There are unrealistic expectations for Oklahoma softball, but that’s also because Patty Gasso’s program has achieved the impossible.
The Sooners are heading into their first SEC Softball Tournament as the top seed to begin another postseason as the four-time defending national champions. OU won the regular-season conference title in its first season in the loaded SEC and has been ranked inside the top 5 all year, yet it still seems like the Sooners have underachieved at times compared to past success.
Gasso was a guest on College Sports Radio on SiriusXM ahead of this week’s SEC Softball Tournament and was completely transparent about the expectations of her team after the program has won four national titles in a row.
Patty Gasso honest about expectations for Sooners
“The pressure of the last four years has been pretty insurmountable,” Gasso said. “The expectations of if you don’t win it again, then what a disappointing season. I’m like, ‘OK.’ Talk about elite, the last four years I’ve had absolutely elite of the elite players on my team who were ballers, and they were tough. They were not rattled by anything.”…