Sorry guys...I think it's time for a new head coach.

OU up 8-0, looks like we are finally going to win another series. Lets see how the series with Puke St turns out now

 

Traber was playing baseball for O-state while SG was in his dorm at NEO reading the Sporting News. Learning about baseball.

Playing in Mexico pays the bills. How much did you earn playing baseball?

 

Nothing but I've done better in my field than Traber has in his. You don't see me taking calls from James the Marvel and shilling for casinos and on-line betting pimps.

Sunny has actually coached, at a high level. Trabor was just a fat *** with good hand eye coordination.

Hey, you wouldn't happen to be him, would ya? Maybe his boy?

Nothing personal, but we're not the ones that claim to be experts on the radio for three hours a day.

 

Please don't, then you'd sound like Traber

 

I'll reserve my judgment till I know what field you are working on whom has done better. You could tell me but then again...it might be something you made up. For all I know...you might be James the Marvel.

I don't alway believe everything Jim says on the radio...but I'm not going to bash him for stating his opinion on the radio. By the way...are you Sunny's boy?

Nothing Personal

 

Well you sure as hell don't see me pushing used cars and casinos on the radio.:gary:

Carry on.

 

Thats why I didnt

 

Just get out your Nintendo controller and run around the bases a few times. I personally hit a few home runs yesterday.

WII SPORTS ALL-STAR HERE!!!

Playing baseball at any level is not absolute end-all be-all prerequisite to knowing baseball. If playing a sport made you a genius at it, then why are Isaiah Thomas and Michael Jordan screwing up basketball front offices so badly?

 

Shh Badger...you took the wind out of their argument!

 

Setern, everyone is Oklahoma HS baseball knows that SG is a lying, back stabbing, two faced prick. If you don't know that, you just haven't had a kid recruited by SG.

You should continue to use Denney Crabaugh and Keith Lytle as your mentors and think of SG as an example of what not to be.

Good Luck with your American Legion season!

 

Here, this will make you Sooners feel better:
USC sucks again
It has nothing to do with baseball, but I am watching it now and shows how USC became U$C and all that jazz.

What, you think Mayo chose USC because it was a basketball powerhouse?

Oh, and so this post relates more to baseball, I think Sunny (SEE, I didn't type "Sonny" lol) is starting to feel the crunch of the 11.7 scholly limits that have to provide at least 33 percent to players. No more farmin' out book scholarships

 

And listening to sports talk all day and typing on a message board doesn't make one a expert either.

 

Hmm.... let's see... eight posts there, so you obviously don't hang out at message boards all day (unless this is your third or fourth attempt at a usename that won't be banned, lolz), but since you mentioned sports talk first, that is likely the culprit of your knowledges, no?

If your comment was backhanded at me, let me ASSURE you that I have no knowledges of teh sportz. My sports talk experience has only perfected the way I can say "C yaaaaaa!" and opinion of bandwagon fans of OU or OSU. "Hey, what do you think of an OU/OSU football Big 12 Championship?"

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"C yaaaaaaa!"

As for teh boreds, this is just a fun community that neither cultivates the knowledge nor improves and expands it, but dagnabbit, it sure can be more fun than listening to the alleged experts that get paid the big bucks to talk on the teevee.

In any event, I think I've said far too many times that I am not a college baseball expert, and if playing baseball at any level is a prereq to knowing anything about the sport, all girls out there are hereby NOT experts owing to the fact that we get stuck in softball leagues since birth, thanks to Little League.

Odds are, however, that we'll all be playing softball a lot longer than any baseball prodigies out there

Oh, and BACK ON DISCUSSION... badlem this weekend! Who's going and does us winning or losing say anything about Sunny's chances of turning stuff around here? I would go, but we have guests arriving late Friday and the game starts at 7:30

 

Good lord, woman, is this what you do in the mornings? I need to lock the computer up.

 

Don't listen to him, people! He uses the computer far more than I do in mornings! (for those of you that are new, NP is my wonderful husband whom I love very much... yes, more than the Sooners, which has yet to get my banned).

Oh, and as for baseball... I think if all we can offer baseball studs is a 33 percent scholly to fill out rosters, with the way outta state tuition is, is it really Sunny's fault we aren't getting talent anymore?

I am basing this off the 11.7 scholarships that are available to about a 35-player roster. I agree that there was a necessary change made when they stopped the whole "tryout" scholarship thing when they had a bunch of guys on 5 percent scholarships, but how can OU recruit the best talent if the best talent can't afford the rest of the tuition?

Solutions:
1- Recruit Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders clones. This way, they get a full scholarship through football, but also play baseball and play baseball well.

2- Recruit National Merit Scholars, or other academic-types. This way, President Boren will not only take an active interest in ensuring they arrive on campus, but also Boren may take an interest in baseball, thus leading to more baseball improvements and funding... oh, and we get a player on a full academic scholarship with no cost to baseball scholly limits.

3- In-state affordable talent. So, we can only offer you 33 percent, or we can offer you the chance to walk on. So, how can you afford to play OU baseball? In-state tuition rates. Oklahoma talent would be more able to afford partial or full tuition than out of staters that would pay... what's the going rate now? $10,000 per year? $100,000 per year? Whatever the out-of-state rate is, it's far less than in-state. Plus, if they're OHLAP qualified, the state pays for them to attend so long as they keep their grades up. SCORE!

4- Give full or near-full schollys to the top tier talent out-of-state. After getting as many players possible for the least cost possible, use the leftover funding on those players that we can't afford to miss out on, but who can't afford to attend OU on their own.

I wish baseball had more scholarships available, but I also know that it's a matter of fairness to programs that want to run the sport when it's not exactly revenue generating. If Sunny can take extra steps like those shown above to maximize the limits, there's a chance he could turn around this program yet.

 

Badger, all schools have 11.7 schooly's. Why isn't OSU struggling? why isn't Mizzou struggling? Why isn't A&M struggling? The difference is that these schools have caoches that are well respected in their home states and those coaches also recruit local talent.

The reason OU is struggling in baseball is because SG aen't worth a plug nickel. OU has great talent in the immediate area but yet OU spends all there time in TX recruiting.

Note to SG: start recruiting OK as hard as you do TX. You can't win with other schools rejects. Wise, Porlier, etc......

 

OU spends all their time in TX recruiting? Sounds like our other sports

 

WOAH! JT Wise is a stud!

 

Funny, okie aggie was sure struggling two years ago when we were just a sniff away from the CWS. Again, too soon to fire anyone.

 

Agreed