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  1. 10 hours ago, Jhawk said:

    I’ve got no read on him. 247 seems to think he’s KU bound. We can offer him the most and need him the most so there’s that. Evan Daniels picked him to KU and he’s like 97% accurate over the last year. Apparently Memphis has a lot of guards knocking on their door, including the recent duke decommit. KU needs him badly and apparently his reclassification was suggested by KU with self meeting with him the day after that announcement. I think he announces at the end of the month. 

    Got some guys he knows already committed to Memphis and they've put together a good class, so I understand that is attractive to him as well.  As to announcing, tweeted today "your question will be answered soon".  Perhaps we'll know sooner than later.

  2. 11 hours ago, Jhawk said:

    I’m sure Illinois thought the same thing about self and Memphis thought the same thing about Cal. I’m also not sold on him. No entitlement to it. Coaches move to better jobs every year. There is a lot more samples of coaches that move than coaches that stay. 

    I think Chris Mack is the best young coach in the country if you give him the basketball resources that a blue blood would offer. And it has nothing to do with vacancy. No school with a coach that is a championship winner is interviewing other coaches to build a list of guys they want. If self wants to be here for 20 more years I don’t care if beard wins 2 nattys in that time. I’m dancing with the girl that brung me. 

    Change of subject here, but what do you hear about RJ Hampton and where he might be headed?  Seems to be a lot of conflicting information in his case. Jayhawks like their chances?  I'm thinking Memphis, but it's certainly a mystery to me. Appreciate your thoughts. 

  3. 7 hours ago, Jhawk said:

    There are a lot of KU fans that wish self would recruit top 20-75 guys instead of top 10 guys because the 5 stars don’t feel the need to give effort since their raw talent is above many other recruits ceilings. It’ll be fun to watch beard grow into this level of competition. 

    If it's any time indicator, Beard certainly didn't play with Khavon Moore this year.  He gone.  Wasn't a 5 star but until last year the highest ranked basketball player TT had ever signed.

    We'll soon get an idea I guess.  Has one 5 star signed currently and still with the chance of getting Hampton (supposedly the kid is more pro TT than his dad, so who knows?).

    Btw, even with better players I wouldn't expect the role of defense in Beard's scheme to diminish.

     

     

     

  4. 7 hours ago, LTtxfan said:

    Maybe Tech could increase Adams raise a little more??  They don't have to match the Bulls offer, but add another $50-75k maybe....

    TT just within the last week or two increased their basketball asst. salary pool, to if you believe what you read, the first or second highest in the conference.  Maybe that will get it done.  As a fan, I'd hate to lose him.

  5. 14 hours ago, Dirk X West said:

    He's not going anywhere.

    Credible sources have reported the Bulls have offered to double his current salary.  But at his age, with his son coaching nearby, at what's likely very near the end of his career, does he really want to pick up and move to Chicago?

  6. 6 hours ago, LTtxfan said:

    Hard to believe that Littrell & Neal Brown were not considered by Hocutt.  Guess the Okla/W.Tx ties were more important for Kirby.  Still surprised Littrell stayed at North Texas.

    The Wells hire at Tech is gonna be interesting to watch vs Neal Brown at West Virginia.

    Supposedly, the Holgerson concerns were related to character issues.

     Littrell's primary negative is Hocutt viewed him as being basically a rent-a-coach until Riley moves on from OU.  I might add Hocutt is very tied in at OU.  He's very close with their current AD and many anticipate Hocutt being named their next AD.

    Venables and Hocutt are tight and he indicated he would not consider leaving Clemson until his son was out of high school..  As someone mentioned, it is the general view that given the micromanager that Tuberville was, he didn't really allow Brown to demonstrate his offensive capabilities and truly run his offense.

     Littrell, Brown and Holgerson had all coached at Tech, had TT ties and knew the turf.  Likewise, , of course, Tech knew them well.

     

  7. 6 hours ago, slorch said:

    I was ready for a change from the Leach tree, and my admiration for Leach has not been understated on this and other boards.

