TRAE!!!- Announced as Asst GM- Donation

[CoachTalk]

And why wouldn’t you want that? Do you want the CEO of a major corporation having to deal with every mundane expense account or would you rather allow him or her to focus all their energy on other things? Moser is a basketball coach, and an old school one at that. He hasn’t adapted to NIL and has yet to come up with a consistent roster building approach. Every season feels like a random approach that is in large part an overreaction to the previous year’s failure. A younger GM who understands the market and can spend 100 percent of his time evaluating thousands of players and allow CW to focus on trying to get the ball inbounds and get the ball out of Oweh’s hands is a very good idea IMO.

I’ll give you the nil contract side of things but if I’m the head coach at this level. I want to choose my own players.

 

[WichitaSooner]

I’ll give you the nil contract side of things but if I’m the head coach at this level. I want to choose my own players.

No one is saying the coach wouldn’t have some say in the final decision. But there is no way a head coach can consume video of over a thousand players.

 

[SoonerDutch]

Every job on this planet becomes easier if you hire someone to do 50% of what the original person was doing.

Again, we’ll just have to respectfully (I hope) agree to disagree.

I think it’s pretty clear the Alston ruling & annual transfers has dramatically increased the workload for roster management. If you disagree or think coaches can handle single handily by watching tens of thousands of hours in the offseason, that is your prerogative but that is not consistent with most media coverage of the sport IMO.

Ultimately if the workload goes up, good companies hire others to handle excess workload.

 

[CoachTalk]

No one is saying the coach wouldn’t have some say in the final decision. But there is no way a head coach can consume video of over a thousand players.

I can get behind that then...

 

[WTSooner]

Again, we’ll just have to respectfully (I hope) agree to disagree.

I think it’s pretty clear the Alston ruling & annual transfers has dramatically increased the workload for roster management. If you disagree or think coaches can handle single handily by watching tens of thousands of hours in the offseason, that is your prerogative but that is not consistent with most media coverage of the sport IMO.

Ultimately if the workload goes up, good companies hire others to handle excess workload.

I'm not mad. Happy to chat without name calling. Most everything we discuss here is more rooted in opinion than fact most of the time.

I've seen a couple of you mentioned tens of thousands of hours. Is that an actual number coming from somewhere, or is it made up? Because I would be that is high. Ten thousand hours is roughly 5 people working 40 hours per week year round. That seems like a lot.

I think we can all agree it will be interesting to see how different schools operate differently in the new environment. Be interesting to see who we land for a GM eventually too. With some schools plucking guys from the NBA, I was kind of sad to see somebody from the Thunder (proximity) already go elsewhere. I know nothing about that guy, but if you are getting somebody from the NBA, the Thunder isn't a bad place to take a first look.

 

[SoonerDutch]

I'm not mad. Happy to chat without name calling. Most everything we discuss here is more rooted in opinion than fact most of the time.

I've seen a couple of you mentioned tens of thousands of hours. Is that an actual number coming from somewhere, or is it made up? Because I would be that is high. Ten thousand hours is roughly 5 people working 40 hours per week year round. That seems like a lot.

I think we can all agree it will be interesting to see how different schools operate differently in the new environment. Be interesting to see who we land for a GM eventually too. With some schools plucking guys from the NBA, I was kind of sad to see somebody from the Thunder (proximity) already go elsewhere. I know nothing about that guy, but if you are getting somebody from the NBA, the Thunder isn't a bad place to take a first look.

There are 1700 portal entries right now, so I think it adds up pretty quickly especially if a coach is hoping spending the majority of time during the season coaching.

Not saying the staff is spending 5 hours on every kid in the portal, but again think pure time spent on pure evals scales up pretty quickly much less the other logistics involved with the portal if you’re wanting OU to operate effectively.

 

[Eielson]

He was selfish. But he’s been a great alum. This is really good news.

Lon completely lost the team in one the worst collapses in school history. Only so much blame I'm willing to give an 18 year old.

 

[dahlly]

Lon completely lost the team in one the worst collapses in school history. Only so much blame I'm willing to give an 18 year old.

Never pulled the leash in and lost the rest of the roster. Trae earned a lot of freedom but he needed to be reigned in during the year.

