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[SoonerSpock]

It was reported on another website by a poster so their information is unsubtantiated and not necessarily fact that.

- Sherri was given certain demands while Boren was still Prez.
- New prez Gallogly has no love for Sherri which could mean nothing. He really
does not know her.
- Colton had to cancel vacation plans to be on the recruiting trail.
- Player posted pic of new tatto. It that new freedom afforded players or no
change in Sherri's philosophy?
- Are there really "winds of change" in the program behind the recent recruiting
improvement that is being driven by more pressure from the administration?

I doubt anyone has the answer to any of the above but it does make for interesting spectulation.

 

[Oliver Hardy]

It seems to me something significant has changed. I know Joe C. had a serious chat with Sherri about the team.

My info on Chad seeking another job may have been bad, he may have simply changed his mind or didn't find anything, but I'm still pretty sure he was testing the job market.

As many here and on Norm's board have noted in recent weeks, something is happening, and it's for the better.

Sherri's close link to the president's office, certainly has to have changed and declined with Boren's departure.

A new president who, in all likelihood doesn't give a crap about WBB or Sherri, a talk with Joe after the season...etc.

As someone reported, a player showing off a tat (when has that ever happened?).

Looks like some level of change is occurring for sure.

 

[sybarite]

I always look at these posts and wonder if there is any validity at all. It seems that every change or perceived change in the direction of anything to do with the women's program is a clear indication that Sherri is under orders from someone.

Considering that the new president, probably still under a microscope himself, of an institution that is in a state which is ranked forty-ninth, or some similar number, in education in the nation has as his highest priority some repair of the women's basketball program, right down to the point at which we are ordering the acceptance of tattoos is so bizarre that I figure that it could only occur in a state that has as many problems as Oklahoma.

I must admit that I have more than a little concern about the future of the university with any regents of this era. If they are down to management of the women's basketball program, I have little hope for the future of the university.

 

[tycat947]

i always look at these posts and wonder if there is any validity at all. It seems that every change or perceived change in the direction of anything to do with the women's program is a clear indication that sherri is under orders from someone.

Considering that the new president, probably still under a microscope himself, of an institution that is in a state which is ranked forty-ninth, or some similar number, in education in the nation has as his highest priority some repair of the women's basketball program, right down to the point at which we are ordering the acceptance of tattoos is so bizarre that i figure that it could only occur in a state that has as many problems as oklahoma.

I must admit that i have more than a little concern about the future of the university with any regents of this era. If they are down to management of the women's basketball program, i have little hope for the future of the university.

Bingo!

 

[MsProudSooner]

It seems to me something significant has changed. I know Joe C. had a serious chat with Sherri about the team.

My info on Chad seeking another job may have been bad, he may have simply changed his mind or didn't find anything, but I'm still pretty sure he was testing the job market.

As many here and on Norm's board have noted in recent weeks, something is happening, and it's for the better.

Sherri's close link to the president's office, certainly has to have changed and declined with Boren's departure.

A new president who, in all likelihood doesn't give a crap about WBB or Sherri, a talk with Joe after the season...etc.

As someone reported, a player showing off a tat (when has that ever happened?).

Looks like some level of change is occurring for sure.

Lots of speculation in this post. Some of it could be based on facts, I suppose. Recruiting does seem to be on an upward trend so it doesn't seem unreasonable that something has changed in that area.

But unless you've seen or read something that I haven't you seem to have pulled the comment about the new president out of your nether regions.

 

[SoonerSpock]

I always look at these posts and wonder if there is any validity at all. It seems that every change or perceived change in the direction of anything to do with the women's program is a clear indication that Sherri is under orders from someone.

Considering that the new president, probably still under a microscope himself, of an institution that is in a state which is ranked forty-ninth, or some similar number, in education in the nation has as his highest priority some repair of the women's basketball program, right down to the point at which we are ordering the acceptance of tattoos is so bizarre that I figure that it could only occur in a state that has as many problems as Oklahoma.

I must admit that I have more than a little concern about the future of the university with any regents of this era. If they are down to management of the women's basketball program, I have little hope for the future of the university.

