Report: Oklahoma, Porter Moser hiring Doc Sadler as a Special Advisor
College basketball insider Jon Rothstein reported Thursday that Oklahoma head basketball coach Porter Moser will be adding Doc Sadler to his staff as a special advisor.
Sadler is an Arkansas native who worked his way up the college basketball coaching rankings for 22 years before landing his first Division I head coaching job with UTEP in 2004, leading the Miners to a conference championship and victory in his very first season.
He made stops at Nebraska and Southern Miss following a two-year run at UTEP, posting a 20-13 record in his final season at Southern Miss before resigning in 2019. Sadler rejoined the Nebraska coaching staff as an assistant under Fred Hoiberg, and now joins a Sooner staff with over 10 years of college head coaching experience as he looks to help Moser in his second season at the helm for Oklahoma.
Former Oklahoma two-sport star Ryan Minor diagnosed with cancer
Ryan Minor, a star athlete at Oklahoma in the mid-1990s has been diagnosed with stage four colon cancer. Minor starred in two sports for the Sooners, playing both basketball and baseball at the varsity level.
On the hardwood, Minor was an All-American and was co-player of the year in the Big 8 in 1995 as a junior. On the diamond, he helped lead the Sooners to a national championship at the College World Series in 1994, and was named all-tournament team.
And Minor found his way into the history books playing professional baseball. He was the first player to get the start over Cal Ripken Jr. to end his streak of consecutive games started.
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Minor, along with being drafted by an MLB franchise, was also taken in the NBA draft by the Philadelphia 76ers, though he did not play as long as he did professional baseball.
Following a career playing baseball, Minor got into coaching. He was a professional coach at various levels from 2006 to 2021.
“Ryan is married to Allyson; they have two children, Regan and Finley,” a GoFundMe setup for Minor reads.
As of Friday afternoon, the GoFundMe has raised nearly $30,000 out of the $100,000 goal.