2025-26 Season

Playing was always going to be just a job once you pay people to play. College ball will eventually fully morph into a competing pro league. Never thought of college being the platform risk for pro sports before… but now? Will be interesting to see it play out.
 
CoachTalk said:
NCAA powerless.

THings about to get worse. Always some yard bird judge out there.

College forever! this is year 6 i believe not counting his 2 for heart attack at depual.

8th year in College. 2017 grad.
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"Zion Williamson, who is bored with the NBA and being a part of a failing franchise, decides to return to Duke for another 4-year degree. Judge rules in his favor citing: 'Let's go Duke!'."
 
WichitaSooner said:
I'm not sure how it hurts the sport that a guy who started at a JUCO, had a heart attack, missed two seasons, and had another season affected by the COVID year, is allowed to play another year.
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changing the slope that is already slippery.
It isn't about individual personal cases, it is about the precedence it sets.
 
BoulderSooner said:
how does this hurt college basketball in any way?
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I think it’s good for kid but bad overall for college. 1. He is 25 years old playing against mostly 18-22 year olds. 2. he is taking a scholarship or at least a spot of a high school kid who may need it to attend school.

I know the game has changed and I am glad players are getting piece of the action, but some of the traditional purpose of college athletics, such as the student part need to hold true.
 
WichitaSooner said:
I'm not sure how it hurts the sport that a guy who started at a JUCO, had a heart attack, missed two seasons, and had another season affected by the COVID year, is allowed to play another year.
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I am glad for the kid. But he played 2 years of JC 1 year at Kansas 2 years and Grand Canyon and per ncaa was cleared to play at least part of the year at Dupal in 2022-2023 and choose to be on team but not play. Seems like he got 5 years to play 4 in ncaa level. I can see why this is a stance ncaa was trying to argue. We already scene judges use approval by ncaa on extraordinary circumstances to grant eligibility for others as they claim precedent.
 
Let’s see how crazy it gets! I want to see a dude in the NBA go back to college cause he has a few years of eligibility left and play.

Or a guy who has played ten years of college basketball somehow gets another year of eligibility.
 
BoulderSooner said:
how does this hurt college basketball in any way?
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I don't think this particular decision hurts college basketball per se. What some on here are worried about, me included, is to what end are college basketball players going to be eligible? Who is going to push the envelope even further? And further? As for his age, I don't think that should be a factor in and of itself. Brandon Weeden (Oklahoma State) was a college football QB at age 27 so is there even a max age on the books?
 
WaymanFan said:
I don't think this particular decision hurts college basketball per se. What some on here are worried about, me included, is to what end are college basketball players going to be eligible? Who is going to push the envelope even further? And further? As for his age, I don't think that should be a factor in and of itself. Brandon Weeden (Oklahoma State) was a college football QB at age 27 so is there even a max age on the books?
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no there is no max age ..
 
skyvue said:
The Athletic's Jim Root today had what struck me as a somewhat gimmicky story entitled, "Which men’s NCAA Tournament teams are in danger of missing the field in 2026?" OU came in at #6.

Here's what he wrote:

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6. Oklahoma
Why They’ll Miss It: Porter Moser’s pattern of nonconference success continued last year, and the Sooners’ SEC swoon nearly cost them an NCAA Tournament bid. Oklahoma did not lose a single game until January, but Moser has yet to post even a .500 record in conference play.

Everyone who started more than four games for that at-large squad is now gone, and Moser had to swiftly find some alternatives in the portal. To his credit, he scooped up a talented quartet in Xzayvier Brown, Nijel Pack, Tae Davis and Derrion Reid.

Where Moser missed, though, was in finding another big man to reinforce the Sooners’ shaky interior. Oklahoma ranked 324th nationally and 13th in the SEC in 2-pointer percentage allowed, sorely lacking in paint intimidation. The Sooners also ranked 283rd in defensive rebound rate, easily the worst ranking of Moser’s 21-year head coaching tenure.

Mo Wague is a serviceable center, but when you commit 7.8 fouls per 40 minutes as he did last year, you struggle to stay on the floor. The depth behind him is shaky at best. In the uber-athletic SEC, it is incredibly difficult to survive while getting crushed around the basket. Some of the SEC’s 14 participants from this past March will fall out, and Oklahoma is certainly a candidate.

Why They Actually Will Make It Again: The Sooners’ offense is going to be tough to stop. Pack is a proven power-conference scorer, and pairing him with Brown gives Moser two lethal perimeter threats who can also create for others. Plus, Dayton Forsythe is an emerging scoring threat. Reid and Davis will be a matchup nightmare duo at the forward spots, and the Sooners should get a defensive boost from Jadon Jones and Jeff Nwankwo, both of whom missed all of last season.

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His points are fair enough, but to not even mention Kai Rogers makes me question how well he did his homework.
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He nailed our serious issues.. 324th in anything is a malpractice level fail.

The good news is that 283rd in defensive rebound rate is the EASIEST basketball category in the sport to fix. Rebounding is like 70% solely effort..

the bad news is that accountability is not pm's strong suit by any stretch of the imagination and I don't expect this to improve significantly. I hope it does, bc rebounding is the single easiest way to also steal wins and create a bigger margin of victory. But we likely will have our standard very narrow margins unless our Offense get better all year (which could happen)
 
hoopsaustin said:
He nailed our serious issues.. 324th in anything is a malpractice level fail.

The good news is that 283rd in defensive rebound rate is the EASIEST basketball category in the sport to fix. Rebounding is like 70% solely effort..

the bad news is that accountability is not pm's strong suit by any stretch of the imagination and I don't expect this to improve significantly. I hope it does, bc rebounding is the single easiest way to also steal wins and create a bigger margin of victory. But we likely will have our standard very narrow margins unless our Offense get better all year (which could happen)
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Our personnel should lead to much better rebounding this year -- we are taller and more athletic almost across the board. Moser is hyping Davis as a national defensive POY candidate (defensive rebounding is part of defense), and we have all heard how athletic Reid is. The one sequence where Rogers blocked three shots in a row shows he is physically capable of things Sam could never dream of. JN is athletic and has good positional size. So there really is no reason this team shouldn't rebound much better, but like you, I will believe it when I see it. If people want to put stock in the practice game results, I guess we should also note that the two biggest problem areas last Friday were turnovers and allowing offensive boards. Since those have both been issues during Moser's entire time here, I think that merits more concern than if it could be written off as a one-off.
 
WichitaSooner said:
Our personnel should lead to much better rebounding this year -- we are taller and more athletic almost across the board. Moser is hyping Davis as a national defensive POY candidate (defensive rebounding is part of defense), and we have all heard how athletic Reid is. The one sequence where Rogers blocked three shots in a row shows he is physically capable of things Sam could never dream of. JN is athletic and has good positional size. So there really is no reason this team shouldn't rebound much better, but like you, I will believe it when I see it. If people want to put stock in the practice game results, I guess we should also note that the two biggest problem areas last Friday were turnovers and allowing offensive boards. Since those have both been issues during Moser's entire time here, I think that merits more concern than if it could be written off as a one-off.
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True. I think top 50th at a min should be the goal to shoot for this year, no reason with our increased height and athleticism that we shouldn't be able to reach that.. if we're sub-150 even, im going to blow a gasket
 
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