I don’t think Dari said anything incorrect though. It’s unrealistic to expect ou to outperform other programs who are paying much more to win. Even if ou gets an absolutely elite coach, there’s no way they will stay given the current investment. Ou donors need to put their money where their mouth is. It’s that simple.
I respect your opinion, I'll just disagree somewhat.
Every single year under Moser, the roster has had huge holes. Bigs, shooting, wing defenders, or some combo of several issues. Nothing about his roster (mis)management screams "commendable" and that's the part of Nowkhah's tweet I took exception to. But a guy like Nowkhah isn't likely in tune with the portal movements enough to speak intelligently on it...so he's fine sweeping everything under the big, bad NIL rug. It wasn't nearly as simple as "OU didn't have enough money". We witnessed it. Moser put all of his eggs into the Pedulla, Overton, and Garrison basket(s).
Didn't seem to have a plan after that failure (which also wasn't 100% due to NIL). When OU needed a starting big, he settled for Wague (who hasn't been totally chit but OU could have/should have found someone better to push Godwin to the first bench big).
You're telling me there aren't guards out there better than Elvis, Miles, and/or Goodine? Even in the "cheap" category, yes there are. CBB is sprinkled with talented guards everywhere. I keep beating the same drum. When Moser took Elvis with his "#1 pick", I knew it was going to be a long SEC season (predicted 5-13 and they barely cleared that).
ELVIS WAS HEADED TO CHARLESTON.
I don't fully disagree with you, obviously, I know Joe C hamstrings the program (always has), and I know OU lacks donors to buy-in (to be fair, that's, in part, due to Joe C's inability to fundraise, and due to Moser being a mediocre coach).
I think the funniest part is people will SCREECH about NIL. As if Porter didn’t have the starting PG for Houston, starting SF for Kentucky, a guard averaging 15 a night in Javian McCollum, then a great combo of Jalon Moore and Waldo Soares last year yet still found a way to miss the tournament. This dude is absolutely trash and should not be allowed to excuse his way out of every single shortcoming by blaming his so called “lack of funding”. He had a better roster than 90% of basketball teams just last year and underperformed severely. I’m tired of it.
One of the biggest negatives about NIL has been the excuse-making for sure.
Any loss on-field, or on-court, oftentimes gets attributed to not having enough NIL. That's not just OU, obviously.
Don't get me wrong, I'm smart enough to know, more often than not, the team with the most talent wins. That's why I took UCONN -6 tonight. I made a solid amount betting against Moser's roster this year (sorry, not sorry).
But it's a lot more nuanced than just simply saying OU is broke. Work within what you have had the last 4 years, make it better, and stop making excuses. Because what I heard in that Bob interview was; "My staff and I are lazy as* evaluators, I have a bad staff, we don't want to grind through tape, I won't try new things, like demanding a GM, because I'm stubborn (like using social media), I'm not open to adapting, and I need things to be easier - which is why I'm trying to run to a basketball-first program so they can do the hard work for me".