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Catdaddyhorn

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  1. Finally a guy who gets that a big part of college sports is about constantly promoting and marketing your brand/program. This is especially important for longhorn basketball. Penders was the last UT coach to truly get this.
  2. I always assumed Kyle was that South African chick (I forget her handle) who used to post on shaggy. Is she not?
  3. I know there's a narrative surrounding the Shaka years that he got super elite recruits whom he did nothing with but there's more to the story than that. The one area where Shaka recruited exceptionally well was along the frontline. Jarrett Allen, Mo Bamba, & Will Baker were his best recruits. Addionally he had an eye to latch on early to underrecruited bigs who would later explode on the scene in Kai Jones and Jaxson Hayes. The one elite guard he recruited on par with those aforementioned bigs was Andrew Jones. In cbb, elite bigs are nice to have but they're the salad that comes along with the main course. Nice to have, but hardly essential. Not recruiting or developing a collection of top tier guards helped lead to Shaka's issues at UT. That and not building a true culture of toughness with players who can consistently excel in the clutch. I remember seeing something that said somewhere around 30% of UTs games during Shaka's tenure were decided by 3 points or less. That mealy mouthed talk of togetherness and connectivity is ok ONLY if it supplements a culture of tough mindedness and resiliency which it obviously didn't under Shaka. And I dont know whether it was a function of Shaka sort of becoming a head coach too early in his career (dude was only an assistant for 3 years at the power 5 level prior to becoming a head coach) or his overreliance on an analytical approach to the game, but Shaka's time at UT was a monument to getting the broad strokes of basketball but not having a grasp on what it takes to lead young men and set them up to perform their best when the stakes are at their highest. There were too many times to count during his tenure where a really good span of play, be it for a series of games or a series of minutes during a game, would come crashing down into an epic choke job.
  4. I'm honestly joking. When Matt Hill popped up in a discussion about development in a quoted post of a video where he made A rebound, in his 2.1 second appearance, I literally blurted out laughing and definitely zeroed in on that comment. That shit was funny to me. I dont even think I read the rest of your post.
  5. You're right I'll do better. I need develop in my life the way Matt fucking Hill was developed on the basketball court.
  6. Matt Hill Isn't exactly the player I would hold up as an avatar of player development. Matt Hill Geezus Christ!! You couldn't lunchpail that anymore than you did if you tried. And I know he's an NBA assistant now so before you try to add that to the ledger of his development it's already been noted. Kai Jones-not developed Jaxson Hayes-not developed Kerwin Roach-not developed Jericho Sims-not developed Matt Coleman-not developed But fucking MATT HILL. That muthafucka right here was fucking developed. I mean look at that confidence.
  7. I was kinda hoping for this. Way too many guard options in the 2022 class and I don't want anything deterring them from Austin.
  8. The problem is she pulled her gun as she approached the car right as dude made a break for it. When she later changed her mind to use the taser she already had the gun in her hand and didn't recognize what she had already done.
  9. And to emphasize my point here are Ramey's Dad's feelings on that question.
  10. Not to mention Ramey who lost his mom to cancer. In all honesty Ramey is probably the most Beard-ready player on the roster outside of Cunningham.
  11. It's funny what you're totally oblivious to as a high school kid, but when I first got to campus in the mid 90s I was absolutely stunned and heartbroken when I learned at my first game that student seating was up in the rafters. This is going to be absolutely amazing.
  12. I've heard conflicting information of what the warrant was for. On one end I have conservative bloggers telling me it was a felony weapons charge and on the other end I have the police chief department in question telling me it was for a misdemeanor. Oh who to believe.
  13. All sorts of bad practices before we even get to the shooting. Wright should've been asked to shut off his car. Cuffs should've been put on away from the door. And the chick cop doesn't need to be yelling across the way about Wright's warrants before his detainment is secured. Which brings me to the question of why was he being cuffed if they didn't already know he had warrants at the time?
  14. No actually there's a been a paradigm shift in the recent past. Bob Sturm wrote an article detailing just how much more difficult and less fruitful in terms of returning assets trading down has become over the past 5 or 6 drafts. Unless there's a well regarded QB in the mix (not sure that Trey Lance qualifies) the return has diminished.
  15. I'm guessing Bama informed him or gave their blessings to check for other options. Charles Bediacko recently signed with them in the last week.
  16. Yeah in that specific scenario with no option to trade out you make the pick. And honestly you probably make the pick regardless of whether you can trade out, but with Pitts now in the fold you do everything you can to exchange Gallup or Cooper for defensive help. What absolutely shouldn't happen is the Cowboys trading up to get yet another pass catcher.
  17. Drafting Kyle Pitts is absolute malpractice, but we're used to that. Drafting him without the combo platter of a plan to trade away one of either Gallup or Amari in an effort to get extra picks and/or defensive players is an exercise in complete inanity,.
  18. 2020 not in top 10 https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-final-2020-offensive-line-rankings 2019 #4 https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-offensive-line-rankings-following-2019-regular-season 2018 not in top 10 https://www.pff.com/news/pro-2018-nfl-offensive-line-rankings-all-32-teams-units-after-week-17 2017 #4 https://www.pff.com/news/pro-ranking-all-32-offensive-lines-from-the-2017-nfl-season 2016 #2 https://www.pff.com/news/pro-ranking-all-32-nfl-offensive-lines-this-season
  19. @youdunnf'dupHelp me out here. Every time I've seen you post those PFF Oline ratings I remember it being a preseason rating of what Olines are going to be the best for the upcoming season. I don't really remember you posting a post-season PFF rating. Obviously this subtle distinction matters because grades based on best case scenarios for the upcoming season as opposed to after-the-fact grades on what actually happened in the preceding year can tell 2 different stories.
  20. How do Tamir Rice, Philando Castile, and John Crawford fit that theme?
  21. Yeah that move had me asking who the hell is this dude and what schools are recruiting him the first time I saw it. Going into last season I hadn't heard much about him. Keyonte George, Cason Wallace, Bryce Griggs, and Rylan Griffen were getting all the hype. Morris was in virtual anonymity compared to those guys. The 3 guards I want to see most on the 40 in this upcoming class are of course the aforementioned Arterio Morris who I just can't hype enough, next Cason Wallace then Keyonte George. George is so smooth and flawlessly skilled that it's completely understandable why he's considered the top ranked player in the state, but his lackadaisical disposition makes me question his competitiveness a little and how seriously he'd probably approach his only year in school. His demeanor on the court reminds me of Sheldon McClellan. Cason Wallace reminds me of Marcus Smart at Oklahoma St. He's hyper competitive on both ends of the court and has a calm and mature presence about himself. He's probably more skilled than Smart was as a high school junior, but I find that most of these high schoolers are a bit more polished than kids were just 10 years ago. For whatever reason it doesn't look like we have as good of a shot with Wallace as we do with the other 2, but the combination of Wallace and Morris in the backcourt would be a serious defensive problem for Big 12 back courts. That being said, give me Morris and either one of Wallace or George and I'll be absolutely thrilled.
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