9 Days and Counting.

[Mac]

Amari Carter a 5’8 guard would be a great addition to the team... she’s transferring from Penn St and will most likely be a graduate transfer. With most schools close to being out maybe she will look at OU.... her old coach is now on the staff and she would be a nice floor leader for one year with hope that Sherri can find a four year starter at point in the 2020 class... most of our best teams have had a some of the better scoring point guards in the conference... Dales, Jenna, Drob, and Aaryn.... I think Tatum and Jessi are good players but I’m not sure they can consistently score enough for us to go back to an elite team with either one of them starting at point.

 

[Oliver Hardy]

A guard? Sherri signs a juco guard? (See other thread?) **


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[womenssports]

This board is in full meltdown.

For good reason, I just do not understand how it took the past season to get there. The lack of coaching is not new, the program brought in better players that at least got to a one or two game NCAA tournament. I don't care so much about a national title, I just like to see good sound basketball with player progress being made. That has happened in years,,,,the progress part.

turnovers and no defense....a constant for some time.....as are poor fundamentals....as are bad free throw shooters who never improve and I am not talking about team percentage like last year, I am talking about starters in the past who never improved. THEY have been shooting free throws all their lives, if they can't be taught in college then the coaching is lacking

And blaming individual players for being selfish or whatever is ridiculous...…...….not saying that that might not ever be true, but you don't know...……...especially for someone like Pellington who was Freshman of the year and then persona non grata. Her play didn't change as most players don't playing for ou, but she had no one to help her out when she played as she had the year before, as she had always played, you guys want athletes, but we obviously cannot coach athletes...…Pellington, you cannot say was selfish, she has always played this way and it benefited her teams or she would not have been on them...another thing on Sherri, And if I knew colton pushed SP I would be all over it with letters to the university...……..think he would push a white player, but the main issue is he shouldn't push anyone at all and he only had the courage to do so because it was a player that Sherri was down on….Sherri can't or won't, it appears and I have nothing personal against Sherri, I don't know her, I just think she should have been given the option to change her ways or let go several years ago...……….as far as coaching, not saying she could not have been offered a position at which she could have benefited the university, had she wanted..

 

[sybarite]

For good reason, I just do not understand how it took the past season to get there. The lack of coaching is not new, the program brought in better players that at least got to a one or two game NCAA tournament. I don't care so much about a national title, I just like to see good sound basketball with player progress being made. That has happened in years,,,,the progress part.

turnovers and no defense....a constant for some time.....as are poor fundamentals....as are bad free throw shooters who never improve and I am not talking about team percentage like last year, I am talking about starters in the past who never improved. THEY have been shooting free throws all their lives, if they can't be taught in college then the coaching is lacking

And blaming individual players for being selfish or whatever is ridiculous...…...….not saying that that might not ever be true, but you don't know...……...especially for someone like Pellington who was Freshman of the year and then persona non grata. Her play didn't change as most players don't playing for ou, but she had no one to help her out when she played as she had the year before, as she had always played, you guys want athletes, but we obviously cannot coach athletes...…Pellington, you cannot say was selfish, she has always played this way and it benefited her teams or she would not have been on them...another thing on Sherri, And if I knew colton pushed SP I would be all over it with letters to the university...……..think he would push a white player, but the main issue is he shouldn't push anyone at all and he only had the courage to do so because it was a player that Sherri was down on….Sherri can't or won't, it appears and I have nothing personal against Sherri, I don't know her, I just think she should have been given the option to change her ways or let go several years ago...……….as far as coaching, not saying she could not have been offered a position at which she could have benefited the university, had she wanted..

You have not a clue as to what was going on behind closed doors. Shaina needed to be out of here. Not necessarily her choice.

 

[SoonerSpock]

No one has a clue about what goes on behind closed doors. Just speculation. But someone generally speculates correctly. We just rarily know for certain who that someone is.

 

[sybarite]

No one has a clue about what goes on behind closed doors. Just speculation. But someone generally speculates correctly. We just rarily know for certain who that someone is.

Sometimes, a poster may have a special relationship with one or several players.

 

[SoonerSpock]

Sometimes, a poster may have a special relationship with one or several players.

Having had one of those relation I know that you are still dealing with hearsay and not direct information. Although normally closer to the truth it is far from having all the facts. Hence the speculation.

 

[sybarite]

Having had one of those relation I know that you are still dealing with hearsay and not direct information. Although normally closer to the truth it is far from having all the facts. Hence the speculation.

If over the years, a poster provides information that time-after-time turns out to be true, you have a tendency to have faith in it, especially if the obvious evidence would fit the story.

 

[womenssports]

You have not a clue as to what was going on behind closed doors. Shaina needed to be out of here. Not necessarily her choice.

And you do? So behind closed doors, she didn't share the ball? And I wasn't there and don't claim to know and I imagine the ones that were do not all perceive it the same. No one person is usually totally responsible. Ou had as large, if not larger obligation than she to make it work. ..whether she was on scholarship or not, whether playing a sport or not. That is true of the responsibility of the university to all students. Why do you have to make it personal about some players. ..such as in this instance she didn't share the ball. My statements regarding that I still stand by. Edit: will add she seemed to have fine relationship with other players, in Jan and or Feb. That would seem to tell something.

 

[SoonerSpock]

If over the years, a poster provides information that time-after-time turns out to be true, you have a tendency to have faith in it, especially if the obvious evidence would fit the story.

Hence as you say while you are right from time to time you are wrong or speculative most generally all the time. You have been trying to confirm your positions with isolated incidents forever forgetting the consensus confirms the opposite.

 

[sybarite]

And you do? So behind closed doors, she didn't share the ball? And I wasn't there and don't claim to know and I imagine the ones that were do not all perceive it the same. No one person is usually totally responsible. Ou had as large, if not larger obligation than she to make it work. ..whether she was on scholarship or not, whether playing a sport or not. That is true of the responsibility of the university to all students. Why do you have to make it personal about some players. ..such as in this instance she didn't share the ball. My statements regarding that I still stand by. Edit: will add she seemed to have fine relationship with other players, in Jan and or Feb. That would seem to tell something.

It wasn''t that fine. The players tried.

 

[Oliver Hardy]

As Spock points out, you are speculating. If you have an impeccable source, then say so. I'm not asking you to name the person. Just say "I've been told by someone within the program, the athletic department" or some such.

If you are going to speculate, as you obviously are, then just admit it.

Your speculation may be correct -- or perhaps others who speculate Pellington was run off because she allegedly has a mouthy, interfering girlfriend, whom Sherri and the coaches didn't like -- or maybe just a girlfriend period was the reason.

 

[Soonerguy06]

is this what's being said?? I hope that this is not the reason Shaina left. From what I could see on the court, she was selfish with the ball and tried to do too much too often, leading to constant turnovers. Some games she took over and won for us, some games she greatly contributed to us losing. It's tough to call. I just know i'd pull a player if she didn't change things she was failing at (dribbling into the trees and then throwing the ball to no one). The other side of the coin though, IMO, is was she really that much worse than any of the other duds out there on the court for us? The answer is no. So, maybe there is truth to the speculation on her bad attitude and maybe even the other external factors.

All I know is that I'm almost certain she will turn around and be successful at another university, like all of the others that have left. And that, to me, shows me SC might be the real problem.