Kruger has lunch with Stoops, loves football

[OUHoops]

http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/sportspost.aspx?/Kruger_happy_to_coach_in_Stoops_shadow/12-11108

 

[Jason]

It is just me, or is OUr Coach K doing and saying all the right things since becoming OUr coach? And, he's being genuine about it too.

 

[Shooterms]

It is just me, or is OUr Coach K doing and saying all the right things since becoming OUr coach? And, he's being genuine about it too.

It's not just you. We simply couldn't ask for a better representative of our program and university. When you look at Stoops, Coale and Kruger, those are three people who are not only good coaches, but just great people.

 

[scrybe]

I called it a "homerun" hire the day Coach Kruger was named as our new basketball coach. Don't profess to know more than others about what it takes to be a successful D1 basketball coach, but Lon's first couple of days on the job have only strenghtened my opinion of him AND of Joe C's decision to pluck him away from UNLV.

There really is another Coach K in college basketball, boys, and with our Coach K on the job, Sooner basketball is on the way back to its rightful place among the nation's top programs.

 

[playmakr]

Impressive that Sampson was helping Joe C to lure a good coach to OU.

 

[Max Power]

Impressive that Sampson was helping Joe C to lure a good coach to OU.

Not surprising to me that Sampson would offer to help. Kind of surprised Joe C wanted it though.

 

[playmakr]

Not surprising to me that Sampson would offer to help. Kind of surprised Joe C wanted it though.

No I'm not surprised, maybe some people would be though is what I was trying to get at.

 

[Nooneb]

I know people whose children have met Bob Stoops, and I feel honored and privelaged to have him as our football coach. I also often tell people that truthfully for this impact, and touching the lives he has touched, we don't pay him enough.

I have often said that if my daughter was a great Basketball player, I wouldn't want her to play for anybody but Sherri Coale, as she exudes class and style and doing things the right way.

As Lon Kruger settles in here, and he and his wife become active as they have in every other community they have been in, he will be more than worth the money that we are paying him also.

 

[sanguinetti]

Kelvin's "undoing" at OU was with Boren, not Joe C.

Kelvin would not make the "contrition" statement Boren needed after the phone call abuse came out. Boren runs the ship the way he sees fit and code of conduct is on the list. as an employee of another university that has been in leadership crisis for many years, i can some advantages to how DB has made OU his autocracy. but, the benevolent tyrant needs his ideology to pacify the masses, too.

Kruger is working the plan...the way to a man's heart may be his stomach, but the way to basketball OUCletus is through football.

 

[Dave4OU]

I cant wait to see him at the football games, and the crowd start chanting BOOMER KRUGER

 

[coolm]

Kelvin's "undoing" at OU was with Boren, not Joe C.

Kelvin would not make the "contrition" statement Boren needed after the phone call abuse came out. Boren runs the ship the way he sees fit and code of conduct is on the list. as an employee of another university that has been in leadership crisis for many years, i can some advantages to how DB has made OU his autocracy. but, the benevolent tyrant needs his ideology to pacify the masses, too.

Kruger is working the plan...the way to a man's heart may be his stomach, but the way to basketball OUCletus is through football.

he wouldn't make the statement that the NCAA wanted to hear. to this day he still thinks that his only error was getting caught.

 

[suncoastsooner]

he wouldn't make the statement that the NCAA wanted to hear. to this day he still thinks that his only error was getting caught.

You should stick to subjects that you're even remotely versed in and not Coach Sampson's personal beliefs.

Not surprising to me that Sampson would offer to help. Kind of surprised Joe C wanted it though.

I'm not surprised at all. Kelvin is from a magnificent family and has a lot more respect and honor than the vast majority would give him credit for. His parents are wonderful people. I don't know if Kelvin's father still does the things he used to do when I was younger but Ned was a huge part in developing my love for the game when I was an adolescent. There weren't many Pembroke State (now UNC-P) where Kelvin's father wasn't surrounded by youth in the community teaching kids about the game and cheering on the Braves to include numerous of the children who lived at the Baptist Children's home across the street from the University.