Jump to content

HookEm

Legacy Members
  • Posts

    2415
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by HookEm

  1. I was at the Gonzaga game. It was a great atmosphere no doubt, but it didn't approach the peak loudness that the Erwin Center was capable of. I was at a KU game, I think around 2008 when we won at home. My ears were ringing for a couple of hours after the game it was so loud. That was probably the loudest sporting event I have ever been a part of. There were a couple of games like that, but they were few and far between.
  2. If all you care about is defense, then this is the worst squad since 1999. Fair enough. Instead why don’t you post the KenPom final ranking by year? The one that sums up offense and defense and strength of schedule and everything else. Let’s see what it says.
  3. Ole Miss fan interest is gonna be pretty low next weekend.
  4. Nah. There is a 3rd option. This Ole Miss team might just be a bunch of knuckleheads that aren’t responding to his coaching.
  5. Watching this Ole Miss vs Aggy game, Ole Miss doesn’t look like it is better coached than our squad. Bad shots and turnovers constantly. Giving up tons of offensive rebounds. Just not good.
  6. The defense looked pretty damn ugly in January of last year, and that blame lands squarely on RT. I agree 100%. The success we had at the end of the year? Well in that case, credit should be given to the player-led team who finally overcame that terrible RT coaching and remembered the lessons taught to them by Beard. \Disingenuous argument
  7. Scroll up and you will see I posted much of what you are asking for. Chris Beard inherited: Andrew Jones, Matt Coleman, Courtney Ramey, Greg Brown, Jericho Sims, Kai Jones, Jase Febres, Donovan Williams, Royce Hamm, Kamaka Hepa, Gerald Liddell and Brock Cunningham. All of those dudes had eligibility left. He managed to keep: Andrew Jones, Courtney Ramey, Brock Cunningham, Jase Febres Whatever. He rebuilt the roster. When he went to Ole Miss, he lost all but like 3 guys there as well. And he will lose a ton from Ole Miss this year and will rebuild again. It is kind of his M.O. The program was definitely on a better trajectory under Beard. You would have to be a moron not to see it. And for as good as Beard is as a coach, he is an even better salesman. He knows how to generate fan interest better than literally anyone, and then he backs it up on the court. RT ain't Chris Beard. Only trolls would argue otherwise.
  8. Sure if that is how you define good or bad. In that case, RT is an average Big 12 coach with average Big 12 results. That puts him in the upper tier of college coaches.
  9. I invite you to watch some non-tournament teams. The college basketball product across the board is pretty shitty. When we play teams outside the top-50, we win 95% of the time under RT. When I say he is a "good coach", I mean it holistically, not just gameday scheme and X's and Os. In my opinion, he is a great recruiter and very good at retaining talent. He is a solid motivator and the team tends to play hard. Under other coaches, they could have quit last year when Beard F'ed up or this year in January when it seemed like the wheels were coming off. We want to attribute that to the team being "player led", but that itself is an identity that the coach fosters or destroys. He experiments with lineups and the team seems to get better as the year goes on. Most of our players have developed pretty well, even if Hunter can be frustrating. He isn't an egomaniac and seems like he respects and leverages his assistants (and they are all pretty solid). The main problem we have had is consistency. At times, the team looks like a Final Four caliber team. The blowout win at Tech was extremely impressive in that environment. The first half of Baylor and K-State were about as good as any Texas team has looked in 20 years. But then some adversity happens, like Disu getting hurt or getting in foul trouble, and the rest of the team fails to pick up the slack. They are not mentally tough like some of the teams we have had in the past. But on the flip side, pushing players to the breaking point constantly also has its risks, like the late season collapse by some Barnes teams. Or the heavy attrition under Beard just about everywhere he goes. "Good" is relative anyway. I think we can agree he hasn't been good enough.
  10. You may as well stop following Texas basketball then, because he is going to be with us for a while.
  11. HookEm

