By: Nate Kotisso
Another former Sooner made his future plans official on Friday.
Former OU forward Brady Manek announced his commitment to North Carolina and first-year head coach Hubert Davis via Twitter.
Manek is utilizing his extra year of eligibility to finish his college career in the Atlantic Coast Conference deep in the heart of Tobacco Road. After posting a career-best 14.4 points and 6.2 rebounds in 2019-20, he averaged 10.8 points and 5.0 rebounds during the 2020-21 season.
An hour before Manek s commitment to UNC, new head coach Porter Moser and the school announced his new coaching and support staff which includes former SMU and Texas assistant K.T. Turner. Moser is also reuniting with one of his former Loyola Chicago assistants: Emanuel Dildy.
Former OU Forward Brady Manek Commits To North Carolina
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Jennie Baranczyk didn’t have to look far to see a familiar face.
Driving up to Lloyd Noble Center with her family on Tuesday for her introductory press conference, there it was: new men s basketball coach
Porter Moser.
“My kids said, ‘Oh look, there you are mom and why is the Loyola coach on the building?’ ” Baranczyk said. “And so we had to say, ‘Hey, we re actually here together.’ And they were like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is so cool.’ ”
Jennie Baranczyk and Porter Moser
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Baranczyk and Moser both come to Oklahoma from the Missouri Valley Conference, where Baranczyk turned Drake into a mini-dynasty and Moser built Loyola Chicago into a March darling.
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) â New Oklahoma coach Porter Moser isnât intimidated by the impressive track records of the coaches he’ll face in the Big 12 as he steps in for the retired Lon Kruger.
Scott Drew just led Baylor to a national title. Kansasâ Bill Self, who just signed a lifetime contract, has a national championship and has been to three Final Fours. Just two years ago, Texas coach Chris Beard led Texas Tech to the championship game. Bob Huggins took West Virginia to the national semifinals in 2010 â his second time taking a team to the Final Four. Kansas State coach Bruce Weber led Illinois to the national title game in 2005.
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It takes money to win football and basketball games. Money, of course, talks.
And when it does, for the Texas Longhorns, the best coaches tend to walk . in our direction.
That’s the point behind a new piece of commentary in 247Sports, which highlights the very big, very pretty paychecks it took ($54 million and $34 million, respectively, to get the Sarkisian and Beard eras underway, not to mention the $25 million in buyout money needed for Tom Herman to officially leave town) to make it happen. As 247Sports notes, “If 2013 was the low point of Texas turning on itself in a desperate attempt to hang on or reclaim its success in the first decade of the 2000s – the Golden Age of Longhorns’ athletics – then there’s a good chance we’ll look back at 2021 as the point when UT athletics regained its mojo.”
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