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through 115 games, how would you grade his job at OU?

I was looking at how the last 3 coaches at OU started their careers. Tubbs was 9-18 his first year before he loaded up and started being very successful.

Here is a breakdown of our last 4 coaches through their first 115 games at OU.

Tubbs 74-41 64% (NCAA 1-3 25%)
Kelvin 75-40 65% (NCAA 0-4 0%)
Capel 77-38 66% (NCAA 4-2 66%)
Kruger 70-45 60% (NCAA 0-2 0%)

From all accounts people love Kruger. I still think he has some work to do, coming up on 4 years at OU. If he wins a game or two in the tourney this year it will look much better.
 
Shows what a Naismith player can do for even a bad coach.

Kruger was the perfect hire for the shape that our program was left in . Not saying he blows me away me with his bench coaching, but hats off to getting us back to conference contenders again.

It was as good as a hire that Joe could have made at that time.We may never get back to a final four with kruger but we could be last in the conference and on life support with a different hire.
 
sooner 1234 said:
Shows what a Naismith player can do for even a bad coach.

Kruger was the perfect hire for the shape that our program was left in . Not saying he blows me away me with his bench coaching, but hats off to getting us back to conference contenders again.

It was as good as a hire that Joe could have made at that time.We may never get back to a final four with kruger but we could be last in the conference and on life support with a different hire.
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Very well said.
 
sooner 1234 said:
Shows what a Naismith player can do for even a bad coach.
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If you remove that Naismith player from Capel's conference winning percentage he posted a 31.25% winning percentage which happens to be the worst ever career at OU. With Blake Griffin he posted a 46% conference winning percentage. Kruger is at 50.8% and he is crippled by his first year, which was primarily Capel's fault.
 
The next few years will be interesting. He's rebuilt the program to respectability, and did it in three years.


Now we just see if he can get over that hump and become a consistent threat to win the conference and make tournament runs.
 
I have a hard time when people talk about the first 3-4 years and act like its an apples to apples comparison? What type of program did coaches inherit? What are the other variables like strength of conference at the time, was program on probation from previous leadership, etc. That's so important and fans don't tend to focus on that enough.

Is the guy at Oregon a good football coach? We will know in the next year or two. Too early to tell. That's still Kelly's program.

We know Kruger inherited something trending down and now it's trending up. I'll take that all day, everyday in any sport.
 
The program was at depths never seen before when Kruger took over. Now we're pissed off about being a 6-7 seed in the tournament.

I'd say he's done well through 115 games. Sure, I wish we had more depth and won more close games, but if we're taking a panoramic view of his tenure, it's been fantastic.
 
Kruger inherited 3 All Big XII players in Osby, Pledger and Clark, along with Newell, Neal and Fitzgerald which is the best of any of those coaches. This fake story how he inherited a disaster is a joke.

Bottom line he needs to get something going. Year 4 and nothing but treading water.
 
I give Coach Kruger a solid 'B' at this point of his tenure. This year's team has underachieved to this point, but the season is far from over. My grade may change once his 4th season is in the books. In his first three years, I thought he got the most out of his talent except for this past March. I felt he should have won a game in both the conference and NCAA Tournament.

One minor correction in the initial post of this thread. Billy Tubbs was never 1-3 in the NCAA Tournament at OU. He was 1-2 after his fourth season and 4-3 after his fifth season. Billy also went to the NIT Final Four in Year 2, had the best freshman EVER in Year 3, and won a Big 8 title in Year 4. And contrary to popular belief, he inherited the least amount of talent (hence a 9-18 opening campaign) of the four coaches...BY FAR.
 
These numbers don't mean much to me...Kruger took over a program that was by far worse then any of those other 3...we were in shambles and it looked like a 5 year project and he had us back to 20 wins in 2 years. Will never EVER think Kruger wasn't the man for the job. Even if he never wins an NCAA tourney game he has done his job...brought us back to Atleast playing ball in March!
 
bocabull said:
Kruger inherited 3 All Big XII players in Osby, Pledger and Clark, along with Newell, Neal and Fitzgerald which is the best of any of those coaches. This fake story how he inherited a disaster is a joke.

Bottom line he needs to get something going. Year 4 and nothing but treading water.
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I agree with the first part. Osby pledger Fitzgerald Newell and Clark would have all started for the team Capel inherited.

It's fascinating that people hate on Capel bc he had Griffin on his team. Calipari has like 4 a year on his team. Same with all the coaches that win championships.

You can hate on Capel's last 2 years but don't take away what he did with Griffin or you can start taking away credit from a lot of coaches like coach k and Calhoun and wooden and so on.
 
bgrch1350 said:
I agree with the first part. Osby pledger Fitzgerald Newell and Clark would have all started for the team Capel inherited.

It's fascinating that people hate on Capel bc he had Griffin on his team. Calipari has like 4 a year on his team. Same with all the coaches that win championships.

You can hate on Capel's last 2 years but don't take away what he did with Griffin or you can start taking away credit from a lot of coaches like coach k and Calhoun and wooden and so on.
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I don't fault him for having Blake Griffin on his team. I fault him for having a 31% conference winning percentage without Blake Griffin.
 
Grade?

B+, maybe an A-

But he's turned us around. No more excuses about the mess he took over. Time to start winning consistently, at the level we all expect.
 
I would give him a c+ at this point of the season. Before the season I would have said a solid B to B+ but we are underachieving to date this season.

He has made us respectable, but OU is a top 25 program all-time so I don't just settle for respectable.

I really like kruger but i have a hard time looking past a few stats not mentioned here:

0-7 overtime games,
0-3 big12 tournament games, and
0-2 ncaa tournament games...this is looking more like a trend than simply a coincidence.
 
TINY said:
I would give him a c+ at this point of the season. Before the season I would have said a solid B to B+ but we are underachieving to date this season.

He has made us respectable, but OU is a top 25 program all-time so I don't just settle for respectable.

I really like kruger but i have a hard time looking past a few stats not mentioned here:

0-7 overtime games,
0-3 big12 tournament games, and
0-2 ncaa tournament games...this is looking more like a trend than simply a coincidence.
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I think this is fair, but I would have given him an A- before the season. C+ this season so far...probably averages out to a B. Even one post-season win changes this.
 
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