    Terry 4ever

    No team with a NET ranking of higher than 33 has ever missed the tournament. Right now we are sitting at 28. We are comfortably in. We should be hoping for a 10 seed. Anything to get out of the dreaded 8/9 seeds.
  12. I just like clarity. If someone is going to be a blowhard and say stupid shit like we are going to finish 10-20 next year, then they should clarify their projection and stand by it. And in the spirit of clarity, I will reiterate my position on RT. He is performing slightly better than I expected and right at our historical average over the last 25+ years. And Texas can do a lot better than that. He isn't a shitty coach, or even an average coach considering the whole landscape of college basketball. He is a good coach. But he will likely never be an elite coach and that is what Texas should want (and what we had with Beard). The fact that he is a good coach is actually our worst case scenario. If he was shitty, he would indeed go 10-20 and we could fire him easily. But because he is a good coach with tremendous resources, we will likely make the tournament every year with an occasional run. (Hell, we could still make a run THIS year.) We will finish in the top half of the SEC next year. We will reload with some good players in the portal. And it is going to be very unlikely that RT will fair hard enough to be fired before his contract ends. I think most of our fans understand this about RT - even the ones who are entrenched on both polar ends of the spectrum. The ones who are overly negative want him to suck so that we can fail quickly and move on. The ones who are overly positive know he is likely to limp along for years making the tourney and hope against hope that he will outperform expectations. Neither scenario is likely to happen and both are just coping mechanisms. We are all stuck with good, but not great RT for the foreseeable future.
  13. I'm sure the goalposts will move. "No no no... I meant we will have a losing season in CONFERENCE". Then... "No no no, I meant we will have a losing season against top-10 teams."
  14. Our shitty 3 point defense rearing it's head.
  15. I would say the odds are 1 in 3 that OU makes it in now.
  16. I'm not seeing this game listed on ESPN+. Of course, I don't have ESPN+ so that could be the problem. Can anyone confirm?
  17. Agree completely. This is probably the most important game of the season to date. Not just because it gets us off the 8/9 game, but it opens up the possibility of significantly improving our seeding. If we win, that gets us to a 7... but if we keep winning we could move up as high as 5 if we win the whole damn thing. I see every win as basically moving us up one whole seed.
  18. I have no doubt we will pick up some great players. 3 yrs ago: Marcus Carr, Timmy Allen, Tre Mitchell, Dylan Disu, Christian Bishop, Devin Askew 2 yrs ago: Sir'Jabari Rice, Tyrese Hunter 1 yr ago: Max Abmas, Chendall Weaver, Kadin Shedrick, Ithiel Horton, Ze'Rik Onyema Since the portal started really changing the game, we have been able to add all-conference type players every year.
  19. Maybe I'm the only one who would rather be at Ole Miss than Louisville. Yes, Louisville has a better program historically, but with the pending demise of the ACC I would rather be at one of the big boy conferences until the dust settles. I also think Beard's hard nosed, underdog, gritty mentality will not play as well at one of the historic blue bloods. Or in the NBA for that matter. All this talk of how shitty Ole Miss is as a program and destination motivated me to see where they stand historically. I created a database of all the Massey rankings since 1980. Not the best, but they are free and directionally accurate. (I'll probably start a new thread on it because there are some interesting insights on the overall landscape). But anyway, Ole Miss ranks the following: Since 1980 - #57 (ahead of #69 Texas Tech) Since 2000 - #52 (ahead of #60 Texas Tech) Last 10 Yrs - #62 (behind #21 Texas Tech) Last 5 Yrs - #58 (behind #13 Texas Tech) Beard is the big reason why Tech is a top-15 program over the last 5 years when historically they are worse than Ole Miss. Just like his situation at Tech, they already have some solid infrastructure and are committed to improving the program (as evidenced by them hiring him in the first place). I wouldn't be surprised if he roots down there. He had opportunity to leave Texas Tech before Texas came calling and he passed.
  20. Out on playing Tech. Fail.
  21. Just saw that Miami finished the year on a 10 game losing streak. Wow.
  22. The problem is that people were ignoring the data. The fact is that the environment has changed. Yes we lost some people to the portal. Yes we lost some recruits. Replacing them takes time and usually happens in late spring to early summer. We weren't going to go 5-25. Anybody looking at the data and coming to that conclusion was a moron. I predict that this year we will lose a few players to the draft. And then we will lose a few more to the portal. A few posters will freak out, seeing 6 players on the roster and think we are going to go 10-20 and will loudly proclaim that RT isn't "the guy". Then we will get a handful of elite players in the portal and everything will be fine. Go ahead and bookmark my post. If you were one of the morons that thought we were going to have to start Alex Anamekwe, well... I hope you use the data from last year a month from now and learn from it.
×
×
  • Create New...