I disagree...Godbold was average, Johnson was average, Clark sucked, and Neal was decent. Of that list Nate Carter was pretty damn good as was Taylor and Crocker. Longar got better under Capel, he sucked under Sampson.
AJ was by far the best PG we've had under Capel. There's nobody else even close. Neal was hurt all of that year still averaged over 10 a game that year. Godbold was a great defender for the first couple of Capel teams. He didn't have great numbers, but he made some big shots. One against Baylor that was huge.
Godbold made a couple of big shots but wasnt a good player overall...AJ was not that good except his SR year which was under Capel fyi.
I'm not saying that it wasn't under Capel. Here was my point, the reason Capel is having the issues he's having now is because his recruits are killing him not because of what Kelvin left him like you implied. There was a lot there that ended up building the Elite 8 team. It's what Capel recruited that ended up in the last 2 seasons.
Capel also recruited Warren who is in the NBA, recruited Blake who is a Star in the NBA, among others. Point being, I think we all attest he can recruit talent, its the character that has to be better. Listen, this year he threw a team together cus TMG and Gallon left when they shouldnt have, and honestly so did Warren. There is some talent on this team, not a lot but there is some. We will see if they get better next year, if not, see ya, if so then he deserves to build on it IMO
It's misleading to simply list those players. You can't ignore certain things like the fact that Crocker was only a freshman at that point, and that Taylor was a sophomore who couldn't yet contribute much. Replace Neal and Carter with a freshman Blake (while I would certainly take Blake, that trade isn't all that lopsided) and you basically have the team that went to the NCAA Tournament and won their first round game. That shows how much those players improved (under Capel's coaching). Maybe it's just me, but I'm kinda excited to see what Capel can do with players like Clark, Osby, and Fitzgerald next year. This team will have talent, and I fully expect a return to the NCAA's. It amazes me that you guys think we will have some magical turnaround by hiring a mid-major coach.
David was a yery solid player.I would go so far as to say that for the first three years of their careers Cade and Godbold were identical players.Cade seperates himself with much better senior year.
If you're going to use his first 5 years, be accurate. His first 5 years were at Army and he only got one NIT bid. So, to be completely accurate it took him 9 years to make it to the NCAA's. In fact, the year before he went to Duke he had a stellar 9-17 record.
"released from his contract," what a way to say "fired" http://www.soonersports.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/031411aaa.html Conference scheduled for 4 p.m. today
wow i am surprised. i was WAY wrong on this one. its kind of a relief to be honest though. now we can start over....
I guess if we were going to get rid of him, this was the time to do it. This team was tourney bound next year.
