Naked Bootleg

I don't think Moser's a bad coach. Just a tremendously bad fit. OU men's BB needs someone who can create an identity that attracts recruits. At Loyola, all Moser had to do was accept the recruiting scraps of the Chicago area, which is full of good talent.

Had a couple good seasons at Loyola but now with NIL and the portal, OU is a tough place to attract & keep good talent unless they are winning. Tough situation for him, hard to develop talent when they're only here for one season and rebuilding the team every year. But he's got to go.

I want Heinecke back as much as anyone. Super smart and tough as nails. 74 tackles, 12 TFL's (my favorite being the absolute spear he laid on the Mizzou RB) 3 sacks and forced a fumble.

I didn't realize they're counting 15 minutes of playing time across 3 lacrosse games against him. C'mon, NCAA...

Late to the party but I have experience coaching youth rec leagues (soccer & bball) and as a parent on the sidelines. Although my kid was not very good at either sport..

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Close games or crunch time, bench players don’t get in.

All plays designed to go thru the best one or two players with the other players acting as cleanup guys.

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Players & coaches alike want to win and sometimes (as in my last season coaching bball) you don't have but one or two good players to work with, 'good' meaning 'can dribble.' I had one kid who was so small & weak he couldn't catch a pass or hit the rim with the basketball. You get like 1 hour, maybe 2 hours of practice time per week and there is not enough time and no magic spell exists to make them get better quick if they aren't developing their skills on their own time at home. I was asked this same question - why not have the struggling players in during crunch time? My response was basically "I can tell who is & isn't practicing at home; I tend to put the kids who practice at home in at the end of the game as a reward."

Parents - I had mostly good parents. I'd rather have an overbearing parent who yells and cheers hard at games, than the ones who drop off their kids at practice or games, then come back later to pick them up like I am a babysitter. Sure everyone has busy lives but parent participation at that age is critical.

As a parent in the stands for the first two seasons of bball: you described my son's coach .. who had his kid running point all the time.. and almost never got subbed, despite league rules mandating court time.. but his kid was awful. He could only dribble right-handed and would get stuck in the corner every damn time down the court. His practices were unorganized and the thing with his son convinced me to try coaching.

We didn't really have any direct run-ins with douchey coaches. Something common in both soccer & bball at that age, however: I always got random kids on our team, but there was always at least one team in every league's season who obviously had been recruited to play together. Like, the coach knew all the better players' parents and got them together to form a super-team (LOL) who'd dominate the league. Which, IMO is an extremely douchey move.

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WR Ivan Carreon Pulled his portal paperwork and is returning to OU

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Good! He's a big target, runs well, just needs to work on getting open

Sooners figuring some things out in that first half! Just keep it up, boys

Kentucky is his 3rd team in 3 years, if that tells you anything. He definitely flashed during the first half of the season for OU in 2023. Kinda fell off after that though. Definitely has potential.

Damn, Cincinnati is only 47% white?

I don't understand why we haven't gone after another OL or two. Seems like a massive need, even with the returning players we are so thin.

Make it 128

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The Moser experience was fun for a bit.

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No, it really wasn't. :lol: