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  1. 1 minute ago, SizzleChest said:

    Not every donor will be excited to pony up more dough after the football mess and other capital projects. 

    He might be coming from where I am, which is that it's a little hard to swallow a quarter-billion dollar enterprise can't keep enough cash on hand (speaking euphemistically) to make critical personnel moves when it needs to make them. 

    The impact of COVID throws a monkey wrench in my skepticism but it's just hard to reconcile the rhetoric we've lived with for 20+ years and the reality of operating under financial constraints, legit or otherwise. 

  2. 1 minute ago, Pancho said:

     Wright shouldn’t be on anyone’s list. This isn’t 2015. 

    I'm not advocating for him to be hired, approached, or considered. I mentioned him because he's a name, the same way Nick Saban is a "name" in college football, in order to provide an example of a coach that I don't think we could get even if we decided we wanted to try (but who people will advocate for), in further order to explain why I like Royal Ivey as a candidate.

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  3. I would personally be fine with hiring Ivey. There's no Urban Meyer out there (Beilein comes closest but is old and has a negative reputation among NBA players), and I'm skeptical we could pry any of the other names (Musselman, Wright) loose. That means gambling on a hot midmajor coach and we just tried that. So if we're going to roll the dice anyway, let's see what an alumnus of the program can do.

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  4. 7 minutes ago, Machinator said:

    While this group of players wants Ivey to be the coach, all they want from Texas is for him to receive an interview if the job comes open. They understand ultimately it will be Chris Del Conte who is held responsible for the decision.

    riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight

  5. Just now, BradInATX said:

     

    What a weird thing to be mad about. You're upset that the guy said he likes Shaka and you've gone on and on about it for multiple pages, in a borderline-neurotic way. You're acting like a clown and a weirdo.

    On and on for multiple pages, eh

     

  6. Just now, DiceHands said:

    Lol ok, ill be sure to never "like" someone again until I meet them in person.  Thanks for the talk, Dad.

    Lol ok!!!!!

    I'm not telling you how to think or feel. I'm telling you what it looks like to other people. Do what you want.

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  7. 5 minutes ago, DiceHands said:

    Which was what?  Why does anyone need to explain to you why someone likes something?

    What a fucking weird thing to ask someone

    OK, fine. 

    You went on and on and fucking on about how much you "like" a coach you've apparently never met. When I asked why, you gave me an insipid word salad of meaningless motivational-poster nonsense. You like him because you think he's a great dude. Awesome, man. You liked how his teams played six fucking years ago, amazing. You want someone who coaches Texas basketball to succeed-- what a novel concept. 

    That is precisely the kind of reasoning I would expect from someone who in 2021 says they "like" Shaka Smart. 

    I despise him because he's a shitty basketball coach who's lingered too long and needs to be fired.

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  8. 1 minute ago, DiceHands said:

    I like his personality.  I think hes a great dude.  Id love to see him have success here.  I love his passion.  Before he came to Texas, I enjoyed the type of basketball his teams played.

    Do I need to keep going?

    If you want to. I got what I expected. 

  9. 7 minutes ago, Pancho said:

    Gerry at IT is done and has started a thread about moving on from Shaka. I’m wondering if this is the start of something 

    Bitterwhiteguy did that last fucking year

  10. 20 hours ago, Cornfusion said:

    It won't bring you any closer to B1G money, but it's the thought that counts, right?

     

    20 hours ago, Cornfusion said:

    Uhmm, that's a valid reason to jump and not really a bad thing, right?

    Why do you care if Nebraska makes $40 million or $50 million? How does it benefit you as a fan? Hint: it doesn't. That money isn't used to enhance your experience as a fan, and it's a wash in terms of providing a competitive advantage. It's not helping you narrow the gap with Ohio State. It's not helping you establish a competitive advantage over Purdue. It is ultimately meaningless to fans.

    Only the worst college football fans bleat about how much money (revenue, mind you) their athletic department generates. It's about winning games on the field. Everything else is pussy hurt equivocation and deflection. And that includes all the fucking retards in our fanbase who think Texas is "the Joneses". 

