Kelvin, come home.

Come home so we can be on probation in a year or so. Cheated at OU... Cheated at IU...Cheated at ... the cycle continues
 
BTW he has as much of a chance of getting hired as does the OSU assistant coach who was fired late last year due to the FBI investigation...which is ZERO
 
I guess this is the best we can do? No imagination and no desire to win a championship. I guess this is what OU basketball has become.

There was a time when we, at the least, would try and win a championship. Now we just want to make the tourney and nothing else. Sad.
 
Kelvin is a very good coach but a jerk. I was at our high school when he was recruiting one of our players. There were two other head coaches there the same day recruiting our player. Kelvin wouldn't talk to our coaches and seemed pissed off that the other coaches were there. Kellen was cool. Our player went somewhere else and everyone was glad because of how Kelvin acted.

I guess a lot of folks have forgotten how he cost us the national championship by have a full contact practice two days before final four and getting Quannas White injured. He is in a perfect place, Houston draws about 1.000 a game and plays in a poor conference.
 
Leroy said:
I guess a lot of folks have forgotten how he cost us the national championship by have a full contact practice two days before final four and getting Quannas White injured. He is in a perfect place, Houston draws about 1.000 a game and plays in a poor conference.
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lmao
 
Leroy said:
Kelvin is a very good coach but a jerk. I was at our high school when he was recruiting one of our players. There were two other head coaches there the same day recruiting our player. Kelvin wouldn't talk to our coaches and seemed pissed off that the other coaches were there. Kellen was cool. Our player went somewhere else and everyone was glad because of how Kelvin acted.

I guess a lot of folks have forgotten how he cost us the national championship by have a full contact practice two days before final four and getting Quannas White injured. He is in a perfect place, Houston draws about 1.000 a game and plays in a poor conference.
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A friend of mine said that Kelvin is only nice to people that can do something for him.
 
Leroy said:
Kelvin is a very good coach but a jerk. I was at our high school when he was recruiting one of our players. There were two other head coaches there the same day recruiting our player. Kelvin wouldn't talk to our coaches and seemed pissed off that the other coaches were there. Kellen was cool. Our player went somewhere else and everyone was glad because of how Kelvin acted.

I guess a lot of folks have forgotten how he cost us the national championship by have a full contact practice two days before final four and getting Quannas White injured. He is in a perfect place, Houston draws about 1.000 a game and plays in a poor conference.
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So what if he's a jerk? The dude can coach and his teams are tough. Being a winner isn't a popularity contest.
 
After the Price/White/Ere group left OU, Sampson's teams made 2 out of 3 NCAA tournaments and went 1-2 in those two tournaments and then he left for Indiana (and OU went on NCAA probation).

Overall, he was 11-11 in the NCAA tourney at OU. And overall in his coaching career he has a losing record in the NCAA tourney (12-13 record).

He is a fine defensive coach and his teams play hard, but some make him out to be John Wooden on here (FWIW, Tubbs was 16-9 in the NCAA tourney at OU).

It should also be noted that the Big 12 is tougher now than it was when Sampson was at OU IMO.
 
mardaddy51 said:
Exactly! Didn’t know we had to worry about hurt feelings now! Oh wait.....
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Is this the best you guys can come up with? Really. The guy was a cheater and an arrogant asshole and couldn’t coach back in college for five years. OU wouldn’t touch this guy.
 
152219 said:
After the Price/White/Ere group left OU, Sampson's teams made 2 out of 3 NCAA tournaments and went 1-2 in those two tournaments and then he left for Indiana (and OU went on NCAA probation).

Overall, he was 11-11 in the NCAA tourney at OU. And overall in his coaching career he has a losing record in the NCAA tourney (12-13 record).

He is a fine defensive coach and his teams play hard, but some make him out to be John Wooden on here (FWIW, Tubbs was 16-9 in the NCAA tourney at OU).

It should also be noted that the Big 12 is tougher now than it was when Sampson was at OU IMO.
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Sampson never really had the players to be in the Final Four. It was unfortunate that just as he built the reputation to be able to recruit that final class, the one that never came to OU because we fired him, he was unable to reap the rewards of his labor. Those players did pretty well---elsewhere.

Remember also that he did win three Big Twelve tournament titles which is something that we don't do now. Beating Kansas has always been difficult.

What would you give right now to have a player like Abercrombie who thought that every rebound belonged to him, at 6-4. Also hit free throws. Would you like to have the spirit of Najera who would give 100% every minute he was on the floor, who at 6-7 was an absolute nuisance that Shaq hated to have guard him? You had the guys who went through the basket drills and learned to fight for the ball.

What might have happened if he had been able to remain with that highly-recruited class? You had to love the players that played for Kelvin, no matter what you thought of Kelvin. They left it all on the floor..
 
sybarite said:
Sampson never really had the players to be in the Final Four. It was unfortunate that just as he built the reputation to be able to recruit that final class, the one that never came to OU because we fired him, he was unable to reap the rewards of his labor. Those players did pretty well---elsewhere.

Remember also that he did win three Big Twelve tournament titles which is something that we don't do now. Beating Kansas has always been difficult.

What would you give right now to have a player like Abercrombie who thought that every rebound belonged to him, at 6-4. Also hit free throws. Would you like to have the spirit of Najera who would give 100% every minute he was on the floor, who at 6-7 was an absolute nuisance that Shaq hated to have guard him? You had the guys who went through the basket drills and learned to fight for the ball.

What might have happened if he had been able to remain with that highly-recruited class? You had to love the players that played for Kelvin, no matter what you thought of Kelvin. They left it all on the floor..
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What is it with people trying to insist OU fired Kelvin? Simply bad memories or do people have an agenda?
 
sybarite said:
Sampson never really had the players to be in the Final Four. It was unfortunate that just as he built the reputation to be able to recruit that final class, the one that never came to OU because we fired him, he was unable to reap the rewards of his labor. Those players did pretty well---elsewhere.

Remember also that he did win three Big Twelve tournament titles which is something that we don't do now. Beating Kansas has always been difficult.

What would you give right now to have a player like Abercrombie who thought that every rebound belonged to him, at 6-4. Also hit free throws. Would you like to have the spirit of Najera who would give 100% every minute he was on the floor, who at 6-7 was an absolute nuisance that Shaq hated to have guard him? You had the guys who went through the basket drills and learned to fight for the ball.

What might have happened if he had been able to remain with that highly-recruited class? You had to love the players that played for Kelvin, no matter what you thought of Kelvin. They left it all on the floor..
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Sampson's teams played hard, I don't think anyone can deny this.

But, the results are what they are.

If we want to play the what if game, if Humphrey doesn't get that tip in against Zona in the '99 tourney, Sampson is likely fired before Price even makes it on campus.
 
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