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  1. 1 minute ago, MuellerHorn said:

    Is he also reclassifying? McNeeley is 2024 and Pyror is now 2023. Either way, Texas has a ton of open roster spots for 2024. I doubt they wouldn't take both. Just depends on McNeeley's perspective.

    I know but they play the same small forward position. You rarely, if ever see 2 true small forwards on the court at the same time.  It's not like they're both combo guards.  And McNeely is a much more highly rated player.  

  2. 9 hours ago, Fastbreak said:

    According to this okie school official, the Tulsa Massacre wasn’t about race, it was just about getting rid of the uppity n&$@ers..

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/oklahomas-ryan-walters-outdoes-himself-with-tulsa-race-massacre-comment

    "Let's not tie it to the skin color and say that the skin color determined that," Walters said, which angered some attendees, with one woman saying, "This divisive rhetoric, the kids are watching this. The kids are watching this."

    I would love to beat this motherfuckers ass…

    Walters’ views are the more disturbing when you consider that he was teaching AP History at the high school in his hometown of McAlester three years ago. His YouTube channel includes an April 2020 virtual class that seemingly would violate his ban. Walters today would call what he taught then indoctrination.

    At the time, Walters was preparing his students for the Advanced Placement U.S. History exam. The video shows him sharing the screen with a black and white photo of armed soldiers escorting the first nine Black students into Little Rock Central High School in 1957.

    “This is the Civil Rights Movement,” Walters said. “You’re gonna see this reach its apex here in Little Rock.”

    He then stepped back three years to the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision.

    “The Supreme Court said, when you segregate, that is unconstitutional,” he said. “Segregation is illegal. You cannot segregate someone based on their race.”

    He talked about the case itself.

    “By the way, there’s this amazing moment where an attorney comes in and calls onto the stand the psychologist,” Walters says, “And the psychologist talks about, ‘I can show you how much damage is done to children based on segregation in schools.’”

     

    Walters did not identify the psychologist, but it is Dr. Kenneth Clark, whose wife, Dr. Mamie Clark, devised what became known as “The Dolls Test.” Walters proceeded to offer a not-quite-accurate description of the famous study in which 253 Black children aged 3 to 7 were asked if they preferred white dolls with light hair or Black dolls with dark hair. The great majority of the children chose the white dolls and expressed negative feelings about the Black ones. The Clarks attributed the results to racist practices and attitudes.

    “And so these psychologists went on and talked about how detrimental that was,” Walter said. “So it’s a fascinating case.”

    A case that was based on skin color.

    The Walters of 2020 clearly understood that even if he had some of the details wrong. (Kenneth Clark did testify in numerous other segregation cases, but he never took the stand in front of the Supreme Court in this one. He did submit a written statement to the high court that detailed test.)

    At another point in the class, Walters changed the screen background to a photo of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. addressing a huge crowd at the Washington Monument in 1963.

    “This is his famous D.C. speech—‘I have a dream.’ Unbelievable speech,” Walters told his pupils. “It is hard to overstate his impact.”

    One question that arises from this 50-minute class three years ago is how can Walters now declare that race is not a factor that demands critical study in American society? Could it be that he simply found it politically expedient in a red state going even redder?

     

    I had no idea this fucker was a former teacher. Their entire political apparatus is just an exercise in extreme tolling. Most of them don't actually believe in the shit they spew. 

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  3. 9 hours ago, HookEm said:

    You could argue that Apple was a shitty company in 1994.  Then it wasn’t.
     

    What RT was 3 years ago is irrelevant. He is our coach now. The decision has been made.  And his tenure will be 100% determined by what he has done since Dec 12 last year.  
     

    Can we not use this thread to talk about THIS year?  I’ve made a bunch of posts with detailed analysis of the team that get no discussion.  Instead we keep revisiting the decision to hire RT. Holy fuck it is tiresome.

    I'm really looking forward to some extraordinary shooting performances this year. I'm hoping we maintain the movement and flow in our offense with a higher level, or at the very least, more consistent level of outside shooting. 

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  4. 2 minutes ago, HookEm said:

    Beard - disgraced

    Huggins - disgraced

    Adams - disgraced

    I would take RT over all of them and so would the UT administration.  

    Boynton has made one tourney in 6 years and is overrated AF.  Otzeberger has also never really done anything beyond one Sweet 16. His record at UNLV was worse than Terry at UTEP.

    Otzeberger is getting a little bit of that broad benefit of the doubt while he employs broader skepticism for others. 

  5. 1 minute ago, shadow_operative said:

    how do i seem so completely discount it? should i copy/paste what i've already said so you can read it again? here:

    "i put more weight into a 27 year coaching resume than i do into a 3.5 month run made with another coach's team, a team that was expected to be a final four contender all along. "

    you guys clearly value last year's run to the elite 8 over the rest of his 27 year career; you value it so much that you think that this feat alone has earned him the Texas job. i (and many others!!!) don't. why is your take valid and my take "wild and weird"? especially when mine is based on decades of evidence of what RT is capable of on his own, while your take is based on what he did with another man's ready-made team over the course of a few months? 

    This is rich coming from captain hyperbole who literally just claimed nonsense like this was stated: RT IS INFALLIBLE! RT HAS FORGOTTEN MORE ABOUT BASKETBALL THAN JOHN WOODEN EVER KNEW! TO CRITICIZE HIM IS HERESY! BAN ALL OF THE HERETICS!!!!"

  6. 2 hours ago, txhorns said:

    What job is he being hired for?  Is he an actual assistant or in a support role?

    It's clear the guy just hired is in a support role. Some people just like to yell at clouds. 

