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Posts posted by RollingPresidential
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2 hours ago, Js1 said:
He shot almost 50% from the field and 40% from three at Tech. He ain’t the clanker, Askew is. We just never saw it because Beard wouldn’t play him as a freshman.
Just a reminder that the fickle freshman thing was not a problem unique to RT!
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48 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:
They should, but the vast majority don't have that perspective.
College is not necessarily the best place to 'develop.' College coaches want to win and that is their job. The extent that meshes with developing and producing NBA players can go hand in hand, but sometimes it doesn't. It's not football.
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That Urban thing (that he is doing this to needle Texas after some Herman-related hate) was being pushed by IT last week.
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Some guy on IT says Marshall beat the crap out of a guy at a team event. Good character eval from Jimbo.
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I'm sure Musselman's system is fun to play in, but that sounds like bullshit. The kid committed to Chris Beard, if anything RT's "style of play" should be an improvement.
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1 hour ago, RGBIII said:
money was/is there. Usage and promises is why Holland probably ends up at arky and makes us all vomit
Hm. Hard to argue against "usage" with Arkansas, as they do not appear to run an offense. This is all planted by Terio and Mitchell's people?
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I just generally assume RGB knows more than we do given his involvement in NIL, so if he says something like that, it implies to me that RT fucked up somehow.
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3 hours ago, RGBIII said:
I grade him pretty fucking bad bruh. Losing Holland is inexcusable. Johnson was never going to make it to campus. Portal was fine and the team should be good next year, its the following year that I am worried about
What could he have done differently?
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1 hour ago, Chopper said:
So was the report about Holland making excessive demands about his role and playing time just 995er bs?
Probably not? Basketball $9.95ers are not football $9.95ers, there's fewer of them and they're almost universally mouthpieces for AAU coaches or runners, so someone around Holland told Eric Bossi (who is a national guy afaik) that. Gerry confirmed it also.
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2 hours ago, RichUT said:
I doubt that I’ll be able to convince you otherwise then. Just understand that every other school in this situation has released the player from their NLI. For us to take a hard line stance would separate us from every other program in a negative way. We don’t want the reputation of being the school that keeps kids tied to the program against their wishes."We're the program that forced a kid to sit out rather than play where he wanted" is not a good recruiting pitch
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1 hour ago, UTEE97 said:
We didn't have a problem letting him play at Texas, so perhaps we shouldn't be trash talking about other programs letting him play there. I don't understand this angle.
Many of us did, in fact, have a problem.
Very hesitant to bang too hard on a 19 year old, but fuck that kid for badmouthing UT. He was lucky he got to play at all. Hope Self enjoys the trial in June.
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2 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:
I'd prefer to have 1-2 5 stars littered in with seasoned transfers with 1-2 developmental freshmen guys
This is the way, and notably, the way that almost every title team winner the last decade or so has gone. UConn was not a bunch of gritty 2-3 stars either, almost all of their rotation guys except the ECU transfer was a borderline 5 star on the 247 composite. Get old by developing your players, stay old by the same + the portal, and inject the one and dones who are not on long dev curves (the actual problem with UT one and dones since KD) as the icing on the cake.
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6 hours ago, HookEm said:
Go ahead and post your list of high impact freshman in March in recent years then.
This is becoming very aggie. Duke should've won the title last year with a freshman dominated team. Jalen Suggs made a game winner in the final four two years ago. Alabama was the No. 1 overall seed thanks to a freshman. Just because Texas has had a string of tweener, long development curve forwards or defensive big men five stars doesn't mean they're worthless. Get old, stay old remains the maxim in the sport, but you don't see KU or Baylor or Gonzaga simply ignoring recruiting five star freshman.
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48 minutes ago, closetohumping said:
Rumor that Mitchell looking at KU
Is he in the transfer portal?
EDIT: Guessing this is the source for this?
As far as I have read, Mitchell is not in the portal. Also, if he doesn't want to be in Austin, let him go. He can go be a 12 mpg lob guy for Bill Self if he wants to.
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10 hours ago, shadow_operative said:
turns out that holland wasn't seeking promises regarding playing time. with everyone else jumping ship and the roster looking depleted ron and his family decided that his NIL deal needed to be reworked, and we said, "yeah, i don't think so, you signed the deal, stick to it." that's why he left. that's why mitchell and arterio are applauding him leaving. NIL money. they don't give one single shit about being a Texas Longhorn, they are only interested in what Texas can do for them. in the words of the GOAT, "fuck them kids."
I mean, this is basketball. How is "NIL Money" something new here, this has always been what it's about for kids at Holland's level.
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Every player move, for good or ill, is not a referendum on whether RT is the right coach. Basketball players have options that football players don't, and too many of y'all are applying a football recruiting lens to this.
As for Morris, not weeping that a kid with attitude/entourage issues and a DV trial coming up in June may not vibe with RT. The Mitchell stuff, likewise, sounds like a kid doing kid stuff - maybe he's liking tweets ironically, who knows. Climb off the fucking ledge. Was it a referendum on Beard that he got Morris over Keyonte George or Anthony Black (I believe he 'chose' to focus on Cason Wallace, who he did not get, yes?).
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1 minute ago, MuellerHorn said:
Today just keeps getting more fun.
lol my Dad (a professor at KU) was telling me that Self wouldn't take him with the pending legal issues.
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Just now, Hank_Hill said:
Based on?
Ask @RGBIII or the others on here about NIL and inducements and whatnot. But it's also basketball and Oregon is being mentioned. NIL is not bags.
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Don't think Ron Holland is renegotiating "NIL," this is basketball.
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I, too, think its a reflection on the new coach that a kid does something highly unusual and financially motivated.
If he's starting another bidding war, pay up if we want him then.
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1 hour ago, Js1 said:
Heh, Dingle
Reminds me of going to an NIT game when I was 8 years old and hearing someone yell "Tickle my Dickel!" while this guy was shooting FTs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Dickel
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2 hours ago, Getafix said:
Gerry seems to think we're in on some other guys that haven't entered yet.
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Just for a guide as to why his name is pronounced "Ace-mas"
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The metrics really like him defensively and he's young-ish, no? Would solve the big wing problem.