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Catdaddyhorn

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  1. I'm not sure who wants a big beefy center. This is 2022 not 1982. What I want are athletes in that spot. Guys who won't get absolutely dominated by unathletic post men with old man games like like Drew Timme and Trevion Williams.
  2. Yeah something like Denzel Valentine or maybe George Niang are what Timmy Allen needs to aspire towards.
  3. And for further clarification Randy definitely had that forfeiture language in his rookie, however when he returned from his suspension he was no longer playing on a rookie contract and therefore had no guaranteed money. So technically that Schafer dude, who became his agent after his suspensions, never encountered that language for Gregory on previous dealings with the Cowboys.
  4. The key part is the loss of guaranteed money for fines. As determined by the CBA every team in the league can dismiss guaranteed money with a suspension. The Cowboys are alone in requiring contract language of dismissing guaranteed money for fines. Former agent and front office personnel man, Andrew Brandt discusses this distinction here:
  5. Try late 60s. The entire religious right origins began with organized pushback against the Feds threatening the tax exempt status of private schools that were discriminating on race.
  6. One thing is for sure, I'm going to pay a lot more attention to actual footage of what next year's transfers looked like at their previous schools. I had no clue how athletically limited Carr, Allen, and Mitchell were. Had I known I would've saved the 100 bucks I put on us winning this year's National Championship last May. I was excited as fuck about this upcoming season, unreasonably so. All things considered though, this is about happiest I've been after a tourney exit in my entire longhorn fandom. After seeing the season play out and the actual talent he had to work with I'm impressed with the job Beard did this year.
  7. Minor staff change says to me someone below the level of Terry, Howard, Maligi, and Ogden is moving on but who knows.
  8. At Tech Beard filled his rosters with guys like Culver, Shannon, McCullar, Zhaire Smith, Jahmius Ramsay, and a shitload of wings/guards who were 6'3" to 6'7" and athletic. I can't say that we've ever had that at Texas over the last 20+ years. Certainly not since the Penders days with Clack, Vasquez, and Freeman. This is biggest change about Beard's approach that I'm the most excited about.
  9. My bad I don't read good.
  10. Gleague guys wish they made 200k. The only Gleague guys who make that sort of money are guys with 2- way contracts with their NBA affiliates and Gleague Ignite guys who forgo their college eligibility to play 1 year in the Gleague prior to being drafted. Guys like Matt Coleman make around 40k.
  11. Next year Morris will be one of those guys but I'm sure it will come with growing pains.
  12. I guess I'm being hard on Carr. My belief is just that in order for Beard's defense to really be optimized we need bigger, more athletic guards filling out our roster. His post defense gets a lot more fierce when he has long armed and athletic wings defending post entry phases as opposed to multiple guys like Carr, Ramey, and even Askew. Also while Carr's offensive skillset bailed us out under the current context of our offense his style will clutter the lane if we have more guys capable of slashing into it. Plus, I'd have to see his synergy numbers to be certain, but Carr seems like one of those rarities in cbb in being a guy who is a better shooter off the dribble than he is off the catch which would be a problem if we have more guys capable of driving and kicking on the roster next year.
  13. Ramey got a bad wrap. People were too hard on him for his undisciplined offensive play while playing for a coach who didn't stress discipline. From my vantage point he always had the highest defensive IQ on the team and routinely got guys in position and rarely made defensive mistakes. I hate that he played during such an uneventful era of UT basketball, he'd be remembered much more fondly had he played in more highly leveraged games. And people don't give him enough credit for being a defensive stalwart despite being athletically limited. His melanin quotient obscures the fact that the dude is really a below average D1 athlete.
  14. Brock is only a redshirt junior and personally I'd rather have AJ1 return for his 7th season than Carr.
  15. Maybe I'm stubborn, but I don't know why yall want Carr taking the ball out of Arterio Morris hands next season. Carr was a gamer and I'll give him credit for showing up in big moments this year, but man I can do without seeing him back next year. Give me a bigger and more dynamic backcourt mate to team up with Morris.
