Why didn't they transfer? Why is it coming out now? Why did they help recruit other black players? It seems to convenient to me. None of the old time players are on that list. Why would C Paris come back and coach with Coale.
1) Some of the players DIS in fact transfer (Jeffcoat and Pellington), there was something crazy going on with Pellington.
2) It is coming out now because of Black Lives Matter and the actions of Lincoln Riley and the OU Football team.
3) Everybody wants to win so yes they would recruit good players.
4) This is a good question but reality is that women's basketball is much different than it was in the early years of Sherri's career, she has not adapted.
5) She needed a job and Sherri gave her one, her basketball career had just ended.
Recruiting has been really strange for quite some time. OU would be on a top player and the staff making progress then Sherri would come in and say "we are not recruiting this person anymore." This is why the program has faltered. OU is getting whipped in Oklahoma for recruits and by the way, the crowds are gone. However, the comments by former players meshes with this recruiting effort. She is recruiting like she is coaching at Oklahoma Christian. It will take years for OU to compete in the Big 12 against Mulkey at Baylor or Schaefer at Texas. It is going to get ugly.
Why Joe C. gave her a 4 year extension is beyond me. There is no doubt that she has big donor backers. Over the past two years, she has gone 20-40 overall and 9-27 in conference play. They averaged 8K a game when Courtney Paris was playing and if you really counted the fans in the LNC now except for Baylor and Texas, you would get several hundred.
