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[NorthCarolinaSooner]

Kelvin Sampson bemoans Houston NIL budget: 'We're poor'

Houston coach Kelvin Sampson said his top-10 team can't sign more recruits because the school's athletic department is "very poor."

www.espn.com

Kelvin don't lie.

Send some extra texts? Sure.

But lie? Never known him to.

Kelvin dont lie?

He sure has a cheating history though.

 

[WTSooner]

I guess I don’t understand why you’re focusing on the GM. Then you point to really good programs that have been very successful. Does having a GM solve all problems? No. Does aligning the basketball program for success and hiring a GM help us achieve our goals? I think yes it does. Hiring good people to help us be successful is a great idea. Is a GM a substitute for better NIL? No.

We are finally showing signs of committing to the program yet you think that’s a bad idea. Strange.

I just don't think it changes much, especially when you have a bad coach. OU focusing on the wrong things. Rushed to hire a guy that isn't going to be able to help much this year. Taking even more off the plates of our coaches who are already overpaid for what they are producing.

I get it in football. That's a 100 man roster. But basketball? Come on. Plenty of teams out there, HC's even, that have said it's not necessary. If it's necessary at OU it's because that is one more thing PoMo sucks at.

He can't win because of NIL. He can't win because of no GM. He can't win because LNC is crappy. He can't win because our fan base sucks. The excuses just never stop.
In any other profession, in a similar situation, they'd simply move on from the failing employee/executive (PoMo) and replace him with somebody that can get the job done without needing a bunch of "help."

JMO. Nobody else has to agree.

 

[Moneyball]

Baylor for Mingo per Lusk

 

[NYC-Fool]

Baylor for Mingo per Lusk

Yuck

 

[CMSOONER]

It does seem odd that it has taken so long. You'd think the second commit backed off.

But I've got nothing but patience. Lol

I thought I had patience. Now that it's the end of the day and we still have zero updates.....I realize I have zero left. Every time I see this thread in bold and see a comment that's not a commit I want to lose it. Lol

 

[mict085]

I just don't think it changes much, especially when you have a bad coach. OU focusing on the wrong things. Rushed to hire a guy that isn't going to be able to help much this year. Taking even more off the plates of our coaches who are already overpaid for what they are producing.

I get it in football. That's a 100 man roster. But basketball? Come on. Plenty of teams out there, HC's even, that have said it's not necessary. If it's necessary at OU it's because that is one more thing PoMo sucks at.

He can't win because of NIL. He can't win because of no GM. He can't win because LNC is crappy. He can't win because our fan base sucks. The excuses just never stop.
In any other profession, in a similar situation, they'd simply move on from the failing employee/executive (PoMo) and replace him with somebody that can get the job done without needing a bunch of "help."

JMO. Nobody else has to agree.

I completely disagree with you. I won’t argue moser coaching ability because I’ve already said he should’ve been fired. However, that doesn’t mean we do nothing to make the whole operation better.

We rushed to hire the new GM? No, we didn’t and it looks like we hired a good one. Time will tell.

No, you can’t overcome bad coaching but we still need to improve the entire program in other ways. We need more NIL. Hiring a good GM can help a program like OU in numerous ways. Your view that we shouldn’t do anything until we hire a new coach is dumb. Improving the program now will help us hire a better coach next year or whenever we need to hire the next coach.

There are many things needed for a successful program. There are many ways to invest and support the program. I believe we are moving in the right direction and hiring a good GM can help in many ways and aligning our NIL can help too. We also need better coaching. However, it’s also true that a good coach can’t win without good players and the GM and NIL help in those other areas. Some elite programs are way ahead of the curve without a GM because they’ve been aligned for success prior to NIL. We have not and the recent changes have signaled the possibility that we are getting our house in order for success.

 

[WTSooner]

Baylor for Mingo per Lusk

Better go make a push for the TU guard, Riley.

 

[austing7]

Wonder if we pivot back to wagner?

 

[SunshinePumper]

Baylor for Mingo per Lusk

Bridesmaid

 

[CMSOONER]

Baylor for Mingo per Lusk

Lusk also said we were getting a big so.....I'll wait and see.

 

[MJSooner]

Better go make a push for the TU guard, Riley.

I actually think he would be a good get. A starter? IDK, but like his overall game.

 

[WichitaSooner]

Team number 69 in the tourney pecking order is also a runner up in recruiting guys who allegedly already committed to us lol.

 

[pnkranger]

Who said he committed?

 

[WTSooner]

Who said he committed?

Coach

 

[colston15]

It’s ok to miss on Mingo if you end up with a really good big man. Otherwise, yikes.

 

[NorthCarolinaSooner]

It’s ok to miss on Mingo if you end up with a really good big man. Otherwise, yikes.

I think Mingo would help us but id much rather have a good big than add another guard. We can find serviceable guards in a lot of places. You cannot find good bigs growing on trees.

We already have X.....we can find him a running mate. There are a lot of those.

 

[TEvans4Three]

Let's hope we signed a good big and not...what we usually do.

 

[CMSOONER]

Let's hope we signed a good big and not...what we usually do.

If we are willing to offer enough to be in the moz for both Mingo bros then we should be willing to spend on a quality big. "Should be"

 

[WTSooner]

It’s ok to miss on Mingo if you end up with a really good big man. Otherwise, yikes.

Could not disagree more. At the 1 and 2 spots we currently have Brown and Forsythe. That is so far from being good enough that it's not even funny.

I'm assuming Hill Jr. isn't an option at all.

That leaves the kid from TU as the only semi-difference making guard that I've seen us in on at this point. And the options are starting to be more limited.

Edit: Let's not forget, we are replacing Pack and Jones. Both were pretty good players for us, and we still weren't good enough to make the Dance. Best case, is Rooths going to be better than Davis? Myself and others warned the board that it was very likely, on paper, our team next year wouldn't be as talented as it was this past year. That is starting to come to fruition. Denny promises or not.

 

[pnkranger]

Could not disagree more. At the 1 and 2 spots we currently have Brown and Forsythe. That is so far from being good enough that it's not even funny.

I'm assuming Hill Jr. isn't an option at all.

That leaves the kid from TU as the only semi-difference making guard that I've seen us in on at this point. And the options are starting to be more limited.

Edit: Let's not forget, we are replacing Pack and Jones. Both were pretty good players for us, and we still weren't good enough to make the Dance. Best case, is Rooths going to be better than Davis? Myself and others warned the board that it was very likely, on paper, our team next year wouldn't be as talented as it was this past year. That is starting to come to fruition. Denny promises or not.

I think Rooths can have an equal impact to Davis because A) Davis's defensive prowess was supremely overrated and B) Davis was not a good rebounder unless he really wanted to be. Per 100 possessions, Rooths was significantly better than Davis defensively and only marginally worse offensively. Equal impact or net gain. If they played the same number of minutes, their stats would have been very similar, but Rooths would have more of a defensive impact, especially off ball.