SoonerSpock
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I agree with some of your points - especially re-stating our success at winning Big-12 championships over the years. And yes, we are all disappointed that we have not finished at the top lately. But even the slightest evaluation about all that happened explains a big part of the difference.
I am often puzzled by the lack of analytical ability of many of our members to even suggest our coaches cannot win championships. We all - once again - need to go back to the FACTS above about number of championships OU(6), Texas(a measly 2), and Baylor(7) have won. It absolutely cannot be true that our coaches are unable to win championships. That is simply silly.
One main thing that happened is one league team cheated (according to the NCAA) in recruiting and by doing so picked up a few players that led them to several conference championships. It appeared the NCAA was shocked to see that in WBB and so did not punish them as much as most programs - in other sports (especially men's sports) - typically have been. Yes, they were punished - but nothing like has commonly happened in football, men's BB, etc.
They are still living off that success - and may for just a bit longer. Before that cheating happened we were the most successful program in the conference.
This is not about bashing any conference school - it is just pointing out that if we had cheated - maybe paying players, buying cars for several, perhaps giving tens of thousands of dollars to parents - we could have probably gotten players we missed out on. I'm not claiming those exact violations occurred, but pointing that cheating absolutely can change recruiting. We have apparently stayed above that dishonesty - and it is in that environment we have had a harder time winning the title in recent years.
It is never completely clear where & when cheating in recruiting is happening. Is it still going on? We simply do not know. But hopefully not.
Get your head out of the sand. Baylor had a minor violation because she could not sit with the family of the other players on her daughters team. The NCAA punished Baylor and their coach.
The violation took place in 2008-09. The girls being recruited in the 2017 class were in the 5th/6th grade when the violations occurred. This kids are totally unaware of the incident unless reminded of same by Baylor opponents negative recruiting.
It is time for you to grow up look at the world and the Big 12 as it is not how you imagine it should be. All you need to do is look at the talent Sherri is bringing to Norman. There is not enough top talent to beat Baylor and soon to be Texas on a consistent basis. She has done a better job of recruiting the last two or three years but needs to get at least twice as many top kids as she is presently getting to stay on par with Baylor and Texas. With her player profile and absence of aggression that is not going to happen.
Unfortunately some here will not grasp where OU WBB is headed until we are having this conversation about the absence of championships for 13 and 15 years instead of 7 and 9 years.