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  1. Jesus you are the biggest fucking moron in UT history. For weeks people have been trying to patiently explain to you like a 2 year old that the University needed to get the facts before making a half ass firing, which is what YOU were advocating, a half ass firing immediately. They did EXACTLY what people have been trying to patiently explain to you, but you are too fucking stupid to understand such simple concepts. You are an idiot.
    45 points
  2. This board seriously needs to move on from Jay Wright, Billy Donovan, and Brad Stevens. Those aren’t happening. — UT is an institution that loves its reputation. Sometimes, that reputation (among certain groups) is the “we are above you” mantra because we went to The University of Texas. I can’t count how many times I’ve seen on message boards and heard at Texas the saying “We’re Texas, we don’t do that” or “We’re Texas, we don’t need to do that.” But the odd part is in the same conversations as it pertains to athletics, people constantly complain that UT doesn’t do better in the sports that it should. Could that be because some are concerned about the reputation of the university as a whole? Or is it because Texas can do it the “right way” and doesn’t have to do things that are considered beneath UT. So if Beard is eventually fired and the case dismissed (which is what it’s looking like) the question will be is it because the university fully believes he did something or is it because it just “looks bad” to keep him, regardless of what happens to the case. The same thing happened when it was clearly time for Jody to go, when Shaka should have been dismissed, and what I think will happen to Sark (although that remains to be seen as it looks like things are trending up—for now.) The only thing that gives me hope here is CDC. He pulled a rabbit by hiring Vic for WBB when no one thought that was a realistic idea. Since basketball is his first love and he has a lot of respect amongst coaches across the country, I’m hopeful we can come out of this with a great hire. But let me be clear—I’ve been severely sad about this since it happened. As much as some of y’all can’t believe it, some Longhorns actually like Longhorn Basketball as their favorite sport. It’s been mine for forever (and yes, football is immediately close too as my football roadtrips and tailgating have indicated.) Look, I just don’t get into baseball until they get into the tournament. Sorry. But what I’m not doing is going to the baseball board to tell everyone “yeah, but it’s baseball so I don’t really care.” Shit like that is lame. Beard could have built a monster here, the monster some of us have always wanted as basketball fans. And to see that slip away after one bad decision hurts like fucking hell.
    27 points
  3. Texas needs to cut to the chase and hire the guy recruiting WR to Wyoming.
    23 points
  4. 23 points
  5. Santos hasn’t seen a fight for survival like this since he stirred the oxygen tanks on Apollo 13.
    22 points
  6. My cousin is a capitol hill cop. He was there that day. One of his buddies was killed, one of the insurrectionaries had cardiac arresy right in front of him. He still struggles with PTSD.
    21 points
  7. Yep, I joined because I liked the quality of discussion on most of the subs, and because I refuse to give traffic to TexAgs anymore. I just don’t talk shit on sports boards or sunshine pump my team and it’s fine here. There’s no spinning these hires (well, there’s an attempt but it doesn’t work). I do think that Fisher could have put the program together for a decent run at the CFP if he had hired a real OC in about year 2 as Elko was an objectively very good DC and the NCAA just doesn’t give a shit anymore. But this new group is just hilariously bad in every way so the only thing to do is watch this blow up like a Russian ammo dump.
    21 points
  8. You have got to be one of the dumbest motherfuckers on this board. For everyone's sake, delete your account.
    19 points
  9. And we will never see you on another basketball thread or support basketball in any means ever again. You got your wish.
    19 points
  10. Endlessly circling around the most depressing moments in Texas football history is 1000% my least favorite offseason meme. You people are masochistic.
    19 points
  11. JFKFC has to be the dumbest poster on this board which is really saying something.
    18 points
  12. I’m sure I’ll be slaughtered for this, but the number of you willing to excuse Beard’s enormous mistake for the sake of winning basketball games is amazing The guy is almost 50 years old making $5 million a year. It’s simply inexcusable to be in a physical altercation with a woman to the point that the police are called and you’re charged with a 3rd degree felony for domestic violence. This isn’t hard. I have no idea what actually happened but I don’t buy that he was a perfect angel who got set up by his crazy fiancé and some dumb cops. That’s as believable as the daughter’s boyfriend hypothesis. Everyone’s been saying all week that some things are bigger than football after Damar Hamlins injury. Some things are bigger than basketball too.
