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HookEm

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  1. Nobody is as good as Beard at building and sustaining interest from the fans. It is his superpower. He is an incredible promoter and we will never get anyone who is that good again. Because there isn't anybody that good. More than anything, that is why the Tech fans were so butt hurt when he left. Because he had been promoting his ass off for them for years.
  2. The atmosphere was the worst I have seen at Moody. Could be because the students are still gone. But I think it is also a symptom of the general lack of leadership on the team. SOMEBODY (Hunter?) should have been motioning for the crowd to get up and get engaged. Instead the team and the crowd were just blah.
  3. Looking at Massey just now and adding up the game by game odds, he has us going 10-8 in conference. Looking at our schedule, it looks like a pretty balanced draw. We have to play Houston, Baylor and OU twice, but also get to play WV twice, and only have to play KU once. Home and Away: #1 Houston #8 Baylor #12 OU #33 Texas Tech #126 West Virginia Home only #34 Iowa State #46 K-State #83 UCF #95 Okie State Away only #3 Kansas #13 BYU #40 TCU #52 Cincinnati We also start conference with four winnable games in Tech, at Cinci, at WF and UCF. If we win all of those, then we get Baylor at home which should be a rowdy atmosphere.
  4. The SEC is going to be a lot more manageable than what we have been accustomed to. There are 5 teams in the SEC that are worse than OU was last year. And currently there is only one top-15 team in Tennessee. The current Big 12 has FIVE top-15 teams. This year the SEC average is 52.1. The median is 38. A road game against middle of the pack #35 Miss State should be much easier than at #33 Tech or at #34 ISU.
  5. Yeah the new format and new schools actually makes the league a good bit easier. Using Massey (because it is free and has good archives), last year the WORST school in the Big 12 was OU at #55. The average was 26.6. That meant that every road trip you were very likely to be the underdog. This year, they added: #1 Houston, #13 BYU, #52 Cinci, #83 UCF. Average is 37.3, which is dilutive. Then next year they add #5 Arizona, #26 Utah, #36 Colorado, #74 ASU (Average is 35.5), while losing #12 OU and #24 Texas (average is 18.0). Again, further diluting the league. The top is going to get strengthened, but a number of weak teams have been added which will make for "gimmie" home games and much easier road games.
  6. I have more thoughts, but let's take them to the official season thread...
  7. Agree 100%. And SOMETIMES he is. When the switch flips and he goes into ultra competitive mode, the whole team feeds off that energy. Hunter definitely can have a "F you, I'm going to dunk on you" persona at times. And when he does, he is really awesome. His last three games are definitely trending in the right direction: If he is the alpha point guard, dishing out 5 assists, playing great defense, attacking the rim, and rebounding from the guard position - Abmas can then be freed up to do what he does best. Teams will have to guard Abmas all the way out to NBA range, which will free up a lot of the paint for our bigs. If Abmas is the main ball handler, it takes away his strength and stagnates everything.
  8. I still believe this team has the talent to make a Final Four if everyone plays their best game and the shots are falling. It is also very possible that we miss the tourney. If you followed the team at all last year, I assume you know about Disu, Cunningham, Hunter and Mitchell. Disu is just getting back so it is hard to evaluate whether he is the same player he was in March. Cunningham hasn't really added anything new. Hunter can look like an All-American... and then he can look straight-up bad for multiple games in a row. Mitchell has taken a small leap. He has improved in almost every facet, especially his rebounding and defense. I expect that we will see him quite a bit at small forward in the coming months now that Disu is back. Our guards haven't been good enough on either end to make me want to go small very often. Abmas is good. He is just a highly efficient gunner. He takes a lot of shots you don't want to see... but then you look at the box score and see he averaged close to 50/40/90. I was hoping he was more of a floor general, but that just isn't him. The team seems to follow Hunter's lead more than Abmas. Shedrick is a transfer from Virginia. Sometimes he looks like an all-conference level big, and the missing piece to the puzzle. And at other times he disappears. Ithiel Horton is another transfer addition. He is an older player, but so far he has been a revolving door on defense - which is a huge disappointment given his size and maturity. And hasn't been a good enough shot maker to make you forget the poor defense. Overall, the chemistry just looks off with this team, which makes them all look like worse players than they actually are. Last year was kind of the opposite. The sum was greater than the parts. This year - at least so far - the sum looks inferior to the individual parts. Maybe that is to be expected when you lose most of your production. I have seen some signs of improvement. Right now though, I don't think any of us really know what we have yet.
