This should be a great hire for OU basketball. I’m very impressed Joe C was able to sale Porter Moser on leaving Loyola to to become the new Sooners’ head coach.
This isn’t a rebuild. OU basketball since 1947 has played in two NCAA championship games, four Final Fours, seven Elite 8’s, and multiple Sweet 16’s.
Bruce Drake, Dave Bliss, Billy Tubbs, and Kelvin Sampson won conference championships at OU. Jeff Capel is the only OU basketball coach to be fired in the modern era and he coached a NPOTY and got his team to an Elite 8.
OU basketball success for a football powerhouse in my view only falls behind Florida and Ohio State in this regard.
Joe C in Porter Moser gets a ‘young’ energetic coach who has proven he can win the right way.
Porter Moser in Joe C gets the best athletic director in the country who broke his teeth in the business being an associate basketball AD at Maryland. Hoops mean something to Joe C. Name the current ADs who have a football national champiomship and a basketball Final Four on their resume.
Coach Porter has already added PK Brown to his staff to recruit the state of Texas. The transfer portal I would think will be a big part of Coach Porter selling OU to recruits all over the country.
If you follow Big 12 basketball you now know how good the high school basketball in in the state of Texas has become. Even Gonzaga’s Drew Timme was a Texas high school kid.
If I’m Coach Moser the first call I’m making is to Devion Harmon…then some of the other players still on the roster (I hope) as in EJ Harkless, Jalen Hill, Moj Gibson, Victor Iwankor, and maybe Alondes Williams. I don’t see Brady Manek’s skill set being a match with the way Coach Moser plays defense.
I’m already excited about OU basketball next season. But in the end you have to recruit and win games. I think Joe C got a coach who can do both.