    18 points
  13. Never gets old. Never stops being hilarious. Will always repost.
    17 points
  14. On the bright side, we're all gonna save thousands of dollars on National Champions and Final Four gear over the next 20 years. So we've got that going for us. Which is nice.
    15 points
  15. sorry, but this is gonna be long (title of my sex tape).- i really suffered through the shaka years. it was seriously upsetting to watch the program that i love so much being run by such an inept, unqualified, buffoonish snake oil salesman. we recruited better than all but a handful of programs, and yet the product on the court was unwatchable, and the results at the end of the year were just a gut punch. here's how bad things got for me towards the end of shaka's reign of terror: from an older post of mine, re: Texas losing to ACU: the end of gbat game was a super surreal experience for me. the entire night vs ACU was just a miserable experience. it was so fucking frustrating to watch Shaka Smart's opus, the absolute zenith of his ass-backwards, incomprehensibly brain dead style of coaching. it was slamming your dick in the door for two hours. but then, with time running out, my favorite player of the Shaka Smart era, Andrew Jones, hit a clutch three to give Texas the lead...and my heart sank into the pit of my stomach. wtf?!? how in the fuck did we get to a point to where my favorite player hitting a go-ahead three with time running out to give Texas the lead in an NCAA tournament game MAKES ME ILL. it's not like it was a conscious decision- that three went in and my heart sank before the ball even hit the ground. that is how bad things were under Shaka. we were going to win the game, and i was devastated by that fact. i felt like a battered spouse who couldn't escape their abuser. it was absolutely fucking surreal, and not in any kind of positive way. i was crestfallen; disconsolate; inconsolable. i was having my heart ripped out because the team that i love so much and have loved for so long was about to win an NCAA tournament game. but then ACU got the ball, they got into the lane, they got fouled, and now they've got two shots at the line to beat my beloved Texas Longhorns, and here i am, sitting in my living room, praying to god that this kid from Abilene Christian sinks both FTs and beats the team that i love so much. and he did. and here we are, about to open the very next season in the top 5 of the polls, and Shaka is 1,000 miles away. just totally, completely surreal. Things were so hopelessly terrible under shaka that my inner most being, the core of who i am, wanted Texas to lose and to fail, no matter what it took, just to get rid of the cancer we had at head coach. as someone whose literal first memories are of loving Texas Basketball, that's a pain i don't wish on any sports fan, save sooners and aggies. to make it worse, my dream hire, chris beard, gad been given an extension at TTU only a year prior, meaning he was not a serious candidate to replace shaka. and then a miracle happened. from another recent post of mine: chris beard got to Texas, immediately signed the top transfer class, won the program's first tourney game in 8 years, got all eligible players from said transfer class to return, signed two 5 stars, and by week three of his second season had Texas in the top 5 and receiving first place votes. he did all of that in the 18 months immediately following shaka's loss to ACU. you wanna talk about surreal? to go from absolute anguish over the state of my oldest and first love, to then suddenly overnight seeing the program at the doorstep of being a top 5 national program year in and year out- it was like i had been brought back from the dead and was suddenly surrounded by victoria's secret angels whose only job was to give me sponge baths and feed me chicken wings. ab. so. lute. ly. surreal. from hell to heaven, in the blink of an eye. at least that's how it was up until two weeks ago. now it's as if i'm just waking up from a coma, and the entire chris beard era was nothing but a drug induced wet dream. now i'm waking up to find a fat, sweaty orderly telling me that all of my organs are failing and that unless i get a miracle transplant i'm going to die. the never ending future of limitless possibilities and chicken wing sponge baths was all just a dream, and now reality has smacked me awake and i'm right back where i was when Andrew Jones hit that three pointer: crestfallen; disconsolate; inconsolable. i am right there with slx and pancho in terms of what this program means to me, but unlike most here i could not give a shit less about UT football compared to Texas Hoops. Texas Basketball is my lifelong no.1 love, from as far back as i can remember, and nothing else really comes close for me. i grew up at practices, in the locker rooms, at all of the games. travis mays was the first person who i considered to be "my best friend", back when i was just four years old. fast forward a decade, and it's rick barnes's first practice at Texas, and i'm off to the side playing 1 on 1 with his son, Nick. my entire childhood was shaped by Texas Basketball, my first love, and that love has never waned- it's only caused me to feel great pain during our hard times, and unbridled joy during the good times. and to this day i still have countless relationships with people from the UT Basketball family, from the 80's all the way up to today. Texas Basketball has always been my life. i still can't believe this is happening. i took nearly a week off from posting