I invite you to watch some non-tournament teams. The college basketball product across the board is pretty shitty. When we play teams outside the top-50, we win 95% of the time under RT.
When I say he is a "good coach", I mean it holistically, not just gameday scheme and X's and Os. In my opinion, he is a great recruiter and very good at retaining talent. He is a solid motivator and the team tends to play hard. Under other coaches, they could have quit last year when Beard F'ed up or this year in January when it seemed like the wheels were coming off. We want to attribute that to the team being "player led", but that itself is an identity that the coach fosters or destroys.
He experiments with lineups and the team seems to get better as the year goes on. Most of our players have developed pretty well, even if Hunter can be frustrating. He isn't an egomaniac and seems like he respects and leverages his assistants (and they are all pretty solid).
The main problem we have had is consistency. At times, the team looks like a Final Four caliber team. The blowout win at Tech was extremely impressive in that environment. The first half of Baylor and K-State were about as good as any Texas team has looked in 20 years. But then some adversity happens, like Disu getting hurt or getting in foul trouble, and the rest of the team fails to pick up the slack. They are not mentally tough like some of the teams we have had in the past. But on the flip side, pushing players to the breaking point constantly also has its risks, like the late season collapse by some Barnes teams. Or the heavy attrition under Beard just about everywhere he goes.
"Good" is relative anyway. I think we can agree he hasn't been good enough.