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  1. HookEm

    Rodney Terry

    That was our best win of the year including Gonzaga. K-State is an Elite-8 caliber team and that was an extremely hostile environment… and the game was called in a way that favors them. Really really gutsy win.
  2. HookEm

    Rodney Terry

    And this guy is calling me stupid. Lol.
  3. HookEm

    Rodney Terry

    I'm supporting him right now as hard as I can. I want him to do well enough that we make him an offer. But surely you realize he had a 163-156 D-1 head coaching record before coming to Texas. The bar is pretty damn high for me to overlook his other 10 years of coaching. Since you disagree with my assessment, please tell us what you think he needs to do to earn the job.
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    Rodney Terry

    Funny, I was just about to post that I'm revising my list of qualifications for me to support a Terry offer. If he wins the Big 12 outright, all he needs to do is make the Sweet 16 for me to give him a chance. In 27 seasons, we have only won the Big-12 outright a single time, in 1999. If he is able to do that this year, with all of the Chris Beard distraction, with the conference as deep as it has ever been, that is a tremendous accomplishment. Make it to the 2nd weekend in this scenario and I am on board. If we tie for the Big 12 title, or win the Big 12 Tourney, then he is going to need to make the Elite 8 for me. Any less than that and I am going to want to see a Final Four.
  5. This thread has taken a turn from O&G being a roller coaster to talking about actual roller coasters.
  6. When we went up to Tech, they said 98% of their grads had jobs lined up. I didn’t get a list of companies though. That’s a good idea.
  7. HookEm

    Rodney Terry

    I guess it just depends on how good the season is. Sweet 16 or worse and I think most fans are going to think we can find better. Elite 8 is probably where half fans want him and half want to get someone better. Final 4 and most fans will want to keep him, including me. Based on conversations I have had with actual UT fans who have attended a game in the last 6 months.
  8. I'm originally from the panhandle and my parents still live in Lubbock. I actually like it up there, but realize that it isn't for everyone, including my son who wasn't that excited about the prospect. Of course with a geology degree, he may eventually find himself somewhere like Midland.
  9. He got accepted into Texas Tech's Mechanical Engineering program and was all set to go there before hearing from UT. I would bet a lot of Geology majors at UT are there because they missed out on their first choice. As a UT ChemE myself, I haven't done chemical engineering in 20+ years. I ended up in Technology, managing software projects in an adjacent space. A Geosystems Engineering degree seems like it would be more versatile if you want to bounce to a different career. But I'm not sure whether it is viewed as an actual engineering degree or not. It isn't a degree I come across. He also has some interest in law school, and I'm not sure whether any of the geology degrees would be good for that. Being a UT grad, it is hard to send him up to Tech if he has an opportunity here. I suppose he can always try to transfer majors within UT if he doesn't like it.
  10. He was mainly interested in Mechanical Engineering because he wanted to be a project engineer. So it is good to hear that is an option. Any feedback on Geology vs. Geosystems Engineering?
  11. Last night my son found out that he was accepted into UT's Geology department, which came as a surprise to him. He is excited about getting in to UT, but doesn't really know much about the career options for Geology. He was originally planning to study Mechanical Engineering. Any UT Geology or Geosystems Engineering students or grads in here? Wondering if you can provide some insight into the job outlook and such. I'm a UT ChemE myself, but I don't really deal with this field to a great degree.
  12. HookEm

    Rodney Terry

    I'm curious if Terry ended up getting the job, how many of our assistants would stay on staff. They came here to coach under Beard (for a lot of $$$). Would they stay to coach under Terry? One reason why Beard has been so successful is that he is a MASTER salesman. He has been able to put together great staffs wherever he goes. Whether or not you think Mark Adams was the right choice to be head coach at Tech, he was still an extremely accomplished Juco coach and a tremendous asset to have on the bench. The current Texas staff is one of the best in college hoops. They also deserve a lot of credit in addition to Terry for the season we are having. They are certainly a lot better than Terry had at UTEP and Fresno.
  13. HookEm

    Rodney Terry

    Exactly. It seems impossible to really root for this team if you are dead set convinced that Terry cannot be our coach going forward.
  14. HookEm

