you know what hacks me off to no end!!!!!?????

[NorthCarolinaSooner]

I LOVE Oklahoma.....I LOVE Oklahoma basketball.....I GREW UP an Oklahoma fan, born and raised less than 15 minutes from campus. I have watched the disaster unfold before my very eyes...see people bad mouth OU, spread rumors, watch players defect, and see people apparently CHEAT because they don't really give a $hit about the university and the program other than the fact that they want to use it as a spring board to a 'bigger basketball job' or a job that is a 'better opportunity'.............it hacks me off because I have coached for 16 years...high school and up to the NCAA DIII level......and I would give my left nut to even be an assistant at OU and would never even be able to get a sniff at it. I constantly see AAU wannabe coaches who have no morals whatsoever get asst jobs because they can bring a kid with them (not necessarily at OU but throughout the NCAA)...who cheat when they get asst jobs and noone thinks this is a problem and noone would give a second thought to hiring a guy in Norman who would sell the program to recruits out of pure love for the university and the state, who would be loyal to the UNIVERSITY, and who wouldn't be looking to leave for every open job that comes along because they would already have their dream job....and then I have to see the train wreck that is happening before my eyes at the university I LOVE......and it hacks me off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


That's all.

 

[MichSooner]

I LOVE Oklahoma.....I LOVE Oklahoma basketball.....I GREW UP andOklahoma fan, born and raised less than 15 minutes from campus. I have watched the disaster unfold before my very eyes...see people bad mouth OU, spread rumors, watch players defect, and see people apparently CHEAT because they don't really give a $hit about the university and the program other than the fact that they want to use it as a spring board to a 'bigger basketball job' or a job that is a 'better opportunity'.............it hacks me off because I have coached for 16 years...high school and up to the NCAA DIII level......and I would give my left nut to even be an assistant at OU and would never even be able to get a sniff at it. I constantly see AAU wannabe coaches who have no morals whatsoever get asst job because they can bring a kid with them (not necessarily at OU but throughout the NCAA)...who cheat when they get asst jobs and noone thinks this is a problem and noone would give a second thought to hiring a guy in Norman who would sell the program to recruits out of pure love for the university and the state, who would be loyal to the UNIVERSITY, and who wouldn't be looking to leave for every open job that comes along because they would already have their dream job....and then I have to see the train wreck that is happening before my eyes at the university I LOVE......and it hacks me off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


That's all.

NorthCarolina Sooner, I feel your pain and frustration. I share it as well from a different perspective. I am not a coach. I did grow up 25 miles from campus, went to school at OU, and still hold season football tickets though I live in Michigan. I watch every OU game (football and basketball) that I cannot get to on the tube. I too love OU and love the state of Oklahoma.

The seeming lack of integrity is galling. What I hear about the AAU circuit leaves me cold - sounds like, at least some parts of it are, a cesspool.

I just hope that with all that is going on it is darkest before dawn - not just before lights out/pitch black...........

 

[NorthCarolinaSooner]

thanks for fixing it Ada....by the way...best player I ever played against was from Ada....Andy Anderson.....he was a STUD.......lefty who shot effortlessly from out by the old timeline....he averaged about 38 ppg without the three point line....if they had the three then he would have averaged well over 40.

 

[AdaSooner]

thanks for fixing it Ada....by the way...best player I ever played against was from Ada....Andy Anderson.....he was a STUD.......lefty who shot effortlessly from out by the old timeline....he averaged about 38 ppg without the three point line....if they had the three then he would have averaged well over 40.

I know the Anderson family well. Andy's two brothers, Thomas and Randy, were both good athletes, although they could not measure up to Andy. He was one heck of a player!

 

[bocabull]

Maybe the guys who get jobs at places like OU are better coaches?

Just a thought.

 

[NorthCarolinaSooner]

Maybe the guys who get jobs at places like OU are better coaches?

Just a thought.

bocabull......maybe they are dude......but that wasn't my point.....my point was I want coaches in here who are going to FOLLOW RULES, that WANT TO BE HERE, that LOVE OU FOR OU (not because it is a paycheck and a springboard to a better job). As a fan is that too much to ask?


I know a LOT of high school coaches that would do just as good or better job than many DI assistants. I can tell you this much...they wouldn't have to be shielding my cell phone records from the media....and I couldn't have done a much WORSE job than they did this year.

I am not here campaigning for a job....just saying I wish they had some coaches who wouldn't embarrass OU, it's fans, and the team. Could stay within the simple written rules given to them and worked hard for OU...not themselves.


I appreciate your supportive words though.

 

[Sooner Quick]

Tommie Griffin!