 

[CoachTalk]

im not rehashing trae. lots of things went on. We've all been 18 year old kids.

 

[Skeeter1]

im not rehashing trae. lots of things went on. We've all been 18 year old kids.

Thanks coach. Don’t let these clowns run you off. I
Look forward to read your posts

 

[SoonerBred]

Never pulled the leash in and lost the rest of the roster. Trae earned a lot of freedom but he needed to be reigned in during the year.

100% true, in February it became the Trae Young show and the losses mounted. Glad he's helping out though.

 

[steverocks35]

Trae LED THE NATION IN ASSISTS ON A TEAM FULL OF BAD SHOOTERS. He was probably too UNSELFISH.

 

[skyvue]

100% true, in February it became the Trae Young show and the losses mounted. Glad he's helping out though.

Do we have to keep repeating that he led the country in assists? Imagine if our other guys had been able to convert those dimes at a better rate.

 

[WaymanFan]

Never pulled the leash in and lost the rest of the roster. Trae earned a lot of freedom but he needed to be reigned in during the year.

I have no argument with that...just hoping we can put our frustrations from the 2018 season behind us and look forward to what / where Trae can help us with going forward to get things back on track. He's been a great ambassador for OU and we should all hope the best days are in front of us.

 

[dahlly]

im not rehashing trae. lots of things went on. We've all been 18 year old kids.

I wasn’t blaming Trae. I was blaming his very experienced coach.

 

[BoulderSooner]

Trae LED THE NATION IN ASSISTS ON A TEAM FULL OF BAD SHOOTERS. He was probably too UNSELFISH.

and the "older players" were the problem on that team not trae (not saying he was perfect) but several guys thought they were the best player on the team and it was their "turn"

 

[MJSooner]

and the "older players" were the problem on that team not trae (not saying he was perfect) but several guys thought they were the best player on the team and it was their "turn"

Yeah, one might understand McGusty feeling that way, he was a higher ranked recruit. But it was also Shepherd (who knows why), CJ, Lattin, and Odomes. They felt "owed" from the 2016 run, like they paid their dues and Trae was stealing the show.

And that core of whiners, backbiting, and jealousy with Trae was also a big reason we went 11-20 the previous year.

If anything, Trae rescued that team from another 11-20 season. Anyone blaming that on Trae wasn't paying attention to what he added to an average group.

 

[daqman]

I have no argument with that...just hoping we can put our frustrations from the 2018 season behind us and look forward to what / where Trae can help us with going forward to get things back on track. He's been a great ambassador for OU and we should all hope the best days are in front of us.

2018 was a good example of how bad chemistry affects team results..
i believe there was some of that going on last season with mccollum/uzan/oweh
gotta hand it to this years team how they handled fears' stardom

 

[MJSooner]

2018 was a good example of how bad chemistry affects team results..
i believe there was some of that going on last season with mccollum/uzan/oweh
gotta hand it to this years team how they handled fears' stardom

And may not be a popular opinion, but gotta hand it to Moser, too, on how he handled the Fears situation and stardom, from not starting him right away, to bench him for the half at A&M (I think that was the game?), Moser seemed to do the right thing for Jeremiah, and the team, when it came down to his role. The post game interview against UGa in the SEC tournament showed it.

Of course, Jeremiah had to be willing to be coached as well. He seemed mature beyond his years with his attitude and effort all year.

As much as I loved Trae, he was much more of a showman and hot dog than Jeremiah was this past year, which probably did help that group I mentioned in the previous post with their jaded egos.

 

[AnotherSoonerInTX]

Yeah, one might understand McGusty feeling that way, he was a higher ranked recruit. But it was also Shepherd (who knows why), CJ, Lattin, and Odomes. They felt "owed" from the 2016 run, like they paid their dues and Trae was stealing the show.

And that core of whiners, backbiting, and jealousy with Trae was also a big reason we went 11-20 the previous year.

If anything, Trae rescued that team from another 11-20 season. Anyone blaming that on Trae wasn't paying attention to what he added to an average group.

Trae could have gone anywhere. He chose to stay home and play his one and done year in crimson and cream. He's always loved OU. He's always come back home and has always been welcomed back home.

Glad he's giving back to the program.