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  1. If Beard takes Ole Miss to the Final Four, we'll see if he gets looked at or not the next time the Kentucky job comes open. Unless we're all assuming Mark Pope is just the man to right the ship. Of course, we're a long ways away from Ole Miss doing anything significant just yet. It's just not much of a prediction when Ole Miss didn't even make the tournament last year. Not much to go on. Miller in much the same situation.
  2. If Beard takes Ole Miss to the Final Four without melting down in some way he might get a different level of consideration. He's not going to get considered when Ole Miss didn't make the tournament. But the chances of Pope meeting the expectations of Kentucky fans feels pretty slender to me, so he'll get another shot at the job in due time.
  3. Jerritt Elliott's new contract. https://volleyballmag.com/texas-nebraska-volleyball-notes-041124/ Appropriately titled for a Longhorn Network show.
  4. I don't think he would. But I didn't think any of this would unfold. I'm just trying to play out the chaos in a way that most involves my various fan agendas.
  5. Looks that way. It's hilarious either way. I would have enjoyed rooting against Scott Drew at Kentucky, but I'll enjoy rooting against him at Baylor all the same.
  6. When Andy Enfield took the SMU job, I told all of you the only way this can go is that Scott Drew is going to end up at Kentucky. You laughed at me then, but who's laughing now? BTW, I'm rooting for Jerome Tang to take the Baylor job. Maybe Beard takes the KState job and then Ole Miss hires Gillespie. Why not?
  7. I thought that's the way it was going to be for the rest of my life for UT sports. Particularly football, men's basketball, and baseball. Narrator: It wasn't.
  8. Wetlich, too, for that matter. Wetlich was even worse than Smart. What a terrible time to be a Texas basketball fan.
  9. I will always be proud of UT for how patient the administration was with Shaka Smart. My sanity was a much lower priority, as it should be. All I could think about was how proud I was of everyone responsible for keeping him on, as I beat my head against a wall for 5 of those 6 years. I don't care who anyone cites, if Terry misses the tournament the next two years he shouldn't be the head coach at Texas any more.
  10. They did not. I mean, they thought about it before the tournament but the tournament run sealed it. I don't know why people want to dismiss the Elite Eight berth. Tournament performance simply is THE metric college coaches are measured by. There's not really another that comes close. Then you look in the rafters, and it's not exactly brimming in Elite Eight banners. Yes, it was Beard's team and program that was built and Terry inherited it. But he also inherited it under adverse conditions and righted the ship. It's going to be fine. We just have to live long enough to see it. Either Terry is going to get this right or he's going to be fired and CDC will go out and hire his main target. Because that's what he does.
  11. I feel like you have a different view of human nature than I do. It won't die because it's controversial, it's topical as long as Terry is the head coach, and people have passionate opinions on the subject. It's pretty easy for someone to offer an opinion that someone else will disagree with. Like Red Bull, that gives threads wings.
  12. Chris Beard "no longer considering Arkansas job." Either he was told no, or the chances of him being told no were too high to risk it.
  13. If we all agreed about everything message boards would be a dull and empty place. And to be clear, I don't think it's reasonable to consider whether Terry should be fired right now. I think a legitimate discussion - as far as message boards go, that is - can be made whether he will be fired in the future or keep his job until he retires, but heck, there aren't many coaches at Texas who get to do that. Even some of the very best ones. You not only have to win at a high level to keep your job. You have to keep winning at a high level. David Pierce has been practically under the gun since that debacle of a hiring process where we got 4 or 5 coaches significant raises at their current job. Probably the worst coaching search I've ever seen conducted at Texas in my lifetime for a sport that should be a slam dunk. That's just not the CDC way. He identifies his target and then gets them. He had his hands tied with Rodney Terry in what I find completely understandable ways. I understand that baseball has a richer tradition at Texas, and frankly there's no reason not to have the best coaches in the country want to take this job, but the truth is college basketball is more prestigious and higher profile. There's no reason why Texas can't be elite in every sport it fields, which is not something that any other school can say. It just takes the right coach. And we've shown if we don't have the right coach we'll keep firing people until we find them.
