I look at it as people keep complaining about the coach (Capel, Kruger’s post 2016, and Moser) and give the guy hiring them a pass. “Joe is GOAT” and yet mens coach after coach struggles to have a .500 record in conference, we have an arena only people who saw Mookie play still love, and no NIL to speak of.
I think Joe should shoulder the blame and right the ship. I don’t give him any ribbons for not running Sampson off. Yay him. If he had done that he would have been an actively bad hire. As is, he seems bad for basketball.
This is the point I was trying to make on Scoop. Under Joe C's watch, basketball has been mostly mediocre or average. I eventually gave up because some fans can't deal with any (slight) slander towards the athletic department. It's not like I want to be critical. I'm not the negative nancy type.
I "love" Joe C just as much as the next (homer) OU fan but...
Whether or not the Moser hire was thought to be good at the time, doesn't really matter, Moser is faltering just like Capel and/or Kruger. You can't take Blake Griffin and/or Buddy Hield away, obviously, but outside of those two, things would have been tragically bad under Joe C.
What do those coaches share in common? I would say it's an athletics department that hasn't invested properly into the program or an athletic department that just doesn't understand how to achieve consistently good results. Some will say all three coaches suck/ed. That may be true as well. If that's true, that's still on the athletics department for making three bad-to-mediocre hires in a row. The same athletics department allowed Coale to linger way too long. Jennie B looks like a really good hire, so far, but that story is just beginning. She was left with a great foundation. The question remains; will she do as well without the players she inherited?
And the people who keep saying the NIL isn't on the AD, flat-out wrong. You can live life under a rock if you want to but of course the AD is ultimately in charge of that. Hence Moser using DePaul to get more "fundraising". OU has been slow to react to a lot of things. NIL being one of them and we got stuck with the chitty C&C because of it.
I don't even know what we can do at this point. Accept the mediocrity. Accept that they won't get the arena issue right. In 20-30 years (post-build), people will call the UNP stupid IMO....because it fuccing is. But if you question anything, you're called stupid, or you're told, "OU doesn't have the money". Fuccing invest in the program, find the money. Knock on every metaphorical door there is. It's my opinion that they aren't interested in finding the money for an on-campus arena because they want the UNP. I know, "they've tried". I've never seen an official on-campus plan. Why not? Why can't OU nation see what might be possible? Why can't we crowdfund? Or at least have it as a public talking point?
For basketball only, OU has the wrong leadership. I don't care if "Joe C loves basketball". He's done a really bad job making sure this program is in a good place now and heading towards the future.
