The new emails are here! The new emails are here!
Some yahoo who didn’t sign his name — the definition of a yahoo — wrote, “I saw the poll for Sean Sutton. Where is the poll for Capel?”
Oh brother. Capel’s job is not in jeopardy. The OU fan base is not split on Capel. Joe Castiglione is not pondering Capel’s fate. The Poor Aggie syndrome is not very becoming.
RK is trying to figure out the Holder/Sean saga: “Keep reading The Oklahoman over the internet. Really interested in the comments. Or rather, the lack of comments. A lot of silence has settled over the Oklahoma State basketball program. Seems to be the quiet before the storm. Have to believe that Holder has ‘back-channel discussions’ going with at least one individual (maybe more) to replace Sean Sutton. Otherwise, he would have come out earlier to silence the division within the Cowboy Nation over Sutton. Eddie seems to be a head coach broker. Has had contacts with Arkansas State and Missouri State. My conclusion, he is also back-channeling for Dickey and Sean. Sean could be at Missouri State next year in the Missouri Valley and facing the Salukis on a regular basis. Only question I have is what individual Holder is making plans for as new head coach.”
Well, that’s a solid theory, I guess. The Arkansas State job dried up for James Dickey, but Mizzou State remains open for somebody named Sutton. Sean, Scott, Eddie. Somebody.
Joe wrote about Sean: “I am glad you came out and said to give him one more year. I know we have disagreed on this some in past e-mails, but I appreciate your fairness. The big question is will Holder give him one more year? I think he deserves it, but I hate to admit politics is in everything. I just saw the box score of the SIU game and it looked like OSU took very little enthusiasm for the NIT. I don’t know how much Sean was to blame for that, but he is the coach and has to take some. Truman used to say the buck stops here.”
Like I said, you can’t judge anything on the NIT. Nobody wants to be there. I can’t condemn the Cowboys for not being excited.
Leo asked an interesting question: “I was looking at the NCAA brackets and wondering how many church schools made the tournament. That is, how many Catholic, Baptist, Methodist, Mormon, Presbyterian, and others are playing? Does a good player have a better chance to go to the Big Dance from one of them than a state school?”
Excellent question. I counted them; 17 Christian-affiliated schools, out of 65. That’s a decent ratio. Mt. St. Mary’s, Notre Dame, Saint Joseph’s, American, Villanova, Siena, Gonzaga, Davidson (has cut many of its church ties), Georgetown, Oral Roberts, Marquette, St. Mary’s, BYU, San Diego, Baylor, Xavier, Belmont.
Kelvin (not Sampson, I assume) wrote about the Sonics and my belief that Clay Bennett holds all the cards: “You might think that you hold all the cards and maybe you do, but this card game is far from over. I believe Seattle will come up with a plan and they already have new owners ready to step in. It will be very hard to move the Sonics if all these things come together. It would be a very bad PR move for the league to turn down us if we have a plan in place. It was always about an arena deal. Stern is using you to get Seattle to come up with a deal. Granted, Bennett won’t have to sell, but maybe the league will block his move and then he will be in trouble. The best is that we keep the Sonics and you guys get an expansion team. Maybe I am wrong but the good guys always win and not carpet bagger that try to steal another city’s team.”
This just in. The Sonics aren’t for sale. Seattle does NOT have a plan, it has some talk. Major-league sports are big business. And who are the good guys? There. I think that about covers it.
Onestepp — not much of a name, either; this isn’t sports radio, sign your name! — wrote, “I think the city should have asked for more for the naming rights. We did have a hand in hopefully bringing the NBA here. I understand they have a lot invested, but a little more than the current amount we get from the Ford dealers would have been nice. We could use that extra to maintain the practice facility.”
Actually, I think the city came out all right with the Sonics. And how about this for an idea: Why can’t the Sonics maintain the facility? Give it to them rent-free, but they have to maintain it.
Jim, a frequent critic, was not happy with OSU’s Andrea Riley down the stretch of the Texas A&M game: “Sometime I think you are playing softball with the Oklahoma teams and coaches. Riley should have been looking to pass the ball both times (once when she made a miracle shot and once when it got stuck in the basket iron). The problem she has had all year is she thinks or the coach thinks she is the only one that can shoot. ( This may be true and if it is they are in trouble anyway). Everyone, including me, loves to see Riley make those miracle shots, but sometime you have to look for open people. If the coach called that shot at the end he was dead wrong!”
Well, I didn’t see anyone open. And I didn’t see anyone I wanted to shoot other than Riley and Danielle Green, and to rip on Riley after the A&M game is pretty silly. Sort of like the people ripping on Courtney Paris because she can’t hit a 15-foot jumper. Hey, maybe someone else needs to hit a 15-foot jumper.
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This is fun, is it not? First of all, you nor she could see anyone else open when she had three people in her face and next to the out of bounds line,(both times!!).
Sutton: the main question should be–Would OSU have hired Sean if he was at another school coaching and his father got fired (or whatever)?? No way-they would have hired someone else! OSU needs a high profile coach to attract good players to Stillwater.