Is this the beginning of the end?

[thebigabd]

The stats are mounting against the current regime... The conference losses, the blowouts, etc. So far they have gotten by in the media and to a large part amongst the fans by beating (even by narrow margins) inferior teams.

Rewind to Saturday, January 8th. They played the least talented top 6 team in the league at home, got beat by 20, and the fan boards went into total meltdown.

There are no more Coppin States, Maryland Eastern Shores, Central Arkansas', etc to stop the bleeding. From here on out, everyone is really good. Even traditional bottom feeders like Colorado and Nebraska are tough. Hell, Colorado has two draft picks, one possible lottery pick. Texas Tech, as bad as they have been, are better. There is nowhere to hide.

Can any program, especially a once proud one like OU, really sustain getting beat by 15+, 20+, 25+ time and time again? Think about how bad things have been for OU in the media and amongst the fans after 1 bad conference loss. What happens after the next one? And the next one?

At some point the situation becomes unsustainable. Even crappy basketball schools fire their coaches after losing enough.

Tonight is actually a huge night... If they get run out of the gym and go to 0-2, not only will the media and fans crumble around the program some more, but the team itself will see that they can't compete.

These are indeed strange times for OU basketball.

 

[seniorsooner]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaIN2FzZDgo&feature=related[/ame]

 

[ben]

I don't care how bad it is this year...if we get a good coach, he'll have us back competing in a couple years. That's how ridiculous this situation is.

 

[jerry]

I don't care how bad it is this year...if we get a good coach, he'll have us back competing in a couple years. That's how ridiculous this situation is.

Agree.

 

[realdallassooner]

I want the guy from Wichita State!

 

[Sooner23]

 

[seniorsooner]

 

[CoachTalk]

The stats are mounting against the current regime... The conference losses, the blowouts, etc. So far they have gotten by in the media and to a large part amongst the fans by beating (even by narrow margins) inferior teams.

Rewind to Saturday, January 8th. They played the least talented top 6 team in the league at home, got beat by 20, and the fan boards went into total meltdown.

There are no more Coppin States, Maryland Eastern Shores, Central Arkansas', etc to stop the bleeding. From here on out, everyone is really good. Even traditional bottom feeders like Colorado and Nebraska are tough. Hell, Colorado has two draft picks, one possible lottery pick. Texas Tech, as bad as they have been, are better. There is nowhere to hide.

Can any program, especially a once proud one like OU, really sustain getting beat by 15+, 20+, 25+ time and time again? Think about how bad things have been for OU in the media and amongst the fans after 1 bad conference loss. What happens after the next one? And the next one?

At some point the situation becomes unsustainable. Even crappy basketball schools fire their coaches after losing enough.

Tonight is actually a huge night... If they get run out of the gym and go to 0-2, not only will the media and fans crumble around the program some more, but the team itself will see that they can't compete.

These are indeed strange times for OU basketball.

blah blah blah.. Do you ever get sick of repeating yourself? You say the same negative things over and over!

 

[thebigabd]

blah blah blah.. Do you ever get sick of repeating yourself? You say the same negative things over and over!

Why don't you make a post with all the positive things you have to say then?

That's the problem with you guys... you complain about what others have to say in EVERY THREAD, but don't come up with something to say of your own. Thats the point of the forum.

 

[ousooners1baby]

We are gonna git killed tonight. Maybe by 30! I am ready. Are you?

 

[Sooner_In_MI]

We are gonna git killed tonight. Maybe by 30! I am ready. Are you?

I AM READY! (To watch Florida @ Tennessee )

 

[MsProudSooner]

The 'truth' lies somewhere between thebigabd and boca. :facepalm

 

[OUBig12Champs]

thebigabd is on point! I can not argue one point with him. I agree we need to support The Program, but at some point The Program needs a new driver at the wheel. IMO, we have reached that point. Sure Capel is a good guy, but it is time to move on.

 

[bocabull]

The 'truth' lies somewhere between thebigabd and boca. :facepalm

We shall see. All I have ever said is that Capel is a very good coach and the team will be much improved next year and he is making the right moves to get the program back on track.

That is a radical or far fetched idea? He has done it before and will do it again.

 

[Bk2X]

Why don't you make a post with all the positive things you have to say then?

That's the problem with you guys... you complain about what others have to say in EVERY THREAD, but don't come up with something to say of your own. Thats the point of the forum.

Here's the problem on OUHoops.com. We come on here every single day to get some bball info and EVERY godam* thread is something negative about the program. WE GET IT! Capel has had a miserable run with some major defections some of which are his fault and some aren't but does every single day have to have the same old negative feel. Spend your time writing to Joe C instead of people wanting to have hope that OU can turn it around. Christ.

 

[daqman]

We shall see. All I have ever said is that Capel is a very good coach and the team will be much improved next year and he is making the right moves to get the program back on track.

That is a radical or far fetched idea? He has done it before and will do it again.

he has done WHAT before?

 

[Sawyer]

Here's the problem on OUHoops.com. We come on here every single day to get some bball info and EVERY godam* thread is something negative about the program. WE GET IT! Capel has had a miserable run with some major defections some of which are his fault and some aren't but does every single day have to have the same old negative feel. Spend your time writing to Joe C instead of people wanting to have hope that OU can turn it around. Christ.

If you're looking for info and your team is as bad as OU is right now, most of what you see (if it's honest) is going to be negative.

 

[oSuJeff97]

We shall see. All I have ever said is that Capel is a very good coach and the team will be much improved next year and he is making the right moves to get the program back on track.

Whose fault is it that the program is currently "off track"?

 

[bocabull]

he has done WHAT before?

Taken a program and improved it. Outperformed his peers. He has been doing it all his life.

All this negative whiney blah blah blah (to quote brimmbball) says more about the people repeating themselves than it does about Capel. He doesn't have the slightest doubt in his abilities and shouldn't. He is a winner and winners don't spend every waking hour pointing out something wrong. They see something wrong, the fix it. There are talkers and doers.

 

[Dem Coltz]

Dude abd what is your freaking obsession with coming on this board starting infinite threads and comments about the same thing? You already know (or think you know) the answer to every question you ask. Do you think by asking it in a question form that we will come to the same answer as you on our own and thus you will have gotten us to think like you? I just don't get it.

"Is this the beginning of the end?" (Yes us sucking has caused the earth's rotation to stop, thus the birds dying mysteriously was ultimately an effect of Capel's lack of a system. The world will end soon because he didn't choose up-tempo vs grind it out defense)

"Are these the stats?" (Yes please start a new thread about something we read in every other thread. OK thanks.)

"JP vs Cam...did OSU get the right guy?" (Why didn't Capel recruit Ryan Gomes? I'm Ron Burgundy?)

The amazing thing to me is that these threads get filled with answers by others exactly like the posts they already made 20 times in the last week. It's like people don't get tired of saying the same thing 1000 times.