    I too like Neal Brown, and felt Tubby fucked with his game hard and Brown didn't truly get to put his talents on display.

     

    Enough is enough.  Time for moving the fuck on.  I like the clean break.  It can't get worse in the long term.

    Thing is, with Yost you're not really getting away from the Leach tree.  Yost at one point was on the staff at Washington State. Lots of similarities.   Big Leach fan here, but I was perfectly fine with getting away from his style.

    But Matt Wells?  I've got my doubts.

  8. 3 hours ago, Dirk X West said:

    He did get lucky, to the extent that the UNLV BOR balked at the contract their AD offered Beard after he had agreed in principle to take the job there, but to me, the bigger point was that when Tubby left - and he left at an inopportune time after most of the positions had been filled and there weren't so many decent candidates to look at - Kirby had done his homework and was ready to move on Beard, and get him, when Tubby did decide to go.  Beard has his Tech ties, but I don't seem to recall people talking about him like some kind of obvious heir apparent for years before he finally got the job.

    We remember it very differently.  There was no homework to do regarding Beard.  He had been at Tech 10 years or whatever it was at that point.   I believe Beard was the only serious candidate whose name even came up amongst rank and file fans, deep pockets and administrators alike.

  9. From LTtxfan- 

    Curious if most Tech fans think Wells is a better hire than Holgy??

    My 2 cents opinion:  Wells + David Yost >>> Holgy

     

    I personally would have preferred Littrell, Neal Brown, Holgorsen,  Brent Venables, pretty much a lot of people.  Three of Wells' last 4 years at Utah State were losing seasons. Not overly impressive in my opinion.  I very much like Yost though.

    Two prominent donors had their jet ready, flight scheduled and details established for Dana to come visit with Hocutt.  Hocutt would have nothing of it.  Wasn't interested in Seth or Brown either.  They don't even compare with Wells, not worth even a conversation?  He did have a phone conversation with Venables though.

  10. Hocutt got pretty lucky with Beard.  He wanted to hire him so badly he did all but turn cartwheels to keep Tubby from leaving.  Some truth I suppose to the old better lucky than good adage.

    As far as Billy Clyde is concerned, granted the hire was in the works prior to Hocutt's arrival, but he most certainly was in a position to, at a minimum, offer up a "let's tap the brakes a little" had he been even slightly aware of the walking disaster that TT was about to hire.  So, in that sense he played a role.

    Also, seems to me like KK actually did have quite a few things in common with Beard and Tadlock. Don't find it bizarre at all that one feels the need to offer a defense of the AD during what are pretty good athletic times.  That is, when the discussion at hand is how much credit he deserves in creating that success.

  11. 1 hour ago, Dirk X West said:

    The girls basketball coach (the former Tech player) was a terrible hire and 100% on him, but anyway, now I know he's actually accomplished nothing, since any fool could've hired Beard and Tadlock and retained them after they've been wildly successful.  Thanks for clearing that up for me.

    Well, I would think you must admit both coaches certainly have Lubbock roots which not only impacted their hire but their retention as well.

    And in regard to the poor women's coach hire you allude to, how bout not only the hire itself, but the contact extension he later followed it up with? Quite the move.

     

     

  12. 1 hour ago, Machinator said:

    A grad transfer from Rice was an integral part of a 10-win Texas team last season.

     

    1 hour ago, angelos's frog said:

    Good enough to provide the Frogs with a kid that became the 49th pick in the draft last month.  Talent comes from everywhere.  We got a starting LB from NIU last year.

    And yours points are?

    It doesn't take much football knowledge to be aware of the fact that obviously great players can come from some very minor programs.  I would have thought it would have gone without saying that generally speaking a school like ULM or Rice is hardly known as the paragon of football talent ownership.

  13. 4 hours ago, Dirk X West said:

    Of course he gets credit for Beard, but I don't think Kliff or his extension was totally his call and I have no idea if he was given free reign in hiring those coaches at Miami or what the circumstances there were.  It is quite a different institution and athletic dept. than Tech. 

