afaSooner
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I guess I'm not convinced I should jump on the negative bandwagon. Seems that a lot of you have lost your faith in Coach Capel. Don't say you are just calling it 'like it is' because 'what it is' is still your opinion and your opinion is a negative one. The truth is, and you can't really deny or disprove this, that a season CAN come along where everything goes wrong at the right time. A season can come along where nothing you do seems to work. The stars align themselves with the middle of the universe, the moon eclipses the sun, and it rains for 6 months straight ALL IN CONSECUTIVE EVENTS. When this freaky stuff happens not even the greatest coach of ALL TIME would be able to salvage a winning season. The thing I'd be critical w/Jeff about is his youth and experience that seemed to seep through the cracks as he became extremely frustrated. His calling out players started to wreak of excuses on his behalf which may have dumped more fuel on the fire. I remember some on here thinking it was a good idea... it was not. It became almost a weekly affair and regardless whether he was spot on or not it's hard to ignore the rather large elephant in the room. These were Jeff Capel's recruits acting this way. Even so coaches make mistakes and we'll see what comes of this Sooner team but I'm leaning towards a complete rebound next year.
I for one don't believe the season was a sign of things to come but more of a HUGE wakeup call for the Sooners that didn't think anything like this was possible. Well now they know what will happen if they don't listen to Capel or accept all the hard work they need to put in. There's a massive example that's been made and everything Coach Capel told them could happen HAS. They've been embarrassed and now the players are being told they can't get better, they can't be a competitive team, and that they might as well just break up and move on. We'll see what happens next year but IMO the stage has been set for these talented kids to do their thing. I expect we'll see a much better Jeff Capel led Sooner basketball team next year and from here on out. I still believe Capel will get us to where we've always wanted to be.
I for one don't believe the season was a sign of things to come but more of a HUGE wakeup call for the Sooners that didn't think anything like this was possible. Well now they know what will happen if they don't listen to Capel or accept all the hard work they need to put in. There's a massive example that's been made and everything Coach Capel told them could happen HAS. They've been embarrassed and now the players are being told they can't get better, they can't be a competitive team, and that they might as well just break up and move on. We'll see what happens next year but IMO the stage has been set for these talented kids to do their thing. I expect we'll see a much better Jeff Capel led Sooner basketball team next year and from here on out. I still believe Capel will get us to where we've always wanted to be.
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