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  1. So nobody but me likes Luke Walton.  Fair enough.

    He hasn't been a rock star in the NBA, but I think he is better than his Lakers record.  He took a 17-65 Lakers team to 35-47 with a very young squad and had them actually competing last year.  I don't blame him for the garbage Lakers team this year.  That is a terrible roster and they have traded their best assets for nothing.  It has been managed horrifically.  

    Regardless, I'm not saying I want Walton at Texas. I would like to see him at UCLA though (unless they take Shaka).

  2. I really think that our recruiting "success" has been our undoing over the last 10 years. We lose our best players every year before they even become very productive. Because of the turnover, even the players we keep seem unhappy and many transfer. Unless you have a roster completely FULL of 5-star talent, you just can't win with freshmen playing huge minutes.

    That said, how do you have the discipline as a program to go exclusively after 50-150 type players if you can get top-10 players? It wouldn't surprise me for Shaka to go to a mid-major after this and return to his roots and success. That is really what Barnes has done.

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  3. You know, it is possible for all of the following to be true:

    1. Want Shaka to be gone
    2. Want to hire Beard
    3. Believe that there is no way Beard comes here

    We really need Shaka to go ahead and win the NIT. First, it makes him a more attractive hire for other schools, which I think is our only real option of getting rid of him this year.

    More likely though, he will be back here next year and it could give the program a little much needed lift. 

  4. Why would anyone want to replace Coach K?

    I think Tech has a real chance of keeping Beard for a while. He could turn them into a Michigan State type team. There is plenty of talent within a 6-7 hour drive of Lubbock to be elite and he has a winning formula with the graduate transfers.

    He isn't going to the NBA and the only possible Blue Blood is UCLA. We aren't going to money whip him and honestly Tech has better facilities, stadium and fan support than us anyway. Our only real advantage is that he graduated from here. But his real education was under Bobby Knight at Tech.

    Good for them. Sucks for us.

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  5. $3M a year in Lubbock goes a long ways.

    Also he has a lot of history in West Texas. He coached at McMurry in Abilene (where he also went to grad school). He also coached two years at San Angelo state. That's not to mention the 11 years as an assistant at Tech. If he hated the panhandle he would have left a long time ago. Like me.

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    I can't imagine the finance required for an MBA is that much harder, unless it's derivative heavy for some reason. Even then, that's not insanely complex.

    You are making my point. Finance wasn't hard. It was way way easier than Differential Equations or Thermodynamics or Physics, etc.  It isn't being "full of yourself" to state that an engineering degree is hard af. 

    And Finance may have been easy for you, but for many of my classmates it was pretty damn hard. 

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  7. UT ChemE / McCombs MBA here.  Couple of thoughts:

    1. The MBA will be SIGNIFICANTLY easier than your engineering degree. I can't overstate this.  Courses that non-engineers will find difficult, like Finance, will be a cakewalk for anyone with a hardcore technical degree.  I had a pretty modest undergrad GPA, but was top-3 in my MBA class. You will honestly be shocked at some of the low test scores from your peers. I am convinced it is almost impossible to fail out of the McCombs Exec MBA program.
    2. You just think you don't have time to do it and work at the same time.  I had no trouble fitting it in, you just have to get more efficient.  The first semester you will study like a beast and drop almost all non-value adding activities from your life.  By the last semester you will barely study... along with the rest of your class, so based on the curve you will still do well. 
    3. The networking benefits of a top program are significant.  I became close with just about every member of my class - and they are almost all Director / VP and higher in their respective companies.  I would do just about anything for any of them career wise, and the feeling is mutual.  You won't get this from an on-line MBA. At All. I know a TON of people who have hired folks from their cohort.  
    4. You will likely really enjoy the coursework. It isn't like engineering where they beat you to death with countless similar classes (e.g. For Chem E you have Chemistry 1 & 2, Physical Chemistry, Organic Chemistry 1 & 2, Biochemistry, blah blah blah).  You get a big variety of classes like Strategy, Finance, Accounting, Law, Leadership, Advocacy, Politics, Operations, Marketing, etc.  If these topics don't sound interesting enough to you that you would want to learn about them on your own... DON'T GET AN MBA.  You simply won't enjoy it, and when you get out you won't want a job in any of these fields anyway.
    5. Similarly, the MBA won't make you an expert in anything, but it will give you a very broad exposure to a ton of different business functions. This can be a very helpful and efficient way to figure out the kind of career you want to pivot into.  After graduating, I moved into a role in M&A which let me get experience in almost every topic learned in the MBA. I never would have been considered for this role otherwise.

    All of the above said, if I had to pay for it myself, I wouldn't have done it. It takes a long time to make up $100K in tuition. A better option is to get a job with a company that will pay for your MBA. First, you know they value your education and will likely continue to invest in you as an employee.  Moreover, since they are paying for it they will likely try to get a return on their investment by moving you into a role that leverages what you have learned.

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