Agreed, for the most part. Next year might be slightly more interesting than this year, but not national top 25 contenders. More "interesting" games, but not FF bound. They will not be able to finish a season in the conference (forget national anything) top 3 without more height and assertiveness in the post. Hopefully, CParis will work with the post players on avoiding fouls; the mental and physical aspects...help them improve their game time IQ...adjusting to officials calls, getting into the minds of their opponent, etc. I don't think CParis fouled out much during her years. JStiles can clearly help with the guards and has probably had something to do with TRobertson being more confident about getting to the basket to compliment the 3 point accuracy. She's been drawing some fouls and basically a no miss from the line. The injuries and COVID issues allowed others that we had not seen much of to get some minutes and what did they have to lose? I believe CParis had some heart to heart chats with this team. She's the only one of the staff that has been exactly where they have been before. They look like they were having fun for a change after many years.
IMHO, I don't think the top level player recruiting in OK and bordering states (or CA) will improve until it's a post SC team (and take junior with her). With all the so called respect she has in women's basketball, how come she has not called in a favor to get junior some coaching experience outside of OU WBB? Surely someone has told her it's not a good look, but more than likely she doesn't care. Alot of things (nepotism, lack of staff diversity, transfers, poor recruiting, poor development, no camps...) in the program have not been a good look! And it's counter productive for the overall success of the program. But as they say, "money talks and bs walks"! The powers are clearly content with mediocrity!
