OU’s Patty Gasso is the GOAT of Sooner coaches, any sport……2028 Olympics choice certifies it!

Pattie Gasso was named the United States Olympic softball coach for the 2028 LA Games.  With that announcement yesterday in Oklahoma City, any doubt on who is the greatest coach in the history of the University of Oklahoma has been decided.  The seven time National Championship coach in softball and multiple time national coach of the year is unofficially the GOAT of Sooner coaches.  As the world turns, this title can be given to another coach if that coach supersedes Gasso’s accomplishments.

She has been the head softball coach at the University of Oklahoma since 1995. She has led the Sooners team to eight national championships (2000, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024) and has compiled a career record of 1,515–352–2 and a winning percentage of .811.

In 30 years at the University of Oklahoma, she has compiled a record of 1,395–344–2 and a winning percentage of .802.^[7] Her teams have advanced to the Women’s College World Series fourteen times and won the national championship eight times in 2000, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024.^[2][8] Her winning percentage of .802 ranks the highest of Division I college softball coaches with at least 1,000 career wins.   (Wikipedia)

Gasso ranks above the following list of great coaches I have noted below.

K. J. Kindler

OU’s women’s gymnastics coach (current):  A four-time National Coach of the Year, Kindler led her program exactly where many said it could never go. OU’s head coach has taken the Sooners to the absolute height of the NCAA gymnastics world with NCAA Championships in 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2022 and 2023, 12 top-three national finishes, 14 straight regional titles, 189 All-America honors and 14 Big 12 titles.

Bud Wilkinson

OU football coach:   Mr. Wilkinson served as the head football coach at the University of Oklahoma from 1947 to 1963, compiling a record of 145–29–4. His Oklahoma Sooners won three national championships (1950, 1955, and 1956) and 14 conference titles. Between 1953 and 1957, Wilkinson’s Oklahoma squads won 47 straight games, a record that still stands at the highest level of college football.

Barry Switzer

OU football coach:  He served for 16 years as head football coach at the University of Oklahoma and four years as head coach of the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). He won three national championships at Oklahoma.  Switzer’s record at OU was 157–29–4 (college).

That is the way I see it sports fans.

Feature photo:  Oklahoma coach Patty Gasso / Bryan Terry / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images