{"id":11327,"date":"2025-02-12T09:45:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T15:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/?p=11327"},"modified":"2025-02-12T09:45:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T15:45:29","slug":"ous-patty-gasso-is-the-goat-of-sooner-coaches-any-sport-2028-olympics-choice-certifies-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/?p=11327","title":{"rendered":"OU&#8217;s Patty Gasso is the GOAT of Sooner coaches, any sport&#8230;&#8230;2028 Olympics choice certifies it!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Pattie Gasso was named the United States Olympic softball coach for the 2028 LA Games.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 The seven time National Championship coach in softball and multiple time national coach of the year is unofficially the GOAT of Sooner coaches.\u00a0 As the world turns, this title can be given to another coach if that coach supersedes Gasso&#8217;s accomplishments.<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Press Conference: Patty Gasso named Team USA Softball Coach\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q9_x2bhKbRk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">She has been the head softball coach at the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"University of Oklahoma\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_Oklahoma\">University of Oklahoma<\/a>\u00a0since 1995. She has led the Sooners team to eight national championships (<a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"2000 NCAA Division I softball tournament\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2000_NCAA_Division_I_softball_tournament\">2000<\/a>,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"2013 NCAA Division I softball tournament\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2013_NCAA_Division_I_softball_tournament\">2013<\/a>,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"2016 NCAA Division I softball tournament\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2016_NCAA_Division_I_softball_tournament\">2016<\/a>,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"2017 NCAA Division I softball tournament\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2017_NCAA_Division_I_softball_tournament\">2017<\/a>,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"2021 NCAA Division I softball tournament\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2021_NCAA_Division_I_softball_tournament\">2021<\/a>,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"2022 NCAA Division I softball tournament\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2022_NCAA_Division_I_softball_tournament\">2022<\/a>,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"2023 NCAA Division I softball tournament\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2023_NCAA_Division_I_softball_tournament\">2023<\/a>, and\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"2024 NCAA Division I softball tournament\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2024_NCAA_Division_I_softball_tournament\">2024<\/a>) and has compiled a career record of 1,515\u2013352\u20132 and a winning percentage of .811.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">In 30 years at the University of Oklahoma, she has compiled a record of 1,395\u2013344\u20132 and a winning percentage of .802.<sup id=\"cite_ref-NCAA_7-0\" class=\"reference\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patty_Gasso#cite_note-NCAA-7\"><span class=\"cite-bracket\">[<\/span>7<span class=\"cite-bracket\">]<\/span><\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Her teams have advanced to the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"Women's College World Series\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Women%27s_College_World_Series\">Women&#8217;s College World Series<\/a>\u00a0fourteen times and won the national championship eight times in 2000, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Bio_2-1\" class=\"reference\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patty_Gasso#cite_note-Bio-2\"><span class=\"cite-bracket\">[<\/span>2<span class=\"cite-bracket\">]<\/span><\/a><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-JJ_8-0\" class=\"reference\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patty_Gasso#cite_note-JJ-8\"><span class=\"cite-bracket\">[<\/span>8<span class=\"cite-bracket\">]<\/span><\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Her winning percentage of .802 ranks the highest of\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"List of college softball coaches with 1,000 wins\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_college_softball_coaches_with_1,000_wins\">Division I college softball coaches with at least 1,000 career wins<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0(Wikipedia)<\/span><\/h4>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/h5>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Gasso ranks above the following list of great coaches I have noted below.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">K. J. Kindler<\/span><\/h3>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">OU&#8217;s women&#8217;s gymnastics coach (current):\u00a0 A four-time National Coach of the Year, Kindler led her program exactly where many said it could never go. OU&#8217;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.<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Bud Wilkinson<\/span><\/h3>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">OU football coach:\u00a0 \u00a0Mr. Wilkinson served as the head football coach at the <a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"University of Oklahoma\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_Oklahoma\">University of Oklahoma<\/a>\u00a0from 1947 to 1963, compiling a record of 145\u201329\u20134. His\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"Oklahoma Sooners football\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oklahoma_Sooners_football\">Oklahoma Sooners<\/a>\u00a0won three\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/College_football_national_championships_in_NCAA_Division_I_FBS\">national championships<\/a>\u00a0(1950, 1955, and 1956) and 14 conference titles. Between 1953 and 1957, Wilkinson&#8217;s Oklahoma squads won 47 straight games, a record that still stands at the highest level of\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"College football\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/College_football\">college football<\/a>.<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Barry Switzer<\/span><\/h3>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">OU football coach:\u00a0 He served for 16 years as head football coach at the <a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"University of Oklahoma\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_Oklahoma\">University of Oklahoma<\/a>\u00a0and four years as head coach of the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"Dallas Cowboys\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dallas_Cowboys\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Football_League\">National Football League<\/a> (NFL). He won three national championships at Oklahoma.\u00a0 Switzer&#8217;s rec<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">ord at OU was 157\u201329\u20134 (college).<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">That is the way I see it sports fans.<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Feature photo:\u00a0 Oklahoma coach Patty Gasso \/ Bryan Terry \/ USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_11327\" class=\"pvc_stats all  \" data-element-id=\"11327\" style=\"\"><i class=\"pvc-stats-icon medium\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" data-prefix=\"far\" data-icon=\"chart-bar\" role=\"img\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 512 512\" class=\"svg-inline--fa fa-chart-bar fa-w-16 fa-2x\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M396.8 352h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V108.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 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