No doubt one does not know the validity of any of these rumors. It seems to me the post on the other board I referenced made no inferences or any of the suggestions simlar to those you suggest they make.

For certain Joe C could have had a conversation with Sherri about her team and its performance, probably happens at least annually. But that is private conversation that should not leak to the public. And any leak might be a bigger problem for the program than the performance issues.

The change in tatto policy, if there was a change, could be nothing than a change Sherri has felt forced to make to be more effective recruiting girls she has not been able to reach in the past. Perhaps there is no change in her tatto policy only fan speculation based on a social media post.

Obviously Boren and Sherri were close. It is equally probable that she Gallogly have virtually no relationship to date with academics and school finances, as you suggest, at the top of his priority list and WBB totally under Joe C. control which may or may not have been the case in the past under Boren.

To me that might be a step back for Sherri and could position her to have to perform better on the court to keep her historical job security but who knows. But she definitely does not have Boren's leverage at the presidential suite like in the past.

But speculation is what fans do and when they see a change such as the recent WBB recruiting success they attempt to justify why it happened. But that really only works within their own mind. Just as they explain why and how Bob Stoops turned around OU's recruiting in 2015 when they actually know little of the complexities that were involved in effecting the changes.

For me funding is a greater concern for the university than who sits on the board of regents. With the positive changes that have transpired at the university over the last 20+ years I only hope we can approach maintaining those improvements under Gallogly and his successor. Continuing to grow gifts, grants and endowments at the rate similar to Boren is a major challenge especially with the ever declining contribution of state moneys by the legislature having to be offset.

 

[sybarite]

I don't know of a post on another board.

 

[SoonerSpock]

I repeated the post on the other board to start this thread. I noted is was an unsubstaniated post and not necessarily facts so you should be familar with the post.

 

[sybarite]

Then, you don't need to be concerned. Do you? I did not specify any individual or single anyone out for any attack. I questioned the type of information contained in these posts, which do crop up fairly frequently.

 

[soonerstar]

I repeated the post on the other board to start this thread. I noted is was an unsubstaniated post and not necessarily facts so you should be familar with the post.

The person who posted this on the other board does not post very often, but is usually very reliable.

 

[SoonerSpock]

Then, you don't need to be concerned. Do you? I did not specify any individual or single anyone out for any attack. I questioned the type of information contained in these posts, which do crop up fairly frequently.

No more so than you were with my original post. I was just questioning your perspective. To each his own.

 

[Oliver Hardy]

Syb, I believe you misconstrued the post regarding the tattoo. I don't believe the poster was implying that the OU president was involved in anything regarding a tat (or anything else). In fact, I bet he can't even tell you who the WBB players are or much about the program at all.

But, you do have to admit, we haven't seen tats displayed on a player's website before this-- or at least in a long, long time.

My guess the president also hasn't had time to think about WBB much at all. He's been too busy firing a bunch of useless VPs and straightening out the bureaucratic morass that is the OU administration.

I think you will admit that our recruiting as dramatically taken a turn for the better. Something had to happen for that to occur. I don't know what it was, but my experience in politics, government, etc., leads me to believe that Sherri was told the recent product was not to the standards that OU now finds acceptable and necessary.

Hence, some changes appear to be taking place.

 

[sybarite]

I think there has been a rather constant discussion of what Sherri has been told to do over the years. For some reason, a program that had so little interest that it had been cancelled seemed to draw so much interest from the higher ups at OU that Sherri was being told constantly what to do, how to behave, even what to wear.

I suspect the reality is more like they really still didn't care, were glad and pleasantly surprised to have a winning team and a positive image where they had been a source of embarrassment.

We had a situation in which we had a coach who had taken a recently cancelled program to the finals of the NCAA. This was a measure of unexpected success. The coach had also been so highly-regarded that she had become a leader in the politics of coaching, becoming president of the coaches association and a member of the Hall of Fame.

So, you have a bunch of message board know-it-alls who seem to think that she had only succeeded because she had Bo Overton running the show. I guess they thought a female just needed their input, at at least male input, to keep a program going. Every new thing, rather than just being a part of the evolving nature of women's basketball, was due to the orders of someone above Sherri, or she wouldn't have changed a thing.

