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Catdaddyhorn

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  1. I hear you. I just enjoy watching us play quality completion during this time of year. We typically have games like the ones you referenced then on top of them play like a North Carolina and Indiana level team in a tournament. And maybe a mid tier team like a Belmont as well. The Gonzaga game was actually a payback game because it was canceled during the covid season. The Creighton game is part of the Big East/ Big 12 match-up. We lucked out in getting a quality opponent for that match-up this year. There was a tournament a few years ago where we played Butler, Duke, and Gonzaga in back to back to back games along with nonconference games against the likes of Michigan and Alabama as well as a mid tier SEC school for our Big12/ SEC match-up. Now that we have a real coach I'm hopeful that we get those same intriguing match ups again in the future.
  2. You can tell Tommy Lloyd really emphasizes player moment. Ive never Ramey move as much without the ball as he has been during his time on the court.
  3. Actually finished with contact at the rim a few plays ago. Something that he didnt do frequently on the 40.
  4. Dallas area high school basketball may be unmatched in the nation. Last year Texas had 5 McDonald's all-americans and all of them came from the metroplex.
  5. Is this Leon Black Classic something that we'll do every year in lieu of playing in holiday tournaments?
  6. We'll see. Mitchell has a similar skillset to Kendall Brown on last year's Baylor team. Extremely athletic without much discernable offensive skill. At this time last year Brown was mocking anywhere between 10 to 25 in the 1st round (pretty much the exact same as Mitchell is now). He ended up getting drafter with the 48th pick. I have no clue as to how the depth of this year's draft class compares to last year, but Mitchell is going to have to demonstrate more offensive skill to guarantee himself as a 1st round pick.
  7. Coach Beard checking out Tre Johnson and Ronald Holland.
  8. Over the last 2 years no QB has scored more PPG than Dak Prescott.
  9. That had a lot more to do with how high school basketball was handled in this state for years up until the late 80s and/or early 90s. For the longest time the state had little to no AAU infrastructure due to arcane rules the U.I.L. placed on high school athletes attending summer camps (ie participating in AAU). Therefore Texas high school bball talent was isolated from the rest of nation and didn't have access to the same level of development as what was seen around the rest of nation. Due to Fonde and the pro am talent it brought to area, Houston area high school basketball managed to get some level of development throughout the 70s and 80s, but it couldn't support the entire state. There's a reason we only really started to see an explosion in Texas high school basketball talent around the turn of the millennium. It took a full decade to bring the state's AAU basketball infrastructure to a level that was competitive across all grade levels. In just the last 3 Final 4s the state has seen 3 different schools participate. Over the next decade or 2 we're going to routinely see multiple D1 schools in the state not only have multiple appearances in the Final 4, but win championships as well. And I have no doubt UT will play a major part in all of that.
  10. This Nunez kid on Arizona St is balling, He was a UT lean for a longtime, but watching him play in high school Im sure Beard let him no to look elsewhere with his offense 1st, 2nd, and 3rd mentality.
  11. If we ever get to a point where we're consistently in the top 5 and one or two national championships in our coffer I can see them opening it up for a big #1 vs #2 match-up against conference rivals Kentucky like 5 to 10 years from now.
  12. Gabby Urinator may have been one of the all-time best bits on The Ticket. You could literally hear the tension build as Tom worked his way up the line towards the urinals.
  13. There was a lot of local backlash against her stemming from her purported national ambitions. Also there were countless examples of her doing stuff that proved the narrative that Kemp raised about her on this front. About 4 days before the election she called into a local Atlanta morning radio show, got into an argument with them and then hung up. During her book tour she didn't have any appearances in Georgia. She's more of a policy wonk than a talented politician. Her campaign was accused of being too insular and not heeding local advice Plus you have the stuff like that proved successful for the republicans that did win ie Kemp deciding to distance from Trump and Abrams being tagged with being against opening up the state during covid lockdowns and also playing a role in the MLB allstar game leaving Atlanta even though she played no part.
  14. Sark's offense is the opposite of Jimbo's offense. Jimbo creates mid 90s NFL schemes where he believes the call will beat any scheme as long as the QB makes the correct (complicated as hell) read. Sark seems to run a lot of plays purposely schemed up to get one WR wide ass open ie shot plays. So if that WR isn't completely open then the options are limited. I love that aspect of Sark's offense in spurts, but he really needs to start gearing the passing game towards giving the QB more options. He's really addicted to designing plays that setup homeruns. We need more singles and doubles in the passing game.
  15. Dixon's full turn from a defense first coach to an offensive coach who's teams don't play defense is something I don't think Ive ever seen in the game of college basketball.
  16. Not only that, but going back to his Green Bay days McCarthy led teams have consistently overcome injuries. They year he won the Super Bowl in Green they led the league in games lost to injury. He may not have a presence that commands respect from the media and fans, but he's proven to be an effective coach.
  17. Ref anticipated the travel before it even had a chance of happening.
  18. Considering the punishment Oklahoma St suffered last season I'd say, yeah I was expecting more.
  19. Years ago I was highly annoyed with your lack of hate when I'd post on Phog,net back in the day when it was still a fully functioning message board 20+ years ago. My 20something year old self couldn't understand why this SL guy was acting so friendly with them while I tried to get my hate on. Fortunately, I've grown up a bit since then so I don't hold it against you anymore.
  20. I wonder how this commitment will affect the freshman Ryan Argarwal who is out of Coppell. He was a top 100 recruit at one point in time, I think he finished in the 130s in last year's class. They are essentially the same player in terms of style, albeit Andrej is more talented and has a much higher profile than Argarwal.
  21. I know you've referenced it in the past, but whatever happened with J'Covan to destroy team chemistry on the 2010-2011 team is my biggest what if. I mention the mid season run that team went on at least once every season, but there's never been a run of Longhorn basketball more impressive than what Barnes did with that team during the run below. Over the course of 18 games we won 17, 15 of them by double digits. We started off conference play 11-0 including an 11 point win over KU at Phog Allen in a game where we went on a 30 something to single digit run on KU where we absolutely took their hearts from them. On February 16th, of 2011 I was certain that this team was not only a Final 4 team, but a favorite to in the National Championship. And by the way that sole, 1 point, overtime loss to Connecticut during the run below was to the eventual national champions that season.
  22. Jamison has played fairly well this year.
  23. Yep Huard in particular said their eyes and positioning when finding WRs in their area was extremely poor in zone. He mentioned that Kwiatkowski told him this.
  24. Well I'll be damned. I guess I assumed playing 10 yards off of WRs was zone coverage. Fuck me, I guess they were playing man from 10 yards away.
  25. Oh, I agree. There's no doubt that they recruit like no one else in my 30+ years of paying attention to Texas high school basketball. However Anthony Black's mother is married to Peavy so using him as the reason to finally punish Duncanville for their recruiting seems weird. I mean Anfernee Hardaway's kid goes to Duncanville, yet the kid who's mother is married to the coach is the one you use as proof of recruiting.
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