Danni Williams to A&M

[SoonerNorm]

This is the girl who really liked OU. She made an unofficial visit with her family last year as she really liked Sherri and the program. After she returned home she stopped hearing from OU.

She was recruited by Tenn, Stanford, Baylor, Nebraska, Louisville, Kentucky, and many other schools.

It has been reported she is now 5'11". She can shoot the 3 and is tough inside. I suspect she is going to be a really good player who could have fit in well when Sharane leaves.

 

[BanjoCharley]

What happened to all of the "don't sign anyone under 6'2" " sentiment?

 

[SoonerNorm]

What happened to all of the "don't sign anyone under 6'2" " sentiment?

Huh? I am not hung up on how tall a player happens to be. I would take a Nina Davis any day of the week. Besides, we have a number of players 6'2" or taller.

 

[soonerstar]

Norm, you have 3 players on the 2015 prospects board, Williams, Burkhall, and Hearn. Have they all committed to other schools?

 

[SoonerNorm]

Norm, you have 3 players on the 2015 prospects board, Williams, Burkhall, and Hearn. Have they all committed to other schools?

Yep! I believe Williams and Hearn would have made us a better team but it didn't work out.

 

[sybarite]

Well. That's two guards that loved OU, but went to A&M after OU didn't express any interest.

Is it true that OU wasn''t interested?

Is it true that they were both interested in OU?

Why did both end up choosing A&M under similar circumstances?

If OU had wanted them, I would think that OU would have remained in contact. How many guards do we need?

 

[Oliver Hardy]

Whoa, Syb, you sound like me. Know you are just kidding though.

 

[sybarite]

I just find it difficult to believe that: 1. OU doesn't contact a player in whom they have an interest, and 2. that the staff is so rude that they just drop a girl from consideration without talking to her, assuming that they had been developing a relationship with her. I think some stuff is made up for message boards.

 

[Oliver Hardy]

We have heard for years, even before Courtney Walker, that the staff, at Sherri's discretion and with disagreement from staff, often would just stop communicating with recruits they had been looking at.

Perhaps that is accepted practice when you are no longer interested in a kid for whatever reason. I've heard that type of thing about football a lot.

Norm usually has some solid information. I am not one to doubt him.

 

[Soonerbay]

A similar story was shared with me...D. Stallworth (Cal/Kentucky '14) wanted to attend OU and was recruited by SHansmeyer. She was ready to commit but could not get a conversation with SCoale after leaving numerous messages and request through SHansmeyer.

 

[SoonerNorm]

We have heard for years, even before Courtney Walker, that the staff, at Sherri's discretion and with disagreement from staff, often would just stop communicating with recruits they had been looking at.

Perhaps that is accepted practice when you are no longer interested in a kid for whatever reason. I've heard that type of thing about football a lot.

Norm usually has some solid information. I am not one to doubt him.

I'm guessing that someone said they don't believe what I said. What I posted is exactly what Danni's father told me. I'm sure some will accuse him of lying because it puts Sherri in a bad light but, I'm convinced he was telling the truth. The real question is, why would he make up a lie about that when they were very interested in OU???

 

[BanjoCharley]

A parent would certainly be an unbiased source.

 

[garyeb2]

I'm guessing that someone said they don't believe what I said. What I posted is exactly what Danni's father told me. I'm sure some will accuse him of lying because it puts Sherri in a bad light but, I'm convinced he was telling the truth. The real question is, why would he make up a lie about that when they were very interested in OU???

It wasn't just someone. As always, it was Judge Judy.

 

[SoonerNorm]

A parent would certainly be an unbiased source.

Do you think he was lying? If yes, why would he make up the story? Why has OU not been mentioned in any recruiting reports in the last several months?

 

[Mac]

A similar story was shared with me...D. Stallworth (Cal/Kentucky '14) wanted to attend OU and was recruited by SHansmeyer. She was ready to commit but could not get a conversation with SCoale after leaving numerous messages and request through SHansmeyer.

Stallworth couldn't keep her grades up at Cal, so she was looking for an SEC school to transfer to.

 

[Soonerbay]

Stallworth couldn't keep her grades up at Cal, so she was looking for an SEC school to transfer to.

I was referring to recruiting during her high school career.

Never heard that one before. How was she able to transfer to Kentucky without a JC stop if grades were the issue? Now true enough...there have been many stories about the lack of education actually going on at Cal for most student-athletes including sanctions from the NCAA. Allegedly, JKidd and many others (mostly men's BB and FB) have not seen the inside of a classroom. Just about every student-athlete has been enrolled in their Social Welfare program that was the center of the problems with the football team sanctions back when former 49er and current BYU AD Tom Holmoe was the football coach.

 

[sybarite]

It is irrelevant who thinks they are being accused of lying. I am stating a simple fact. I am saying that this accusation of Sherri is unfounded, and I am calling B.S. It is out of character for an adult to behave in that manner, and it is certainly in opposition to everything that we have seen about Sherri.

It is, however, quite consistent in that some seem determined to find every possible fault with Sherri, even when they don't make sense. Apparently, the rule about negative rumors concerning players are prohibited, but not coaches?

 

[Oliver Hardy]

Syb, for crying out loud it was HER FATHER! You seem more than ready to call him a liar.

I might be willing to consider this as out of line, if it wasn't occurring with regularity.

If Sherri didn't want the kid, why didn't someone on the staff tell her or her family so?

Common courtesy. A staff shouldn't play with a kid's life like that.

Usually when you see black smoke billowing into the sky, you don't have to get burned by the flames to know there's a fire.


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[sybarite]

So, when someone who has a gripe with Sherri or OU, for whatever reason---and you don't know the facts---makes a claim, we should take that as truth. When two compromised witnesses testify at a trial, are they more credible than one? How many witnesses with a personal stake in the case are permitted, or believed?

Do you have any indication from those who have no gripe with Sherri that there are character flaws in Sherri? Do her players call her out, current or former?

Sherri won't ever release her side of the story. She hasn't revealed why certain players left, other than to say that they had been dismissed, usually suspended, for breaking team rules. It's interesting that even they don't seem to have any criticism. Yet, those who didn't get what they wanted from Sherri or OU can say something, and it is taken as valid?

I don't remember a mother getting involved this way. Wonder why fathers do?

 

[Oliver Hardy]

How do you know it was a gripe? Maybe the dad just said it matter-of-factly, like it was just what happened.

What I believe is this is getting said far too much for it not to be true to some degree.

Either that, or it is a great national conspiracy between recruits, parents and other programs - over several years - to purposefully diss Sherri and OU.

How likely is that?

What I don't believe is that Sherri and the program are perfect -- as you believe.




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