Conference play arrives and the paper tiger hits the shredder. Im so tired of this.
Men's Basketball
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Mens Basketball is pretty tough in the SEC, womens too. You can thank Arkiesaw for that, when they joined the SEC it was pretty much Kentucky and everyone else. After Arkansas joined when their Basketball Program was something all the other SEC Teams started upping their game and has pretty much stayed that way to the present day. Same with Football until Saban arrived at Bama.
I didn't get to see the game tonight but did catch a glimpse of the final score. It was a beatdown for sure but at the same time Arkansas took one from Tennessee. I think it is safe to say that Tennessee, Auburn, Kentucky, Alabama and Florida are the big 5 teams to beat. Hopefully the team learns from this as next up is Texas A&M in Norman on Wednesday. I think it is vital for them to hold home court.
A@M just beat Texas by 20, so not going to be an easy task. Watching the Bama game our guys looked small and slow. Bama was destroying us on the boards, we had something like 26 total rebounds and Bama had 22 offensive boards. Our stud freshman didnt score his first points till midway through 2nd half.
Let’s hope its not a repeat of last year. OU started strong last season also only to struggle in Big 12 play. I do believe if this team can somehow win 7-8 conf games they get in the tournament.I said before conference play started that OU will be dominated because they can’t stop big, strong teams off the offensive board. They started the season 13-0 and now may lose thirteen(13) in a row.
Teams will double up on Fears and the rest of the team to be honest is fairly average. We shall see, but I won’t be surprised if the conference record is several games under .500–possibly many games under.
Toby Rowland had the gall to ask where the fans were while pointing out that OU attendance is dead last in SEC.
Put a product on the floor that doesnt **** their pants and just maybe the fans show up
Well Toby, 1) the coach we have is not the coach we need, 2) it's hard to get behind a team that doesn't have the same players from one year to the next.
Your *** gets paid to be there. We have to pay to watch the yearly trainwreck.
Down 13-7 at first TV timeout. Barreling toward 0-3 in conference after an unbeaten non conference. **** is a bad joke.
I didn’t even watch that long. It gives me the same feeling as watching OU football. It is a helpless feeling that brings about emotions of anger, contempt, and frustration of having seen the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over…..
And zero adjustments out of the half. This team has zero paint defense awareness.
Out scored 30-18 this half. I am not even sure how much longer I can watch this crap show PM conducts. No disciplin at all. This is not a well coached team. I guess OU will just join Arkansas at the bottom with an 0-3 start
Have not scored since the 7:04 mark.
For the record the game was won at the line for UGA. 27-37 while OU was 7-9. OU 28 PF to UGA 16.
Porter Moser is about to be 0-8 to Texas and 0-4 to start conference play as the Sooners have once again fully reverted back to the same lost team once conference play begins.
I don't actually believe Moser needs to be retained through the season if we reach halfway through conference play without a win. I genuinely believe that pressure has a lot to do with it.
I don't actually believe Moser needs to be retained through the season if we reach halfway through conference play without a win. I genuinely believe that pressure has a lot to do with it.
In the big 2 men's sports, not in my lifetime.
The players are clearly broken psychologically. I think getting dominated by Alabama then blowing the 18 point lead against A&M removed all confidence they had gained in non conference. They know and feel like frauds.
Again they have no identity offensively and are soft at the rim on both sides. Moser's loyalty to Godwin is a constant anchor around the neck and he's another Sooner coach that thinks he's smarter than everybody else and instead of getting back to the basics when the team is struggling we just keep beating our head against the wall.
Mind you this is not like we're fighting hard and just getting beat by superior talent. Superior talent demolished us our equals hit back and we fold. Texas is up by 16 at the half.
It shouldn't be acceptable and Moser honestly should be let go before this season ends. The university needs to Swallow its undeserved pride and dial Kelvin Sampson's number tonight.
