You are making some valid points, SS. I'm going to make a few responses, not to argue, but to at least look at some alternate ways to view what has happened.
1. In the same way most teams found it almost impossible to beat us with Courtney, it was hard to beat BU with Griner. In addition, over the Griner years, we had terrible and significant injuries. Most of the years you are referring to are those years. I suggest it is just not reasonable to look at those years to complain about not winning the conference. I do not measure any coach - including Sherri - by arguing they should have defeated BU regularly when Griner was there. Some may argue we should have taped up those acl knees and out jumped her at all times. That seems silly to me.
2. Some have called for Sherri to be fired, at least that is how I have interpreted their words. I do not disagree that a person has the right to want that, say that, argue she is a weak coach, or whatever. But if they say that, it is just as right for others to argue otherwise. We have all been disappointed at times. That does not mean all of us think she is delivering so little she should be fired. I believe Sherri has a better track record in many ways than Bob Stoops (who I'm glad is our coach). Expecting a team to be in the Final Four every year is not reasonable. A couple do that (ND, UCONN), but very, very few. For goodness sakes, if I was a BU fan I would be furious with my teams over the 4 Griner years. Only 2 Final Fours and 1 National Championship is disgraceful while having a player that dominant. If that is all you have with her, what chance will you have without her? I bet Kim understands that even if some others don't.
3. I like Karen Ashton probably more than any Big-12 coach other than Sherri. But to even begin to make some argument about Texas, it is absolutely imperative that we look at the actual results over the years. Over the past 15 years or so, we have finished ahead of Texas almost every single year. Even though year after year after year the "recruiting experts" rated their recruits vastly better than ours, we have finished far better. Many of those years we were finishing 1st or 2nd and they were finishing as low as 7th. How would we feel if Sherri was doing that badly? I have to believe Texas is improving with Karen. It is silly to assume we can finish ahead of them every year for 15 , 20, 30 years. Obviously sometimes they will finish ahead of us. Maybe this year. But if so, they will need to repeat that for the next 14 years to make up for the past 15.
The rest of the year will be interesting to watch. I'm totally puzzled by what happened against North Texas and then was repeated against OSU. The fact it happened twice is particularly worrisome. At the same time, we looked really impressive against Tech Wednesday. No one in the league has put together such a dominant and overall powerful performance this year. In addition we are positioned pretty well in the conference stats at this point.
I'm not ready to surrender anything. Let's play it out. No one said it better than the indomitable Yogi Berra: It's never over till it's over. Folks, it is definitely not over yet. Don't give up now.
