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RichUT

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  1. You are trivializing that season to suit your narrative by focusing on how it ended. Terry took over before conference play, held the team together, won the Big 12 tourney (emphatically), and had the deepest tourney run we'd had in 15 years. And every player on that team stumped for him to get the job, iirc. For the record, I had real reservations that he would be able to sustain that performance, as did many others. There was no home run option out there, which meant that every possible hire carried a level of risk.
  2. It's a virtuous cycle. Better players want to feel confident that they are going to be developed and prepared for the next level. That takes a great coach. You can get a few mercenaries if you're willing to pay stupid money, but that's not a recipe for sustained success.
  3. Show you work. CDC makes the coaching hires, last I checked. I could infer that you are suggesting there was a mandate made (presumably by Hartzell), but I seriously doubt he'd take such a strong stance. More likely it was a decision that the two of them arrived at together. My experience with people at the C-level of any organization is that they try really hard not to tell their leadership team who to hire/fire. That sort of thing would make our AD job a hell of a lot less attractive.
  4. I'm a decade younger than CDC and could easily retire if I wanted to. But I'd be bored and I like making money. You said "Decisions made out of fear are rarely good ones" (among other things), which I could only assume was pointed at CDC's decision to hire Rodney Terry due to the optics of making a different decision. Go ahead and tell me what I got wrong there and then I'll give some thought to fucking off.
  5. Our football program wandered the desert for over a decade, but one good hire was able to right the ship in ~2 years. With NIL and the portal, Rodney Terry is incapable to doing irreparable harm to our program. He got his chance. All indications are that he'll come up short and we will move on. That's hardly the end of the world in my book. There are a ton of great things to see and do in Austin in the spring. Some of you guys should check them out.
  6. Spoken like someone that has zero appreciation for how much relationships matter in this sport. And they matter in all sports, but I'd argue that they matter more in basketball than any other revenue generating sport. i mean look at every other decision that CDC has made in his time here. He generally doesn't fuck up. So maybe a different way to think about this situation is to trust that he actually did make the best decision possible under super shitty circumstances. Or just sit back in your lazy boy and criticize a guy that has done well enough to ascend to one of the best AD roles in the whole country. I'm sure your professional accomplishments are just as impressive.
  7. A bit more than just political optics if you just stopped and gave an ounce of thought to it. What do you think the schools we recruit against might have said about UT in a world where CDC ran off Terry after that tournament run?
  8. That's revisionist history. Everyone had concerns, but most understood that there was no world where we could not hire him unless there was a slam dunk hire to be made. And there was no such candidate available at the time. I'm sure there was some back channeling with the guys we'd all be thrilled with (e.g., Donovan), but when they didn't bite we were stuck. The optics of hiring someone without real skins on the wall over the Black interim head coach that damn near got us to the Final 4 could have set this program back much further with recruits than we are now. CDC had the long term view in mind, and made the best decision possible in a really bad situation. Sometimes all the options are bad and you need your leader to choose the least bad option. I think CDC did his job there, just as I have confidence he will do his job here when the time comes.
  9. Well, Tito’s is made in Texas. So I mean, I guess your statement is accurate depending on how you’re looking at it.
  10. Anyone with a brain won’t ding CDC for that hire. He was in an impossible situation from an optics standpoint. In the end, he did the sensible thing with the $3MM per year deal that I am sure won’t be extended.
  11. He's not, but he's throwing to a couple of guys that are. And sometimes that can be enough. I'm not saying we're fucked, but those WR's give him a lot more margin for error than most.
  12. This fucking club man. They can't put a match away to save their fucking lives.
  13. Because….why? It doesn’t fit your narrative? Get the fuck out of here with that shit. There were four eligible receivers on the play. There is also always the option to throw it away or even not throw at all. The guy with the ball in his hands has to make the right read and the right throw.
  14. Without the ability to ask him, I don't know how you'd go about proving that. Strategically, that makes very little sense and I have a really hard time buying it. If somehow that were proven to be true then my opinion here would change.
  15. You know there were at least 4 guys running routes on that play....right? Steve didn't call a play called "throw it deep, damn the consequences". He called a pass play with layered routes, and it involved trusting the QB to pick out the right guy to throw it to with the right pass. In this case. the QB 100% picked the wrong type of throw and most likely picked the wrong guy to throw it to. The punt block play was the exact same dynamic. Good coaching call, bad player execution. Calling a pass play there was 100% playing to win and I want our coach playing to win.
  16. So what's your hypothesis for our third quarter woes and what is your opinion on what Sark should do differently to correct them?
  17. Yeah, that's a no from me dawg. Not likeable at all. They are constantly trying to convince people they are good with words instead of letting their play do the talking. Reminds me of the guys at work that are constantly trying to show people how smart they are. Fucking hate those guys.
  18. I don't look at this kid with any sort of reverence for the way he plays. The posturing, preening, and sneering are major turn offs for me. As a player, he requires a high volume of the ball to do damage against talented teams, and the modern NFL game isn't likely to give him enough touches to replicate the success he's had in college. Beyond that, I think it's honestly kind of sad what he's doing to his future self for the sake of glory today. But hey, it's his life and he can do whatever he wants with it. Good luck to him.
  19. It looked like we had turned the corner in the red zone at about he half way mark of this season. But as of late? I wouldn't say that red zone execution is a strength by any stretch of the imagination. Just go look at how inept we were against UGA in the SEC title game if you want examples.
  20. Pretty sure they are not worried about our smoke in the least bit. We just need to focus on the shit we can control and let the chips fall where they may.
  21. Fine whatever. Skattebooty.
  22. This subjective debate feels like it has a clear "right answer". You guys just need to keep talking past each other for a few a more pages and I am sure someone will admit that they are wrong. Regardless of where you want to rank him, his is still very much an unfinished product. He needs to demonstrate the capacity to self scout and be vocally self critical to keep evolving and ultimately improving as a head coach. He still has plenty of flaws and I really hope he recognizes those and adjusts accordingly. Continuous improvement even during periods of prosperity is a clear hallmark of the elite in most industries.
  23. That's the OT throw for a TD, good sir.
  24. He's starting his throw right here and Golden hasn't cleared either DB. Now you can say he saw that Golden was going to win the route based on what's there, but frankly he's not done that sort of thing with much consistency this year. So I am going to give the dude his props, because if he had actually waited for Golden to get even or behind the DB's there would not have been enough room to complete the throw.
  25. Two things. 1) He wasn't wide open when Quinn started that throw. 2) Quinn got the team into the right play against the D ASU showed, which is why Golden broke open.
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