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  1. As you know, the NBA drafts on potential.  It is obvious watching Mitchell that he has more potential than 99% of NCAA players.  The kid is a spring and has a great attitude. He COULD be a monster in 3-4 years.  

    I think with NIL, the strategy could change for players who are at the back end of the lottery.  If they can stay in college and make $1-2M vs. going to play in the NBA-DL, they might do it.  Plus they get MUCH more exposure in college, which gives them more potential for a bigger marketing deal once they are in the NBA.  Everyone knows who Drew Timme is.  Nobody knows who Ausar Thompson is.

  2. Fair, but there are a lot of hard-ass, ego-centric head coaches who would try to bend this "player led, mature team" to their will. Sometimes it results in great teams. Sometimes it breaks them and they crap out early.  If they are indeed player-led, then Terry deserves credit for getting out of their way.

    On the flip side, I don't think the players are the ones coaching up Dylan Disu into playing like an All-American / NCAA Tourney MVP.

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  3. 1 hour ago, shadow_operative said:

    she's the one with the history of being an abusive drunk, not him. you're actually being wildly sexist here by giving her such undue benefit of the doubt simply because she's a woman.

    I guess I missed the part where Beard called the cops and then Randi got hauled off to jail.

    The reality is that none of us know exactly what happed that night. We all have assumptions that are influenced by our own biases.

    The facts are that Randi called the cops and Beard went to jail.  Sure, he is innocent until proven guilty in the eyes of the law.  But I don't have to abide by those rules when deciding how I feel about him. At a minimum, in my mind he is guilty of bad judgement for not de-escalating the situation and removing himself physically (as the stronger party). That is the bare minimum, which is enough to get him fired from his dream job.

    But... It is quite possible that what actually happened is way worse than that.  Maybe he did choke her. Maybe he bit her trying to hurt her. Maybe he has been mentally abusing her for years.  Maybe this has happened 10 times and only now she decided to call the police because she was afraid he might seriously hurt her. Maybe all of the above is true and he paid her off to recant her story.  

    In summary... F him. He le let this program down and I'm embarrassed that he is an alumni of this school.

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  4. 3 hours ago, SL Xpress said:

    But he was arrested for a felony charge of domestic violence when he shouldn't have been.

    Or maybe he deserved to get arrested for a felony charge because he put hands on his fiancé to the degree that she called the cops.  

    My opinion:  F that guy.  I hope he falls flat on his face at Ole Miss. It shocks me the pass he is getting from the media.

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  5. Another thing I have been considering is how the head coaching job is evolving - and how Terry's particular skills might make him more successful somewhere like Texas in 2023 than he was 10 years ago in a different era.  With the transfer portal and NIL, it is a completely different game today.

    Big-time programs will be filling their teams with lots of SUCCESSFUL transfer portal players.  Most of these players were "the man" at their mid-major and are now moving up into bigger programs where they have to take lesser roles.  A lot of them are also leaving because they are unhappy.  As such, establishing a team culture is critical.  A culture where the players bond quickly and are playing for each other.   Player development will be important, but less so because many of these players will already be developed.  The key will be developing the TEAM and working with the players to adjust their game accordingly.

    This was true to a lesser degree in years past with elite high school players.  Previously a hard-ass coach like Beard was necessary to transition them from being kids to being men.  Also player development was critical because many of the elite players had potential but were raw.  I don't think that is the only way to win today.

    I think the challenge now will be to assess the landscape of good older players and see which ones fit the culture. Which ones will agree to coming off the bench like Rice?  Which ones will accept going from being a 20 ppg scorer like Carr to being a defensive stopper / off ball combo guard?

    I.e. More of a Phil Jackson than a Greg Popovich type coach.  Get already great players to play great together.

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  6. There was a lot of talk about our defensive regression under Terry - both by the numbers and by the "eye test".  While I thought some of that was playing in the Big-12 blood bath, you could see that the effort wasn't QUITE there.  Well, that has changed over the last 6 games. The defense is locked and loaded and absolutely clamping down teams. Carr and Timmy Allen in particular are playing great.  Help defense has also been tremendous.

    Since the KU game in Austin:

    Penn State
    •    Season: 72 pts, 46.3 FG%, 38.7 3P%
    •    Vs. UT: 66 pts, 41.7 FG%, 28.6 3P%

    Colgate
    •    Season: 78 pts, 51.1 FG%, 40.3 3P%
    •    Vs. UT: 61 pts, 41.7 FG%, 28.6 3P%

    Kansas 
    •    Season: 75.4 pts, 46.8 FG%, 34.7 3P%
    •    Vs. UT (Tourney): 56 pts, 41.4 FG%, 23.5 3P%
    •    VS UT (Mar 4):  59 pts, 36.2 FG%, 31.8 3P%

    TCU
    •    Season: 75.3 pts, 45.3 FG%, 31.0 3P%
    •    Vs. UT (Tourney): 56 pts, 35.6 FG%, 41.1 3P%

    OSU
    •    Season: 68.5 pts, 43.1 FG%, 31.4 3P%
    •    Vs. UT (Tourney): 47 pts, 26.8 FG%, 14.3 3P%
     

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  7. 1 hour ago, closetohumping said:

    Just because he can't recruit Fresno and UTEP does not mean he can't recruit at Texas. 