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  7. 1 hour ago, cochamps said:

    A good reminder as to who brought Donewald in.  Perhaps you guys trashing him, don't think that Beard bringing him here is a positive data point.  I have to disagree.

    I actually believe Donewald did well in his time here,  however your point highlights the very thing I'm saying. We don't have a clue which ones are the good or bad assistants. Our view of them is solely based on how we feel about the coach who brings them in.   

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  8. I really enjoy Bud Elliott's "Summer School: series where he goes around the 247 team site universe to discuss the ins and outs of each school with a knowledgeable 247 team site reporter and had been anticpating his Texas football discussion. But of course when he gets to Texas football he chooses the least knowledgeable Texas football reporter to provide the most surface level, high fructose analysis possible.  

  9. 1 hour ago, Paul Wesley said:

    I just think it's weird how hypersensitive Clarence Thomas is to the *possibility* that people will discount his Yale education, thinking that he only got in because he's black.  

    And I wonder if it's crossed George W Bush's mind a single time that maybe his own Yale credentials are tainted by the fact that he was a legacy admission. 

    If you read any book or article, or listen to any podcast on Thomas' life you'd know it was a huge deal to him. The way he was treated by white people at seminary, Holy Cross, and then at Yale law was a central driving force to his psyche, and in particular his view of affirmative action. He famously stamped a 15 cent sticker on his law school diploma as he couldn't find a job after graduating and felt it was worth less than shit. The irony of it all is, as a supposed strict constructionist, no other justice allows their personal history to affect his/her judgment on cases more than Justice Clarence Thomas.   

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  10. Frank Haith has been a head coach at multiple schools and has even won awards while doing, yet because some feel that RT is undeserving Haith's hiring as an assistant is questioned by that same faction. Based solely on the fact that the coach doing the hiring doesn't have credibility with them. 

    2 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

    Gerry is hinting at something going down this weekend basketball related. Another poster chimed in with this...

     

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    That sounds like Tre Johnson to me. Hope it's true and last til next year. 

  11. 15 minutes ago, shadow_operative said:

    yeah, you and motownhorn are literally just in here picking fights with me over the dumbest shit. your intentions are as transparent as shaka's assistant hires we're shitty.

     

    You're ignoring or misunderstanding my point. That summer or even that entire season working with Lebron James has apparently done a lot of work for Donewald's Jr career. One summer out of Lebron James 20 year career doesnt mean a fucking thing to me. And furthermore, your view on what does and doesnt make a good staff is completely based on who is doing the hiring. Donewald Jr cant fucking hold an assistant job for more than a year. What makes Brandon Chappell or Ulric Maligi a good hire? Shit, what makes even Chris Ogden a good hire? Because he worked here before? Or because he was a mediocre coach at UTA? IT's an arbitrary view completely based on whether you like the head coach or not.

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  12. Yes "we" all read your screed. You posted about it literally everyday. I wouldnt exactly call it a discussion. YOU decided the staff sucked and you built that narrative by yourself and no one else daned to disagree because after that 2nd year it wasn't worth arguing about. The staff consisted of Mike Morrell, Darren Horn, and David Cason. Morrell was the young recruiter. Darren Horn was the old vet and David Cason had a few worthwhile recruiting finds like Jordan Clarkson and Jeff Traylor and a great shooter at Vandy who's name escapes me at the moment. Not exactly an elite staff, but not the drebs of college basketball either. Like most coaches he hired who he was comfortable with. 

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  13. 2 minutes ago, shadow_operative said:

    we had a whole entire thread on this group and how underwhelming they were, and david cason led the way. he had something like 28 years coaching/being DOBO at those schools and iirc his teams had *made* the tourney 7 times in those 28 years. his CV was full of stops where his teams had limited - zero success. wasn't he also the first one from shaka's staff to be fired and/or demoted for morrell? i'm pretty sure that correct. there were exactly zero top flight schools looking to hire Cason when shaka brought him in. 

    Same can be said of Donewald Jr, In fact he wasnt even at fulltime assistant prior to Beard bringing him in. Meanwhile Cason is currently employed at a power 5 school 

  14. Cason was at Tulsa, Notre Dame, UNC, and Vandy prior to working under Shaka. Meanwhile Donewald Jr has worked for precisely one college basketball coach. 

     

    I bring up Donewald because it's not lost on me who does and who does not get credibility bestowed on them by completely arbitrary means. Unlike Donewald, Cason immediately got another college basketball gig upon being let go. 

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  15. 1 hour ago, CTC2 said:

    I know exactly what is on his resume and see it as the guy has forgotten more about basketball than most people know. I did visit with him a couple of times and also spoke with the parents of some players who held him in high regard.  My opinion is just reflective of those conversations and observing the staff in game. 
    Wasn’t suggesting that we were going to suck because he wasn’t there. Just that he was not some scrub who could easily be replaced.  I heard from several people close to the program that his international experience was a positive. 
    Haith may be just great. Don’t know anything about him other than it seems he used to be the bagman at a couple of stops. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. Time will tell. 
    I’m fairly optimistic about next year if this team can develop the on and off court chemistry displayed last year. The team is living together again in the same place so I’m hopeful. 

    Frank Haith won the Henry Iba coach of the year, AP coach of the year, Big 12 coach of the year, and the AAC coach of the year as a head coach in addition to being a bagman at a couple of stops. 

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  16. 3 hours ago, shadow_operative said:

    2005- sigh. would definitely have been in green, possibly a 1 or 2 seed if not for losing PJ and LA midway through the season. that run through the aughts was magical. 

    Yeah but losing LA guaranteed that he would come back for his sophomore season on our elite 8 team. Not sure he comes back if he doesn't get injured.  

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