{"id":10196,"date":"2023-03-20T18:49:49","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T23:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/?p=10196"},"modified":"2023-03-20T20:25:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T01:25:00","slug":"moser-time-to-cut-bait-ous-mens-basketball-is-in-deep-trouble-cortes-gone-to-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/?p=10196","title":{"rendered":"Moser…….time to cut bait………..OU’s mens basketball is in deep trouble ….Cortes gone to portal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I took a hard look at OU’s men’s basketball coach Porter Moser last month. It was not complimentary on the head coach.\u00a0 I gave some reasons why the Sooner basketball program was not doing well and the prospects for the future was not looking good.\u00a0\u00a0 https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/?p=10134<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

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The “portal” is now filling up with Porter’s players from this year’s Sooner squad as another guard, Bijan Cortes, the final recruit of the Kruger years will be moving on. Cortes is a good, not great player.\u00a0 But he is a player that the team needs.\u00a0 He is now gone.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

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Now at three players entering the portal, it is possible that that number could balloon much higher and Moser could be looking at a complete new team for 2022-23.\u00a0 The next player to move on I do not have a clue, but it will happen. \u00a0 As I pointed out last month, Moser’s system is to develop his players for three or four years before they become the foundation of a solid conference contending team.\u00a0 Moser does not recognize in this day and age at the level of play OU is competing, the “big boys” take a select few of high transfers and build a team with elite four and five star studs that intend to play one or at the most two seasons of college basketball.\u00a0 They do not come to spend four or five years if they are of the highest quality.\u00a0 Did athletic director Joe Castiglione understand that when he hired Moser three years ago.\u00a0 He should have.\u00a0 Did JC know that Moser’s Loyola of Chicago Rambler teams that NCAA tournament teams were full of excellent\u00a0 junior and senior players that he developed from their freshman year?\u00a0 He should have. <\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

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It is not working for Moser at OU.\u00a0 The same situation of losing, finishing ninth or tenth in the conference will continue.\u00a0 I do not see it changing.\u00a0 Moser is not recruiting the best players out of high school.\u00a0 And his portal pick ups are not much better.\u00a0 Getting a kid from Wofford is not cutting it.\u00a0 It just is not.\u00a0\u00a0 Coach Moser’s new players, either recruited as freshmen or from the portal are not the of players to bring a NCAA tournament team to OU and you can forget about a upper division or conference title coming to the campus.\u00a0 Sure OU beat a really great Alabama team at home this year.\u00a0 That should be expected and not an anomaly.\u00a0 Just look at what the new Kansas State coach did in just one season. He had just two players on the roster last summer when he took over the Wildcats and in one season with “his” transfers and freshmen they are in the sweet sixteen this weekend.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

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A winning team in Norman can happen with the right coach and the right manner of getting the best players to play for OU.\u00a0 Right now, expect another bottom team for OU and with the continuing philosophy of Coach Moser, things are not changing.\u00a0 And this is not a knock of Mosers coaching ability.\u00a0 He is a very good coach, especially at a mid-major or lower.\u00a0 Loyola of Chicago was the perfect place for him.\u00a0 OU is not.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

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That is the way I see it sports fans.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n

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Feature photo:\u00a0 Cortes and Coach Moser (on3.com photo credit)<\/p>\n

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