  14. I can't believe that's the guy's real name. I keep reading tree fiddy.
  15. I don't think this thread is going to die.
  16. I like my coaches with a little fire in them. Tbh, most of the time Sarkisian seems so relaxed. I remember Barry Switzer saying he had to pull back Mack Brown when he was an assistant at OU because he was too hard on the players. It often made me wistful. In any case, Terry ain't going anywhere this offseason at the very least. I refuse to be in a place where I do anything but hope for the best. I'm pleased with how the season turned out after the loss to UCF, given that I didn't think we were going to make the tournament. Let's see what happens this coming year with the SEC move.
  17. And in this particular instance your favorite money person was instrumental in Terry getting the job. Okay. All I can tell you is the basketball people I know were not excited about the whole circumstances surrounding Terry getting the job, but feel like he deserves a chance. Which he is getting. And then there are other people who are not money people who feel like this is a good example of why Texas will never be great in basketball. Because this wouldn't have happened in football, the argument goes. Which I don't agree with. If a situation analogous to what happened with Beard and Terry occurred in football, I think it would have been very difficult to make a change. Even in football. We just have to let it play out. Hopefully Terry ends up being a home run hire.
  18. I don't think you know anyone who could possibly be considered "the money."
  19. What are you talking about "the money wanted Terry after the incident." He was the fucking assistant head coach. The whole scenario played out practically by the book after Beard's arrest. Anyone could see what was coming. I did. He was named the interim head coach. There were a lot of people - Del Conte included - that hoped something could be worked out other than firing him, but it just wasn't in the cards. Then once Terry made it to the Elite Eight it was all done. I think it's more accurate to say the administration wanted Terry, and that was enough. It feels like you're throwing shit out there without having a clue what you're talking about because you're disgruntled Terry is the head coach. Which I get. But it doesn't mean we live in some kind of alternate reality where the money people were just begging for Terry to be the guy. They weren't. I understand the sentiment that wishes it had gone down differently, but I don't consider any of those sentiments reasonable. He's the coach until he's proven he can't get it done. One season where we lose in the second round of the NCAA tournament ain't it. We'll either have our shot at a big time hire in a couple of years or Terry will have proven to be a better fit for the job than I give him credit for. Oh, and if you want a silver lining, the raise in pay for Sarkisian means there's more room to pay the head basketball coach without eclipsing the football coach's salary, which is a plus. But we've got some time to kill until then. Maybe it works out with Terry. Who knows?
  20. I haven't watched it. I will though. But I'm not rooting for Tennessee. I think the world of Barnes. I still want him to lose.
  21. I would not root for Texas if they hired Calipari. I might actively root against us. It would be as if the football program hired Barry Switzer.
  22. Sure. The guy doesn't have an off switch. There are a lot of qualities that are overrated as far as I'm concerned regarding head coaches at UT. "Classy" is definitely one. "Nice" would be another. I'm not saying I don't want a head coach that's classy or nice. If they win national championships, I'm all for it. But it takes a uniquely driven human being to be able to compete at the highest levels, and those driven human beings aren't always the most joyful to be around. The fact is, Chris Beard is no longer an option. I hope he fails miserably in his coaching career, outside of murdering someone or some tragedy of that ilk. But that's less to do with him, and more about my failings as a human being and how I entertain myself following sports. If you were a former head coach at Texas, I want you to fail at your subsequent jobs, regardless of why the school and coach parted ways. That's just how it is. No exceptions. But he was singularly fitted to coach at UT for a number of reasons. He's driven to electrify the student body, and the fans in general, in ways other coaches are not. He's an alum, and was proud (and compelling when he did so) to cite that over and over again. I found him entertaining on a personal level, and I know I'm not the only one. None of that matters if he can't coach, but he can. How much he wears on administrators, players, wives, and girlfriends, doesn't even register for me regarding how much I'd want someone as a head coach. Saban famously said he preferred college over the NFL in part because by the time the players were tired of him they'd moved on. If Terry can make it to the second weekend on a somewhat regular basis, as far as I'm concerned he should be able to stay as long as he wants. I don't think that's going to happen, in which case he will have to go. I'm glad Disu found his joy regarding basketball in part because of Terry becoming the head coach, but in terms of annual performance reviews, that's a checkbox pretty far down the list. I sure hope it's not a critical part of the criteria for the next head coach.
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