Coale's quotes after the game

[SKSooner]

Very un-Sherri like. I think she's legitimately mad at this basketball team right now for their inconsistent play. Usually, you would see her say something positive about the comeback or highlight who turned it around. In fact, she basically says the team wasn't playing hard and seems disgusted.

Any coach will tell you they constantly have to search for new ways to motivate and inspire their team every year. I think Sherri loves this group of players individually but is still searching for the way to motivate them and the best way to get them to respond. I'm sure it's maddening as a coach to keep trying new things, only to see the same result.

Personally, I think a lot of starts with Gabbi. When she plays with a little "pop," it changes everything. When she just dribbles in circles and goes through the motion, our offense is abysmal.



On the effort:

“I’m not pleased at all. We played hard when we were about to get embarrassed. We didn’t play hard from the opening tip to the final buzzer.”

On taking any positives:

“Well you can’t leave it behind you. Those things are unacceptable, completely unacceptable.

 

[soonermike22]

IMO practice should incorporate some reward/punishment for how hard you participate to teach our players that effort is a mental state they control. You can't always shoot well, or out quick your opponent, but individual players can control how hard they participate in each and every second while on the court. I would love to see our players believe (and do) any time on the court must be "play all out or sit".

 

[BigT14]

She didn't look at all happy, the girls look like they got a good yelling, both looking at the table. Both seemed unsure as what to say to the questions being asked.

 

[womenssports]

Very un-Sherri like. I think she's legitimately mad at this basketball team right now for their inconsistent play. Usually, you would see her say something positive about the comeback or highlight who turned it around. In fact, she basically says the team wasn't playing hard and seems disgusted.

Any coach will tell you they constantly have to search for new ways to motivate and inspire their team every year. I think Sherri loves this group of players individually but is still searching for the way to motivate them and the best way to get them to respond. I'm sure it's maddening as a coach to keep trying new things, only to see the same result.

Personally, I think a lot of starts with Gabbi. When she plays with a little "pop," it changes everything. When she just dribbles in circles and goes through the motion, our offense is abysmal.



On the effort:

“I’m not pleased at all. We played hard when we were about to get embarrassed. We didn’t play hard from the opening tip to the final buzzer.”

On taking any positives:

“Well you can’t leave it behind you. Those things are unacceptable, completely unacceptable.

It starts at the top. She is the coach. Something as been going on for the last three years, especially 2014 and 2016, she is being paid to figure it out.
If I were the coach, I would be embarrassed about what was happening on the floor. And yes, OU picked it up at the end but think there was a let down by Baylor until they almost let it get away. And that is not uncommon for teams to take their foot off the pedal towards the end in games they are controlling.

 

[Oliver Hardy]

That press conference is the maddest I've ever seen Sherri Coale. Totally disgusted is an understatement.

I have to say it makes me wonder if she has lost this team or most of the players on it. Whatever is going on, it doesn't bode well for the future of this program.


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[Sooners4Life0101]

Very un-Sherri like. I think she's legitimately mad at this basketball team right now for their inconsistent play. Usually, you would see her say something positive about the comeback or highlight who turned it around. In fact, she basically says the team wasn't playing hard and seems disgusted.

Any coach will tell you they constantly have to search for new ways to motivate and inspire their team every year. I think Sherri loves this group of players individually but is still searching for the way to motivate them and the best way to get them to respond. I'm sure it's maddening as a coach to keep trying new things, only to see the same result.

Personally, I think a lot of starts with Gabbi. When she plays with a little "pop," it changes everything. When she just dribbles in circles and goes through the motion, our offense is abysmal.



On the effort:

“I’m not pleased at all. We played hard when we were about to get embarrassed. We didn’t play hard from the opening tip to the final buzzer.”

On taking any positives:

“Well you can’t leave it behind you. Those things are unacceptable, completely unacceptable.

I think you nailed it w/ trying to find a different way to coach them. She's been easy on them all year. Think she just looking for the right way to go about it. This could be a good thing....

