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  1. Yep. He was a real asset as a volunteer assistant for Pierce on the coaching side of things. I don’t want a guy that hasn’t been a head coach at any college program being the next coach at Texas.
  2. Not sure I would jump on the Tulo train or have him in my top list of candidates. We obviously are behind on the recruiting front with Pierce. Can Tulo fill that gap on the recruiting trail and maybe even attract more kids to the college route?
  3. I 100% agree. I think Kendal is just giving Pierce the benefit of the doubt and going with what Pierce has done in the past to maybe give himself a chance in the future. I certainly hope that if Pierce makes a run in the conference tournament and find himself in a regional, cdc doesn’t think that should qualify him for another year.
  4. That is basically saying postseason or he’s done. He sees just like everyone else we’ve struggled with the bottom of the barrel teams and now to make the postseason they have to replicate what happened in Manhattan, multiple times. The odds are heavily stacked against Pierce but this league is ass for the most part so who knows for sure at this point.
  5. Pierce developed way better than Herman did, and he acquired better overall talent just not at the rate that he should as a coach at Texas. I’ll also say that players tended to play hard for both coaches. Especially for Herman, we are were always physical. I think the assistants angle looking more on point as the days go by. Have the same staff for most of your tenure then switch it up when cracks start to show. They’re both pretty stubborn as well.
  6. The thing with Pierce is I’m not sure there is a good enough comparison for recently fired Texas coaches. He actually has skins on the wall. I guess Herman fits but even then what did he do outside of the sugar bowl year relative to Pierce? Pierce went to the CWS 3 times and won or shared the conference title multiple times. We’re rightfully going to fire a coach that a large majority of programs wouldn’t even think about firing if they found themselves in the same situation. Not sure Herman, Chuckles, Shaka etc, fall under that assumption.
  7. Chuckles and Pierce is a horrible comparison.
  8. I think the long ball is overrating the team’s hitting a bit. I don’t know what a coach is to do when they’ve shown the ability to hit but not in clutch situations. What’s the answer? They’re just simply not consistently good in high leverage situations imo. I can remember a recent game where got like 4 runs on 12 hits. We start to do damage with 2 outs a lot of times which is playing with fire. One inning we could have 4 hits with only 1 run to show for because they’re playing with 1 remaining out. Pitching is what it is, a complete failure.
  9. I’m not blaming it all on the coach but not being good enough or failing doesn’t mean you quit. We’re simply not that good anymore. Who knows, I could be in the minority. I just don’t see a team of quitters but rather a team that isn’t that good coupled with a coach that seemed to already mail it in with some blatantly poor choices.
  10. It’s really hard for the kids to push forward when it’s clear the head coach has managed their way into too many losses. They’re not losers or quitters, my goodness get it together. The team isn’t living the standard at Texas but none have shown they don’t want to be here (minus LBJ, that’s more of a confidence thing tho). Again their own coach is managing games as if he’s already bought a plane ticket to Cancun.
  11. O’Connor could be comfortable where he’s at but I would at least try. He’s only 52 as well.
  12. I’ll add O’Connor at Virginia to this list. Pretty good resumè and who knows what the ACC is going to turn in to over the next few years. Edit: also the odds are high that they give Pierce 1more year to fix this.
  13. Borderline tomahawk swing by Powell.
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