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Machinator

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  1. 12 minutes ago, SW Horn said:

    There must be more to this. Seems like every other player rumored to have taken money came back and played. Shaka dog house?

    Wasn't Davis' documented though? On that agent's ledger, I mean.

  2. Someone on another board attended CDC's talk at the UT Golf Club. Their Cliffnotes:

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    CDC gave a great rambling talk for about an hour with the Q&A. Here’s a loose playback. I really like this guy and think he can bring Texas to where we belong. 

    He started by saying his job is to serve us. It’s a tough job because it means bringing rationality to a passionate fan base that sometimes lacks that. 

    He noted that every AD at Texas since and including DeLoss won their first national title with men’s swimming, so when he was at the NCAA meet last weekend and one of our divers landed on his back, he was worried he’d really ****ed it up! 

    Eddie Reese reminds him of yoda. A swimmer asks him something and he says something really minor and they walk away super motivated and kick butt in the pool. How the hell does he do that?

    He’s focused his first 100 days on listening and learning. He’s learned that we have the best and most passionate fan base. But we’ve had a tough 10 years, from our president warring with the governor on the education model, to 4 schools leaving and blaming UT, and the loss of 100+ years of leadership, from university pres to Brown-Barnes-Garrido. 

    Patterson screwed things up because he didn’t care about people. Perrin calmed the waters. I came in and bought some Depends diapers (XL). 

    Royal talked about putting BBs back in box, and this is what we have to do. How do we create alignment and row in the same direction? 

    How do we change the game experience? The experience at Disney starts when you park. You endure the lines and all that hassle because of they deliver a great experience. How do we get rid of parking garages and make it affordable? A 50 cent water shouldn’t cost $5. Fans have whatever they want in the comfort of their living room so we need to compete with that. How do we appeal to students? We used to sell 9000 OU tickets to students but now we sell 3000 because we’re competing with ACL. I want to focus on our of game experience. Austin and the festivals are famous for food trucks and music. So let’s do that on Clark Field. We don’t have a homecoming! Why not? Ole Miss with the Grove, every academic department holds parties there, why don’t we? It would bring students out. 

    If we ever play a&m, it will be early in season, not at thanksgiving. Games are scheduled 10 years out, so it’s not likely to happen soon. We need a meaningful conference opponent at thanksgiving, not KU, that can become a new tradition. OU has OSU. Who’s our OSU?

    I want a Texas sports hall of fame. Why don’t we have one? We have 52 national title trophies in 3 storage units in Georgetown. We need to celebrate our history. I want to build this in the stadium where the food court is now. Does anyone have $10m in loose change? 

    There’s no impetus to change the football playoff given that the 4 team format earns $500m and we have 9 more years in the contract. But this league is built for UT and OU to win every year and be in the playoff. We just need to take care of our own business. 

    If realignment happens, it will be in 2023-25 when contracts expire. 

    LHN a great recruiting tool, but it hurts game attendance. And we can’t keep anything private. Gary Patterson and Nick Saban lock down practices. We broadcast ours. TCU knew what we were running out of every formation because of LHN. We made a deal with the devil. 

    Hoops arena. Every musician has said they must tour Houston, Dallas and Austin. We want to do a deal to build a new 16,000 seat arena where we own it 35 days a year and the venue gets the other 330. I think we could do 16,000 where the upper 6,000 are high and vertical and the bottom 10,000 are all club seating and it feels really small. 

    I hate one and done, but what can you do to stop it? Bamba can make $100m, he has to go. It’s no different than Michael Dell and Bill Gates, who made more money by leaving school. The NBA needs a farm league for HS players.

    Should we add Lacrosse? We’d need it to become huge in UIL first, not just private schools. Who will we play in our region? No one in our league plays it. We don’t want to go to the coasts to play every game. One challenge with our league is each school plays very different sports (eg equestrian).

     

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  3. 38 minutes ago, immortal13 said:

    We need to be lighting the fucking tower again. Sadly, I'm starting to wonder if that will ever happen again.

    Well, we did less than a week ago. It would be nice to light the tower other parts of the year, though.

  4. If I fell into a coma in mid-November, woke up a week ago, and looked at the results of the season with only the knowledge that we played roughly 70% of the season without our best perimeter player, I'd shrug my shoulders and move on with reasonable optimism for the future.

    As someone who actually watched damn near every game this season, I'm a lot more concerned about the trajectory of this program, especially considering the roster issues that we're facing.

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  5. 23 minutes ago, Bevo said:

    We better. The second signing period has way too much drama. 

    If we win like we should this season, there will be quality players to be had between NSD1 and NSD2, whether they're guys we've recruited from the get-go or not.

  6. We can and will talk about the successes and failures of Year 3 and debate the definition of "decent", but I expect better in Year 4 than what we've done so far. If the roster isn't set up to do better, then that's on Shaka for the most part. Roster construction and management are as much a part of a head coach's job as Xs and Os.

  7. 9 minutes ago, Jhawk said:

    So who is going to return that was a contributor this year?  Is shaka going to rely on 3+ freshmen in the rotation?  I don't know the ins and outs of your roster but this doesn't sound good... going to rely on DO to not come back from the offseason weighing 450 lbs.?

    Unless Roach ends up staying in the draft, we should have a starting lineup featuring no freshman for the first time in a few seasons:

    G: Coleman (So)

    G: Roach (Sr)

    G: Febres (So)

    F: Osetkowski (Sr)

    F: Sims (So)

    But experience falls off quickly after that, especially if Jones can't play. Elijah Long redshirted last year after transferring from Mt. Saint Mary's, and he should be a quality backup point guard. The bench wings and forwards are very inexperienced, yet again: one little-used sophomore (Royce Hamm), and the rest are freshmen (Kemaka Hepa, Gerald Liddell, Brock Cunningham, and Jaxon Hayes).

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