  9. I thought that this team might be better than last year’s team before the season. Abmas and Hunter should have been an awesome combo. And our Mitchell, Disu, and Shedrick should have been one of the best collection of forwards/bigs in the country. Plus I thought we would have GREAT depth. So far it hasn’t played out that way. But I still think the pieces are there.
  10. I think we can all agree that the defense RIGHT NOW isn’t close to where it needs to be. I think that as Horton gets fewer minutes and with Disu back we will see some improvement. But right now it is a glaring weakness.
  11. I think we can all agree that the defense RIGHT NOW isn’t close to where it needs to be. I think that as Horton gets fewer minutes and with Disu back we will see some improvement. But right now it is a glaring weakness.
  12. It is interesting seeing the breadth of careers my ChemE classmates went into. Technology, Law, Medicine, Investment Banking, Consulting. Some still do classic chemical engineering, but not that many. Most seem to get into management and then move up the ranks in various ways.
  13. Congrats to your son on his outstanding high school academics. His admission to engineering will depend on which specific major he wants to get into. Some are WAY more competitive than others. Back when I was in school, ChemE was probably the hardest to get into, mainly because a lot of premed / Biomed folks would go that route. Now Computer Science and Computer Engineering are the most competitive by far. Next would be Mechanical and Aerospace (thanks Tesla and SpaceX). Biomed is also competitive. Now that Biomed has been split off from Chemical Engineering, ChemE is actually one of the easier engineering majors to get into. The easiest is Petroleum. Funny enough, Petroleum and Chemical both make higher starting salaries than most of the other more competitive majors. Some of the engineering majors like Petroleum actually have a difficult time filling their spots. If a student SELECTS Petroleum engineering and they have a decent resume, they will get in over a better student that selects Computer Engineering and misses the cut. The departments want students who WANT to get a certain degree, not ones who are settling. So unless you have a student with insane credentials, I would advise them to pick one of the less popular engineering majors if they don't really have a preference. It may mean a difference between getting accepted or not. Plus, once you are admitted into Cockrell, it is MUCH easier to transfer between majors than trying to get in from a different College. FWIW, I'm on the ChemE external advisory board so I have had a lot of these conversations with the staff over the years.
  14. I have no idea if those places are fancy or not. I assumed that since it will be NYE, there will be a shit ton of people around and most of the bars will be mainly standing. I don't expect 20 people to roll into a bar and get a single huge table or area unless plans had been made long in advance (and doubtful even then unless it is a private room).
  15. FWIW - Massey has us favored in our next 7 games. All of those games are definitely winnable. The hardest ones will be Balor (at home) and at Cinci. It is possible we could be rolling into OU at 16-2 and on a 10 game winning streak. Not likely but possible. After that it gets rough.
  16. Derka makes a lot of good points. I'm on board with firing RT right now. RIGHT F'ING NOW!!!!!
  17. Good points all. Sounds like the better move would be to find a big venue and just declare that as a home base and post up there. People can come and go as they want. Any good suggestions for a place like that?
  18. A friend sent these recs: - Carousel bar is fun. - The will and the way - Cane and table - Tiki tock - Latitude 29 for tiki drinks - Loa across canal for to go drinks to walk into French quarter - 21st amendment - Ryan’s Irish pub- not cocktails but fun dive.
  19. Yeah I hear you. That is why I would like to just tell people we will be at these 3 places… in this order. Starting around 11 PM. Hope to see you there at some point.
  20. We have a big group going to the game. Between 10-20 people at any given time. Any thoughts on where to go from 10 PM to 1 AM? Would like to roam as a group and hit 2-3 different bars / venues. Thinking Sazerac and French 75 as bookends. Thoughts?
  21. Just a small nit pick… if a team is an underdog in 10 games with a 40% chance to win each one, the odds are they will go 4-10, not 0-10. Using the odds from KenPom, we should win 6 of those games in the hell stretch, not 4. Still not great.
  22. UConn didn't look like a top-5 team to me when we played them. I think if we were fully healthy we would beat that team 40%+ of the time.
  23. I've been tracking this game pretty closely, benchmarking the prices and quantities since we were announced. The amount of tickets on the market has climbed a lot in the last week. Up to 14,700 for sale across SeatGeek, TickPick, TicketMaster and Stubhub. I'm sure there are some duplicates, but that is still double the quantity from what it was a week ago. And prices have dropped by close to 50%. I expect that will continue as people realize that they aren't going to move at these prices.
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