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Wally Pryor

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  1. It's multi-tiered. It's expensive to live here. Above and beyond, the shortage was and is due to cancelled cadet classes, more cops retiring than expected and difficulty recruiting to this city. Those three are a recipe for a police shortage. The budget is fine now but you can't just catch up with the necessary headcount just like that. It's a shit show here and both the Austin Police Association and the city government contribute to it. At the end of the day you have to an idiot to be cop. You have to be an exponential idiot be a cop in Austin.
  2. Good for Terry. Remains to be seen if he'll be a long-term success as Texas basketball coach. But at a minimum he's proven to be a quality person, leader and representative of the university. Love when good things happen to good people. He's obviously one of those.
  3. Donewald is likely to stay. That's really big. Texas was always going to play defense. Beard built the team around it and that aspect wasn't going away. It was the cornerstone of the team's success. But Texas really turned the corner when Beard gave Donewald control of the offense before the season started. At that point Texas went from a conference title contender to a national title contender. Donewald is a long-time coach, tons of international experience. China, where Yao Ming went to him for help in hiring a coach. Russia. Serbia. Elsewhere. Be glad he ultimately landed in Austin. His influence on the offense has been wide and deep. We went from a liability on that side of the ball to an asset that could win games, and not lose them. More than anything, Donewald's work with the interior players was nothing short of great. Disu's development, we saw, was especially outstanding. We saw some offensive lapses deep in the game yesterday but, overall, we have to be very happy with the progress on that side of the ball this season. That's on Donewald. Along with Terry, Donewald will be rewarded for his work this season and it's well deserved. As mentioned, it sounds like he'll be staying. Texas needs to make sure that happens.
  4. Yeah, I was and did. I probably watch 60 hours or so of the tournament every year. It's the best sporting event in the world. I love Texas basketball. I love college basketball just as much or more. It's why I was glued to the set over the last two weeks. It's why I'll be watching Saturday and Monday. I wish Texas was still playing. It isn't. The officials had nothing, zero, to do with that. Sans the occasional weirdness like the end of the Memphis game, for example, the officiating in the tournament has been good. I've no ties to referees on any level. No interest in them whatsoever, except that they do their jobs. They have so far. Cunningham call? He's allowed to hold his place in position for a rebound. He's not allowed to backpedal and take another player out to secure a rebound. That's a staple of Cunningham's game. He got called for it in a crucial moment today and it was the right call. Damn tough player. But he committed a foul. Miami ended the game on a 35-16 run over the last 10 minutes. We played really, no extremely, well for the for the first 30 minutes of the game. We played bad, and dumb, basketball over the last quarter. That last foul by Carr was a microcosm of our meltdown. But Miami made play after play when we struggled to make one, and it deserves credit for that. At the end of the day, it wasn't all about us and had zero to do with the officials. There are saps who will cling to that for awhile. They can't be helped. This was a kick in the groin today. It sucks and will for while. We needed to play better and just didn't when it mattered. That's it. Nothing more. On top pf that you give credit to a team that performed better than you when it mattered most.
  5. He's the player every successful team needs - hustles, great rebounder, passes well and all in all will do whatever you need.
  6. No substitute for confidence in the 2nd weekend. Texas is a confident team.
  7. Morris and Cunningham with 13 points. 10 more than we could ask for. Game is there for Texas taking. They're better than Miami. Just have to finish it off.
  8. The officiating in the tournament overall has been very good. Very good.
  9. Good start. Just wonder about the minutes distribution with Disu out. Cunningham playing a ton.
  10. First 4 to 6 minutes of this games are helter skelter. Teams just feeling each other out.
  11. Settling in. Miami's defense will likely be its undoing. They're not disciplined. We'll se..
  12. The Creighton guy pushed the SD shooter on the way to the basket and altered his shot. It was a foul. The idea of "swallowing your whistle" at the end of the game is stupid and beyond. If it's a foul, you call it. If you don't call it you need to be something other than officiating.
  13. Yeah, they just need enough offensively to finish this off.
  14. SD tough and resilient. Down Friday night by 9 with 11 left to the closest thing this tournament has (athletically) to an NBA team. Shrugged it off, won going away. Couldn't expect SD to go away today.
  15. I understand how it works. Was just pointing out that Texas is 2nd favorite. They will remain as such is they win today. After 5 screen and rolls you'd think SD would get it....
  16. SD is going to have to get some things in transition. Just such a struggle for them to do much in half court sets.
  17. UConn actually a little over even money. +105. Texas next at +350.
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