Man i know you're going to die on this hill and it's not a totally terrible hill but it's still pretty weak to brag about only making the 68 team tournament... IMO its about actually being a threat to make runs in them and not get a participation ribbon
But this is not what most posters that are arguing about wanting to be competitive are saying. Multiple posters have now come back and said as long as we are competing for a conference championship and a conference tournament championship they honestly don’t care what the tournament results are.
That is going to be spun into well if we have a competitive team in the conference we should get a higher seed which should mean we have a better chance in the tournament.
Multiple posters have pointed out the history of being upset as the higher seed but posters have flat said they don’t care about that as long The number is shiny looking on the bracket.
My point to that is who cares if it is an eight or a nine seed if you win the first game and lose to the one seed in the second round if you were arguing that it only matters that you make the tournament as a high seed which is what a couple posters are saying.
It has been pointed out that Oklahoma lost to a 13 seed they lost to an 11 seed they lost to other seeds way worse than what they had and posters basically have said that doesn’t matter because they competed for a conference championship or a conference tournament championship.
I think one poster even said if they make a tournament run that just puts the gravy on top to him not that he cares about tournament runs because it’s a crapshoot. This is the type of thinking that I don’t understand that people are getting up in arms about if Oklahoma is a seven or an eight seed if they claim they don’t care about the tournament runs.
Looking at this year‘s conference finish and the number seven seed people were claiming that this team isn’t competitive because of the final conference record. However if you actually look at those games other posters have pointed out that the six teams that finished ahead of Oklahoma we’re all in the top 25 are all a six seed or higher in the tournament and Oklahoma‘s worst loss to one of those teams without looking it up was 10 points or less and was a competitive game pretty much every time but that doesn’t matter to most people on here because they didn’t get the W which is understandable.
In my opinion what people are claiming though which is the complete unknown is if they change coaches people are acting like it immediately changes those losses into wins.
I get wanting to recruit better but again Oklahoma really hasn’t recruited that poorly except in the post I one hundred percent agree it would be nice to have a guy that doesn’t seem like a complete project for three years just to be somewhat formidable for one season.
However, when you then claim that bringing in A junior college player listed at 6 foot eight and 210 pounds is going to bang in this league and change your post game around I find personally find that laughable.
If you are bringing in a 6’9 245 pound banger that has some skill so be it but those guys are a dime a dozen that everybody is looking for. Oklahoma had some luck last year on the transfer market and hopefully they can do it again with one if not two post players.
Personally I don’t think overall the results of this team are that far off from what people are wanting but again I also believe that Kruger is getting negatively recruited against due to his age which is only going to get worse each season. The problem is you don’t tell a guy that has had the results that he has had that he hast to get out. Everybody knows the end is probably near but it’s most likely his decision of when that is.
