Tulsa and ORU pathetic

[Seymore Cox]

These programs have a real disconnect with the basketball players in the state. Both programs have a combined two instate players. In my opinion, it's a direct coorelation as to why they've been on the decline. ORU lost to Missouri State by 17pts yesterday, a program that signed two mid major recruits from Oklahoma this year. To add insult to injury, Will Creekmore,6'8 a kid out of Tulsa had 15pts and CalebPatterson out of Ringwood Oklahoma added another 6. The top 7 or 8 senior in the state will all commit out of state to mid major and most of those players would be starters at TU.

 

[seniorsooner]

Agreed, it is a shame. I'm not sure if Scott Sutton had any offers or not but he really should have taken his chance to get out of town a few years back. As for Wojick it is really a shame that he continues to do JUST enough to hang around because I don't feel he is right for TU at all. If you go back and look at the great TU teams over the past 20 years they were all built on Oklahoma talent for the most part.

 

[Krugerfan52]

That Caleb Patterson kid also had 17 against Tulsa last year. I have always been interested in him. Any 6-11 kid from Oklahoma with skill seems like somebody the in-state schools should be interested in. But I remember asking him when he was a senior who had been recruiting him and he said OU didnt give him much interest. Colorado was the team that showed the most interest, and that's where he ended up, until moving on to Missouri St of course.

 

[seniorsooner]

By the way TU lost to Appalachian State.

 

[Krugerfan52]

Some more notes on these two teams.

ORU and Tulsa play each other on Tuesday. ORU has a really tough schedule. They play a ton of road games in the non-conference. They are without one of their best players, a senior named Michael Craion. He will be out about a month, but may be back in time for the OU game which means that they may have a losing record at that point but still be a tough test for this OU team if they are back at full strength. They did win 20 games last year and have everybody except one guy back from that team. Hopefully Craion returns to action on December 12th.

 

[Seymore Cox]

Some more notes on these two teams.

ORU and Tulsa play each other on Tuesday. ORU has a really tough schedule. They play a ton of road games in the non-conference. They are without one of their best players, a senior named Michael Craion. He will be out about a month, but may be back in time for the OU game which means that they may have a losing record at that point but still be a tough test for this OU team if they are back at full strength. They did win 20 games last year and have everybody except one guy back from that team. Hopefully Craion returns to action on December 12th.

It's more of a shock that Sutton is not getting instate kids. The Tulsa area just had a couple of 6'8 plus kids go East. Tyler Neal is a kid that should have been their number one recruiting target, he is just the type of player that would excell with them. The Clarkson kid from San Antonio is a big time player for Tulsa, but the rest of their roster is pretty sad.

 

[seniorsooner]

Was either ORU or Tulsa not recruiting Neal? Surely at least ORU was. I know that CJ Washington was one of ORU's top targets, so we may have stolen away two recruits from them in he and Neal.

 

[Seymore Cox]

CJ was down to Murray State, SFA, and ORU. I'm not sure with Neal.

 

[thebigabd]

Freakin Doug Wojcik.....

 

[sheepdogs]

TU made 20 of 36 free throws.

 

[Sawyer]

Ironically, one of Oral Roberts' best players, Dominique Morrison, is from Missouri. When Mizzou played ORU a couple years ago during his freshman season, he scored 17 in a fairly close ORU. He scored 21 with 7 rebounds, 4 assists, 1 steal and 1 block in ORU's upset win last year (and the aforementioned Craion, along with Ford, dominated Mizzou on the interior).

I'm happy with Missouri's roster, but he's one I wouldn't mind adding at all (depends on who I'd be giving up in his place; I'd definitely trade him for Steve Moore, but that's probably it).

 

[Seymore Cox]

Ironically, one of Oral Roberts' best players, Dominique Morrison, is from Missouri. When Mizzou played ORU a couple years ago during his freshman season, he scored 17 in a fairly close ORU. He scored 21 with 7 rebounds, 4 assists, 1 steal and 1 block in ORU's upset win last year (and the aforementioned Craion, along with Ford, dominated Mizzou on the interior).

I'm happy with Missouri's roster, but he's one I wouldn't mind adding at all (depends on who I'd be giving up in his place; I'd definitely trade him for Steve Moore, but that's probably it).

He's definetely a good player, and I'm not against going to Missouri,or Kansas or Texas to get a kid. But they could save some gas money and get some kids right in there on back yard. They're either doing a bad job of evaluating or their not building the instate relationships they should.

 

[Sawyer]

To be fair on the kids who went to Missouri State, I believe they've got a fairly new head coach who's got a reputation as a great recruiter (don't really follow that program at all, though).

 

[CoachTalk]

Boys be careful what you say. There will be a lot of talent leaving the next couple years. I think OU not going after BC's Ryan Spangler was a mistake... This can be said about every school in America. OU has missed on a lot of instate kids.

 

[Seymore Cox]

Boys be careful what you say. There will be a lot of talent leaving the next couple years. I think OU not going after BC's Ryan Spangler was a mistake... This can be said about every school in America. OU has missed on a lot of instate kids.

Huge mistake. I think not going after Andrew Wilson was one as well.

 

[tallandsexy]

Huge mistake. I think not going after Andrew Wilson was one as well.

What position is Wilson going to play in college?

 

[brettromar]

Wilson does not have a position. He isn't good enough for OU. Creekmore was asked to leave his first college and was the dirtiest player in the Tulsa area when he played in high school.