First Winning record in 4 years!!!

[BoulderSooner]

with the win last night we clinched a winning record for the first time sense 2009

17-15 is the worst we can do ..

now lets get back to 20 wins and back to the dance

 

[BigTime]

with the win last night we clinched a winning record for the first time sense 2009

17-15 is the worst we can do ..

now lets get back to 20 wins and back to the dance

That is painful just to see that. Ugh - Hope that doesn't happen again for a looooong time.

 

[IndySooner]

Proves how good we had it with Kelvin, in my opinion. Most on this board agreed, but the football crowd wanted to run Kelvin out of town. He was a REALLY good coach.

 

[WTSooner]

Proves how good we had it with Kelvin, in my opinion. Most on this board agreed, but the football crowd wanted to run Kelvin out of town. He was a REALLY good coach.

Yep. Doing what he did at OU (the consistency) wasn't easy.

 

[Boomer]

Proves how good we had it with Kelvin, in my opinion. Most on this board agreed, but the football crowd wanted to run Kelvin out of town. He was a REALLY good coach.

The NCAA sanctions didn't help his case any.

 

[WTSooner]

The NCAA sanctions didn't help his case any.

He had a lot of haters long before he got into trouble with the NCAA.

 

[jmizzy4ou]

He had a lot of haters long before he got into trouble with the NCAA.

Exactly..........

 

[jerry]

Proves how good we had it with Kelvin, in my opinion. Most on this board agreed, but the football crowd wanted to run Kelvin out of town. He was a REALLY good coach.

Yeah Kelvin was much better than I ever game him credit for. I was generally frustrated by his offensive schemes or strategy. My bad, but it is nice to have Kruger because I think he can be as good or better than Kelvin.

 

[CoachTalk]

Yeah Kelvin was much better than I ever game him credit for. I was generally frustrated by his offensive schemes or strategy. My bad, but it is nice to have Kruger because I think he can be as good or better than Kelvin.

I really like LK, but I KSamp will be hard to top!

 

[Ham]

I say the ideal target is 23 wins.
That would equal 2nd highest win total in EIGHT seasons. (So, really 24...but I am not trying to be unreasonable). 6 more can be done.

Additionally, getting to 21 wins would be more wins than 6 of the last 9 seasons.

Regardless, I will be satisfied, whatever the total, if we make the NCAA.
Even if we are 13-seed, I don't care.
It's been a damn good year so far. I hope it sustains.

 

[SoonerinNC]

Our defense was ahead of our offense for a while but lately we have been scoring from a lot of places and are running a pretty effective offense. Losing Buddy has hurt the defense as well as Hornbeak and Cousins somewhat hitting the wall.

The Baylor game is crucial. That is probably the easiest game among the Texas, Iowa State and Baylor games. Iowa State probably the toughest.

Additional must wins are TCU and West Virginia. We can win all five and the first round of the Big 12 tournament. I can only hope.

 

[badger]

Proves how good we had it with Kelvin, in my opinion. Most on this board agreed, but the football crowd wanted to run Kelvin out of town. He was a REALLY good coach.

I was initially upset at the rule breaking. In retrospect, what he did wasn't that damaging to the integrity of the game, the student-athletes or the recruiting process.

If Kelvin comes back to be honored for the 2002 Final Four or his big string of postseason trips (that didn't get broken till he left if you count NIT), I'd give him an ovation. Him and Kellen both

 

[trueou]

I was initially upset at the rule breaking. In retrospect, what he did wasn't that damaging to the integrity of the game, the student-athletes or the recruiting process.

If Kelvin comes back to be honored for the 2002 Final Four or his big string of postseason trips (that didn't get broken till he left if you count NIT), I'd give him an ovation. Him and Kellen both

Agreed. The NCAA show a certain amount of hypocrisy by giving Kelvin a show cause penalty and fairly shortly changing the rules so what he did is no longer against the rules. Do I understand that correctly?

 

[CzechM8]

I was initially upset at the rule breaking. In retrospect, what he did wasn't that damaging to the integrity of the game, the student-athletes or the recruiting process.

If Kelvin comes back to be honored for the 2002 Final Four or his big string of postseason trips (that didn't get broken till he left if you count NIT), I'd give him an ovation. Him and Kellen both

Agreed. The NCAA show a certain amount of hypocrisy by giving Kelvin a show cause penalty and fairly shortly changing the rules so what he did is no longer against the rules. Do I understand that correctly?

The problem Kelvin had wasn't even really the breaking of the rules... it was the incredibly arrogant and deliberately disruptive ways that he dealt with it afterwards.

If he had just come clean and cooperated then it would have been a slap on the wrist. But, when he intentionally made things difficult, including with Joe C. and Boren, it pretty much sunk him. And, it got so bad that they actually did the worst thing they could have done, short of firing him. They froze his salary. While that might not seem like a huge deal in the grand scheme, it was the nail in the coffin for his career at OU.

It was a clear message by OU that they would no longer make any adjustments to his contract if other suitors came sniffing around, and that even possibly that when his contract was up, the program would go in a different direction. We didn't get that far as Indiana saved him...

I liked Kelvin a lot... but, over time the "chip" on his shoulder regarding the whole coaching at a football school kept getting bigger... Obviously, so much so that it eventually led to his demise at OU.

 

[DenverSooner]

I agreed. If he had just said I am sorry and did not view hang ups as telephone calls, virtually nothing would have happened.