My two cents.... sigh... or less...

Well, once again our great athletic director at OSU has proved me wrong. I just knew we would get a coach better than the one OSU fired, but alas, not even close... sigh...

OSU goes out and recruits from among the best of the coaches in the losers bracket... they can not even recruit among the best... the coaches who have proved their worth.. we now have a 26-11 coach... who's team went to NIT... sigh.. wopie..... wow... and lets see this is better ... how???

and then, like I guess honor and integrity, and of course character are traits that have to be thrown off the table (We want to set a good example to the young men in the program by great leadership from our coaches, RIGHT??) so guess what we do... yelp, we hire a fine example, a coach who snuck around, lied to his employer and fans and friends.... didn't follow the rules at all.... wow... how lucky we are to have such a great individual now leading our struggling program.

I wonder when the honor, integrity, character and leadership of the individuals we hire as coaches come into play? Is it all about money, must be. Modern times I guess. So if the athlete tells us he is signing and then goes somewhere else, or he not using drugs, and he does.. this is ok, since the new wonder coach can lie about things of this magnitude...

Sorry to bash... but after Gundy's stupid ditty last fall and how he just about ruined all the good faith of many in the program... (you or I would have been fired on the spot if we had aired our dirty linen in public like that... and now, we know there was nothing to it at all. he was simply covering up a leak in the dept, sigh... again.. no character, integrity, honor... or leadership... )

I sure was hoping for OSU to take some time, find someone who would inspire by example, who's life said who they were... not another coach who has proven he cannot be trusted!

just my two cents... sigh....

on another note... has anything recently made you any prouder to be an OSU fan that the Women's Basketball Program!! Wow... talk about inspiring... I challenge you to spend some time learning about the coaches in that program!

what others are saying.. sigh.....

Oklahoma State
Travis Ford might have been the third or fourth choice. But if he has the Cowboys playing at a frenetic pace, it should be a welcome change for the traditionally stodgy, defensive-minded program. Ford has been to only one NCAA tournament -- at Eastern Kentucky. He could never win those critical, late regular-season games the past two seasons to push UMass to the NCAAs.

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It's hard to tell which elevator was moving faster here:

The one dropping OK State from the dream of hiring a championship coach with strong regional ties and a national profile to landing (maybe) the Atlantic 10's sixth-best coach?

Or:

The one carrying Ford from the disappointment of missing two straight NCAA Tournaments with tournament-level teams to a multi-million-dollar job in a prestige league coaching a team that will be led by an All-America candidate, wing James Anderson, and whose top four scorers last season were underclassmen?

Obviously, they passed one another along the way.

Making the tournament, or succeeding once there, should not be the ultimate arbiter of coaching talent. But Ford's track record does not include the recruitment of elite high school prospects or assisting in the construction of a successful high-major team. Because he began his coaching career running an NAIA program, Campbellsville University, and moved on from there to head coaching jobs at Eastern Kentucky and UMass, he is not experienced in winning high-level recruiting battles.

Ford has had 5 winning seasons in 11 tries at places that cannot even warm up OSU... wow.. now how impressive is that?!

and on and on and on.... what a sorry job of firing Sutton, now, what a poor job of recruiting a head coach, maybe it's time to boot out Holder and get a real AD!