when the news hit, because i was already grieving, and in no mood to be talking about basketball with anyone. now i'm back, and i'm just waiting for the final, official word that my dream, a dream that i actually got to live, is being crushed. without going into it too far, i'll just say that my mental health issues have led to some serious physical health issues for me, and things were not looking good for for a while there. i had to have some tough conversations with my loved ones about how much time i might have left. then suddenly we had a breakthrough, and i've been experiencing an unexpected good turn with my physical health, which happened to coincide with our fantastic start to the season.everything was coming up derka. and then the news hit. my mom came over that evening and i said to her, "this was the best thing i had going for me; this was keeping me alive." to which she solemnly replied, "i know." why am i writing all of this? perhaps it's an attempt at finding some catharsis? i don't even know. and that's really it- i can't even wrap my head and my emotions around this enough to find myself on stable footing in terms of how i feel or where i stand. i'm still in a daze from finding out that my waking fantasy had only been a dream. the thrilling present and the amazing, unlimited future have just been snatched from beneath me, and now i'm just dead inside all over again. i watched that k state game and felt absolutely nothing. my needle didn't move one iota. and that's because my heart is dead, and the only AED's that exist (donovan, wright, calipari) ain't showing up any time soon. to wrap this up, please allow me quote the late, great augie garrido: "you may have a lot in your life; i don't." i used to have a life, a career, and (somewhat) healthy mind and body. but with all of my health problems and my loss of employment years ago, now i have my mom, my failing health, and my sports teams. and all of those teams combined mean less to me than this UT Basketball program. this one really is an all-time hurter to the heart for me. i honestly may never feel the same way about UT Hoops ever again. this one may just too big of a blow for me to ever fully recover. this one really hurts.
    15 points
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    15 points
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    15 points
  18. Meh, I call bullshit. Brown would have bled out within 3 minutes given how thin his skin is.
    14 points
  19. what if beard resigned and then the university was like aha you are sorry so we'll let you stay and that was the REAL test that Beard failed?
    14 points
  20. "Did we win?" Skip Bayless: "Nobody won. The playoff schedule and peoples' fantasy football teams are in complete chaos because of you."
    14 points
  21. I’m sure Texas will see if it is even worth it to make a pitch to Sturdivant, and Hooks would probably help them do that, but these kind of cases where a player is already earmarked for a school are not promising. It’s inherently a bidding war from the jump, and there are often teams on the other side who have set aside a primary amount of their NIL to land this one guy they’ve been working to make the jump. That’s not the way the portal is working for 95% of the players. There is money out there for producers and real potential, but it’s as likely to be comparable, or less so, to what they’re currently getting if they are a P5 player. After that and the auctions, most of these guys are finding out that there isn’t hardly a penny to be had. Jaydon Blue will be one of the guys, I’m merely guessing, who finds out really quickly that, wow, there isn’t a fat stack waiting for a guy who has all of the tell-tale signs of being a pure loser. Texas is plenty happy with his decision, apparently. For those worrying continually about the WR position, if the Kentucky WR actually enters the portal, or the UGA guy, or Stewart, or several of them do so, these are the guys that can upgrade the roster that Texas is interested in bringing to Austin. Maybe Sturdivant is added to that, but if his trainer knew he was leaving and Texas hadn’t heard about it, that would be odd. So is it a case of “naw, man, he should go to UCLA because we have some other plans”? Seems weird. Gerry’s HS analysis on Blue, and this is true for all of the recruits in a class where he’s openly expressing strong opinions (whether positive or negative), is driven by more than what you will see on HS tape. He travels to these schools and he’s gotten to know coaches well over the years. A HS staff will tell him when they think a guy looks great until he gets punched in the mouth. That dude has viewed Blue as mentally soft from his junior year forward. That translates for a RB specifically with comments about not wanting to run between the tackles. FWIW, a guy this year where you can see things that aren’t being said is Braylon Shelby. It’s clear that Gerry thinks he’s a damned fine physical talent. It’s also clear, if you squint at his comments hard enough, that he thinks he’s soft and doesn’t crave competition. It is not coincidental that Shelby goes to school at Friendswood and lives in a neighborhood apparently right near where Gerry grew up. He’s looking at that background, plus what coaches on a staff that he obviously knows well are saying, and then wondering “hmm, does this guy really love football?” and then concluding that that answer is “no, he doesn’t. “
    14 points
  22. 14 points
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