MBB Transfer Portal Thread: Moser Year 4

StoopsBros said:
I used Houston as the NIL example because, well, Kelvin was at OU and a lot of fans still love him fiercely. I could have used Louisville. Sure, they have a new coach. It stands to reason that they'll have some excitement and are trying to move upwards. That's a bad example too I guess but they have definitely sucked lately. I'm sure I can find an example or two of non-tourney teams (with the same coaching staff in place) that have had NIL drives. I'm not sure if Ole Miss had a new public MBB drive, without looking, but yeah, they're always in fundraising mode and just kicked OU's a**. Identical 20-12 record (and missed the tourney).

What I'm saying is...OU can push NIL and/or an initiative like...

"We were close this year. Help us take the next step. Let's get OU back to where they should be. Let's get back to Marching!" or "March forward. Help OU MBB today!". Something like that. I'm not a marketer, obviously. It seems easy to me. They could use a couple of interns, a camera, and boom. Even if all they got was $250K, that would have possibly gone a long way for a kid like Pedulla (who knows, speculative). You put that stuff out there in the public, maybe a BMD sees it as well, and steps up in an even bigger way.

I'm not fully blaming Moser. I think it's totally a bigger athletics-wide issue. I've stated way too many times to count that the people in charge don't seem to fully care about, support, and/or know how to win when it comes to MBB. They legit don't seem to get it or they don't seem to care. I'm not saying social media is the largest piece of that puzzle. It's just one example. NIL, arena, ability to win, etc...are bigger issues.

But Moser can do a lot for/by himself. He's followed exactly zero new portal recruits on social media this cycle. That's astonishing. More astonishing is the fact that neither has Paul Jesperson, Armon Gates, Brock Morris, or any of the GA types. When it comes to social media, they're not maximizing things. Custer, Glibert, and Hump are the only ones semi-trying and it's been minimal (Hump is the most active).

Edit: as I'm typing this, Brock Morris followed this account...

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Welcome Mr. Morris. The portal has been open for 39 days. Hey, better late than never, I guess.


"It's not that important". That's where a lot of us will disagree. I used football as example, not because the programs parallel each other per se, but because I see how much of a positive impact social media is for the (football) program. I think MBB can find ways to mimic football. Of course, not all things are equal. MBB doesn't have the championships, they don't have a million NFL guys (NBA), etc. Coach V is the social media HC, for real. He totally gets it even if he's not tweeting all day.

If Moser isn't using SM properly, it makes sense as to why his staff isn't. Coaches and/or other staffers. It's not seen as a priority or they have been directly told not to. I can't say, for sure, that he has a purposeful anti-social media stance or that's he's relayed it to his "team" to keep things hidden and out of view but it definitely appears to be the case.

It's all good. I'm a jumbled mess but I know my underlying points are correct (I've never ever been wrong :) ). People see things differently and that's more than okay. We can move on, lol.
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Try to be fair... they have access to the real portal. They dont need a twitter follow.
 
WichitaSooner said:
It’s funny how you post this each time another team contacts him. If/when he succeeds at another P5 school, it’ll just highlight what a terrible job our staff did developing him and maximizing his strengths. I also wonder — is there any reasonable way to have watched the final two months of the season and not thought that his play was awful?
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Just crackin jokes. Smile.
 
StoopsBros said:
Oh wait, it didn't take long to find Ole Miss pushing NIL. 20-12 record, like OU.



and look...excitement!

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That is what I was saying what other schools and the competition does. Everywhere. All the time.

Let's be honest, the Boom Squad has a better SM presence and more excitement for OU basketball than OU basketball and/or staff.
 
CoachTalk said:
Try to be fair... they have access to the real portal. They dont need a twitter follow.
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Man, you know I get that lol. They are operating off-the-grid (so to speak). They use the info provided in the real portal. Listed contact info. They make calls to the players (and/or agents) and go from there. I totally get it.