Yet, if you listened to Sherri, it might have been obvious that she had a vision of basketball that she had never been able to attain. She hadn't been able to get all of the right pieces at the same time to make it happen. She had built by recruiting nobodys, and had only had a few highly-recruited prospects attracted to OU. When you see a different type of recruit being brought in, it is assumed that she was given orders. The thought that she had found a way to do what she wanted to do didn't seem to occur to anyone. Just had to be someone telling her what to do.

I think it is more likely that the one thing that might get Sherri to leave OU would be for someone to give her orders as to what to do..

 

[tycat947]

I think there has been a rather constant discussion of what Sherri has been told to do over the years. For some reason, a program that had so little interest that it had been cancelled seemed to draw so much interest from the higher ups at OU that Sherri was being told constantly what to do, how to behave, even what to wear.

I suspect the reality is more like they really still didn't care, were glad and pleasantly surprised to have a winning team and a positive image where they had been a source of embarrassment.

We had a situation in which we had a coach who had taken a recently cancelled program to the finals of the NCAA. This was a measure of unexpected success. The coach had also been so highly-regarded that she had become a leader in the politics of coaching, becoming president of the coaches association and a member of the Hall of Fame.

So, you have a bunch of message board know-it-alls who seem to think that she had only succeeded because she had Bo Overton running the show. I guess they thought a female just needed their input, at at least male input, to keep a program going. Every new thing, rather than just being a part of the evolving nature of women's basketball, was due to the orders of someone above Sherri, or she wouldn't have changed a thing.

Yet, if you listened to Sherri, it might have been obvious that she had a vision of basketball that she had never been able to attain. She hadn't been able to get all of the right pieces at the same time to make it happen. She had built by recruiting nobodys, and had only had a few highly-recruited prospects attracted to OU. When you see a different type of recruit being brought in, it is assumed that she was given orders. The thought that she had found a way to do what she wanted to do didn't seem to occur to anyone. Just had to be someone telling her what to do.

I think it is more likely that the one thing that might get Sherri to leave OU would be for someone to give her orders as to what to do..

Yep.

 

[SoonerSpock]

Facts:

-Sherri was hired to run a program that was percieved to be insignificant by the
administration.

-Sherri initially succeeded expectations and build a dominant program from a
conference and national perspective that lasted better than ten years.

-Sherri's team provided consistently lower than expected success the last
7 years at both and the conference and national level.

-Recruiting declined consistently starting in 2008 until 2017

-Everything else pure fan speculation and opinions. The discussion of which is the
foundation of websites like OUHoops.

 

[sybarite]

Can we add one "fact?"

--Criticism began before there was any decline.
----example: some players were fat and out of shape.

 

[SoonerSpock]

Can we add one "fact?"

--Criticism began before there was any decline.
----example: some players were fat and out of shape.

Wrong I previously addressed that under fan opinion in item #5. Reading and comprehending the statement is rather simple.

 

[tycat947]

Can we add one "fact?"

--Criticism began before there was any decline.
----example: some players were fat and out of shape.

Double BINGO!!! I distinctly remember!

 

[Oliver Hardy]

Frankly, I don’t remember a thimble full of criticism for Sherri when she was getting good recruits and producing conference, Big 12 tournament and high national finishes.

The criticism developed over time because Sherri was only signing good or decent players for nearly a decade that were, along with the coaching staff, not getting the job done up to The OU standards Sherri created.

No matter the sport, OU fans want their teams to be highly competitive up to OU standards, not the standards of any other teams.

Sherri set the bar doing a great job. What has happened overs the last 7-10 years, however, is mediocre at best — but certainly not up to the standards Sherri set and led us to care about.

Now, miraculously, things are dramatically on the upswing.

That CAN happen overnight, certainly. However, I believe such a potential resurgence normally only occurs after someone gets a good talking to and/or a swift kick in the pants.



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[sybarite]

There was a lot of criticism of weight issues when Courtney was here, and we were winning big at the time.