1 scholarship left, what happens?

[mardaddy51]

Grad transfer or save for next year?

 

[BoulderSooner]

i think they will save it for a regualr transfer or perhabs a midyear transfer next season

 

[thebigabd]

Bring in some 3pt shooter if you can find one, or do nothing with it.

 

[coolm]

it goes to a walk-on for a semester or two.

 

[Darwin]

I'm not nearly as smart as Lon but I can take up space on a message board. The biggest hole is returning guards after next season. My target would be a quality combo/2 guard transfer that sits next season with at least 2 yrs to play. The Colorado State kid seemed like a fit so perhaps Lon isn't going that way. Perhaps he wants all those open spots till after early signing commitments. He might have a juco in mind if there is an open spot.

 

[AdaSooner]

I’m not sure what our coaches will want to do, but using that last ship on a mid-season transfer or saving it for the 2019 class makes more sense than anything else I can think of. We’ve got to make every scholarship count by filling them with the best players available to have any hope of another deep run in March in the next year or two.

 

[WaymanFan]

it goes to a walk-on for a semester or two.

I don't mean to sound heartless, but NO. I'll never forget Kelvin Sampson wasting a scholly on a guy named Jimmy Tobias in order to use up all the scholarships. Almost immediately thereafter, the hammer came down on the Baylor basketball program. We would have gotten a highly productive player in Lawrence Roberts. Instead, he spent his last two years becoming one of the all-time greats at Mississippi State.

Here are my top two priorities:

1) Use the scholly on someone who can help us win games in 2018-2019
2) save it in case a Lawrence Roberts type player can fall into our laps.

 

[coolm]

I remember that and I dont disagree with you about having one available.

You can give the money of the current semester to a walk-on and have the next remaining. Kids can't come in until the next semester at the quickest.

 

[Ghost of Gar Heard]

I'd love to give it to Austin Reaves, a sit 1 & play 2 transfer from Wichita St. He's averaged 45% from 3 over his 2 years there and would have to be interested in starting at OU in 2 years after all the seniors depart.

 

[WichitaSooner]

I'd love to give it to Austin Reaves, a sit 1 & play 2 transfer from Wichita St. He's averaged 45% from 3 over his 2 years there and would have to be interested in starting at OU in 2 years after all the seniors depart.

Agree with this, he is one guy I really liked on that team. But we'll have lots of competition for him, word is a ton of major conference teams have already reached out to him, including OU. He is originally from Arkansas and I think they'll be in in him pretty hard.

 

[Leroy]

Get a back-up post man for Money

 

[BCSooners]

Get a back-up post man for Money

I'm with you about not trusting the other 5 men yet. However, I would like to see some small ball with Doolittle at the 5.

1. Calixte
2. Reynolds
3. James
4. Odomes
5. Doolittle

James can guard most 4s OU plays against.

 

[Abe]

Did OU pull there offer to Jal Bijiek?

 

[CoachTalk]

Did OU pull there offer to Jal Bijiek?

moved on a long time ago.

He signed with North Dakota

 

[WTSooner]

I'm with you about not trusting the other 5 men yet. However, I would like to see some small ball with Doolittle at the 5.

1. Calixte
2. Reynolds
3. James
4. Odomes
5. Doolittle

James can guard most 4s OU plays against.

We would get killed on the glass. Odomes and Doolittle aren't even what I'd consider good rebounders at their natural positions, let alone moving up a spot. To do stuff like this, you have to have guards and wings that rebound at a high clip. We don't. Or didn't last year at least. And why this do this? It's not like it puts 5 shooters on the floor. Odomes and Doolittle are both pretty limited offensively. Odomes driving against a true 4 might be an advantage, but I don't see Doolittle having the skill set to take advantage of a 5 and not get killed on the glass.

We don't need to get cute with our lineups next year. We just need to play good ball.

 

[jaymOU]

We would get killed on the glass. Odomes and Doolittle aren't even what I'd consider good rebounders at their natural positions, let alone moving up a spot. To do stuff like this, you have to have guards and wings that rebound at a high clip. We don't. Or didn't last year at least. And why this do this? It's not like it puts 5 shooters on the floor. Odomes and Doolittle are both pretty limited offensively. Odomes driving against a true 4 might be an advantage, but I don't see Doolittle having the skill set to take advantage of a 5 and not get killed on the glass.

We don't need to get cute with our lineups next year. We just need to play good ball.

Doolittle is a good rebounder, IMO. Not saying this lineup would not get killed on the boards, but I think Doo is more than solid on the boards and I suspect this is why he played as much as he did last year. If you are going to go small, I like Caxlite, James, Odomes / Reynolds, Manek and Doo. If you are going small, ideally, everyone can hit 3s. If Doo can return to form and Caxlite and Reynolds shoot the ball well, then this is a stretch lineup ala Nova, who had 5 guys who could all hit from 3. Don't get me wrong they are not Nova, but it's the same concept.

 

[BCSooners]

We would get killed on the glass. Odomes and Doolittle aren't even what I'd consider good rebounders at their natural positions, let alone moving up a spot. To do stuff like this, you have to have guards and wings that rebound at a high clip. We don't. Or didn't last year at least. And why this do this? It's not like it puts 5 shooters on the floor. Odomes and Doolittle are both pretty limited offensively. Odomes driving against a true 4 might be an advantage, but I don't see Doolittle having the skill set to take advantage of a 5 and not get killed on the glass.

We don't need to get cute with our lineups next year. We just need to play good ball.

I said "some" small ball. At certain times against certain teams. Also Doolittle is a good rebounder, and I said I would have James guard the 4 since he's thicker & rebounds better.

 

[Matthew G]

Save it for 2019. Don't waste it on a JUCO player this late, and don't waste it on a transfer that's not that good this late. Leave it for 2019, the class you are trying to make the best in your tenure here.

 

[mict085]

Save it. Maybe some transfer fallout from the fbi probe or use it next cycle.

 

[Darwin]

Save it. Maybe some transfer fallout from the fbi probe or use it next cycle.

excellent point