    I just think it's stupid to criticize the guy who's hired the very best coaches Tech has ever had in 2 of the 4 major sports - best by a mile, that is.  I know football is crucial for revenue, but there's no call for picking at Hocutt's track record in hiring coaches at this point. None at all.  Tech athletics have never been this collectively strong across the board.

    Got it.  Hocutt gets credit for the good hires and no blame for the bad ones.

    I certainly agree Beard and Tadlock are great coaches.  How much credit Hocutt deserves in acquiring them is another question.  Shit, Tadlock was already on staff.  Beard was the obvious choice by the masses given his previous tenure in Lubbock. Zero insight in the least required there.

    Imo, it is hardly stupid to point out the guy has yet to make his first successful career hire in the most important sport of them all, football.

     

     

  14. 2 hours ago, kopp0e said:

    Tech is putting the money up for a pretty good roster of coaches:

     

    I would add Tadlock of course as well as track coach Wes Kittley whose men's team is currently ranked number one in the country. Additionally, they just upped the salary pool for Beard's 3  main assistants nearly 300k.

  15. 4 minutes ago, Dirk X West said:

    He's only hired one at Tech, and that was the guy roughly 99% of Tech fans wanted.

    The entire Randy Shannon and Al Golden experience at Miami was a fiasco.  Given your KK thinking I suppose he gets no credit for Beard then.  

    The KK hire was of course an abysmal failure and Hocutt made it even worse IMO by the absurd decision to bring Kliff back that last year with absolutely no justification or logical reason to do so.  It delayed considerably the start of hopefully righting the ship. KK went on to have the lowest ranked Power 5 recruiting class in the country that year and we're now taking transfers from  U of La-Monroe.

  16. 3 hours ago, LTtxfan said:

    Transfer Portal heating up.... a few more Tech Players may be leaving

    Defensive tackle Joe Wallace,  offensive linemen Gio Pancotti , and wide receiver Corey Fultcher all put their name in the transfer portal recently.

    https://247sports.com/college/texas-tech/Player/Joseph-Wallace-79679/

    https://247sports.com/college/texas-tech/Player/Gio-Pancotti-78049/

    https://247sports.com/college/texas-tech/Player/Corey-Fulcher-46041721/

     

    Also see another OL in Tech portal.....

    https://247sports.com/college/texas-tech/Player/Cody-Wheeler-58862/

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    Grad-transfer  QB McLane Carter just announced he's going to Rutgers....

    Pancotti was going to see zero playing time.Fulcher and Wallace were suspended by the coaching staff and weren't going to be back. 

    TT announced what appears to be a decent WR grad transfer today, Reginald Turner out of ULM.  Been a fairly productive guy and looks good on video

    In 2016, 23 catches, 38 in 2017, and 36 in 2018.  A little over 1600 career receiving yards and 10 touchdowns.
     

     

     

     

     

  17. 7 hours ago, Brian Fantana said:

    Lawrence is a nice town. Lubbock is fine. You guys are fucking retarded.

    Relax chief, I've railed on this very board on more than one occasion about the folly of arguing subjective views such as city preferences.  As such, my post was hardly a Lubbock good/Lawrence bad sort of missive. Not my point.

    Rather, I found more than a little irony in a post from a guy who is a fan of a school located in the garden spot of Lawrence, Kansas of all places, alluding to TT being located in "the shithole of the nation" and probably having a lot of weird majors because of it, etc.(a transfer rule that no longer even exists).

  18. 6 hours ago, Jhawk said:

    Also... Tech, being in the shithole of the nation probably has a lot of fucking weird majors and grad degrees that aren't common so it could be very attractive for grad transfers that have to switch majors to get an extra year.

    Well, that's pretty funny coming from a guy who's the fan of a school located in the so very urbane metropolis of Lawrence, Kansas, (.that's right, Kansas) a town roughly a third the size of Lubbock.  

