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  1. HookEm

    Rodney Terry

    Rodney Terry winning Coach of the Year has taken a terrible, embarrassing situation for the University and turned it into a feel-good story. It is remarkable. If he takes this team all the way to the Final Four or beyond, this would be the type of thing they make movies about. If we have a Final Four run and end up hiring him, there will be a huge amount of positive buzz on the program. And the players all seem to genuinely like playing for him. I think it could be leveraged well on the recruiting trail. The key is that we have to win BIG over the next month.
  2. I mean, we had eight National Top-100 players on the roster, not counting 3-star Isaiah Taylor who actually played in the NBA. If you consider that the NBA drafts 60 players a year, if all our players played to their potential we should have had 5 drafted. Ridley was the #14 player out of high school and should have been a 1st rounder. Compare that to this year. We only have four National Top-100 players on the roster. Dillon Mitchel (5), Arterio Morris (19),Tyrese Hunter (34), Rowan Brumbaugh (93) I really think if Barnes had been around to coach that team one more year he would have had a good year.
  3. Speaking of experienced rosters, it would be hard to top what Shaka inherited back in 2016. That was one of the most experienced, upper-class heavy teams we have ever had at Texas. Going into the season you had: Isaiah Taylor - Jr - Wooden Preseason Watch Jevan Felix - Sr - 47 career starts Connor Lammert - Sr - 39 career starts Cameron Ridley - Sr - 85 career starts, Big-12 All Defense Demarcus Holland - Sr - 74 career starts, Big 12 All Defense Prince Ibeh - Sr - (Became Big 12 Defensive PoY in 2016) Kendal Yancy - Jr - 28 career starts Shaq Cleare - Jr - 28 career starts (at Maryland) And to that we added Kerwin Roach (#39 recruit), Eric Davis (#47 recruit), Tevin Mack (#53 recruit) Man that had the potential to be a great team. Instead we topped out ranked #23 and got a 6-seed and crapped out vs. Northern Iowa. What a terrible way to start his tenure here. \Rant
  4. It always amazes me when women go back men who abuses them. Tech getting back with Beard would be like this happening at an institutional level.
  5. You are actually the one who brought up Shaka in saying we wouldn't have considered Terry for the job. My point is that Terry is doing better than Shaka did here. Was it a good point? Probably not, lol.
  6. Counter Point: Let's say we would have hired Shaka to replace Beard right when he was fired instead of promoting Terry. Would we have a better record or worse record? I'm going to go ahead and say Terry has done a better job with the team than Shaka would have, all things considered. Shaka would have found a way to ruin the chemistry. (That doesn't mean I want to offer Terry the job right now)
  7. 10-8 wouldn't be .500. Just saying. Yes, UCLA played well at home. Let's just assume if you played in the Big 12 you would also win all your home games. But... UCLA hasn't been great on the road. In conference, you only played two top-50 (Pomeroy) teams in Arizona (11) and USC (34). You lost both of those games. And you barely won by 1 at WSU (54) and by 4 at Colorado (68). Not to mention getting beat by Baylor (9) and Illinois (28) at neutral sites. If we extend that to the Big 12, and assume road losses to everyone better than USC, that means you get losses at: Texas (8), KU (9), Baylor (14), WV (17), KSU (18), ISU (22), TCU (25) It is also reasonable to think that one of OSU (40), OU (51) or Tech (53) would get you at home since they are all better than WSU who you squeaked by. Boom. There are 8 losses. And that assumes you go undefeated at home, something KU, Texas and Baylor were all unable to do.
  8. I haven't been that interested in the speculation about Terry because the season has still been underway and it was pointless. That will all change within the next two weeks. Either we will be on our way to the Sweet 16 and the rumbling to hire Terry will start to really pick up (and get exponentially louder with each win). Or we will lose the first weekend and his door will be closed forever. Given that we have only one Final Four in my lifetime and it was 20 years ago, I'm rooting like crazy that we get there - even if it means we wind up with Terry. It isn't out of the question that this team could win it all if our shots are falling. We can definitely beat anybody in the field.
  9. Under Shaka, there were times where we would be behind and he would press and push the pace. We always looked awesome. We'll see what he does in the tournament.
  10. Just for arguments sake, let's say we win the Big 12 Tournament vs. Kansas and Alabama, Purdue and UCLA all lose their first conference tournament game. That would result in the following Quad 1 records: Kansas: 17-7 Texas: 14-8 Purdue: 9-5 Alabama: 9-6 UCLA: 7-5 Houston: 6-1 I'm not sure how the selection committee could deny Texas a 1-seed in this case. We would have seven more Q1 wins than UCLA and five more than Purdue or Alabama. And would have beaten the probable overall #1 seed Kansas twice in the the last week.
  11. Just want to say that when Shaka was hired it was a HUGE, splash hire. He was the hottest young, exciting, up and coming coach in the country. Everybody liked him and couldn't wait to see Havok on the 40 acres. Now that he is back to coaching his style of basketball, he is a leading candidate for National Coach of the Year.
  12. Also I heard the verse was Galatians 3:28. Not sure though. There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus
  13. I know some moderate / high boosters of Tech basketball who would disagree with you. I’m just going to say the door isn’t completely closed.
  14. You don't think playing for the #1 overall tournament seed, where they get to PICK the Sweet 16 location matters? When one of those locations is Kansas City? Okaaay. I guarantee you that if Houston is the #1 seed, they will pick Kansas City and force KU to Louisville or Las Vegas.
  15. I agree. Our offense didn't look quite as crisp as it did when we played A&M Commerce.
  16. Maybe I just misinterpreted previous posts. Obviously we have regressed from when Beard coached the team. But I'm pretty sure the comment was saying that we had specifically regressed in late February - and that other big 12 coaches have now "figured us out". Based primarily on us losing AT Baylor and TCU. That is absurd in my opinion. We are basically the same team we have been for the last 2 months, with the same strengths and the same flaws. It seems like people keep feeling the need to compare us to what we could have been. That is wasted energy IMO. Beard is gone and he isn't coming back. He absolutely fucked this program and these kids. What we do from here remains to be seen, but I'm tired of talking about him. It also feels like people are more critical of this team simply to justify that we shouldn't hire Rodney Terry, which I understand. But... we just knocked off KU and there is less joy in that and actually even some hand wringing that it might lead to us hiring Terry. If that is the focus, then I think people are going to miss out on a potentially amazing run. For me, this is the most fun team we have had in over a decade. It is actually the most FUN team for me since probably the DJ Augustin Elite 8 team. I trust that CDC will make the right decision after the season, so for now I'm just going to enjoy it. It doesn't mean I have blinders on to our team's flaws, but I try to keep them in perspective vs. all the other teams in CBB. Every team out there has flaws this year and we can beat anyone.
  17. Using Massey ratings, y’all have played 8 teams ranked 51 or higher (OUs rank, the worst team in the Big 12). You went 4-4 in those games. Nine out of 12 teams in the Pac12 are ranked lower than the Big12s worst team. It is easy for me to believe you would have 6-8 losses in the Big 12. There is no way you would have been favored in more than 10-12 games.
  18. Gabe Muoneke actually has a great story about Ime. Think it may have been posted here before…
  19. I know the optics would be questionable, but Ime Udoka is still out of a job. I imagine he would turn it down and wait for an NBA job that is sure to come. He is better than anyone else mentioned on this thread.
  20. HookEm