 

[sybarite]

Explain what you would do. We have had team meetings. We have had Sherri cover for the players. Then, one game, they come out on fire. The next game, they look like they are afraid. A sophomore, Gabbi, indicated that they played like they were afraid. Why is that?

It really begins in the middle. If I were to blame Sherri for anything, it would be in having too much faith in Kay Kay. There are times that Kay Kay can't seem to do anything right, either on offense or defense. She missed layups, threw up silly would be layups, threw it at the basket where it had no chance. She does this at times when she faces a tall center. It gets us off to a bad start. A couple of missed layups, usually accompanied by fouls trying to get the rebound, a reach-in foul, a weak outlet pass, and we are suddenly behind 8-0. We spend too much time trying to put out the fire. Meanwhile, they hit two quick threes.

They do it as an aggressive move. Take the ball to the rim aggressively. But, Kay Kay isn't aggressive with it. She is intimidated by someone 6-4. She makes a weak effort.

We had people who were afraid to shoot. Bench them. If Peyton can't shoot or won't shoot, sit her down. She is there to score. She isn't a passer or ball-handler. We've seen Peyton for two years, and we have seen that she can hit the three. She isn't even close. Why?

How do you get the game started on a good note? It's not like football where we can start on defense and throw the 1-3-1 trap at them to start our engines. How many stupid passes can you make in a row, and it wasn't just one player. It was four stupid passes by four different people. Isn't your mind engaged?

After they do this nonsense, they decide to play. Suddenly, they have it back to within two. Mulkey has to call a time out to settle her team down. We let them get an offensive rebound, and they score about six in a row. A bad call doesn't help.

I don't believe in a coach blaming the players publicly. Well, telling them privately doesn't seem to work. They knew what they had done. Both Kay Kay and Gabbi had seen it. Who takes charge? Our only senior isn't in the right position to take charge. Who says, "enough?"

This team came close to the #3 team in the nation playing horribly.

 

[Oliver Hardy]

I know for a fact that Sherri runs tough practices. I've talked to players before about them.

I just can't figure out what it is with these girls, but this kind of thing has been going on for years. Think of Morgan's senior year and the scoring droughts of other players.

It seems reasonable to me that most of these girls have lost their confidence and aren't buying in to what Coale is preaching. They've lost belief in themselves and the coaches.
They aren't a team and just go through the motions in most games.

It's like they just want to get it over and move on.

I've coached girls at that age and younger and what I'm seeing here is something eerily similar.

It's like they just want to move on with their lives beyond basketball, or that they realize their basketball dreams are slipping away.


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[sybarite]

When you shoot yourself in the foot, you have no business complaining that nobody taught you to walk.

 

[Oliver Hardy]

I'm guessing that is your way of blaming the players for their results.

If that's right. It is primarily on the girls .

But at some point the coach shares that blame. She is responsible for making sure that doesn't happen or that those girls thinking that way aren't playing and aren't on the team.



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[sybarite]

I wonder if there wouldn't be a hilarious comedy sketch as a lead-in to the Hall of Fame Ceremonies in which message board posters could explain why Sherri has lost it.

 

[MsProudSooner]

I know for a fact that Sherri runs tough practices. I've talked to players before about them.

I just can't figure out what it is with these girls, but this kind of thing has been going on for years. Think of Morgan's senior year and the scoring droughts of other players.

It seems reasonable to me that most of these girls have lost their confidence and aren't buying in to what Coale is preaching. They've lost belief in themselves and the coaches.
They aren't a team and just go through the motions in most games.

It's like they just want to get it over and move on.

I've coached girls at that age and younger and what I'm seeing here is something eerily similar.

It's like they just want to move on with their lives beyond basketball, or that they realize their basketball dreams are slipping away.


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I understand what you are saying but that doesn't explain games like the Texas game. I saw what you describe with a local high school team. But the local high school team NEVER played well, never seemed to enjoy playing with each other and heaved a sigh of relief when their season was over.

