid thieves the last 4 days .. hurt bad
Complain about injuries/bid stealers all you want, but this was a very "on brand" season for the Sooners.
OU has been "on the bubble" at best every Selection Sunday since the 2016 Final Four team graduated. Flirt with an 8-11 seed every year, either barely squeaking in or just missing the cut.
It's been 8 years since its last Sweet 16 appearance - tied for its longest draught since the 70s.
Administration got complacent, fans lost interest. They've become consistently average.
well 5 of those years were the end of Lon... so can't really blame that on Porter.
and people yelling for firing porter doesn't change that. it just makes it worse. remember that lon was hired in 2011, and didn't win his first tournament game with OU till the 2015 season. so it took him 4 years. Kelvin was hired in 1994 and didn't win his first tournament game till 99... Tubbs was hired in 80 and didn't get his first tournament win till 83. This year saw an improvement over the previous year with basically a whole new team.... if porter doesn't atleast make the tournament next year then we should be talking about him possibly being on the way out. but geez, there were people saying he should be let go after the first season. it's just been crazy.
Agree. And declining the NIT bid just feels like another example of this program being plagued by a sense of entitlement that we frankly don’t deserve to have. Like, it’s obviously not the exact same thing as repeatedly begging Norman to fund a new arena. But I don’t think it’s all that different, either.
I still don’t think things are nearly as bad as they were at the end of the Capel era. But the overall vibes feel as bleak as they have at any point in the 15 years that I’ve been following the team, if that makes any sense. We are stuck in basketball purgatory, getting lapped in investment by the likes of Auburn and Texas Tech, and there are absolutely no signs that we’re going to take the necessary initiative to improve the situation.
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