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  1. 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.

    Still waiting for this.
  2. 15 hours ago, MrX said:

    Bill Self is the best coach in basketball, then it’s a group that includes Beard, Bennett, Lloyd, Few, Hurley, and Sampson.  Pitino is a wild card because he’s at a shitty St. John’s program and he’s old.  Not sure where to put him.   Then Izzo, Cronin, Drew, Hubert Davis, Cal, Barnes?  The Iowa State coach is working his way into this convo. 

    Here are the resumes of the guys you listed.  You really have two sets... the end of career coaches and the mid-career coaches.  Barnes and Samson are pretty similar in that they always have solid teams, but don't really have the hardware to show for it.  Mark Few only has 2 Final Fours, but fourteen top-10 finishes.  Calipari has a great resume but seems to have lost his fastball with NIL and the portal.

    • Bill Self (61) - 2 Title + 2 FF + 7 EE + 3 S16, 15 top-10 finishes
    • Tom Izzo (69) - 1 Title + 7 FF + 2 EE + 5 S16, 10 top-10 finishes
    • Rick Pitino (71) - 2 Title + 5 FF + 5 EE + 1 S16,  12 top-10 finishes
    • Mark Few (61) - 0 Title + 2 FF + 2 EE + 7 S16, 14 top-10 finishes
    • John Calipari (65) - 1 Title + 5 FF + 6 EE + 3 S16, 14 top-10 finishes
    • K. Sampson (68) - 0 Title + 2 FF + 2 EE + 3 S16, 4 top-10 finishes
    • Rick Barnes (69) - 0 Title + 1 FF + 2 EE + 5 S16, 6 top-10 finishes

    For the mid-career guys, I have a hard time saying Hurley, Beard or Bennett are better than Scott Drew.  He has a title plus more elite 8s and more sweet 16s. And he started from absolute zero at Baylor.  Also hard to put Beard above Bennett who beat him for a title and has better tourney success and top-10 finishes.  Need to see more out Hurley who never even made a Sweet 16 before last year.

    • Scott Drew (53) - 1 Title + 0 FF + 2 EE + 2 S16, 4 top-10 finishes
    • Dan Hurley (51) - 1 Title + 0 FF + 0 EE + 0 S16, 1 top-10 finish
    • Tony Bennett (54) - 1 Title + 0 FF + 1 EE + 1 S16, 5 top-10 finishes
    • Chris Beard (51) - 0 Title + 1 FF + 1 EE + 0 S16, 2 top-10 finishes
    • Mick Cronin (52) - 0 Title + 1 FF + 0 EE + 3 S16, 2 top-10 finishes
    • Hubert Davis (53) - 0 Title + 1 FF + 0 EE + 0 S16, 0 top-10 finishes (only 3 yrs)
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  3. 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.

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  4. 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.

  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. 32 minutes ago, shadow_operative said:

    that drop off in defense said it all.

    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. 6 minutes ago, shadow_operative said:

    you pro-RT people go ahead and fill out this form for me

    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.

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  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. 32 minutes ago, UTEE97 said:

    I don't know how you watch this and say he is a good coach.

    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. 10 hours ago, Fastbreak said:

    We definitely aren’t a lock. If a few weird things happen (which they usually do), we could be out.

    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.

  11. 45 minutes ago, UTEE97 said:

    Do you not want Texas to be good at Basketball? Why do you want to set the bar low so that your guy can cross it and say it's all good, as he did better than expected.

    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.

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  12. 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."

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  13. 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.

  14. 8 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

    Gerry mentioned on OTF a ball-handling PG and two bigs will be the portal priorities. Also said a glue guy who could shoot it would be a welcome addition.

    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.

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