The crowds have been good this year, but unless the team goes on a tear, that won't continue, and understandably so. Moser has shown a consistent inability to build on success.
That texas game was huge. Not just because it was texas but because we'd followed two losses with two very nice wins and it looked as though we were building some serious steam--arguably for the first time in Moser's tenure. But the team laid an egg that day. Just a dismal showing in front of a packed house and then followed that with another home loss. Then finally a very nice win at KSU, only to be followed by another dismal outing. It's not so much that we lost to UCF--it was a road game, after all, and they are better than they are given credit for by some--but the team was simply not ready to play. That performance tied the texas game, in my view, for our worst outing of the season.
What I ask of any coach is that they get the best out of the players they have, that each team improves as the season progresses (barring extenuating circumstances like a rash of injuries), that each player improves throughout the season and from year to year, that they play solid, relatively mistake-free basketball and compete with heart and hustle every game.
Coach Moser's teams -- including this one -- have not delivered consistently on any of that. I've not given up on this squad, but I'm not very optimistic.
As for the steady stream of digs at Lon's recruiting, OU went to the tourney three out of his last four seasons and won a tourney game in two of the those (and the first-round loss was in OT). The only season of the four they didn't go dancing, they won 19 games. The last two years, they finished at .500 or better in conference. Those four-years, in retrospect, look like glory days compared to the past two years and, I fear, this season, too. As I say, I'm still holding out hope. The Sooner women turned it around after a rough month-long patch; maybe the men will too.
