Stacey Dales night

Stacy and I are going out for dinner after the game.


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I wish I could be there.

I was stuck by this quote:

“She could make you believe you could fly, but she could also terrify you,” Coale said. “Our locker room was not for the meek. You could not survive because she (Dales) ran the locker room. When her intensity burned too hot, the other players were able to filter it and handle it. It was a really unique group.”

Dales explained her behavior as follows: “If you don’t have a voice that can galvanize the locker room, you’re always going to stay in the same place. You have to rattle things just enough to where accountability becomes the primary conductor of an entire group. You don’t watch a symphony and not see a maestro. You’re all trying to figure out who you are, fighting for the same thing, but there has to be a voice in there."
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I wonder if that voice was what was missing last year. I wonder who has that voice on the 2014/15 team.
 
Okay. For however long the games have been on this year they have been promoting this. So the Tv coverage goes to many commercials, does the recap and the week ahead(mentioning none are as important as what was going on at halftime), and then went to more endless commercials. I wish I had been there so I could have seen it all.
 
I didn't start following the program till about 2 years ago. I wish I would have watched Dales. She seems like a phenomenal person and very passionate about OU and the team.
 
I cannot believe that the sound was on during the game but they cut it off for the half time activities. No sound during Stacy's presentation!! Total bastages! (Internet broadcast)
 
She reminded everyone she was going out with me after the game. That was the nice part.


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BigT - If you missed seeing Dales play, you missed seeing the player that put OU women's basketball on the map - she took us to the Final 4 and then to the Final 2. To watch her she was Ali (the greatest) ; float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. Her first year the team had to get used to her no-look passes - after getting hit in the face with bloody noses - the learned about Dale's passing skills. Stacy was a joy to behold.
 
Our team that went to the final four was NOT a talented team, except, of course for Stacy. No one else was particularly talented although they were good basketball players. In that game they faced what was and is probably the most talented women's basketball team ever. Didnt 4 of their 5 starters play for the WNBA? Stacy played as hard as it is possible for a human to play. Other than Coach Coale, she laid the foundation for the resurrection for OU women's basketball.
 
Played them close too. It was undecided til the last couple of plays as I recall.
 
Maddie Manning ‏@MaddieManning 10h10 hours ago

Was so cool playing in front of the women than paved the road for us tonight #SoonerFamily
 
I wonder if anyone asked Stacey how she felt Maddie compared to her?
 
j2d2 said:
Our team that went to the final four was NOT a talented team, except, of course for Stacy. No one else was particularly talented although they were good basketball players. In that game they faced what was and is probably the most talented women's basketball team ever. Didnt 4 of their 5 starters play for the WNBA? Stacy played as hard as it is possible for a human to play. Other than Coach Coale, she laid the foundation for the resurrection for OU women's basketball.
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four of the five played on the 2012 olympic team. perhaps with a different coach they would not have, but they did. Comparison to Larry Bird and the 1979 Indiana State runner up, where Michigan State had four starters go to the NBA led by Magic Johnson. It was Bird and four intramural players. Dales was to OU what Bird was to ISU.
 
keysersose said:
four of the five played on the 2012 olympic team. perhaps with a different coach they would not have, but they did. Comparison to Larry Bird and the 1979 Indiana State runner up, where Michigan State had four starters go to the NBA led by Magic Johnson. It was Bird and four intramural players. Dales was to OU what Bird was to ISU.
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Great description and analogy and accurate.
 
keysersose said:
four of the five played on the 2012 olympic team. perhaps with a different coach they would not have, but they did. Comparison to Larry Bird and the 1979 Indiana State runner up, where Michigan State had four starters go to the NBA led by Magic Johnson. It was Bird and four intramural players. Dales was to OU what Bird was to ISU.
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That is a tremendous slap in the face to LaNeisha Caufield and Caton Hill.
 
Sooner04 said:
That is a tremendous slap in the face to LaNeisha Caufield and Caton Hill.
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Not to mention that Rosalind Ross was a 2002 first round WNBA draftee. Ditto Caufield. Jackson who was a freshman on that team was a first round draftee in 2005.
 
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