OU Hoops Mount Rushmore

[Max Power]

Simple enoug and a shout out to Escape Goat for giving me the Idea in the Buddy Hield Thread. Decided this was better than taking that thread completely off topic.

Mine would be

Wayman
King
Adams
Hollis

 

[colston15]

I'd replace Hollis with Blake Griffin.

 

[ksSooner13]

If we're doing players only, I agree with Max Power... if it's anyone within the OU program, I'd switch Hollis with Billy Tubbs

 

[KBaden145]

It's rather simple for me. The retired jerseys...AA, WWT, Mook, and the King. Need to find a spot for Drake and Tubbs. Blake Show on standby.

 

[Max Power]

I started the thread with just players in mind. But people can make it how ever they want.

 

[soonersyd]

I think I would go with Adams, Blaylock, Waymond Tisdale and Blake Griffin

 

[WaymanFan]

I think I would go with Adams, Blaylock, Waymond Tisdale and Blake Griffin

These would be my four as well and here's why I would choose them. Things like this can be great for recruiting purposes and today's prospects love hearing about how a school's players are doing (or did) on the next level. That's why I always like to combine the two whether it be for basketball or football.

Every young basketball fan can identify with Blake Griffin, so he's an easy choice. Wayman Tisdale is simply the best player in school history so he belongs no matter what (though he did average more than 15 PPG over 12 NBA seasons). Alvin Adams put OU basketball on the map...was its first Burger Boy...and his number was retired by the Phoenix Suns after a distinguished 13 year NBA career. I think those three names are the easiest. The fourth is a bit more difficult - Mookie Blaylock, Stacey King and Hollis Price are the candidates. That's where I throw in the NBA tiebreaker which gives it to Mookie - 13 year NBA career, 1994 NBA All-Star, and several all-NBA Defense awards.

 

[nikebasketball]

i would go with nick thompson barry honroe kellen sampson franschilla haha JOkING

 

[skyvue]

Alvin Adams put OU basketball on the map...was its first Burger Boy...and his number was retired by the Phoenix Suns after a distinguished 13 year NBA career.

No, he graduated from high school six years before the McDAA program was launched in 1977.

 

[DenverSooner]

Bruce Drake, Adams, Wayman, Tubbs, Griffin

 

[WaymanFan]

No, he graduated from high school six years before the McDAA program was launched in 1977.

My bad. Had the program been in effect 6 years earlier, he would have been the first OU player to make it. He was also the second OU player to have his jersey honored, so it's difficult to make a case against him.

I would like to see Coach Kruger get OU back to being a year-in, year-out top 25 program before he retires. Then, we can have a clear Mt. Rushmore of coaches with Drake, Tubbs, Sampson and Kruger.

 

[jerry]

I think I would go with Adams, Blaylock, Waymond Tisdale and Blake Griffin

Agree.

 

[PledgerFan]

No Pledger? :facepalm

 

[nikebasketball]

Hollis Price..Blake Griffin.. Tisdale.. Mookie..

 

[bocabull]

Hollis Price is the gold standard. 3 big XII tournament titles, 2 elite 8s & a final 4. Half of the OU basketball success alltime is due to Hollis.

Wayman is the founding father. He got the ball rolling.

 

[skyvue]

Hollis Price is the gold standard. 3 big XII tournament titles, 2 elite 8s & a final 4. Half of the OU basketball success alltime is due to Hollis.

Wayman is the founding father. He got the ball rolling.

Perhaps you're unaware that Bruce Drake took two teams to the final four, in 1939 and 1947, the latter of which played in the title game.

He also won or shared seven conference titles.

And Alvin Adams was conference player of the year in 1975.

I defer to no one in my admiration of Wayman and Hollis, but OU has had more basketball success than you seem to recall.

 

[WTSooner]

Hollis Price is the gold standard. 3 big XII tournament titles, 2 elite 8s & a final 4. Half of the OU basketball success alltime is due to Hollis.

Now that is something I agree with.

 

[bocabull]

Perhaps you're unaware that Bruce Drake took two teams to the final four, in 1939 and 1947, the latter of which played in the title game.

He also won or shared seven conference titles.

And Alvin Adams was conference player of the year in 1975.

I defer to no one in my admiration of Wayman and Hollis, but OU has had more basketball success than you seem to recall.

There was no final 4 in 1939 or 1947. That term was first used in 1975. Any basketball accomplishment prior to the best athletes being allowed to play has little importance IMO.

 

[slappy in OP]

ldwt356::hollis754::griffinbros

 

[skyvue]

There was no final 4 in 1939 or 1947. That term was first used in 1975. Any basketball accomplishment prior to the best athletes being allowed to play has little importance IMO.

A rose by any other name...

Drake's in the Hall of Fame. To deny his accomplishments based on societal failings is a slippery slope. Unless you're also willing to deny, say, Babe Ruth's greatness.

And Alvan Adams played alongside black players. So pretending that OU hoops began with Wayman and that Hollis was responsible for fully half of our basketball success is questionable at best.