    Rodney Terry

    CDC isn’t an idiot. There is ZERO chance Terry gets the job before the season completes. Even if he wins the Big 12 Tournament.
  21. Dick has good size but doesn't know how to use it. Dick is soft.
  22. I generally agree, but KU was also missing a lot of open 3s. I thought the interior / help defense was very good though. And we were giving a lot more effort rebounding.
  23. It was annoying to hear Dick Vitale talk about how "good guy" Shaka Smart was not liked by Texas brass. Well dumbass, maybe it is because he adopted a new, boring, unpopular system the second he got here instead of the fun system he was running at VCU. And maybe he is having success again because he is back to playing the type of basketball that made him successful in the first place. I'm calling it now. We will be the #2 seed and Marquette will be the #3 seed in either the South or East regional. And maybe Tennessee will be the #4 seed for good measure.
  24. Still think we have regressed? It is strange that these other Big-12 teams figured us out but Bill Self didn't. Or maybe we were just playing REALLY good teams on the road in the toughest conference in the last 20 years. Losing happens in college basketball. Especially on the road to decent teams. Just today the following higher ranked teams lost: #2 Alabama (at #24 Aggy) #3 Kansas (to us) #7 Baylor (at home to UR Iowa State) #11 K-State (at UR West Virginia) #12 Tennessee (at UR Auburn) #20 Providence (at home to UR Seton Hall) #22 TCU (at UR OU) I feel as good about our chances in the tournament as I have in at least 10 years. We have never had a team this experienced or this deep. Sure we have glaring issues, but every team in the field does as well.
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