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  1. Bill Self in his first Division 1 job at Oral Roberts.  

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    Scott Drew in his first EIGHT years at Baylor: 127-116.  0.522

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    Billy Donovan's first four years:  62-52. 0.544

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    Yes, I realize this is cherry picked data. I'm just saying that previous results don't always mean that is the best you can do. People learn. Some situations are a better fit for individual skills than others. 

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  2. Just a hunch, but if this staff was with Rodney Terry at UTEP, I think he might have won a few more games there. I thought the offense looked great tonight. Tons of movement without the ball and cutting. Great chemistry. Hopefully we keep it going  in the tourney. The game was a thing of beauty.

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  3. Just popping in to congratulate Terry in delivering an absolute ass whipping to KU.

    The staff also deserves credit for coaching up Disu. He has been incredible lately.

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  4. 45 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    If he gets another D1 job it will be somewhere really shitty. His resume is pretty fucking awful once you include the circumstances of the Tech departure. 

    Not sure I agree here. He spent a lot of his career in juco and is in the NJCAA Hall of Fame. His only previous shot at D1 was 30 years ago.

    In NJCAA he went 233-54 (81%) and won two National Championships. In DII he went 108-49 (73%). In NAIA he went 100-39 (72%).  Then his first year at Tech he takes them to the Sweet 16.  

    The guys is a bit of a freak and a hardass, but I honestly think he is a pretty solid coach.  If Tech was in the ACC this year they would probably be one of the better teams.  A mid-major or weaker D1 team could do worse.

  5. I'll also say that last time, the former players were really pushing for Ivey. And CDC still went big game hunting and got Beard.  So obviously CDC is capable of making up his own mind.

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    Why have CDC, who never played the games, make hiring decisions when we can just ask the former players who we should hire?

    CDC actually did play the games.

    He was a scholarship athlete in track and field at Oregon State and UC Santa Barbara. He also played varsity basketball and football in high school.

    I'm sure he leans on this experience quite a bit. I'm also sure he values the input of our former players and will want to keep them close to the program.  Alumni like TJ Ford may not BE coaches, (well, actually TJ Ford is a coach) but I have no doubt that they can give good feedback based on their experience. 

    The decision is still CDCs.

  7. Rodney Terry winning Coach of the Year has taken a terrible, embarrassing situation for the University and turned it into a feel-good story. It is remarkable. 

    If he takes this team all the way to the Final Four or beyond, this would be the type of thing they make movies about.

    If we have a Final Four run and end up hiring him, there will be a huge amount of positive buzz on the program.  And the players all seem to genuinely like playing for him.  I think it could be leveraged well on the recruiting trail.

    The key is that we have to win BIG over the next month. 

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  8. 5 minutes ago, closetohumping said:

    Not alot of nba talent there

    I mean, we had eight National Top-100 players on the roster, not counting 3-star Isaiah Taylor who actually played in the NBA.  If you consider that the NBA drafts 60 players a year, if all our players played to their potential we should have had 5 drafted.   Ridley was the #14 player out of high school and should have been a 1st rounder.

    Compare that to this year.  We only have four National Top-100 players on the roster. Dillon Mitchel (5), Arterio Morris (19),Tyrese Hunter (34), Rowan Brumbaugh (93) 

    I really think if Barnes had been around to coach that team one more year he would have had a good year.

  9. Speaking of experienced rosters, it would be hard to top what Shaka inherited back in 2016.  That was one of the most experienced, upper-class heavy teams we have ever had at Texas.  Going into the season you had:

    • Isaiah Taylor - Jr - Wooden Preseason Watch
    • Jevan Felix - Sr - 47 career starts
    • Connor Lammert - Sr - 39 career starts
    • Cameron Ridley - Sr - 85 career starts, Big-12 All Defense
    • Demarcus Holland - Sr - 74 career starts, Big 12 All Defense
    • Prince Ibeh - Sr - (Became Big 12 Defensive PoY in 2016)
    • Kendal Yancy - Jr - 28 career starts
    • Shaq Cleare - Jr - 28 career starts (at Maryland)

    And to that we added Kerwin Roach (#39 recruit), Eric Davis (#47 recruit), Tevin Mack (#53 recruit)

    Man that had the potential to be a great team.  Instead we topped out ranked #23 and got a 6-seed and crapped out vs. Northern Iowa.  What a terrible way to start his tenure here.