I didnt get to watch last night ( I go to work very early) but seen the score this morning. PM is or has shown he can be a good coach at lesser smaller schools in those lesser conferences but as a P5 coach not so much.
I am sure he knows his job is on the line and like BC says I think OU should just go ahead and cut ties with him now. He sure isnt earning what OU is paying him.
I put this on the players also, they are getting paid and at some point they have to shoulder the blame also. I wonder if they even care about the W as they get paid either way.
This is not a team you rush to the TV to watch. If I do watch I just get frustrated and ask myself “why did I waste my time”
I am sure he knows his job is on the line and like BC says I think OU should just go ahead and cut ties with him now. He sure isnt earning what OU is paying him.
I put this on the players also, they are getting paid and at some point they have to shoulder the blame also. I wonder if they even care about the W as they get paid either way.
This is not a team you rush to the TV to watch. If I do watch I just get frustrated and ask myself “why did I waste my time”
Well, men and women's Gymnastics are #1 in the nation and softball, #3, starts in 45 days!
Gomer's second year was way worse. Blake's three years were as dreadful as they come. And in those days, we didn't have softball and gymnastics to be proud of. From 1958 to my soph year, 1970, we beat Texas once in 13 seasons. It's been way worse several times.
Gomer Jones' time at OU wasn't good.
The 1964 team had talent (Grisham, McAdams, Neely, Rentzel, McCurdy, Mayhue, Hart) but couldn't avoid losing 4 games (USC, Texas, Kansas and Nebraska and tying Missouri)...then losing badly to Florida State in the Gator Bowl 36-19 (in a game that had only one extra point made and a 95 yard pass to Ben Hart).
But Gomer's nightmare ended after a 3-6-1 record in 1965 and Jim MacKenzie came in from Arkansas with a staff that had Switzer, Fairbanks, Rice and others and OU's football fortune was saved.
I do not believe the Gomer Jones years were the worst since it ended after only 2 years.
I'll put the decade of the 1990's as the worst as it had OU's image badly damaged by probation, a gang rape in the athletic dorm and a shooting.
Gary Gibbs entered into a program that was poisoned and did the best he could do.
I'll always wonder how Gibbs would have done had he inherited a clean program.
What lies ahead now is a potentially scary scenario, mainly because of the entry into the SEC.
OU will need topnotch coaching and talent like never before. Every game represents a potential loss.
If Venables falters again this year, there won't be a reason to keep him.
The 1964 team had talent (Grisham, McAdams, Neely, Rentzel, McCurdy, Mayhue, Hart) but couldn't avoid losing 4 games (USC, Texas, Kansas and Nebraska and tying Missouri)...then losing badly to Florida State in the Gator Bowl 36-19 (in a game that had only one extra point made and a 95 yard pass to Ben Hart).
But Gomer's nightmare ended after a 3-6-1 record in 1965 and Jim MacKenzie came in from Arkansas with a staff that had Switzer, Fairbanks, Rice and others and OU's football fortune was saved.
I do not believe the Gomer Jones years were the worst since it ended after only 2 years.
I'll put the decade of the 1990's as the worst as it had OU's image badly damaged by probation, a gang rape in the athletic dorm and a shooting.
Gary Gibbs entered into a program that was poisoned and did the best he could do.
I'll always wonder how Gibbs would have done had he inherited a clean program.
What lies ahead now is a potentially scary scenario, mainly because of the entry into the SEC.
OU will need topnotch coaching and talent like never before. Every game represents a potential loss.
If Venables falters again this year, there won't be a reason to keep him.
Guys got the W today with a late 2nd half surge. For the better part of the game it was tight. Hopefully this is confidence booster but until they can string some wins together I'm not holding my breath. Moore is playing well right now and Forsythe seems to be a spark they need to utilize more. Get Fears back feeling good and there are wins to be had.
Fears has to get off to a better start in the first half. In their losses he is only averaging something like 3 points in the first half.
I was always curious what would have happened if Merv Johnson had gotten the job which is who Switzer proposed...