When athletic director Roger Denny, a month on the job, opted to retain Porter Moser as Oklahoma’s men’s basketball coach, he offered this about his decision.
You know, presuming it was his decision and not university president Joe Harroz’s decision.
“At Oklahoma, we’ve had a long history of embodying an underdog spirit,” he said, proving to have no idea about the athletic history he inherited. “And in men’s basketball, that mentality has often led us to outperforming our resources.
“It’s on coach Moser to make sure that our team’s performance continues to meet and exceed our resources for the program. He’s done that and I’m confident he will continue to.”
Oh, it’s so rich.
Like, “… continue to meet and exceed our resources for the program,” ought to be enough to get Denny canned just for being out of touch, or did he do no research about the university whose athletics he was about to oversee?
It’s a reasonable question given Moser had taken the Sooners to exactly one NCAA tournament in five seasons, not winning a game the time he got them there (2025), and sported a 95-75 overall mark since arriving in Norman, 33-57 in conference play, 20-34 in the Big 12 and 13-23 in the SEC.
And if Moser was outspent in the Sooners’ newest conference, he couldn’t have been in the Sooners’ previous one.
And if Denny thought his public relations drivel — did he run it by anybody? — would fly, he still couldn’t have guessed what Moser’s first postgame message would be the next season: this one.
