It's gotta be Buzz

[Big Old Booger]

If it were billion(s), I'd go after Coach K!

Phil Jackson

 

[Mr.B!!!]

Phil Jackson

Phil Jackson, with Izzo and Coach K as lead assistants.

 

[jbopitz]

When Joe tells who our new coach is everyone is going to say "WHO"

 

[SoonerBounce13]

You are correct. For some reason I was thinking billions...man, I must need a nap or something.

i figured you were just getting old

 

[Big Old Booger]

i figured you were just getting old

Getting? As in present tense?

I think it's past tense now, although my wife tells me that 40 is the new 30. It sure doesn't feel like that, though. :ez-laugh:

 

[bocabull]

http://money.cnn.com/2010/03/18/news/companies/basketball_profits/index.htm

Like I said, apples to oranges comparing OU to Marquette when they don't have a football monster to allocate all their athletic department expenses to.

From the article:

The comparison between basketball revenues and profits is interesting, but not precise. That's because schools have latitude in their filings with the Department of Education in whether they attribute some expenses and revenues to a specific sport or a more general classification for their entire athletic department.

 

[trueou]

Here is another thing to think about. OU Athletics is going hard after an OU network kind of like Texas' recently inked deal. Football will carry the lions share of getting viewers but that is only from Sept through Dec/Jan. Men's basketball and women's basketball have to be the next two programs to draw viewers to the network and make it more viable/profitable. OU just can't have a substandard men's basketball program and hope to make the network deal work. So there is a huge incentive to invest in the program. More dollars up front for a many year payoff in additional television revenues. That is why I think Joe C will be more willing to pay up for a big time coach.

 

[StoopsBros]

That is why I think Joe C will be more willing to pay up for a big time coach.

I agree with your premise, but I don't agree with spending $2 mill + to a guy with 4 years coaching experience. Buzz is an up-and-comer, but not yet a "big time coach". If OU is attempting to go all out on this hire, why not someone with a better resume?

 

[152219]

I agree with your premise, but I don't agree with spending $2 mill + to a guy with 4 years coaching experience. Buzz is an up-and-comer, but not yet a "big time coach". If OU is attempting to go all out on this hire, why not someone with a better resume?

Like?

 

[thebigabd]

Everybody knows I was not a fan of getting rid of Capel.

Why not?

• Under .500 in conference play since Capel arrived
• 3 out of 5 years with no post-season at all
• 13 out of 24 players signed by Capel left
• Under Capel, OU loses by double digits every 3.6 games
• Losing record without Blake Griffin
• Fourth time in his tenure here that Jeff Capel has had a losing streak of five or more games. Before he arrived, our last five-game losing streak was in 1991
• From 1982 until Capel's arrival in the fall of 2006, OU finished in the top half of the conference standings 21 times in 25 seasons. Jeff Capel has finished in the bottom half of the Big 12 twice in his four full seasons. This team will be his third time to place in the bottom half of the pack.
• Last season was the first Oklahoma team to be outscored over the balance of a year since the 1981 team mentioned above. The 2011 team will be the second in a row to meet that grisly fate.

 

[SoonerBounce13]

Why not?

• Under .500 in conference play since Capel arrived
• 3 out of 5 years with no post-season at all
• 13 out of 24 players signed by Capel left
• Under Capel, OU loses by double digits every 3.6 games
• Losing record without Blake Griffin
• Fourth time in his tenure here that Jeff Capel has had a losing streak of five or more games. Before he arrived, our last five-game losing streak was in 1991
• From 1982 until Capel's arrival in the fall of 2006, OU finished in the top half of the conference standings 21 times in 25 seasons. Jeff Capel has finished in the bottom half of the Big 12 twice in his four full seasons. This team will be his third time to place in the bottom half of the pack.
• Last season was the first Oklahoma team to be outscored over the balance of a year since the 1981 team mentioned above. The 2011 team will be the second in a row to meet that grisly fate.

are we still argueing about this? geez, just let it go

 

[Escape Goat]

Why not?

