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  1. Wait just a second here. You aren’t allowed to compare a white player with a historic black player. Or vice versa. We have rules!!! Jordan Barnett is a decent comp. Can’t think of too many more. I think Heide is a better rebounder than Barnett. Last year, Heide averaged 11.1 rebounds per 100 possessions, which is pretty solid.
  2. That was some Usain Bolt level incredible human achievement by Lutkenhaus. Unreal time. My mind can’t even comprehend it.
  3. Yeah. I assume this year we will finish in the 6-10 range in the SEC. Any better would be a big accomplishment in year 1 given the strength of the league. That means we will wind up with a team like Notre Dame, NC State, Virginia, Syracuse or Pitt. We are going to have to improve a lot to get matched up with Duke or UNC.
  4. Regarding schedules, we typically have 9 home OOC games, plus 0-2 away games, plus a tournament or two. Not sure how realistic it is, but this is how I would design the OOC schedule from a fan perspective: An elite tournament - Ideally Maui invitational or Battle 4 Atlantis. That likely gives us: a top-50 game + a top-25 game + a top-10 depending on how many we win One elite home and home against: Kansas, Duke, UNC, UConn, Michigan St, Gonzaga, UCLA, Michigan One ACC challenge home and home against a team in the top-half of that conference: Duke, UNC, Virginia, Louisville, Syracuse, FSU, Miami, or NC State One 2 for 1 against a strong Texas historic rival: Baylor, Tech, Houston One 2 for 1 against a solid small conference team: Creighton, Seton Hall, Wichita State, VCU, UNLV, George Mason, Marquette, Belmont, Davidson, etc. 4 home games against other UT-system schools (most in the 100-200 range): UTSA, UT Arlington, UTEP, Stephen F Austin, UTRGV 3 home teams against bottom feeders with preference for Texas schools (all in the 300+ range): Houston Christian, New Orleans, whatever. I would try to arrange it such that when we are away for the ACC challenge, we get an elite home game from #2 above. And I would stagger the H&H against the solid Texas schools with the solid small conference team so we always get at least of them at home, and sometimes two.
  5. My bad. Misread the chart. Still, it was our best 3 year stretch with a Final Four and two sweet 16s. And we played almost no good OOC teams at home over that period. Here are our OOC home opponents since 2000 that finished with a top-100 computer ranking. Top 10 is orange. Top-25 is blue Rick Barnes = 12 top-25 and 27 top-100 teams in 16 years 2000 - Arizona (13), San Diego (70) 2001 - Illinois (4), Cal (35), Utah (67) 2002 - Arizona (10), Providence (86) 2003 - 2004 - Wake Forest (16) 2005 - Memphis (51), UNLV (79) 2006 - Villanova (4), Tennessee (16) 2007 - Arkansas (41) 2008 - Wisconsin (6), Oral Roberts (76), St. Mary's (51) 2009 - UCLA (14) 2010 - Michigan St (19), USC (63), 2011 - UConn (5), Arkansas (87) 2012 - Temple (40) 2013 - North Carolina (21) 2014 - Michigan St (6), SF Austin (76), Vanderbilt (90) 2015 - Stanford (38) Shaka Smart = 5 top-25 / 12 top-100 teams in 6 years 2016 - North Carolina (3), UConn (31), Vanderbilt (36) 2017 - Alabama (58), UT Arlington (77) 2018 - Michigan (6), Ole Miss (90) 2019 - Purdue (11), VCU (57), Providence (66) 2020 - LSU (35) 2021 - Villanova (15) Chris Beard = 3 top-25 / 4 top-100 teams in 2 years 2022 - Tennessee (8) 2023 - Gonzaga (2), Creighton (19), Louisiana (99) Rodney Terry = 1 top-25 / 1 top-100 team in 2 years 2024 - 2025 - UConn (18) Sean Miller (projected) = 0 top-25 / 1 top-100 team in 1 year 2026 - Virginia (~90) Barnes, Shaka and Beard all played about the same number of elite and top-100 teams on average. The only tenure that really stands out was Rodney Terry. Not only were there almost no elite or even average opponents, the dregs of the schedule were truly bottom feeders. It looks like more of the same for Sean Miller's first year. Time will tell if this is a result of the new NIL / SEC environment or if it will adjust back to the type of scheduling we had from 2000-2023.
  6. Let's not kid ourselves, our home schedule is always trash. As an example, lets look at the 3-year stretch from 2001-2004 that was our best in program history (Final Four and two Elite 8s). This is who we played outside of conference those years. 2001-2002 Home: Arizona (10), Providence (86), McNesse St (138), UT RVG (161), Wash St (203), Jacksonville (206), TAMU CC (245) Away: Stanford (12), Utah (55), UNLV (75) Neutral / Preseason Tourney: Indiana (6), Gonzaga (25), Oregon St (109) 2002-2003 Home: Princeton (139), Louisiana Tech (172), SFA (181), UTA (211), McNeese St (215), Mt St Mary's (299) Away: Arizona (1) Neutral / Preseason Tourney: Georgia (13), Notre Dame (17), Seton Hall (58), George Washington (128) 2003-2004 Home: George Washington (64), New Orleans (156), Centenary (182), Brown (203), UTA (222), Wofford (270), SHSU (274) Away: Providence (28) Neutral / Preseason Tourney: Duke (1), Arizona (29) That's right. ONE home game against a team in the top-50 over that 3-year stretch. Granted, we played more teams in the 100-200 range, but I hate that. You can lose those games and it kills your seeding, but you get no credit for the wins. On the plus side, we played a good number of elite teams. But they were hardly ever at home.
  7. We aren’t the premier public Ivy
  8. Today we went on a 6 hour boat tour of Kenai Fjords National Park. It was spectacular. We saw a group of 11 humpback whales feeding. And two groups of orcas.
  9. Today we drove down to Seward. Beautiful drive. Going on a boat tour of Kenai Fjord National Park tomorrow.
  10. Up in Alaska for a week. First part of the trip was at Matanuska glacier where my son is leading tours. Pretty awesome place. Last night we went up to Talkeetna and caught a glimpse of Denali. At first I was annoyed that the clouds were covering the mountain… the I realized it actually WAS the mountain.
  11. A lineup of Tramon Mark, Chendall Weaver, Cam Heide, Dailyn Swain and Lassina Traore would not be what I would consider slow. Weaver will likely be the most athletic guy on the court. I wonder how much better Xavier would have been last year if Traore wouldn’t have gotten hurt. I think he is going to be awesome for us.
  12. FYI - Here are the international players on the roster Lassina Traore - Abidjan, Ivory Coast Matas Vokietaitis - Marijampole, Lithuania Lewis Obiorah - London, England Declan Duru - Munich, Germany
  13. That pic reminds me that I don't have to watch Kadin Shedrick ever again if I don't want to. Thankfully.
  14. Next week, I'm heading up to Alaska to visit my son who is running tours out on the Matanuska glacier. Should be fun. This is the glacier he is working on: And here is his home for the summer:
  15. I think you may have forgotten what message board you are on.
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