Sherri, the icon

[SoonerNorm]

http://m.newsok.com/oklahoma-womens...h-shes-an-icon-for-ou/article/3940609/?page=2

 

[soonerstar]

Norm, do you agree with everything Tramel wrote?

 

[SKSooner]

Tremendous article by Tramel.

 

[SoonerNorm]

Norm, do you agree with everything Tramel wrote?

No, and I'm not sure Tramel agrees with everything he wrote. Sherri is a good ambassador just as Lon is, just as Patty is, just as many other coaches are. But, I don't think that is their main job. Their real job is to bring student athletes to Norman who can win at the highest level. Anything else is gravy.

 

[DarthSooner]

Glad you know what the author was really thinking.:facepalm

 

[SKSooner]

No, and I'm not sure Tramel agrees with everything he wrote. Sherri is a good ambassador just as Lon is, just as Patty is, just as many other coaches are. But, I don't think that is their main job. Their real job is to bring student athletes to Norman who can win at the highest level. Anything else is gravy.

And Sherri Coale has three Final Fours. She's great at both jobs.

Tramel didn't even mention the fact that Sherri Coale lead the effort to endow all fifteen women's basketball scholarships in 2007. It took her three years. The women's basketball program became the very first sport at OU to manage that feat. I would venture to guess that most women's basketball programs don't have a single endowed scholarship, let alone all 15 of them.

That's why all of the other stuff she does matters.

 

[soonerstar]

Norm, I thought the timing of the article was suspicious. Tramel waited until all the other coaches was in town. Younailed it on the head about what her main job should be. It looks like Castiglione is happy, and I guess that is what matters.Many coaches are good ambassadors for their school. I am not talking about Mulkey.

 

[rocjunkie]

And Sherri Coale has three Final Fours. She's great at both jobs.

Tramel didn't even mention the fact that Sherri Coale lead the effort to endow all fifteen women's basketball scholarships in 2007. It took her three years. The women's basketball program became the very first sport at OU to manage that feat. I would venture to guess that most women's basketball programs don't have a single endowed scholarship, let alone all 15 of them.

That's why all of the other stuff she does matters.

The only one, other than OU, that I know of is Tennessee. That does put us in pretty good company.

 

[Oliver Hardy]

I think Sherri is a type of icon for what she has accomplished at OU, just as our other coaches who have achieved greatness are. She is rare in that she brought a program back from extinction, but Gasso may have done the same thing. Bob and Kruger have certainly done their version of it. None, however, have come from where Sherri started.

She probably does more to mentor her players, interact with other students, teach, write, etc. than most of the other coaches. That's good for her and the university. She's laying the ground work to stay at OU after coaching. Nothing wrong with that. It's smart planning.

Let us not forget, however, that her MAIN job is to develop and maintain a winning basketball team every year. That's what she's getting the dough for every month.

That means winning records each season, winning the conference championship, winning the conference tournament, going to the big dance, getting to the sweet 16, great 8, final four and a national championship and winning the trophy.

She's done a pretty good job at all that.

I hope she can climb this hill she's built before her and get to those lofty basketball goals again. I figure she's got two more years to do it before she retires or, if the seasons continue to be mediocre, before someone else gets the chance.

 

[NMSooner'80]

And Sherri Coale has three Final Fours. She's great at both jobs.

Tramel didn't even mention the fact that Sherri Coale lead the effort to endow all fifteen women's basketball scholarships in 2007. It took her three years. The women's basketball program became the very first sport at OU to manage that feat. I would venture to guess that most women's basketball programs don't have a single endowed scholarship, let alone all 15 of them.

That's why all of the other stuff she does matters.

:woot :woot