    And your logic that since Tech is located in the "shithole of the nation (as opposed to Lawrence who is frequently mistaken for Paris) probably has a lot of fucking weird majors and grad degrees" is most certainly irrefutable.   They  only have an enrollment of 40000 within the next year or two, so clearly they have to have weird majors to get anyone to go there.

    Somebody got their feelers hurt by not winning the conference title this year.

     

     

  19. 1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I fail to see how the current Tech roster says anything about how Beard might recruit in Austin.

    You posted "Even if the facilities are on par, UT in Austin would have much more cachet with recruits than TT in Lubbock.  For one thing, Lubbock is 2 hours farther from Dallas than Austin is, and 5 hours farther from Houston.  That alone is an advantage."

    Of course, there's no doubt Beard could recruit well in Austin.  My simple point in regard to the TT roster is given its national, even international make up, a school being closer to Dallas and Houston doesn't amount to a pile of shit in the cantaloupe patch as an advantage.  He can recruit as well in West Texas as he can in Central Texas.

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  20. 6 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    It's almost as if nobody is reading what I wrote.  I'm saying Beard could almost surely recruit better to Austin than Lubbock.  I'm not drawing comparisons between the two programs in their current states.

    Oh, I think I understand.  In football regarding Austin/Lubbock that's certainly the case.  Basketball not the case IMO.  See my TT roster post above.  Different creatures totally.

  21. 27 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Even if the facilities are on par, UT in Austin would have much more cachet with recruits than TT in Lubbock.  For one thing, Lubbock is 2 hours farther from Dallas than Austin is, and 5 hours farther from Houston.  That alone is an advantage.  As far as building a national basketball power is concerned, come on . . . if Beard were to do the same job in Austin that he's doing at Tech, the national buzz would be insane.

    I'm not discounting the up front cost.  I'm just suggesting that, in a few years, I doubt anyone would care.  It's a risk, to be sure.  Keeping Shaka is a big risk too.

    Catdaddy's point regarding basketball recruiting being a different animal is correct and well taken IMO.  This year's TT roster as an example had players from the Dominican Republic, Va, Ariz, Md, Illinois, Ark, Italy, France, Ga., etc.

    And I understand well the national name that UT is as well as its significance.  That said, perhaps as a non TT fan some of the national buzz created by Beard currently has escaped you.  It has been immense.

     

     

  22. 10 hours ago, LTtxfan said:

    Chris Beard’s new contract includes a poison pill buyout targeting Texas

    Hiring Beard next offseason would cost the Longhorns $16.5 million.

    "Buying out the guaranteed contract for Smart would be expensive for Texas, too, as Smart will have $10.5 million left on the remaining four years of his contract following the 2019-20 season. As a result, unless the Horns negotiate a settlement with Smart after next season, it would cost $16.5 million just to hire Beard, on top of whatever raise would be necessary to convince him to leave Lubbock, likely at least $5 million per season to start since Beard is scheduled to make an average of $4.6 million under his new extension."

    https://www.burntorangenation.com/2019/4/29/18523450/chris-beard-contract-buyout-texas-tech-texas-longhorns-shaka-smart

    Though the quality of UT coaching jobs are obviously always a consideration in coaching hire circles, I'm not firmly convinced Beard's contract language was a poison pill specifically targeting UT.

    KU could always be an attractive job if for some reason it came open. Lots of other quality programs in the conference as well.  If Hocutt were to go to OU at some point as some project as an example, they could always become a potential suitor.

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  23. 1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I'm starting to get kinda chippy about the $ arguments when it comes to buying out Beard.  I really don't think there's much chance that he's a flash in the pan.

    There is no way UT with a new arena is less attractive to national recruits and national fans than Texas Fucking Tech.

    I dunno man, though older, the USA is a pretty  nice facility.  Secondly, currently under construction is a new 30 million dollar basketball workout facility  that is state of the art. Some really good facilities.

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