    \Rant

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    Q: when we replaced Shaka, was rodney terry a candidate? was he on the list? would the suggestion of interviewing him have been laughable? 

    Counter Point:  Let's say we would have hired Shaka to replace Beard right when he was fired instead of promoting Terry.  Would we have a better record or worse record?

    I'm going to go ahead and say Terry has done a better job with the team than Shaka would have, all things considered.  Shaka would have found a way to ruin the chemistry.

    (That doesn't mean I want to offer Terry the job right now)

  11. 13 hours ago, Sbbruin said:

    but to suggest Texas is a 12-6 Big 12 team but UCLA, who just went 17-0 at home and lost 4 games all to likely tournament teams, would be a .500 team in the Big 12 is just, well, I guess on brand here.

    10-8 wouldn't be .500.  Just saying.

    Yes, UCLA played well at home.  Let's just assume if you played in the Big 12 you would also win all your home games.

    But... UCLA hasn't been great on the road.  In conference, you only played two top-50 (Pomeroy) teams in Arizona (11) and USC (34).  You lost both of those games.  And you barely won by 1 at WSU (54) and by 4 at Colorado (68).  Not to mention getting beat by Baylor (9) and Illinois (28) at neutral sites. 

    If we extend that to the Big 12, and assume road losses to everyone better than USC, that means you get losses at: Texas (8), KU (9), Baylor (14), WV (17), KSU (18), ISU (22), TCU (25)

    It is also reasonable to think that one of OSU (40), OU (51) or Tech (53) would get you at home since they are all better than WSU who you squeaked by. 

    Boom. There are 8 losses.  And that assumes you go undefeated at home, something KU, Texas and Baylor were all unable to do.

     

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  12. I haven't been that interested in the speculation about Terry because the season has still been underway and it was pointless.  That will all change within the next two weeks.  Either we will be on our way to the Sweet 16 and the rumbling to hire Terry will start to really pick up (and get exponentially louder with each win). 

    Or we will lose the first weekend and his door will be closed forever.

    Given that we have only one Final Four in my lifetime and it was 20 years ago, I'm rooting like crazy that we get there - even if it means we wind up with Terry.  It isn't out of the question that this team could win it all if our shots are falling.  We can definitely beat anybody in the field.

  13. Just for arguments sake, let's say we win the Big 12 Tournament vs. Kansas and Alabama, Purdue and UCLA all lose their first conference tournament game.  That would result in the following Quad 1 records:

    • Kansas:  17-7
    • Texas:  14-8
    • Purdue:  9-5
    • Alabama:  9-6
    • UCLA:  7-5
    • Houston: 6-1

    I'm not sure how the selection committee could deny Texas a 1-seed in this case.  We would have seven more Q1 wins than UCLA and five more than Purdue or Alabama.  And would have beaten the probable overall #1 seed Kansas twice in the the last week.

  14. 3 hours ago, slorch said:

    It's funny to say, but if anyone thinks this might be plausible, they completely ignored the circumstances of Beard's departure from Tech.  He will never fucking work there again.  

    I know some moderate / high boosters of Tech basketball who would disagree with you. I’m just going to say the door isn’t completely closed.

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  15. You don't think playing for the #1 overall tournament seed, where they get to PICK the Sweet 16 location matters? When one of those locations is Kansas City?

    Okaaay.

    I guarantee you that if Houston is the #1 seed, they will pick Kansas City and force KU to Louisville or Las Vegas.

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