As much as I wanted Jeff Capel to succeed in the post Sampson era, his firing comes as no surprise and probably needed to happen. I agree its a business decision. The bottom line in the business you have produce wins or the bottom line comes into play. I coach for a living and with a high profile job and high salary comes certain expectations.

In a less high profile job and Conference Capel will probably succeed. Unfortunately, his only contribution was getting Blake Griffin to stay home and play for the Sooners for two seasons, (which got them into the NCAA’s)otherwise it was pretty poor all the way around.

Hopefully Capel will learn from his mistakes, he seemed like a good guy.

Business decision my #$#$#$ – too many boosters read the friggin joklahoman. tramble you suck

Griffin was coming to ou if santa claus was the head coach. Time for capel to go. Very poor recruiter. Trammel on the $$.

I agree, seemed like a good guy but wasn’t producing or bringing any excitement or hope to the program. Oh and Kurt, If you are going to bash Tramel AT LEAST SPELL HIS NAME RIGHT, you lose all notoriety otherwise..

Oh Aron take a chill pill dude – I spelled tramels name wrong on purpose . DUH. I have no respect at all for that long haired punk.

Maybe the idiot can go back to reporting sports after his Fire Capel escapade.

When did you become a fan ?? When Griffin played ?? LMAO.

Some people are clueless.

I like the guy, but you have to sign people who will stay and play awhile.

Good guy…came into a program with problems thanks to the pranks of Sampson who could never learn what the recruiting rules were. As much as Sampson did for the program, he left it in worse shape than even he inherited when he took it over. The men’s BB job is a good one at OU. We should attract some noteworthy candidates. But, let’s not get someone who is just a few years older than the players. We don’t need a blue hair, but we do need someone who has a little more experience at a big time school than Caple did when he took over. Even Stoops benefited from his experience at Florida when we went shopping for a new HC.

I thought he would at least be givin one more year. I saw his youth but when you hire an up and comer you should expect to go through some growing pains.Joe C. must have been under some heat by boosters that probably didnt attend games themselves.

I hate it that Capel is gone, but now that he is what about Danny Manning an assistant at Kansas?

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Talk all you want about OU having basketball tradition. But the truth is, there is little fan (and booster) enthusiasm. Lloyd Noble is a sad, outdated arena. Fans (when they do show up) trickle in halfway through the first half. Joe C is going to have an awfully tough time finding a world class coach willing to come to such a place, knowing it’s going to take more than just winning to excite the masses. I’m a KU diehard who wants our fellow league schools to enjoy basketball success. And many of us miss a good, healthy rivalry with OU. But until OU rebuilds an enthusiastic fanbase for the sport with the bouncing round ball, I can’t imagine any great coaches willing to risk it.

Capel is relieved to be getting out of Norman I’m sure. He’ll learn from his mistakes, especially trusting assistant coaches not to break rules when you don’t know them that well. I don’t know about the recruiting end so much but this guy can flat out coach. Most coaches in his situation would have allowed their team to quit on them when it was evident they weren’t going anywhere. Not Capel. The fact that his team played their butts off for him to the end excepting the Tech road loss says a lot about his character and skills. I’ll tell you this too, and I’m a Poke fan, OU will sorely miss that Red Tornado, Cade Davis. Salute dude! Give me 5 guys with his pride and heart and I’ll beat anybody you bring. He belongs in the same category of great Sooner overachievers like Chucky Barnett, Ryan Minor, and Ed Najera. I hated him when he was a Freshman. So cocky. Came into GIA and smoked a star-studded Poke team for like 30 or 40 pts. He grew into his persona and earned my admiration. He hasn’t gotten enough credit. Take him out of the lineup this year and the Sooners may not have won a Big 12 game.

Jeff Is a joke he had talent and they left. He cannot build trust and relationships with his players his player hate him and don’t respect him. he will never be successful because he mistreats his players. They know he doesn t care about them he is made because he didn t ave what it took to be a pro. even a small school would be smart to stay away from him. maybe he can be a AAU coach

Everyone is not a leader. A leader gets the best out of those he leads and inspires others to want to be the best and to join him. Jeff though a nice guy just did not inspire. It was clear that Joe C. was disappointed, he liked Capel but realized that without a superstar OU wasn’t going anywhere. It appeared to me that Jeff also had lost his fire, the beat down last year took its toll. Best for all that we move on.

Im so disappointed that Capel didnt work out. I really thought he was the real deal when he was first hired. I was sure that anyone who had a coaching family and 4 year coaching degree at Duke, would lead to sucess. He had the fire the first season and lost it. We need another big personality that people can get behind. We havent had that since Tubbs, we need someone like Bobby Knight to take over. Those stands would be packed if we could hire him. BB is a side-show at OU for most, but I take it very seriously. Its time for a bigger than life coach to fetch our first national title! Castiglione is a genius, I hope he makes the right pick this time!

Easy…here’s the recipe…someone who is charismatic, got some moxey but not arrogance, a player’s coach (like Sampson)who took average talent and made it great, brings some new Xs and Os (like Leach did for FB) that captures excitement and fast success, someone with character and understands Sooner Nation, someone who embraces the community, someone who is a great recruiter who gets all the local talent first and fills in with a big name or two -Oklahoma kids understand what it is to be a Sooner and if they are worth their scholarship will play until they drop, they have heart (in fact I wish Stoops would recruit a few more Okies, how many starters were from Oklahoma on the 2000 NC team? – those qualities and who cares where the next coach is from!

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