Mail time! (Note: These may not be real emails.)
Boy isn't my face red, and not just because it's cold outside! Hi-oh! - Oklahoma City Schools Superintendent
Yeah, no ice on the roads, it's really not that cold and yet, OKC schools are cancelled. I realize the excuse is because a lot of kids walk and being outside for 30 minutes would totally suck right now, but it's 19 degrees outside. It's not Day After Tomorrow cold out there. Helicopters aren't freezing up and crashing. It's the kind of cold where you just might have to do the thing where when you walk in a door you look at someone, hunch your shoulders a little, rub your hands together and say, "Man it's cold out there." But canceling school cold? Now you've just got us looking like sissies.
What in the name of Alvin Adams and everything that is holy is wrong with my basketball team?- Jeff Capel
I have no stinking clue. This Sooner team came in preseason No. 17 with maybe the best player in the conference on the team and big time talent surrounding him. Yet they pretty much stink. Doug Gottlieb had the best theory I've heard so far saying that when you bring in AAU talent like this, you have to teach them how to compete and win. On the circuit, it's all about showcasing yourself. You sometimes play four games in a day. It's not necessarily about defending you man as it is about showing your outside shots, making some athletic plays and in general, just showing off.
Capel had mostly character guys before this. Blake Griffin was obviously a big time talent, but he built around Blake with his brother Taylor, Austin Johnson, Tony Crocker and others. Willie Warren is a big talent, but he's not the leader Blake was and he's also got youngsters like Tiny Gallon, Stephen Pledger, Andrew Fitzgerald and Tommy Mason-Griffin running beside him. Maybe things will get better because the talent is there and a fourth-year guy like Crocker may be able to get his team going in conference play, but as of now, I don't even think the NIT is within sight.
JamesOn did it, so I thought I was in the clear. Right? - Marshall Moses
Everyone is making a big deal out of Travis Ford's one-game suspension of Marshall Moses after Moses was charged with drug possession. Should he have gotten more? Maybe. That's Ford's call. To this point, Ford has been pretty active in policing his program. He kicked multiple players off the team when he arrived in Stillwater and hasn't been a softy by any means. Sure one game seems light because drug possession isn't a minor offense, but then again, it's Ford's call. Docking game time if the biggest punishment you can hand out besides expulsion from the team and for the most part, Moses got the same type of sentence that a guy gets for missing a meeting or skipping class.