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HookEm

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  1. Also, in Big 12 typical fashion, the bottom feeders are actually all pretty decent.
  2. That cuts both ways. We have also been unlucky enough to have our best player out or on a minutes restriction for the first 40% of the year. With Disu healthy we likely wouldn't have needed Abmas' heroics vs. Louisville. And we likely beat UConn as well. And maybe we beat Tech too if he gets 34 minutes.
  3. My minutes distribution would be: Starters: Abmas: 30+ Hunter: 26 Mitchell: 30 (20 min at SM, 10 min at PF) Disu: 30+ (Mostly at PF) Shedrick: 25 Bench Cunningham: 18 Weaver: 20 (15 min subbing for Abmas/Hunter and another 5 min with 3 guards) Onyema: 12 (mainly subbing for Shedrick) Everybody else: The remaining ~10 min
  4. Fine. No problem with that. Those minutes need to come from Cunningham then. Which means much more of Mitchell at the 3 then his minutes at the 4 go to Onyema. And more Weaver at the 1/2 and not at the 3.
  5. In the post game, the first thing Disu asked was how many minutes he got. He said that he has been on a minutes restriction. I'm sure that had something to do with his low minutes vs. Tech. I really think our best lineup is: Abmas, Hunter, Mitchell, Disu, Shedrick. Brock can be the first off the bench and move Disu and Mitchell to the 4/5 respectively. But I really want him back to the 18-22 minute range. Then bring in Weaver for Hunter if he is having one of his off nights. Everybody else should get spot minutes as necessary. Disu is capable of playing at a National PoY level. That isn't hyperbole. If healthy, he could average 20 and 10 with a couple of blocks and a couple of 3s on great efficiency. And Abmas is CAPABLE of playing at an All-Region level (which is an award he has already won in a NCAA tournament). The other pieces just need to step up and play to their potential. We have plenty of talent on this team.
  6. That was a huge win. By far our best of the year. Cincinnati is a decent team that will probably make the tourney. This shows what a monumental difference a healthy Disu makes (especially when he isn't on a minutes restriction). That was an incredible performance. I still think if Disu was healthy and got 30+ minutes against UConn we would have beaten them. (Not to mention if we had Shedrick healthy as well). Our guards are such a question mark that I can't really project us doing much. I agree with others that Weaver needs to be getting more minutes. Cunningham is best when he is capped at ~18-20 min. In our 3 losses, he averaged about 31 minutes. In our wins, he is averaging 25 minutes and probably shouldn't have gotten that many. I say that as Cunningham's biggest fan. I also think that Onyema is pretty limited. He was getting worked for like 3 straight possessions and almost cost us the game. Shedrick is a much better defender.
  7. It would take a collapse of epic proportions to fire him this year. But if he misses the tourney both this year and next year, that would do it. Tonight is really a must win in a fairly tough road environment.
  8. I'm not sure I have ever seen a bigger douche than Jim Harbaugh.
  9. I don’t think you can look at what Texas has done and conclude we don’t care about winning. We just built one of the best arenas in the sport. We put the students right down close to the action. We are shelling out NIL money to get some of the best players in the portal. We hired Shaka and stole away Beard, both considered top 5 coaching prospects at the time. We had to fire Beard. We had to hire Terry. Period. UNC would have done the same thing. But I have no doubt we will quickly move on from Terry if he doesn't have sustained success here. We won't whack him this year, but he will be gone after next of he doesn't have us consistently in the top 10.
  10. This isn't really a fair statement. The standard set by Rick Barnes was right where we all want to be. But Rick Barnes himself wasn't living up to his own standard. He had gotten complacent and hadn't made the second weekend of the tournament in 7+ years when we fired him. Everyone on this board would be thrilled with 2001-2009 Rick Barnes.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. I have more thoughts, but let's take them to the official season thread...
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
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