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Good for Mitchell. Glad he's going to Cinci. I didn't want to have to play him if he went to Auburn. I've been pretty consistent in thinking this is a bigger loss than most. He was really solid on defense and on the glass last year, and he is still young and improving. If we miss out on Toppin, I'm not sure we are going to replace him with someone better.
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A turn-row is a strip of land / dirt road at the edge of a field where the tractor turns around. It is off the main road and sometimes has trees around it. Since it is away from any road (and at night), the odds of anyone driving on it are basically zero.
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In high school, the ability to get in your car, get your girlfriend and find a turn-row out in the country, where you have zero risk of being disturbed by anyone, and where the stars stretch to the horizon... well, that is a pretty fun Friday night. But I suppose the same could be many small towns. I guess that is a topic for another thread.
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Smells like money. I lived northeast of town and I never got the stench. My wife lived west of town and it would sometimes get bad. But they also had a big variety of animals (cows, pigs, sheep, goats, chickens) and so it never exactly smelled like a hospital anyway. I did enjoy being so close to New Mexico. The mountains were less than 3 hours away if you drove fast.
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I'm really hoping that we can sign JT Toppin. Which is a better pair of bigs in a smaller closing lineup: 2024 Dillon Mitchell - 6'8, 205 - 9.6 PTS, 7.5 TRB, 1.0 STL, 0.9 BLK, 58.5 FG%, 0.0 3P%, 59.8 FT%, 1.7 PF Dylan Disu ---- 6'9, 225 - 15.5 PTS, 5.0 TRB, 1.1 STL, 0.9 BLK, 46.5 FG%, 45.1 3P%, 81.2 FT%, 3.4 PF 2025 Jayson Kent - 6'8, 205 - 13.5 PTS, 8.1 TRB, 0.7 STL, 0.5 BLK, 63.9 FG%, 36.6 3P%, 83.7 FT%, 2.6 PF JT Toppin ---- 6'9, 210 - 12.4 PTS, 9.1 TRB, 1.1 STL, 1.9 BLK, 65.5 FG%, 34.4 3P%, 56.5 FG%, 2.6 PF Even though Disu was 1st Team All-Big 12, the team wasn't constructed very well to take advantage of his strengths and minimize his weaknesses. We tended to get abused by more physical teams, especially on the glass. Disu was also constantly in foul trouble, which took him out of the game at critical moments. Kent and Toppin are a much better rebounding duo. They can also BOTH knock down shots from outside the paint, so it should help spacing. We have to sign Toppin. Like... REALLY have to sign this guy.
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Agree. Alabama and Auburn could both be top-10 teams when they come to Austin. A&M could easily be top-25 and will be a must win given how annoying they are.
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Lol. I'm from Muleshoe. It was actually a great place to grow up... way better than the Austin suburbs I have subjected my kids to.
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That isn't my point. My point is that kids feel pressured to go to the better school, even if it means studying something that isn't what they are interested in.
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From a hiring perspective, I think there is a lot of regional bias. Everyone in Texas knows the hierarchy of Texas schools. If I get a resume for a junior position and the person went to Texas, I view it differently than if they went to Texas State. But honestly, I have no idea if Clemson, South Carolina or College of Charleston is the better school. Is Minnesota better than Iowa? No idea. If someone in Florida is hiring and two candidates have a Texas Tech and a Virginia Tech degree are they differentiated at all? I saw the other day that Florida is ranked higher than Texas. That surprised me as I didn't realize they were that competitive. I have gotten where I really don't like the university rankings honestly. They don't matter for the most part in the "real world", but it creates a huge amount of angst and stress for our kids. And I think a lot of kids make bad decisions to attend "better" schools, but end up with worse degrees because they decide to go Liberal Arts somewhere like Texas vs. getting an engineering degree somewhere like Houston.
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Good information. Interesting. I think the data shows that you have a vastly better chance at getting in to a great graduate program (like Yale Law) if you go to an elite college. But, as I mentioned it is still possible to get in from a less respected program. Students from the following schools have gotten in since 2020... West Texas A&M Oklahoma Baptist Youngstown State Utica College Louisville Houston I agree with everything you said though. If it is important to you that your child get into a truly elite graduate program, they will be swimming upstream if they are trying to get there from a weak school.
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Man, the league has been giving us some VERY favorable scheduling in football and basketball to start things off. Most of our tough matchups are at home besides the Home & Aways. The top-3 teams in the conference are going to be home only games, plus Kentucky. Below are the CBS, On3, and ESPN early rankings... Home Only Alabama (#9, #1, #6) - #1 SEC Auburn (#10, #9, #12) - #2 SEC Tennessee (#16, #20, #20) - #3 SEC Kentucky (fringe top-25) - #8 SEC Georgia - #12 SEC Missouri - #14 SEC Home & Away Arkansas (#23, UR, #19) - #7 SEC Texas A&M (#11, #22, #11) - #10 SEC Oklahoma - #15 SEC Away Only at Florida (#17, #17, #15) - #4 SEC at South Carolina (fringe top-25) - #5 SEC at Mississippi State (fringe top-25) - #9 SEC at Ole Miss - (fringe top-25) - #11 SEC at LSU - #13 SEC at Vanderbilt - #16 SEC
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Toppin would be an exceptional addition. At that point we COULD be done. That said, It would be nice to get a true center to split some time with Shedrick.