• Under .500 in conference play since Capel arrived
• 3 out of 5 years with no post-season at all
• 13 out of 24 players signed by Capel left
• Under Capel, OU loses by double digits every 3.6 games
• Losing record without Blake Griffin
• Fourth time in his tenure here that Jeff Capel has had a losing streak of five or more games. Before he arrived, our last five-game losing streak was in 1991
• From 1982 until Capel's arrival in the fall of 2006, OU finished in the top half of the conference standings 21 times in 25 seasons. Jeff Capel has finished in the bottom half of the Big 12 twice in his four full seasons. This team will be his third time to place in the bottom half of the pack.
• Last season was the first Oklahoma team to be outscored over the balance of a year since the 1981 team mentioned above. The 2011 team will be the second in a row to meet that grisly fate.

Weak sauce. Turn the page already.

 

[StoopsBros]

Like?

I don't know, Jamie Dixon, Ben Howland, Rick Barnes, Rick Pitino, Jay Wright, Bo Ryan, John Beilein, Bruce Weber, Roy Williams, etc., etc. All these guys are could be had for what we may pay for Buzz' buzz.

 

[OUHoosier]

I don't know, Jamie Dixon, Ben Howland, Rick Barnes, Rick Pitino, Jay Wright, Bo Ryan, John Beilein, Bruce Weber, Roy Williams, etc., etc. All these guys are could be had for what we may pay for Buzz' buzz.

I'd quit following OU basketball if they hired Bruce Webber. He's a major league **** and one of the biggest whiners I've ever heard.

 

[scrybe]

I don't know, Jamie Dixon, Ben Howland, Rick Barnes, Rick Pitino, Jay Wright, Bo Ryan, John Beilein, Bruce Weber, Roy Williams, etc., etc. All these guys are could be had for what we may pay for Buzz' buzz.

Rick Barnes? Surely you jest.

 

[bocabull]

Here we are on the Tuesday after Marquette was eliminated. The exact time that most speculated it would go down if we got Buzz.

Quiet as a mouse on our end. Not a single new leak. Some speculation that Buzz is staying at Marquette but no official announcement. You can bet that we are making our pitch and Marquette is making theirs.

Meanwhile Missouri, whose coach abandoned ship after they publicly begged him to stay and offered him anything he wanted, is again ejaculating all over themselves in the press about who they are going to hire.

It is funny to watch and is there any question why OU is bigtime and Missouri is small potatoes?

Buzz to OU might just happen in the next 24 hours.

 

[thebigabd]

Here we are on the Tuesday after Marquette was eliminated. The exact time that most speculated it would go down if we got Buzz.

Quiet as a mouse on our end. Not a single new leak. Some speculation that Buzz is staying at Marquette but no official announcement. You can bet that we are making our pitch and Marquette is making theirs.

Meanwhile Missouri, whose coach abandoned ship after they publicly begged him to stay and offered him anything he wanted, is again ejaculating all over themselves in the press about who they are going to hire.

It is funny to watch and is there any question why OU is bigtime and Missouri is small potatoes?

Buzz to OU might just happen in the next 24 hours.

I hope so.

 

[TINY]

Here we are on the Tuesday after Marquette was eliminated. The exact time that most speculated it would go down if we got Buzz.

Quiet as a mouse on our end. Not a single new leak. Some speculation that Buzz is staying at Marquette but no official announcement. You can bet that we are making our pitch and Marquette is making theirs.

Meanwhile Missouri, whose coach abandoned ship after they publicly begged him to stay and offered him anything he wanted, is again ejaculating all over themselves in the press about who they are going to hire.

It is funny to watch and is there any question why OU is bigtime and Missouri is small potatoes?

Buzz to OU might just happen in the next 24 hours.

I REALLLLLLY hope you are correct, Sir.

 

[bocabull]

Buzz Williams from Van Alstyne, TX to OU and Shaka Smart from Madison, WI to Marquette just makes sense for everybody.

As does Missouri making asses of themselves in the public arena.

 

[Max Power]

Keeping in mind 3 weeks ago Boca was certain Capel was staying another year and was going to have us back in the tourney next season