Sampson wins National Championship:James/Reynolds/Griffin/Griffin/Crock

[skyvue]

Our average score under Sampson: 74-65

Our average score under Capel: 71-67

Great to see more revisionist anti-Sampson history being struck down. The "Blake hated Sampson" stuff has been floated as fact here for years, but everything I've read (aside from those posts) says that wasn't at all the case. And as for Taylor, lots of players, especially freshmen, think about transfering. There's no way of knowing whether, in the end, TG would have left or not.

 

[playmakr]

Shortly after replacing the former Oklahoma coach Kelvin Sampson and before Blake’s commitment, Capel had a conversation with Taylor while watching Blake play at an A.A.U. basketball tournament in Dallas.

“You know that Blake almost committed here last year?” Taylor asked, according to Capel.

“Really?” Capel said.

“Yeah, but I kind of talked him out of it,” Taylor said. “I wasn’t sure if I was going to come back.”

Taylor said he did not know if he would still be playing for the Sooners if Sampson had stayed. Even when Sampson left for Indiana after his freshman season, Taylor was unsure of his future.

“I was going to stick around at least for that next year and see how things went and everything,” Taylor said of his sophomore season.

Taylor did not end up having to wait until his sophomore season to know he would finish his career at Oklahoma. He quickly became enamored with Capel, and less than a month after meeting him he made the dinner pitch to Blake about Oklahoma.]

“If it hadn’t been for Taylor talking to him, I’m not sure what Blake would have done,” Tommy Griffin said. “I don’t know if he would have gone to O.U., or would he have gone somewhere else? That’s one of those things we will never really know.”

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[kansasooner]

Blake would have joined Sampson at Oklahoma.

 

[NMSooner'80]

And as for Taylor, lots of players, especially freshmen, think about transfering. There's no way of knowing whether, in the end, TG would have left or not.

That's more true than a lot of people realize. In football alone, then-freshmen Thomas Lott and George Cumby were halfway out the door and heading to Texas Southern to play for Wendell Moseley (the late, former OU assistant, who coached there briefly). J.C. Watts may have even left Norman but came back, and even OU icon Jimbo Elrod talked about in a 1974 book "Sooner" (which chronicled the 1973 season of Tinker Owens) - when he admitted that "everyone thinks about it" (leaving) during preseason.

 

[Max Power]

That's more true than a lot of people realize. In football alone, then-freshmen Thomas Lott and George Cumby were halfway out the door and heading to Texas Southern to play for Wendell Moseley (the late, former OU assistant, who coached there briefly). J.C. Watts may have even left Norman but came back, and even OU icon Jimbo Elrod talked about in a 1974 book "Sooner" (which chronicled the 1973 season of Tinker Owens) - when he admitted that "everyone thinks about it" (leaving) during preseason.

Cosigned. I dont know why people have a hard time understanding what you and sky are trying to say