Coaching possibilities for next season....

[NickZepp]

I think Tubby wants to be out of a pressure cooker after what happened at Kentucky with him so I think he'll stay at a place in Minn where he can have a little lower expectations. They'll be fine with him if they are just an NIT team most years and NCAA once in a while there. I bet Fox takes the OU job if he were offered.

 

[SoonerDan74012]

I don't know how many more years until Kelvin's coaching ban in the NCAA is up but I say we bring him back.

 

[jerry]

Lon Krueger if we could get him from UNLV? Big 8 ties.

 

[Sawyer]

What's the money situation like?

Capel just signed a pretty nice sized extension a couple years ago, so I imagine it'll cost a lot just to get rid of him. Then you've got to top whatever another coach is making elsewhere to lure him to OU, and potentially pay a buyout, as well.

Is the money there for OU to steal a basketball coach from another major conference school right now?

You didn't go that route when replacing Sampson. Why would Castiglione do it now?

 

[Max Power]

What's the money situation like?

Capel just signed a pretty nice sized extension a couple years ago, so I imagine it'll cost a lot just to get rid of him. Then you've got to top whatever another coach is making elsewhere to lure him to OU, and potentially pay a buyout, as well.

Is the money there for OU to steal a basketball coach from another major conference school right now?

You didn't go that route when replacing Sampson. Why would Castiglione do it now?

He would do it now because he saw what happened the first time he went cheep. There is money at OU. The football team just made 13.5 mil off the bowl game alone. Take some of that

 

[stoops4pres]

Fox to OU may be a step down as well as Tubby to OU.

Disagree about Fox... Georgia isn't as good of a job as OU is, regardless of OU's circumstance.

I know all that but at this very moment Georgia and Minnesota has a better basketball culture

I don't think halfway through this season is a fair way to determine who has the better "culture". After all, Georgia had an equally subpar season last year finishing at 14-17 last season.

 

[Sawyer]

He would do it now because he saw what happened the first time he went cheep. There is money at OU. The football team just made 13.5 mil off the bowl game alone. Take some of that

Bowl money is divided equally between all conference teams. Most teams are lucky to break even on the bowls (even BCS games).

I still suspect OU will not be able to pull a coach away from a power conference school. Only kansas and Texas among the current Big 12 were able to do that. Everyone else has a coach who was previously an assistant somewhere or a head coach at a mid-major school (or in ISU's case not even coaching).

OU has money, but do you have enough to convince a successful major conference coach to come rebuild OU? Anyone you want is going to be doing well somewhere else already. Why come fix OU if he's got a stable job?

 

[stoops4pres]

OU has money, but do you have enough to convince a successful major conference coach to come rebuild OU? Anyone you want is going to be doing well somewhere else already. Why come fix OU if he's got a stable job?

It depends on who the major conference coach is. If it is someone like Tubbs at Minnesota, probably not.

But if it is Fox at a place like Georgia, I definitely think it is plausible.

This isn't rebuilding a college football program, a task that is much more daunting than a basketball program. Given the capricious nature of the game with NBA early-entry departures, as well as only needing a few impact players to turn around a program (unlike football where you need a ton more), basketball programs can be turned around in no time.

 

[Sooner23]

Let's hire Keith Stone. He's so smooth.

This is surprising since you're against Gillispie.

 

[Seymore Cox]

This is surprising since you're against Gillispie.

:ez-roll:

 

[campbest]

Tubby Smith is a pipe dream.

 

[OKUman]

Joe C. has to ask himself, "do I want Oklahoma to have a top 15 program"? If the answer is yes then roll out the bucks and get a very high profile coach that high schools guys would want to play for. I'm not smart enough to know all the possibilities, but surly someone would come for the right money.

 

[SoonerDan74012]

What about Kelvin's former top assistant coach Bob Hoffman? He knows the Texas area and might know a thing or two about coaching some hard nosed defense.

 

[Max Power]

What about Kelvin's former top assistant coach Bob Hoffman? He knows the Texas area and might know a thing or two about coaching some hard nosed defense.

what cell phone plan does he have?

 

[okcsooner83]

Hoffman is the head coach at Mercer, not sure how well he has done there.

 

[Tony]

What about Kelvin's former top assistant coach Bob Hoffman? He knows the Texas area and might know a thing or two about coaching some hard nosed defense.

Dunno, since taking over at Mercer he's gone 17-15, 16-17, and now 4-11 this year. Don't know the situation at that school but it doesn't exactly scream that he's ready for a promotion. But, like I said, don't really know anything else about that program. Hey, everyone laughed at Auburn hiring Gene Chizik and now they're playing for a national title.

 

[Sooner23]

Dalonte Hill?

 

[SoonerDan74012]

Dunno, since taking over at Mercer he's gone 17-15, 16-17, and now 4-11 this year. Don't know the situation at that school but it doesn't exactly scream that he's ready for a promotion. But, like I said, don't really know anything else about that program. Hey, everyone laughed at Auburn hiring Gene Chizik and now they're playing for a national title.

If he loses his gig at Mercer I don't see any reason why Capel can't add him to his staff (he should have retained him when he first got here), that's if Capel is still the coach here lol.

 

[stoops4pres]

Dalonte Hill?

No way. With as much trouble as OU has had in the past with the NCAA, hiring a guy with a ton of smoke around him due to his AAU ties is the last thing OU needs.

He's not worth the risk.

 

[stoops4pres]

Hey, everyone laughed at Auburn hiring Gene Chizik and now they're playing for a national title.

Then again, Chizik also went undefeated at Auburn and undefeated (and won the National Title) at Texas. Safe to say Hoffman didn't have that type of pedigree as an assistant.