OUInsider - Owen Field

Come on now! Five years is enough! His only decent years were with Blake. Anyone could have done that. It is time.

He caught a "bad break" with Gallon, Warren and Mason-Griffin?

Last time I checked, one of the many things a coach is responsible for is due diligence on recruits, which is one of the many detail things that Jeff hasn't taken care of sufficiently.

Bringing Jeff back is inexcusable.

2 months ago the most prominent OU Alum Basketball booster told me Joe C. told him Capel had thru 2013. This guy is if I could question anybody about the Capel coaching situation this would be who I would select. Certainly it is not Gospel but telling. He said Joe C. told him he was 100% CONVINCED that Capel had the best chance and bringing us back over anyone and would have every chance to do so. Then he told me based on his conversations with Joe was that he would be very stubborn trying to prove his hiring Capel was right.

I am getting so freaking tired of this excuse. Capel recruited those bozos!!!! Capel brought those bozos in into the program!!!! Capel let them do whatever the hell they wanted without any sort of consequence!!!!!! IT'S CAPEL'S FREAKING FAULT!!!!!

John this is a paid board. I'm sure some recruits read it but not many. If they are intellegiennt enough to read this they should know Capel has been horrible in his time at OU. Yes he had 2 good seasons and 3 seasons not in the tourney. He wasn't even close in those 3 years.

We are an embarrassment to the University.

I'm glad Andrew wants to keep him. OU is a good job and pays tremendously well. We could get a coach easily who is better than Jeff. He wasn't exactly killing people at VCU prior to here. Obviously you don't believe are job is a decent one.

Actually we only have to put up with him until Coach K retires because he will be the next coach of Duke according to many 2 years ago.

I hope Joe C can get over his screw up and pride and call the Crapel experiment quits. Joe C. could be praised if he brought in another coach to overhaul this mess. However, if he makes the mistake of keeping Crapel for 1 or 2 more years, then he could be looked at in a very negative light.

I would bet that if Joe C. had not been at OU for Crapel's hiring and that he came in after the hiring, that he would fire him and find another coach. I cannot see any AD that would want to keep Crapel after what he has done to the program. The only reason I see Joe C keeping him is Joe's pride and the fact that he hired him, which is extremely selfish.

There will be a very clear message sent at the end of the season - which is coming soon - about the OU administration's interest or lack thereof in basketball.

I hear exactly the opposite of what Peace's saying.

Looks like the question is who has the better sources, Soonerpeace or Scribe24? Who we going with on this one?

Are we at a point where Joe C either has to give him a "vote of confidence" so he can recruit without a handicap?

Peace, what do you know about the guy on the crimson court board, ctsooner? I saw you post on his threads over there, i have no idea who he is, but he seems to have some well connected sources, or at least he sure talks a good game and is good at faking it , but no way he can be making all that stuff up is there? For those of you who haven't seen the guys posts, he says Capel is gone, that its a done deal. I guess we'll know shortly. When you have multiple people all with "sources" reporting 2 different things, who knows what to believe at this point. Whatever the decision is , i just hope Joe C gets it right.