very interesting today. I called it when I saw it, at the 9 minute mark of the 1st half, Rick said "slow down" to one of his guards . Then the team which took only 11 minutes to score 32 points, took about 25 minutes to score the next 32 points and the defense evaporated, just like a few games here at Texas. The way Barnes' team imploded today made me think of all the other coaches at Texas. I saw all of these guys live, except Smart, maybe during some of their least watched games, because that is when I could get tickets.
1. Leon Black - I was too young to know anything about basketball, other than Gregory Gym was a great place to watch a game.
2. Abe- watched every game on TV and occasionally in person- read the newspaper the morning after the implosion in Waco. -Heart of Texas coliseum - Dumb Baylor Bears with their artificial floor. Abe was the best recruiter ever. How he got both LaSalle Thompson and Mike Wacker to come to Texas at the same time was incredible. I will hopefully never forget 14 and 0, number four in the country until the debacle in Waco. Mike Wacker would never be the same. Then I watched on TV as Eddie and Abe got into a pretty heated argument. Of course the implosion gave DeLoss the leverage he needed to get rid of Abe.
Years later I got to watch Abe coach a different team, probably Pan Am - play in San Marcos for something and Abe still had it "You must be a girl's referee" he told one of the zebras.
3. Weltlich - most boring coach ever. Dodds was the only person happy with this hire. Team reflected his personality, and despite that I remember the Brownlee year when we tied for the conference championship and sold out the Erwin Center - one time- game against Aggy.
4. Penders. Wow! until the scandal and of course even before the scandal he had lost his "it factor". He wasn't the same coach the last couple of years he was the first few.
5. Barnes - same story third verse. - super recruiter, great results first few years and then something happened. Lost the "it factor". Today was an incredible microcosm of his career at Texas. Start off like a house on fire, and then limp in and barely survive.
6. Smart - haven't been watching, but from reading on here, I am not missing much.