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  1. 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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  2. 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. 

  3. 11 hours ago, HtownHorn said:

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    Holland wanted to run the show, Terry said no.

    I don't think this squares with what Gerry said. I also have no idea what a more prominent role for Mitchell would have been, he can't dribble or shoot at a college level, there are only so many backdoor lobs you can run. 

  4. 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.

  5. 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?). 

  6. 2 hours ago, Getafix said:

     

     

    Bobby kept calling Max "AB-mas" throughout, and, despite referring to his notes, repeatedly butchered Shedrick's name.  Finally he called him Shedrick Franklin ... lulz.

     

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    It's German! https://forum.orusports.com/index.php?/topic/12447-mystery-solved-a-possible-solution-for-the-unconventional-pronunciation-of-abmas/

     

    Gerry seems to think we're in on some other guys that haven't entered yet. 

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  7. On 4/20/2023 at 8:24 PM, Not a Sock said:

    Ari is a 247, Rivals tier team beat writer that managed to get hired by a national outlet. He is very vocal in his dumb opinion of stars trump everything and when people point out how dumb this opinion is and use Texas as an example he doubles down and says Texas is a special case and he’s still right. That’s also why he has thrown in with A&M, Jimbo’s elite recruiting was going to turn A&M into an elite program and prove his thesis right, and we now see how that’s going. Most coaching staffs and ADs don’t want to talk about recruiting in general and they certainly aren’t going to sit down with a national write who is a “recruiting/NIL” guy so Ari can only talk to handlers and bagmen or programs that are insecure enough that they desperately seek any sort of media approval. Which is how you end up with the Cook A&M NIL bullshit, the Texas side ignored him so he ran with what ever bullshit damage control A&M fed him. It also doesn’t help that he is also thin skinned as fuck and gets upset when people call him out, and he seeks out the approval of takes.  In short Ari Wasserman is basically just a national writer version of Billy Liucci.

    This seems exactly right. 

  8. 8 hours ago, cochamps said:

    I think that the facts in that case make it pretty much a non-factor.  That is not a felony charge, and I don't think the woman who was cut by the bra is intent on doing him damage.  JMO.

    When I was interning with the Arlington PD's office, we defended a guy accused of DV for shoving a peanut butter sandwich in his wife's face (not guilty). I'd like to say that the prosecutors bringing this case to trial means they think they have a strong case, but that experience gives me pause.

  9. 3 hours ago, MotownHorn said:

    Who said this? Literally no one, right? I'm on this board almost as much as you are and I don't recall one person saying such a thing. You're using a strawman argument

    What I saw RT fans saying was that Beard was great, but he fucked up and is gone so it's time to move on. And RT did a great job replacing him and deserved a shot as the head coach. I don't recall one person claiming that RT > Beard.

    I said on the recruiting board that I was underwhelmed by Beard and got quite a few downvotes. I'll stand by that - we looked like the same grind-it-out mudball team that was mentally weak in 2021-2022 as we did with Shaka or late-period Barnes, we just had a few wins over borderline division II teams to pad the win stats and didn't vomit all over ourselves in the first round for the first time in a decade, so that was something Beard gets credit for I guess. This year? Excellent, no complaints, if Beard had done that, I'd not be underwhelmed, and he gets credit for putting the roster together, but also should not get hardly any credit for what the team actually did after he was gone considering the reason he was gone. RT did a great job this year. Maybe he's not the guy long term, but Beard's one year was not enough for me to think that the good two years at Tech were not outliers compared to the other ones. It also seems rather ridiculous for everyone to be freaking out that we haven't landed anyone yet and using that as a judge on RT long term. 

     

    Kansas really wants to take Terio with his trial looming? Surprising to me. 

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  10. 6 minutes ago, Tex Pete said:

    So his IQ is steadily declining...

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    Having been pushed his podcast "Stars Matter" a few times via the Spotify algorithm, he's just an empty vesselr. I heard him say that Johntay Cook chose Texas because Texas A&Ms offense stunk but that A&M was better set up for the long term in recruiting due to their 'commitment to NIL' and haven't really taken anything else he's said seriously. 

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  11. 28 minutes ago, IDIOTsavant said:

    Here’s the thing about Wasserman, he was hired from a gig covering Ohio State to be the national recruiting writer for the Athletic, and literally ALL he does from this position is carry water for Ohio State. Sark has significantly cut into the Buckeyes ability to land difference makers from Texas, so expect for this shit to continue until it works, or it becomes apparent that Texas is relevant on the national stage again. Every single article he writes is what Ohio State wants out there.

    He's also married to an Aggie and regularly talks to Billy Liucci. 

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  12. 2 hours ago, Getafix said:

     

    This was supposedly from the On3 Aggie site, per KKL.  (Remember when Hamm threatened Shannon Terry over the use of the "Aggie Scoop" name/URL? ... )

     

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    It's gotta be tough out there going against an arm of the actual athletic department. 

  13. 6 minutes ago, RGBIII said:

    Of course, I don’t disagree with your initial surprise whatsoever, I don’t “think” that’s what’s happening without myself or CTJ knowing in some fashion. But my premise was not about this specific commitment only, I mean in general the opportunities here are more abundant even for lesser known players, I think guys like Broughton even have corporate NIL that we can point to which helps offset straight dollar for dollar. 
     

    Ohio state: here is 200k and an f150 lease 

    Texas: we won’t give you 200k but we can do 100k plus a Porsche and how much do you like mustard? 

    Gotta imagine that his name will give him some endorsement deal in Texas

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  14. 26 minutes ago, austintiger said:

    This program has never been elite under Pierce and it never will. Flame away but deep down you know I'm right.

    Getting embarrassed in the CWS is not Elite baseball.

    I know absolutely nothing about baseball but weren't we a run or so away from the final series two years ago? And might've beaten Sandy in the same way MSU did, given they wore out their arms?

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