Why Can't Sherri Win on the level of Patty?

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Sherry once had her program on that level and now it's nosedived.
Imho it comes down to recruiting. One program gets elite players and the other gets average players. Why can't Sherri get her program back to that level?
 
Romulus said:
Sherry once had her program on that level and now it's nosedived.
Imho it comes down to recruiting. One program gets elite players and the other gets average players. Why can't Sherri get her program back to that level?
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Two responses to your question with the same answer. I'll make it three. The talent Sherri is bringing to OU now is not on the same level as in years past, and it's definitely not on the same level as Patty's recruits.

Is that all SC's fault? While she is ultimately responsible for recruiting, some of the blame has to be laid at the feet of her assistants. When it comes to identifying and evaluating recruits who may be interested in a program, head coaches are just as good as the members of their staff. If the assistants aren't doing a good job of attracting high profile players to OU, Sherri may have to make a tough decision before long. Her teams used to compete for national championships. Now they're lucky to be in the running for a conference title.
 
Why can't Patty win like Bud did? Why couldn't Bud win like Wooden? There are always comparisons where one is better.
 
AdaSooner said:
Two responses to your question with the same answer. I'll make it three. The talent Sherri is bringing to OU now is not on the same level as in years past, and it's definitely not on the same level as Patty's recruits.

Is that all SC's fault? While she is ultimately responsible for recruiting, some of the blame has to be laid at the feet of her assistants. When it comes to identifying and evaluating recruits who may be interested in a program, head coaches are just as good as the members of their staff. If the assistants aren't doing a good job of attracting high profile players to OU, Sherri may have to make a tough decision before long. Her teams used to compete for national championships. Now they're lucky to be in the running for a conference title.
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Sherri should have made that tough decision on her assistant coaches years ago. Her loyalty is commendable, but in this case, misguided.
 
Stoops' loyalty to lazy staff cost us and it has taken years to get the talent level back to being competitive at a national level. Look at KJ, Mark Williams, Stoops and Gasso. Surely she recognizes the issue.
 
j2d2 said:
Stoops' loyalty to lazy staff cost us and it has taken years to get the talent level back to being competitive at a national level. Look at KJ, Mark Williams, Stoops and Gasso. Surely she recognizes the issue.
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The only thing not in doubt is the fact that we have the most spoiled, entitled fanbase in the nation, bar none.
 
Lost in the pointless debate of Sherri's infallible/Sherri sucks,
is a great topic of how Gasso has turned OU from a very good program into possibly a softball dynasty on par with Bama football, Pats football, and with the future recruiting Uconn basketball.

Gasso clearly has taken advantage of the no sitting out transfer rule. I'm sure Sherri both
wishes and is glad that hoops does not have that rule.
Gasso has huge recruiting connections with the summer "AAU" version of softball. Take a look
at the recruiting lists there's common traveling teams and coaches that keep showing up.
Pure luck that Pendley had a sister? Keilani Ricketts was a legacy?
Anyone wish there were some younger Paris sisters or AT ? Or Drob?
Obviously Gasso used the awesome 2012/2013 dominant run as a springboard in recruiting getting
players like Romero/Knighten and last year's title has just reinforced things further.
But based on her HS profile a player like Lauren Chamberlain was probably a top ten prospect, so
Gasso even as far back as 2010 was upping her recruiting game.
 
Coale on cruise control. She and assistants apparently happy with salaries for producing mediocrity. Not held accountable by admin. Why change things up?
 
Are we a spoiled fan base? Yeah, probably, Most schools who have had success are. My question is how many more years of mediocre women's basketball will it take before some of you realize this bleeding has to stop? Something has to change so we can at least compete with Baylor. There won't be any national success until we can play and beat the top dog in our conference.
 
MsProudSooner said:
The only thing not in doubt is the fact that we have the most spoiled, entitled fanbase in the nation, bar none.
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For the most part our coaches are very well paid so we as fans should expect nothing but the best from them..And IMO we aren't getting it from Sherri Coale
 
inoref said:
For the most part our coaches are very well paid so we as fans should expect nothing but the best from them..And IMO we aren't getting it from Sherri Coale
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Sadly, I've come to agree with this.

What I would really like to have happen?

Go ahead, Sherri, make Inoref, myself and others eat our words. Go ahead, I triple-dog dare you.

I'm waiting....
 
Oliver Hardy said:
Sadly, I've come to agree with this.

What I would really like to have happen?

Go ahead, Sherri, make Inoref, myself and others eat our words. Go ahead, I triple-dog dare you.

I'm waiting....
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Why not make Inoref the head coach and you his/her top assistant and recruiting coordinator?
 
I don't want Sherri canned. I want Sherri going out as the championship level
coach that she is.
But recruiting environment has changed. Big time.
We are 8 years removed from OU's last final four/big 12 title.
And there's zero sign that OU is poised to claim a Big 12 title away from
Baylor, and more signs that US is poised to be the 2nd team in the conference.

Part of the frustration is seeing the talent Gasso has, and knowing that given
similar talent Sherri would be as dominating. Again, Sherri didn't become some
bad coach. But the talent is just not in Norman.
 
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If that is the only way to fix the program is to have Sherri Coale canned then I have no problem with it. Sherri isn't gonna change on her own imo
 
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