OU vs KY

[sybarite]

What a great way to extend the dialogue/debate.

It was intended to state exactly what it did about the dialogue/debate. When you go to extremism, it should be treated as such.

 

[atlantasooner]

Extremism would be starting a list of candidates to replace Sherri. Never did that.
Or ignoring her contributions. Never did that.

Suggesting that Sherri is reaching a critical tipping point is extremism?

 

[womenssports]

The big bump the program got from 2006 to 2010 is gone.
Meaningless in today's recruiting. You have to have next gen stars to connect eras together.
Blake to Buddy for instance helps Lon greatly. It erases the end of the Capel fiasco.
Sam to Baker, AD to Demarco to Perine.

Whitney's knee injuries killed the progress of the program. And then recruiting dropped off.
Sherri needs to make some drastic changes, or retire. It's okay if she's burnt out. No longer
has that drive. Unwilling to do what recruiting has becomes. She's a great coach. She's had a great career. She's a HOF/legend.
But legends never retire well, they always stay on stage too long. Contemporaries like Sharp, Conradt all were forced out.
It's simple. Recommit like Bob did or walk away. Don't stay around being "average" when your whole career was a drive to establish excellence from nothingness.

Agree. If she wants to have a positive influence on players or even just students (yes, they are important, too) then take another job with the university. Yep, we have players who have done well post OU, but most would have done well anyway. They were students before coming to OU, they came from backgrounds that helped them greatly, the ones who have done really well would have done those things whether they played for Sherri Coale or not. I would like to know that Ny Stevenson was doing well, for example. If we give up the talent because we do not want students who don't fit our mold, then tell me how are we helping students? The ones who fit our mold will do well without OUWBB. And the ones who haven't exactly fit, well I don't see us helping them now that they are gone.

Seems pretty hypocritical.

And I do like Sherri, just do not agree with her, if what many here say are the reasons she does not recruit certain players is true. I also do not understand why she does not get a very good assistant. Surely, she could get CK into a different job at the university. She's not letting Jan go.

 

[badger]

Recommit like Bob did or walk away. Don't stay around being "average" when your whole career was a drive to establish excellence from nothingness.

Agree. The good news is that unlike football, it takes a lot fewer recruits to get a ship righted in basketball. You can be bad one year and great the next in basketball. In football? Weeeellllll... look at those poor KU Jay Jays

 

[inoref]

Hasn't the ticket sells for the women game fallen ? IMO, Sherri has been well paid for all her work that she has done over the years. If she decides to keep things the way they are now (recruiting, assistance coaching) then let the ball fall where it may, or at least renegotiate her contract.

 

[badger]

Hasn't the ticket sells for the women game fallen ? IMO, Sherri has been well paid for all her work that she has done over the years. If she decides to keep things the way they are now (recruiting, assistance coaching) then let the ball fall where it may, or at least renegotiate her contract.

If we were a mid-major, that might fly. Power 5 programs do not let longtime, legendary coaches retire on their own terms anymore. There are many examples in all of the sports --- Florida State's Bobby Bowden, Tennessee's Philip Fulmer, etc. It doesn't matter how many championships they won in the past, nor does it matter if they are at their alma mater dream job and promise that they will right the ship and do right by their beloved program... they all get forced out if they don't keep winning.