I'm saying, sort of, why not both? But it's whatever. Again, I'm screaming into a vast wasteland when it comes to this stuff and I know that. A) my opinion isn't important B) this staff is 100% stubborn and set in their, mostly, ineffective ways.
 
If I'm understanding SB correctly, he's not saying the social media stuff is going to be the deciding factor between getting a recruit or not. But excitement around the program generated by social media use (i.e. follow activity, hype videos, fan engagement) COULD be enough to convince a guy to visit that may otherwise not have. Or it COULD be enough to entice fans to donate a bit more towards NIL.

Again, how much of a material impact would that create? Who knows. But getting a guy on campus gives you a shot you wouldn't have had otherwise. Getting a few extra NIL dollars to offer could be enough to close the gap to seal the deal with a portal prospect. Rallying the fan base on social media in a way that has people posting about the program could catch the attention of a guy we're after.

At the end of the day, why would you purposefully neglect a useful tool that's been made available to you for free? Especially when we all seem to believe that the program is already operating with a hand tied behind its back? It just doesn't make sense.
 
MJSooner said:
That is what I was saying what other schools and the competition does. Everywhere. All the time.

Let's be honest, the Boom Squad has a better SM presence and more excitement for OU basketball than OU basketball and/or staff.
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Yeah, and as seen by this thread partially, if more people don't get it, things will never change. We'll be back where we are now, in a year, in 5 years.

The whole point with social media is that the program, as a whole, isn't operating like it should be and by failing to do so, they're limiting themselves greatly. When you limit yourself, you're going to lose games. In today's era, it's easy to argue that a simple/free tool like social media can help you acquire talent. Whether that's just interacting with recruits, throwing up promotional tweets that help the program's appearance, or an NIL drive....it's really not hard to get what we're saying here. It's really not much of a debate. MBB is a mess. Social media is very public example of said mess.
 
Ole Miss has their **** together, to say the least, when it comes to NIL. If anyone knows who Bunkie Perkins is on Twitter, you'll know that Ole Miss is doing what they've always done, just on a bigger scale now that it's legal.

I think OU, from an admin and athletic department standpoint, is in for a rude awakening once we get settled into the SEC.

Circling back to football, Jeff Lebby was a rockstar for OU football from an NIL perspective and by FAR our most SEC-ready coach, if you catch my drift....wink-wink. We need more Jeff Lebby type people in the athletic department, at least when it comes to working 'the game'. Obviously his unfortunate ties to Art Briles and the defense of his father-in-law, coupled with his playcalling, notwithstanding.
 
NorthCarolinaSooner said:
In all fairness....a LOT of D1 guys would be playing at NAIA if they were average athletes.....athleticism is what MAKES them D1 level rather then lower most of the time. LOL


and do we have to dog NAIA athletes' athleticism? I resemble that remark. LMAO
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I mean average as in average D1 athlete. Not comparing him to the average person. Oweh is below average at most things outside of athleticism.
 
StoopsBros said:
Yeah, and as seen by this thread partially, if more people don't get it, things will never change. We'll be back where we are now, in a year, in 5 years.

The whole point with social media is that the program, as a whole, isn't operating like it should be and by failing to do so, they're limiting themselves greatly. When you limit yourself, you're going to lose games. In today's era, it's easy to argue that a simple/free tool like social media can help you acquire talent. Whether that's just interacting with recruits, throwing up promotional tweets that help the program's appearance, or an NIL drive....it's really not hard to get what we're saying here. It's really not much of a debate. MBB is a mess. Social media is very public example of said mess.
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OU wrestling has more social media presence right now than the basketball program.
 
TopherB560 said:
OU wrestling has more social media presence right now than the basketball program.
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Very true and a great example. I don't follow wrestling all too closely but what little I do know...

Rosselli flat-lined the program. It was "dead". The new staff's objective is to get OU back to prominence/respectability. They're, like you said, leaning into a free tool to help them in their efforts. Will it succeed fully? I mean, who knows, but at least they're (publicly) putting in the damn work.




I missed the tweets (been mostly off Twitter). It deserves acknowledgement and a retweet.
 
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