  16. I wonder if the Texas kid who went to Kentucky with Jai Lucas last year wants to come home. I don't think he played much. Hopefully Oscar Tshiebwe returns to school to help push him out. He's the exact sort of big who fits Beard's mold, plus he's bouncy and athletic which fits mine. Can't remember his name.
  17. I'll bring that discussion over to this thread (don't know how we devolved into the roster composition discussion on the Point and Laugh thread) in today's high school basketball there are plenty of 6'7" to 6'9" guys who fit the mold of what he's looking for, particularly in Texas. Beard's urgency to win now makes him less patient and seemingly unwilling to project young bigs. Jericho Simms was only 6'7" and around 190 when Smart began recruiting him. He looked more like Dillon Mitchell back then than what he ultimately became, which hopefully means good things for us with Mitchell. Even a Jaxon Hayes fits the mold of a switchable big on the college level. You have to be willing to look for traits and even risk going after a lower level recruit and project out a little as long they fit your specified physical requirements. Jaxson Hayes and Kai Jones were both outside the top 100 (outside the top 200 in Hayes case) when they caught the previous staff's eye. Beard tends to go after college transfers for his bigs rather than risking a scholi on a young, bouncy big who is yet to physically mature. Regardless I really like that Beard goes after rangy, athletic guards and wings, so much like the tradeoff we get with his tightly controlled, boring ass offense I'll gladly take athletic wings over bouncy bigs who shoot 50% from the FT line while taking the overwhelming majority of our FT attempts. Plus Beard got us back into the DFW metroplex recruiting market which was something that we've missed over the last 10 to 15 years. Even Barnes struggled to recruit DFW in his last 5 to 8 years outside of a few one off gets like Myles Turner. To high light how important DFW is for basketball recruiting, Texas has 5 McDonald's All-American's this year and every single one of them is from the metroplex.
  18. I hear you, but in today's day and age of high school basketball there are plenty of 6'7" to 6'9" guys who fit the mold of what he's looking for. The problem with Beard is he doesn't seem to have a good eye for projecting young Bigs. Jericho Simms was only 6'7" and around 190 when Smart began recruiting him. He looked more like Dillon Mitchell back then than what he ultimately became, which hopefully means good things for us with Mitchell. Even a Jaxon Hayes fits the mold of a switchable big on the college level. Beard tends to go after college transfers for his bigs rather than risking a scholi on a young, bouncy big who is yet to physically mature. He seems impatient in that area. Regardless I really like that Beard goes after rangy, athletic guards and wings so much like the tradeoff we get with his tightly controlled, boring ass offense I'll gladly take athletic wings over bouncy bigs who shoot 50% from the FT line while taking the overwhelming majority of our FT attempts.
  19. I know no staff is going to put more effort into recruiting than his, but the jury is still out on whether he can recruit elite front court players. That being said I've always envied Beard's consistent ability to recruit big and athletic guards/wings so if I'm choosing between the 2 I prefer Beard's area of recruiting expertise. Regardless when perusing over his recruiting history outside of Tariq Owens (transfer) Beard hasn't recruited a big I'd want over what we've had, certainly not out of high school.
  20. Yep just like they didn't want Robert Quinn because of things behind the scenes or DeMarcus Ware, or Byron Jones, or any number of players they've pulled "reasons" out their collective asses to justify letting go of players, because of reasons. I can't remember the site but there was an article that came out prior to Dak being franchised the first go around that basically said that the Cowboys had the least amount of cash paid in outgoing salaries over that 3 to 4 years. In other words Stephen runs a cheap ship.
  21. Ladies and gentlemen I present to you the Dallas Cowboys 2022 2nd round draft pick.
  22. Texas Ex and McCombs graduate David Mulugheta.
  23. I guess those raw cream pies spewed into the air got him an extra $50M. God bless America!!
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