Coach Capel is in over his head? That's your opinion. Even though these recruits haven't worked out. He has still put Oklahoma back on the national map as far as that aspect. He took his team to the Great 8. His hiring kept Taylor Griffin here, which helped in getting Blake. As a coach he has a good system. He just hasn't been able to get an identity for that system with good consistent players. You also must be in the camp that thinks no one would hire him right now. You'd better think again. He could could get a job easily right now. Jeff Capel just had a bad year and some bad players that he couldn't count on. He has committed any violations or found guilty of any wrong doing. John Blake had no clue whatsoever. At least Jeff does. BOOMER SOONER BABY!!!
Coach Capel is in over his head? That's your opinion. Even though these recruits haven't worked out. He has still put Oklahoma back on the national map as far as that aspect
Look at the results this year, this offseason. Capel is drowning. He had zero idea what to do with this team this year, how to motivate them, how to get them to play defense. Over his head. He even said out loud he had no idea how to connect with this team. And he recruited every guy on this team. These are HIS players.
He has still put Oklahoma back on the national map as far as that aspect. He took his team to the Great 8. His hiring kept Taylor Griffin here, which helped in getting Blake.
Back on the National Map?!? That's a slap in the face to the tradition of OU basketball, that's like me trying to explain to one of the youngsters around here why KU is OU's main rival in basketball. This program has tradition and Capel did NOT or need to put this program back on the national map. In fact until Capel got here OU had a string of 20 straight years of postseason tournaments. You could say the longer Capel is here the more is he actually taking OU off the national map.
Kelvin recruited Taylor and OU was fortunate that OSU was stupid enough to not offer Taylor or there is a good chance both would have been aggies. Yes Capel landed Blake, but there's a good chance any coach but Sampson would have landed Blake.
This line here is what really gets me:
As a coach he has a good system. He just hasn't been able to get an identity for that system with good consistent players
What the hell did you just say? And please tell me what kind of system does he run. This is where I draw my John Blake comparisons. This team has zero identity and it has zero idea what it wants to do. Its not an athletic team, its not a good outside shooting team, its not a good defensive team. So tell me the system he's trying to recruit to. And tell me who the guy is doing the recruiting for this special system he runs.
You also must be in the camp that thinks no one would hire him right now. You'd better think again. He could could get a job easily right now. Jeff Capel just had a bad year and some bad players that he couldn't count on.I have no idea who would hire Capel, but I guarantee you he can't get a better job than OU right now. Sure some lesser basketball school may hire him, but nothing even close to OU.
He has committed any violations or found guilty of any wrong doing. John Blake had no clue whatsoever. At least Jeff does
When your program is showing up on TMZ that's not a good thing, it may not be his fault directly but he his held accountable and now with two players involved with this scum, either Capel knew about this and turned a blind eye or he is majorly disconnected from his players and who they hang around with.
And again the John Blake comparison, go check there fourth year in there program and tell me who had a better year. These are Capel's guys and you might have three or four back next year and staring right in the face of a disasterous fifth season here. Right now comparing him to John Blake might be doing a disservice to John Blake and John Blake only got three years at OU.
