Official OSU Game Thread
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Fair enough. I am the Homer of homers on here. I don’t see any way that happens without something bat$hit crazy happening, like Joiner becoming Carl English or Henderson attacking on defense. I will go to games, but my enthusiasm is pretty low. The injury and defection hurt but the lack of strategy hurts more.
Screw u, was incredibly bad calls during that whole segment. Just listen to the tv and radio broadcasts. Go back to your board. Incredibly low class to come here after a win for your team and make an a$$ of yourself.
Oh, thank God. I was worried we'd actually survived a trip to Stillwater without the bumbling insolence of poke fans on here.
Every time Haith’s teams give a glimmer of hope and I start to get excited we do something like get blown out by Illinois State or lose a home opener to Lamar. I just don’t get my hopes up anymore. And I’m not exactly the biggest Haith hater on here
Moving over to the pay board.
At least there the trolls have to pay Chris for the privilege of stupid posting.
At least there the trolls have to pay Chris for the privilege of stupid posting.
Neither team is that good this year so it really didn't matter anyway
So you felt the need to come over to the TU board to show our fans a thing or two about how you know way more about hoops officiating? Sounds like you have a personal problem to me.
I like Haith. I like our team. But Haith has to be responsible for the product on the floor at the end of the day. We make a lot of really dumb mistakes that shouldn’t be happening at this point in the season.
I’m not a hater on Haith by any stretch. I was one of the few that applauded his hiring as a bold move by our AD. Boldness... something we haven’t been known for in most hires. But, like I said, I am incredibly disappointed in the product on the court. As a former “national coach of the year” with $1.3MM annually in salary, I don’t think it is unfair to expect better. Better recruiting. Better execution. Better game planning. Better bench strategy.
Isn't it time you took your hindparts out of here to have intimate relations with your cousin and/or the sheep on the side of road in Stillwater?
Yes, pretty even, I'm afraid the Sooners have the advantage over everyone in the state this year, I do hope we keep this series, because when both of us are good, it makes a pretty good turnout
Interesting tidbit from last night...OSU shot one free throw. Can't ever recall a home team shooting one free throw.
I went to the Manhattan game on Saturday using the free tickets from the football survey.
I'm no youngster, but I felt like just about the youngest fan in the section I was in. I shudder to think what will happen when the older fans are gone with no one to replace them.
No need to wait to see what happens, just look at the end of the last few seasons, then subtract the gray hair from the stands, then cringe.
Tulsa athletics (and donors) hit the panic button when Manning left. We were just starting to get some traction back and they really wanted to try and keep the momentum. They went big, and it isn't paying off yet.
Here's the deal- the kids Haith is recruiting for the 2018 signing period were 3 or 4 the last time TU won a tournament game. They have no memory of Tulsa as a basketball school - they know Gonzaga, VCU, Northern Iowa, Wichita State, etc. Heck, the list can expand to include Valpo, St. Mary's, Dayton, St. Josephs, Bradley... if you asked a high school senior who is in to basketball to name 5 mid major programs, few would list Tulsa anymore.
In a sport where 1 or 2 solid recruits can change the game, not having the perception to help sell the program hurts. Without those 1 or 2 recruits, its harder to win. When you don't win, it's hard to put butts in the seats and even harder to recruit. Viscous circle, and it went weird for Tulsa just as we should have been hitting our stride after a long run of great coaches and lots of wins with a new on-campus facility. So we tried to go big with the hire. But at this point, we are trying to rebuild the brand that has fallen off in the last 15 years or so.
Damn my recent pessimism on TU sports...
Tulsa athletics (and donors) hit the panic button when Manning left. We were just starting to get some traction back and they really wanted to try and keep the momentum. They went big, and it isn't paying off yet.
Here's the deal- the kids Haith is recruiting for the 2018 signing period were 3 or 4 the last time TU won a tournament game. They have no memory of Tulsa as a basketball school - they know Gonzaga, VCU, Northern Iowa, Wichita State, etc. Heck, the list can expand to include Valpo, St. Mary's, Dayton, St. Josephs, Bradley... if you asked a high school senior who is in to basketball to name 5 mid major programs, few would list Tulsa anymore.
In a sport where 1 or 2 solid recruits can change the game, not having the perception to help sell the program hurts. Without those 1 or 2 recruits, its harder to win. When you don't win, it's hard to put butts in the seats and even harder to recruit. Viscous circle, and it went weird for Tulsa just as we should have been hitting our stride after a long run of great coaches and lots of wins with a new on-campus facility. So we tried to go big with the hire. But at this point, we are trying to rebuild the brand that has fallen off in the last 15 years or so.
Damn my recent pessimism on TU sports...
Maybe that’s because Tulsa isn’t a “mid-major”. TU is in a major basketball conference which gets multiple bids each year. Now whether kids know TU plays quality ball or not is another discussion but this mid-major stuff needs to go away.
How odd that both those home teams won by exactly 12 points too.
Perception is everything...
OSU’s rookie coach commented at halftime “ I expected Tulsa to play hard as they try to prove that they can play at this level”
“Play at this level”...
I guess someone didn’t tell him we were in a major conference.
I don’t blame you for it bothering you but I will say from our game and the FSU game they won I think they got a stud in Boynton.
Obviously a rookie still shouldn’t out coach Haith. But he’s not a typical rookie coach, IMO.