Re: Sooner Surge - Who is your mount Rushmore of Sooner Greats?
Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2024 9:03 am
by The Far Journey
This is really hard to do. It's why you can't build statues to players or retire numbers. The statues would ring the stadium and the second would leave us with few double digit numbers to assign. And then where would the cut off be? There are a number of Sooner players who are arguably the best at their position ever to play the game. All that said, Jennings, Coleman, Alo, Ricketts.
Re: Sooner Surge - Who is your mount Rushmore of Sooner Greats?
Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2024 9:59 am
by TropicalSooner
Much like Journey, I thought about mine by way of position groups.
OF= Coleman
IN = Jennings
DP = Alo
P = Ricketts
Re: Sooner Surge - Who is your mount Rushmore of Sooner Greats?
Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2024 10:32 am
by AustinTXSooner
I'll go by national awards.
Ricketts and Alo are both 2-time National Players of the Year. That's automatic.
After that, we have four players that are 4-time All Americans.
Tiare Jennings is the only Sooner to have 4 first-team All-Americans. She's in.
Lauren Chamberlain and Jayda Coleman each have 3 first-team All-Americans and one second-team. Paige Parker has 2 first-team and 2 second-teams.
If I have to pick only 4, it's Ricketts, Alo, Jennings, and Chamberlain. If I could add a fifth face, it would be Coleman.
Re: Sooner Surge - Who is your mount Rushmore of Sooner Greats?
Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2024 7:55 pm
by OU_Tom
The Far Journey wrote: ↑Fri Jul 05, 2024 9:03 am
This is really hard to do. It's why you can't build statues to players or retire numbers. The statues would ring the stadium and the second would leave us with few double digit numbers to assign. And then where would the cut off be? There are a number of Sooner players who are arguably the best at their position ever to play the game. All that said, Jennings, Coleman, Alo, Ricketts.
I have disagree. I think it is why you retire numbers .
We need to retire the numbers of the sooner greats - Chamberlain, Alo, ricketts, Jennings, Colemans, Pendley, Parker, Romero and some others. They all need to be in our hall of fame . I don't think we have a hall of fame but we need one
Numbers are infinite. We can always use 3 or 4 digits.
Greatness needs to be rewarded
Ps.
I hope that Sydney Romero is the head coach at OU soon. Or before I keel over.
Re: Sooner Surge - Who is your mount Rushmore of Sooner Greats?
Posted: Sat Jul 06, 2024 12:13 am
by inconnu
Why would you want to pick a new coach Oh, I get it I think. Our current coach is too predictable.
Re: Sooner Surge - Who is your mount Rushmore of Sooner Greats?
Posted: Sat Jul 06, 2024 10:20 am
by waddy's ghost
TropicalSooner wrote: ↑Fri Jul 05, 2024 9:59 am
Much like Journey, I thought about mine by way of position groups.
OF= Coleman
IN = Jennings
DP = Alo
P = Ricketts
the only thing I would change from this list is Lypns for Jennings by narrowest of margins . To be fair I think there should be 12 slots on the softball Mt. Rushmore .
Re: Sooner Surge - Who is your mount Rushmore of Sooner Greats?
Posted: Sat Jul 06, 2024 11:07 am
by waddy's ghost
OU_Tom wrote: ↑Wed Jul 03, 2024 6:33 pm
They think you have to include
Alo
Keilani
Chamberlain
There are no wrong answers. I did like the discussion
Re: Sooner Surge - Who is your mount Rushmore of Sooner Greats?
Posted: Sat Jul 06, 2024 11:11 am
by oufanforever
Alo, Ricketts, and Jennings are locks for me. Last spot I probably still have Chamberlin but it can be debated.
Re: Sooner Surge - Who is your mount Rushmore of Sooner Greats?
Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2024 2:20 pm
by SoonerSportsFan
1. Keilani Ricketts
2. Jocelyn Alo
3. Tiare Jennings
4. Lauren Chamberlain (**If Chamberlain would have been injury free her HR's and statistics would have been far better and would have been ranked higher on my list.)