    Rodney Terry

    I guess I don't understand why your appreciation is limited. The job he has done keeping the ship afloat has been incredible. It could be that his skills are best suited for exactly this scenario. Calm things down. Take the talent that has already been developed and win games. And those skills are likely only a fraction of what is expected for a leader who will run the program for the next decade. So I'm capable of appreciating what he is doing, but also separating that from the decision of who our next coach will be. They are completely different scenarios. It is like judging a substitute teacher with the same measuring stick as the actual teacher. Completely different jobs.
  15. HookEm

    Rodney Terry

    I guess this will turn into the speculation thread and not the appreciation thread I had intended.
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    Rodney Terry

    This thread is to appreciate the job this guy is doing. He was able to take over the team under a terrible situation, with no warning, and quickly got the team through it. I can't imagine a much bigger distraction than what was possible here. And yet, Terry and staff have kept team largely undistracted and focused. At time of this OP, he is 11-3. We are tied for first in the Big 12 through the half-way mark at 7-2 He has maintained a winning culture and has done the little things to win close games that would have been losses in previous years. He is doing a great job with rotations and is managing all of these highly successful transfers well. Our freshmen are playing team basketball, not hero ball like so many potential one-and-dones. Carr is playing his best hoops and is making a case for 1st Team AA. Brock is being maximized. Rice is our assassin. And Hunter (likely hurt) is also getting his confidence back. Terry has already delivered some big wins including #11 Baylor, #15 TCU, at #20 WV, #33 OSU (twice), at #37 OU (AP and KenPom). His three losses have all been to very good teams... at #2 Tennessee, at #13 Iowa State and #7 K-State (that one was admittedly painful). Kudos to CDC for opening the check-book last year and building such an experienced coaching bench. Not many teams have a staff with this much coaching depth who could step in and lead in this environment. A lot of people are focused on comparing Rodney Terry to Chris Beard. I think that is misplaced at this point in time. For now, I would rather acknowledge the amazing job he is doing getting us through these troubled waters as a promoted assistant / interim head coach. We can talk about his future in the future. For now, we are incredibly fortunate to have Terry leading the team.
  17. If that is the case I haven't seen it. Maybe I'm just not sensitized to it. The board has seemed pretty aligned to me, which is why it always surprises me when you make these very aggressive counter arguments. I'm just not sure who you are arguing with. Oh well, I agree it will work itself out within 2 months.
  18. This is exactly my point. I don't think this is a divisive issue among anyone that even casually follows the program. That said, I was talking with some non-Longhorn family members this weekend and they were like "Are you guys hiring Terry?". I told them "I doubt it". And they were surprised. "But he is doing so well!!!!" I'm sure everyone has friends and co-workers like this. Can we all just agree that these people are clueless and don't represent the people on this board?
  19. I don't really think that Terry's future is much of a divisive topic at all. Everyone seems to be in alignment that the only way we keep him is with a truly outstanding year. The only debate is to whether it will take an Elite 8, Final Four or Title run for him to keep the job. We haven't made an Elite 8 since 2008 We haven't made a Final Four in 20 years (and only once in my lifetime) We have never played for a title If he does any of the above, there SHOULD be a debate about whether he keeps the job. And the strength of his position increases a ton the farther he goes. But until any of that happens, there is no point in speculating. I would LOVE to have these debates in April after a great run. I also don't see much debate regarding whether we have digressed since Beard's arrest. Of course we have. That said, it took a while for the shell shock of Beard's arrest to wear off. We have also entered conference play and the Big 12 is the toughest conference top to bottom I have ever seen. So... it is hard to know how much to attribute directly to Terry. But anyone arguing he is up to par with Beard isn't worth arguing with.
  20. I didn't see what happened before that, but I wouldn't put it past Harden to be in the game, but then to run down and sit on the bench waiting for this opportunity. If that is the case, then it shouldn't be illegal. Because usually it would result in a massive failure since your team is playing 4 on 5.
  21. The fact that we are 6-2 in the brutal Big 12 with the drama around Beard is really incredible.
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