    15 hours ago, Cornfusion said:

    You can have the last word, I see no use in reliving failed relationships ad nauseum.

    You keep saying that, but you keep coming back to a Texas message board to tell Texas fans how little you care about Texas. 

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  11. On 3/12/2021 at 12:24 PM, hundredTT said:

    Oh, and I felt like an asshole because I was taken back pretty quick while others were waiting, because they still had a lot of covid and other serious injured people needing a bed, and I felt like my issue was caused because of my selfishness in not taking care of this years ago.

    This is something you'll have the chance to make amends for in the future, if you strongly feel the need. It's an admirable attitude but for now, just praying you're taking it day by day and being selfish about getting better because early on, that's our best bet.

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  12. 27 minutes ago, Sandman said:

    I just don't think he sees an upside to leaving TT for Bloomington.

    Agree with that. It's not the right time for him to assume he's hit his ceiling at Tech, and if he does decide that, he can do better than a program that has had such a hard time competing at its expected peak for nearly thirty years. Their 1993 team might have won the national title if Alan Henderson hadn't gotten hurt, and after that Knight never had another national contender. Mike Davis had a fluky run to the final in 2002, and then what was their best season since then-- Crean made one Sweet 16? 

    Beard should sit tight, see if he can get Tech to Baylor's level, and if for some reason it doesn't happen, he can always move on to an actual current-day blueblood. I love Indiana's tradition, but that's clearly not helping them win anymore.

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  13. 59 minutes ago, Machinator said:

    It's this one.

     

    Right. Indiana says it raised private funds to buy out Miller's contract, which at 100% would have cost them around $10m, and they mentioned the COVID related financial pressures the athletic department is under when they announced the move. Oats' buyout is (going off memory) almost twice what they are on the hook to pay Miller. I don't see how they could do it, and based on one strong season I don't see how Indiana could spend $30 million to bring him on even if he had a crimson-and-cream striped hard-on. 

    If Thad Matta had taken a job last year and gone 24-6 and been a 2 seed, maybe. 

  14. 2 minutes ago, Machinator said:

    Oats already told Indiana no.

    He has a team preparing for the NCAAs, of course he said no. If they're patient, he hasn't really told them no. The buyout is probably prohibitive, though, and it doesn't fit to walk Miller out the door and then sit on their ass for three weeks waiting for Alabama to lose. 

    edit, mentioning him was somewhat tongue-in-cheek anyway if you look at what I was responding to. 

  15. 2 hours ago, Sandman said:

    I can't see Beard leaving TT. He's spent 15 years of his life there, has family there. Why uproot for a rebuild job in a place that has no patience for a rebuild? Unless he's a masochist. 

    I think some of that's wishful thinking. Indiana doesn't have "patience" because in college basketball, rebuilding doesn't take more than three years. Example, Texas Tech under Chris Beard. There are plenty of reasons for him to stay but this idea that Indiana is going to shoot him out of the saddle before he gets a fair shot is silly.

    If you're right, though, then maybe Indiana will prefer Oats since he's got Alabama on the cusp of the top line in his second season. 

  16. 27 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

    all the graphics released by the Big 12 Conference declaring Texas as Big 12 champions. 

    Big 12 conference tournament champions.

  17. 2 minutes ago, MotownHorn said:

    Actually watched all the games bro

    So Baylor got the automatic bid to the ncaa tournament as big 12 conference champions? Weird I must have missed that.

    I’m actually sad for all of you who have such a hard on to hate on Shaka that you actively shit on our CONFERENCE CHAMPION team 

    I would have been fine with him being fired 2 years ago. You can probably find posts from me advocating it. But I’m not gonna be a little wimp and hate on our team or our accomplishments this season. They’re a great team with the potential to make some noise here. Shaka deserves credit for that.

    We didn't win the conference championship this year. We won the conference's post-season tournament. Those are not the same thing; that is a fact. You are badly informed about college basketball if you aren't aware of that.

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