I love her, but I'm getting a bit tired

[35TangoTango]

One mistake and it was back to the bench. You have to allow young players to play through some mistakes to see what they are capable of doing.

So what's your theory?

 

[Oliver Hardy]

Tango,

I certainly did not mean the latter. It's the former that has reared it's head in my thinking.

I think over the last 3 to 4 years Sherri has struck out so often, so late on big names that its beginning to appear to me the former may be the case in some instances.

Zander certainly was in that vein. I mean no one can figure that one out.

Sherri recruits a 4 or 5 that has good potential and then squanders whatever ability she has at the 3? That was just stupid, unless she wasn't any good to begin with and shouldn't have been signed.

Hartman is playing this year just as much as I thought she would, she's another example.

I disagree with your assessment of Cloman, Tango. She showed little her first two years. If she was injury ladened when she came in, she shouldn't have been taken. If she was injured after getting to OU, it's not her fault and perhaps she might have showed something.

I don't mean to be mean or bash these girls. They have all worked hard and represented OU and the program with pride and excellence.

It's Sherri's plans and judgments I question in those instances that gives rise to part of my comment.

 

[MsProudSooner]

One mistake and it was back to the bench. You have to allow young players to play through some mistakes to see what they are capable of doing.

I've heard it said many times that players earn their game time minutes in practice, not during games. It seems that many young players are allowed to play for the amount of time they can play and adhere to the game plan and play without major errors. When the coach sees that they aren't doing that or are falling back into bad habits, they are subbed out. At the beginning of their careers, they might play for only a minute or two. If they work hard and learn, their time will increase.

Some players can't improve as much as is needed.

Some players aren't dedicated enough to improve as much as is needed.

Some decide they would rather be a big fish in a small pond than a small fish in a big pond.

The most difficult thing about recruiting is determining whether a player is as good as they are going to get in their Senior year of high school. Or, do they have the dedication and desire to keep improving. It's not an exact science.

 

[35TangoTango]

Oliver - yes, we've recruited 3 bigs over the last several years that didn't pan out; Cloman, Zander, and Jeffcoat. My contention is that (1), there's no commonality in those 3 cases; each failed for a different reason. And (2), that's too small a sample to draw any statistical conclusion from. Except of course for the one statistic that counts - we keep on winning.

 

[SoonerNorm]

So what's your theory?

I don't have a clue. It could have been a multitude of reasons.

 

[Oliver Hardy]

I don't have a clue. It could have been a multitude of reasons.

My personal opinion only on this particular tangent?

I think Sherri got told to recruit her because we wanted her brother. I think she was an OK player.

She got up here, probably started in Sherri's doghouse because Sherri had to take her, couldn't cut it at D-1 and never got the chance to and transferred.