OU Womens Basketball, What happened?
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This is not just a one year deal...things have been sliding down hill for the past few years. Too many players have left the program and some don’t play hard. Attendance is pitiful. It’s time to clean house!
OU would help both men’s and women’s basketball programs if it constructed a brand new made for basketball arena. OU will need its major donors to help in very major ways.
OU would help both men’s and women’s basketball programs if it constructed a brand new made for basketball arena. OU will need its major donors to help in very major ways.
Nobody goes to games other than when texass, KU or okie lite come to town.
Even when we were good during the Sampson years, he complained that the crowds were small.
I wish OU fans followed our BB programs more, but the hardcore BB fans tend to follow the Thunder more than OU.
Even when we were good during the Sampson years, he complained that the crowds were small.
I wish OU fans followed our BB programs more, but the hardcore BB fans tend to follow the Thunder more than OU.
Castiglione has mentioned upgrading Lloyd Noble Center and I wonder if a new arena at OU.....a football school....is that much of a priority. It holds 11,562 as opposed to Kansas with its Allen Arena holding 16,300. Texas is opening a new arena in 2021 with a 10,000 seat capacity.
As for Coach Coale: I think she has been good for OU's women's program, but it appears she has lost her magic.
She's from my mother's hometown of Healdton, so there's a special bond I feel towards her.
Coach Auriemma of UConn had a hand in getting her hired at OU when he recruited two players from Oklahoma in the late 1990's.
But her high water mark at OU in 2001-2002 when she took her team to the championship game against UConn. That's a long time ago.
As for Coach Coale: I think she has been good for OU's women's program, but it appears she has lost her magic.
She's from my mother's hometown of Healdton, so there's a special bond I feel towards her.
Coach Auriemma of UConn had a hand in getting her hired at OU when he recruited two players from Oklahoma in the late 1990's.
But her high water mark at OU in 2001-2002 when she took her team to the championship game against UConn. That's a long time ago.
Coale should have been fired years ago. Instead, they pay her way more than she's worth, which is about nothing, and allow her to hire her child as an assistant.
At $1.1 million a year she's clearly overpaid. Much of that money has to be based on past....and limited...successes.
Having just turned 54, Coale is likely to last at least 5 more years, if Castiglione and OU don't mind overpaying her.
I haven't been to Cameron, but I've been to the Phog. I wasn't overly impressed, but maybe my expectations were too high after hearing about it for all those years.
Cameron is very small. Seats about 9,000 I think. Neat place, but not really nice. I was in the Phog about 25 years ago. Again I thought it was a neat place, but not really nice.
Nebraska fans used to say that if they could get a state of the art arena then Nebraska could be good at basketball. Now they have a new state of the art arena and they still suck. Creighton University in Omaha has a beautiful arena as well and they aren't exactly a top notch program.
Nebraska fans used to say that if they could get a state of the art arena then Nebraska could be good at basketball. Now they have a new state of the art arena and they still suck. Creighton University in Omaha has a beautiful arena as well and they aren't exactly a top notch program.
The new OU president is far more likely to hold people accountable for their poor job performance than to let sentimental feelings get in the way of hard decisions... like when Boren kept OU attached to OSU.... making OU stay in this Big 12.
^That is absolutely 100 % incorrect.
In spite of the Boren people wanting others to believe that, OU is not legally tied to OSU in any way when it comes conference affiliation. This thought was not shot down as to provide cover for Borens conference realignment failures and public embarrassment when he failed to secure membership in the PAC for OU and OSU.
Our state constitution forbids any direct interference by the states elected state leaders in the operations of OU or OSU....At the end of the Big 12 grant of rights in 2025, assuming that OU has an invitation, all OU is legally required to do per state law if a conference move is desired is the approval of the university president and a simple majority vote of the OU board of regents.
We would literally need to change our states constitution and laws by a vote of the people to keep OU and OSU legally tied to each other and that's not going to happen.
If and where OU might move is another matter... but IMHO it will receive serious consideration due to the fact that OU would be leaving way too much money and serious academic opportunity on the table to stay in the Big 12 and not move to the Big Ten, to which current university goals are much more in line with. From an OU point of view the SEC and PAC are not any longer regarded as options for OU.
Thanks for the clarification heart; it looks like I stand corrected. And I certainly am no Daphne Boring lover
I looked at Sherri Coale. I liked looking at Sherri Coale. I still like looking at Sherri.
Has nothing to do with basketball. Before you say anything like “she’s not that hot anymore” consider that I’m 72 and I’ve been watching her coach since she was at Norman High School.
Has nothing to do with basketball. Before you say anything like “she’s not that hot anymore” consider that I’m 72 and I’ve been watching her coach since she was at Norman High School.
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Lon and Sherri should both be fired. Poor recruiting. Terrible coaching and preparation. Lon missed on Kur Kuath. Firable offense. Sherri’s team averages more turnovers than field goals last two games combined.