GAME 19 - OKLAHOMA (11-7) @ SOUTH CAROLINA (10-8) 6:00pm CST on SECNETWORK

[WichitaSooner]

I’m still under the conspiracy theory Porters agent is the one who leaked those numbers.

He messed up by having us ahead of South Carolina, thinking we surely wouldn’t lose to that turd of a team.

 

[colston15]

So in your career, you would turn down a better job for better pay?

If I didn’t think I had a chance to have success, of course. That happens all the time.

 

[WichitaSooner]

If I didn’t think I had a chance to have success, of course. That happens all the time.

Again, you ignore the fact that mid major coaches have very little chance of success. They have one opportunity to make the tourney. You can win 27 games, dominate your league, and then play one bad game in the conference tourney and you are done. People like you act like OU is a hopeless situation, yet our compete idiot of a coach managed to make the tourney last year despite losing two-thirds of his conference games because power schools have such a massive advantage.

 

[oufree]

Win streak uploading. Take it to the bank.

I will take that bet it doesn’t happen!

 

[hoopsaustin]

If I didn’t think I had a chance to have success, of course. That happens all the time.

You're crazy. It'll be +1 million to whoever it is. And they are in the unique position of being the golden calf of employment - a fired buyout (golden parachute) coach. Tell me you'd turn that one down "all the time".

Also look at cignetti.. he took a paycut to go to a podunk school just to get started as a HC and now hes going to like 10x his yearly salary and be the highest paid coach in the sport. These lower level guys wont always get Power 4 offers every year.

We are unique in offering a damn 5 year runway where you can fail 4/5 apparently and still maybe not even get fired

 

[hoopsaustin]

Win streak uploading. Take it to the bank.

You talking about the tip off at the beginning winning streak?

 

[WichitaSooner]

You're crazy. It'll be +1 million to whoever it is. And they are in the unique position of being the golden calf of employment - a fired buyout (golden parachute) coach. Tell me you'd turn that one down "all the time".

Also look at cignetti.. he took a paycut to go to a podunk school just to get started as a HC and now hes going to like 10x his yearly salary and be the highest paid coach in the sport. These lower level guys wont always get Power 4 offers every year.

We are unique in offering a damn 5 year runway where you can fail 4/5 apparently and still maybe not even get fired

Loser himself is a perfect example. He was in the middle of the only good stretch of his career, was a big name in all the coaching rumors, and was obviously very popular at the time at Loyola. But when OU came calling, he took the offer and the massive raise. He likely knew he had maxed out at Loyola, and would never have a class like the one led by Krutwig. He also understood he would have a chance to coach much better players at OU. All that is true. He just is such a bad coach that he hasn’t been able to take advantage of the opportunity. But there is no doubt what the better job is.

 

[hoopsaustin]

Loser himself is a perfect example. He was in the middle of the only good stretch of his career, was a big name in all the coaching rumors, and was obviously very popular at the time at Loyola. But when OU came calling, he took the offer and the massive raise. He likely knew he had maxed out at Loyola, and would never have a class like the one led by Krutwig. He also understood he would have a chance to coach much better players at OU. All that is true. He just is such a bad coach that he hasn’t been able to take advantage of the opportunity. But there is no doubt what the better job is.

This. And now he can buy entire farms in cash for his troubles and sadly, he'll still get to coach again somewhere likely at or near the same level of bball he left before (bc some idiots out there will still think he's a good coach bc of one dusty season)

 

[Eielson]

Loyola went to the tourney with his roster the following year. Speaking about Krutwig like he's Blake Griffin on a roster that didn't log a single second in the NBA hilarious.

The hire hasn't worked out, but the deification of Krutwig is unbelievably cringe.

 

[colston15]

Again, you ignore the fact that mid major coaches have very little chance of success. They have one opportunity to make the tourney. You can win 27 games, dominate your league, and then play one bad game in the conference tourney and you are done. People like you act like OU is a hopeless situation, yet our compete idiot of a coach managed to make the tourney last year despite losing two-thirds of his conference games because power schools have such a massive advantage.

If you're already resigned to a mid-major coach, you've made my point. OU should be able to hire a good coach from a major conference, but we can't because our NIL sucks, the arena is bad and the fan support is laughable.

We can probably get the mid-major flavor of the month from Drake or whichever school does best this year, but that's a shot in the dark, at best. In this era, especially in the SEC, you've got to make more of a commitment. Period.