Scheduling for success

[Oliver Hardy]

You are right. After last season, no one would have predicted the team would end up where it did. After the preseason, no one would have predicted we'd end up where we did.

I'm proud of the coaching staff and team and the progress they made. It was a strong season and it makes the future even brighter.

But what you three, Cat, Ms, and Tango, decry as B &M, is really just people talking about where we fell short and how we can do better next season. People have pointed out excellent play (above anyone's wildest dreams) and continuing problems -- like the team turning into Jeykll and Hyde and players disappearing from games over and over again, or silly stupid fouls that some players just can't seem to learn to stop.

Praise has been heaped upon players and the staff time and time again this season.

I have heard very few people, in fact I can't remember anyone, who are complaining about Sherri's recruiting the last year, next year, or the year after that.

I think we would all agree that these three years are probably the best recruiting years of her OU life and there are strong indications it's likely to end up even better.

Sherri, I think (and I'm one of those people you probably think is B&M all the time) has done her best job ever as a coach of OU this year. AND I MEAN EVER.

So, if the three of you folks want to disappear until next session because you can't stand civilized discussion and debate that is not completely ass kissing, I'm pretty sure we'd all survive and be quite happy here. But I hope you won't.

 

[YCN]

I was impressed that every single starter on this very young team won an All-Conference award. We had the FOY in Gabbi, the NOY in Peyton, a first-teamer in KK, and second teamers in Gioya and Sharane.

For a team this young to receive such accolades is very rare.

 

[sybarite]

Ya gotta love OU fans. You can't kill 'em, so you might as well love 'em.

All we read on this board from before pre-season even started up until the conference season started was how lousy we were going to be this year. Sherri couldn't coach or recruit and the players she brought in weren't any good - on and on and on ad nauseam.

It turns out that while the fans weren't paying attention, the team was getting better.

No one - not a single person on this board or the other Big XII coaches for that matter - would have ever predicted that the youngest team in the Big XII would end up 2nd in the conference and beating Baylor at home. But in spite of the fact that this team ended up being better than anyone could have ever dreamed, we still see *****ing and moaning.

While the same whining and complaining goes on here until next October, the players will work on the main thing they need to improve on - consistency - and I have complete confidence they will be more consistent next year.

You will now be returned to your regularly scheduled programming.

I had intended that this be the last post on the subject. It seems to sum it up pretty well.

 

[Oliver Hardy]

Best laid plans...