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In my view, almost all the state schools have the same ceiling if you are an exceptional student. There are just a lot more exceptional students at the better schools. Anecdote alert: At our work there was a young Finance guy who graduated from Texas Tech (and played golf there). He was smart and ambitious and was quickly rising through the ranks. Decided to get a full-time MBA and did very well on his GMAT. Was offered a full ride to both Rice and Vanderbilt. I don't think this is an unusual story. If you have a great GPA and test extremely well, I don't think it matters if you go to UT vs. NC State, Minnesota, South Carolina, UC San Diego, Oregon State, Arkansas or similar schools. In fact, I think a great GPA at those schools will be seen more positively than an "ok" GPA at UT.
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Lol. If Baylor got him then we 100% had a shot to get him. Oh well, if we could pull JT Toppin that would be a great alternative We could potentially get 2-3 years of Toppin and he also is 6'9 vs. Omier' 6'7.
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It always amazes me when people fail to grasp the monumental difference in athleticism between elite men and women athletes. I ran track at UT in the early 90s. I was not very good, barely making the team. There wasn't a woman in the world at any level who could beat me at the time. It isn't speculation, my time was literally better than any time a woman in the entire world ran that year. And again, I wasn't very good. In high school, I was on an "ok" freshman basketball team and we would scrimmage our very good women's varsity team. It was an absolute bloodbath. My sister at the time was all-region and I (two years younger) could beat her 21-2 in a game of 21, and that was when she was fully mature and I was a skinny 15 year old. I eventually was all-district in basketball as a senior, and when I got to UT I would play pickup. The difference in skill from the "good" court at the rec center where the UT players played (Albert Burditt, Terrence Rencher, etc.) to the court next to it where I would play was staggering. Those players could have beaten me 21-2 in 21. And the difference between those players and NBA players is also huge. You could put the worst defender in the NBA on her and he would shut her down to an embarrassing degree. She would never even touch the ball. She doesn't have anywhere close to the speed needed to get separation from anyone at that level. And if she did get the ball, they would block her shot every time because they could play right up in her face (because she doesn't have close to the quickness to get by them off the dribble).
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In the Vandy highlight video, I like his aggressiveness in taking the ball to the rack from the wing. He has pretty good handles and also doesn't seem to mind getting physical with bigger defenders. Get this guy in the weight room for another couple of years and he looks like he could be pretty physical.
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I suppose if the men's basketball program is calling him a guard, then he is a guard. I stand corrected.
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wrong thread
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SDSU finished #22 in KenPom, we finished #25. The were a 5 seed and we were a 7. No sense in arguing though it as we were both about the same level. It does go to show how much easier the path to the Sweet 16 is from a 5 seed vs. a 7 seed. Regardless, I don't want Saunders. Surely we can do better than that. Dude averaged only 3 TRB and 0.2 blocks in 18 minutes a game during conference. Whoof.
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I agree 100% with this BTW. I have no doubt we are going to add another big, and if we don't it will be a huge failure. We don't have to get an awesome big, but we have to have depth. Unless Onyema gets hugely better, he shouldn't be getting more than 5 minutes per game on a competitive team. Either of the guys mentioned above would change the trajectory of the team next year given the current roster. I have no doubt Toppin would start, likely at PF with Shedrick at center. Then with the first substitution we could go small. Just need some good news up in here.
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This take is overly cynical. We fired Rick Barnes, who is fringe top tier and our all time coaching leader to try to get better results. Then we hired Shaka Smart who was fresh off a Final Four at VCU and at 38 years old, was by far the hottest young coach in the country. In his final year, he got as high as #4 in the AP and was a 3-seed, and we still effectively fired him after the loss to ACU. We turned around and hired Chris Beard who was also fresh off a Championship Game appearance and also a top-5 coach with a huge runway in front of him. And at the same time we upgraded our facilities and built one of the best basketball arenas in the country. Hiring RT was an unfortunate, but unavoidable decision that has been beaten to death on this board. I'm pretty confident that the administration won't stick with him for very long though if the program doesn't start competing for a title very soon. In spite of all the underachievement, Texas still ranks as the #13 program since 1997 according to KenPom, which is mildly surprising to me.
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Agree completely. He was horrid last year. Maybe he will be a little better next year. My main concern is that Shedrick gets hurt and then we are playing Onyema 30 minutes a game. Holy hell that would be terrible.
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I would definitely like another big, but it is possible to win at the college level without having big interior players as long as the team plays good team defense. Houston had the #2 defense in CBB last year and their starting bigs were 6'7 J'Wan Roberts and 6'8 Ja'Vier Francis. We made the Elite Eight with 6'9 Disu and 6'7 Christian Bishop. If the season started today, we would have 6'11 Shedrick getting probably 25 min, 6'8 Onyema getting 10 maybe 6'9 Nicholas Codie getting 5 min. Given the team makeup, I'm going to assume we almost never play with two "bigs" and instead play with a lead guard, 3 rangy guard/forwards and then a center. This wouldn't be a bad lineup: 6'3 Julian Larry 6'5 Tremon Mark 6'6 Tre Johnson 6'7 Jason Kent 6'11 Kaden Shedrick Or swap out 6'2 Jordan Pope for Julian Larry. We have really good size now at the guard spots and it opens up a lot of options that we have missed in recent years.
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The announcement is wrong then. It only matters because everyone who sees it is like “we got ANOTHER guard?”. Well, we didn’t. This guy will never play one of the two primary ball handling spots. He is a small forward. Is Alex Anamekwe a guard? Cause that is who he is replacing.
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