    This is just not true.  As I posted in another thread, Terry's recruiting average his last 4 years at Fresno was 72.  The previous 4 years averaged 142.  He recruited significantly better there than anyone except Tarkanian, who landed them on probation.

    Also if you give him this staff at Fresno or UTEP, they would have been MUCH MUCH better.  And while the staff followed Beard to UT, they also followed the $$$.  

  8. 1 hour ago, idigTexas said:

    I wish this and the two Rodney Terry threads were combined.  There are some who will never want Terry, regardless of how far Texas goes in the tournament

    Yes.  8/198 voters. Which you know because we have the other thread. 

    I agree with your point though. And I agree that there aren't a lot of coaches that we would want and that we can get who are a clear upgrade at this point.

  9. Also, SOMEBODY on the coaching staff deserves a ton of credit for the development work they have been putting in with Disu.  That dude has gone from being a liability to a complete monster.  And that development has happened AFTER Beard left the team.

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  10. That was a fun win. And I thought the coaching was great.  Even though I have been saying Elite 8 or Final Four all year, I think I've seen enough.

    But I wouldn't announce anything yet.  Let the players still think they are fighting for him. Don't take the foot off the gas.

     

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  11. Watching Arizona last night, and watching Ramey airball the final shot, brought back flashbacks of his horrid game vs. ACU that cost Shaka his job.  In that game Ramey was 1-7 FG, 0-3 3PT, 4 TOs.  And we lost by 1.

    I really liked Ramey by the time he was done at Texas, but man those early years were hot and cold. 

  12. 1 hour ago, shadow_operative said:

    i may have misread the intentions of this thread, so let's make this clear: if you're voting based on what you think RT needs to do in order for cdc to give him the job then you're doing it right.

    Turns out you misread the intentions of this thread.  I don't really care what people think CDC will do... or how he will respond to the various pressures that he is under. There are plenty of threads with speculation on what will happen.

    What I hoped to get from this thread is what it would take for the Longhorn FANBASE to get on board with hiring Terry.  That is why I worded it... if YOU were CDC, what would it take for YOU to give him the job. 

    Perhaps I could have worded it better.

    I personally have said from the start of his tenure that a Final Four run would earn him the job (or a Sweet 16 run if he wins the conference outright).  Because that means he had a successful enough regular season to likely get a high seed.  And then he did something with it.  All while dealing with the huge mess that Beard left behind.

    So now, it isn't just that the tourney is deciding his fate. The tourney is the culmination of a season that has led us to this point.

    Others are free to view it differently. 

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    It's a major distraction on the team for this tourney run that should have been avoided. The players are talking about it. That distraction only gets worse the farther they get in the tourney.

    This is just.... wow....  How could anyone think that having Beard still on staff would be LESS of a distraction than the talk about whether we should hire Terry full time? 

    What we have right now is what you call a "good problem".  We are only discussing Terry because he has exceeded everyone's expectations.

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  14. 1 hour ago, Hermanator said:

    A guy who has shown zero aptitude in building a a winning program even though being considered a great recruiter. 

     

    36 minutes ago, closetohumping said:

    Not sure I can justify Royal over RT other than Royal didn't suck at Fresno and UTEP.

    People keep saying that Terry sucked at Fresno, but that just isn't the case.  First, Fresno is a loser of a basketball program.  They have made 3 tournaments since 1985.  One was with Terry.  Another two by Jerry Tarkanian, but he also landed them on probation for committing NCAA violations.

    Terry got them to 20 wins in 4 of his last 5 years.  And he also left a decent roster for his successor who won 23 games with Terry's players.  Now they have fallen back to 11 wins.  I have very serious doubts that Royal Ivey could do better than that at Fresno.

    As to recruiting, Fresno's median recruiting class was ranked 143 in the seven years prior to Terry.  Terry's median class was ranked 83... and he also got them the 59th ranked class, by far their best class on record.

    I loved Chris Beard, but the reality is that he didn't have a LONG track record of success anywhere.  Yes, he got Texas Tech to the National Title game.  He was also 36-24 in his last two years there.  He proved he is a turnaround magician, but I don't think he is stable enough to run a program for 20 years.  

    Again, I think Terry needs to prove what he can do in March before I support hiring him full time. 

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