Barry, if you can’t spell ‘people’ right, why on earth are you talking trash about his spelling? Plus, you’re in journalism, you should know enough English to have decent grammar, even if you are in Oklahoma.

Yes, they know simple things like the ball is supposed to go into the “hoop”, and that protecting the basket is termed “defense”, but you can’t really go deeper than a basic understanding of the game with most people.

Because people are so simple-minded, what’s hurting Capel is the fact that he lacks a “superstar” college player. When he had the Griffins, he had obvious coaching flaws, that went overlooked simply because of how dominant his team was talent wise. Now that he has, what is considered, “nobodies”, those holes in his game plan have been addressed and the team acts like a cohesive unit… he just lacks the talent of his counterparts.

Someone said of him not being able to hold on to Scottie Reynolds or Damien James… uh, so? Reynolds decided to go with Jay Wright due his coaching philosophy fitting him better, Capel does not run a guard dominating offense.

Capel’s best coaching job OF HIS CAREER, has been this season. In a year fresh off of controversy, everyone seems to be focused on the past instead of respecting the modest bounce-back. Watch an OU game, and you will see a team playing above their talent level on both sides of the ball. Of course, that gets no mention, because everyone around here expects points/wins/superstar recruits as the only way to measure a basketball coach’s success.

Pathetic. By that stupid logic Roy Williams should have gotten fired last year. By that stupid logic, Bruce Pearl should have been coach of the year.

Take a look at anyone of the top ten coaches in the NCAA and look at the mistakes they made at their respective programs in their first five years… Capel actually stacks up pretty well. And that’s an understatement.

But of course… like one person was quoted to say in this article…

“I agree with you 100 percent that a change still needs to be made. I mean, Capel has a juco guy who scores 9 points and 6 rebounds in juco right now coming in to help. He has Nic Thompson and C.J. Washington on his bench who had way better numbers than him in juco.”

This is the kind of off-base, nonsensical knowledge that dominates basketball talk around here. Thompson and Washington are undersized tweeners, whereas Goff is a PF thats 50 lbs heavier, and is going to be the biggest force on the ENTIRE ROSTER next year. And btw, what was OUs biggest problem this year (and has been since Blake left) REBOUNDING and interior defense!

I get it. Obviously the Thunder have been making basketball experts out of everybody around here lately, especially the sportswriters and those on the radio. But it is easy to see that the knowledge of the overall game is about equal to the time they’ve been here… rather short.

Capel is a great coach, and if you get your wish and he gets fired, nobody better is going to get hired for that job opening. Why – because Capel is respected by people around the league, who know basketball, as a bright young coach… And I’ll take Coach K’s or Jimmy Boeheim’s word or Trammel and Co, any day of the week.

Keep your limited sports knowledge to stuff you know about, college football… you’re better off taking a hiatus from sports until September rolls back around.

Come on mightier than thou Tramel come up with some better excuses. I would rather have Capel coaching than some drunkard or drug user . Hopefully he stays at OU longer than you do at this rinky dink “bad news”paper.