 

[soonermike22]

Sherri Coale evaluated, recruited, and now coaches all of the players on the team. The head coach gets the credit when great players win games, maybe more than she deserves. The head coach gets the blame when players make mistakes and lose games, maybe more than she deserves. But our team shows flashes of toughness, competiveness, ability to play defense, will to win. So you kinda have high hopes. Then we have a stretch of lesser energy, lack of mental focus, and let possible wins and title hopes slip away. So you feel deflated from the loss and really bad at the way you lose.
Players take the blame for lesser ability, lack of focus, but they are college kids and as long as they compete and try to improve, I give them full support. This year our players have tried, have improved, and may yet make a run.
Coaches must shoulder the blame for failure of players to develop, players repeating the same mistakes year after year, and the team not giving consistent effort. IMO our coach is seeing the really good team that is possible, and trying to lead to that point without "poisoning the well" with too harsh coaching as we go.
I think the jury is still out on whether it will work. I would have lost patience and yelled like all get out several games ago

 

[35TangoTango]

I think she's also making the point very emphatically to them that she thinks they were capable of winning the game.

 

[Sooner Cal]

I don't know what is wrong, but the body language of the coaches, especially SC said it all.

If it were me, I wouldn't play any girl who's level of play is below her ability. We have 2 starters who fit the bill. I wouldn't start player who isn't in shape. We have one. I just might sit the seniors at this point.

Next, I'd just encourage the girls who get to play to relax and have fun. They were happy during the late run. Players play better when they are loose and having fun.

In the end, the season is lost, but they still have the conference tourney and March Madness.

 

[Oliver Hardy]

I never said Sherri has lost it. I said maybe she's lost them.

Why do you, Syb, ALWAYS, try to twist someone's thought or comments to fit your narrow narrative that Sherri is faultless for these types of seasons?

She is clearly pissed off. She should be that a team with this much talent has squandered it for much of this season.

Even a Hall of Fame coach is not infallible in this kind of situation.


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[MsProudSooner]

I don't know what is wrong, but the body language of the coaches, especially SC said it all.

If it were me, I wouldn't play any girl who's level of play is below her ability. We have 2 starters who fit the bill. I wouldn't start player who isn't in shape. We have one. I just might sit the seniors at this point.


Next, I'd just encourage the girls who get to play to relax and have fun. They were happy during the late run. Players play better when they are loose and having fun.

In the end, the season is lost, but they still have the conference tourney and March Madness.

We only have one senior. Perhaps that's part of the problem. I'm not saying KK is a problem, just that having only one senior might cause a leadership vacuum.

 

[35TangoTango]

Sherri is nothing if not a motivator. If she is publicly pissed off, it's certainly not because she can't control her temper. Likewise she's not trying to deflect blame; no reason to do that when you played the #4 team in the nation to single digits.
She's challenging her team not to settle. Trying to get them to redefine 100% effort. She kind of sounds like Geno (only without the sarcasm).

 

[rocjunkie]

Sherri is nothing if not a motivator. If she is publicly pissed off, it's certainly not because she can't control her temper. Likewise she's not trying to deflect blame; no reason to do that when you played the #4 team in the nation to single digits.
She's challenging her team not to settle. Trying to get them to redefine 100% effort. She kind of sounds like Geno (only without the sarcasm).

+1 Good Post

 

[zacj33]

I think Sherri would be the first one to tell you that she shares some of the blame. It's a constant puzzle for coaches these days to try and figure out what buttons to push daily. I coach HS aged girls and it's like that for me every single day. Kids don't come to practice every day ready to practice, just like they don't come out ready to play every game. It's the coaches job to try and figure out what works on that day because it's never the same for a whole season. Now in a perfect world, Sherri would only recruit the type of players that work hard every single day and have a great work ethic. The problem with that is that the true side doesn't usually come out until they arrive on campus.