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  1. 21 hours ago, utee94 said:

    Nebraska's not AAU either and they haven't kicked out the Huskers.  Don't think that's going to make much difference now, going forward.

    True, but Nubs was AAU when they entered the B1G...they weren't gonna kick them out because of that, but its probably easy to offset Nubs with University of Chicago and their AAU and B1G agreement.

    Still think KU will be in the B1G when its all said and done--the AAU thing is huge to the B1G since they get most of their money from research funding. They can get KU very easily and they add in a nice TV market, to boot. Maybe ISU can get in, too, but the rest look like they are gonna have to hope the Pac-12 somehow wants Tech/OSU/KSU/ and ISU or TCU. Baylor is completely effed, which is poetic, TCU probably is done, too. TBH, they rest of these schools not named KU are probably going to completely disappointed, too. KU  and ISU may also, but they have a lot more to offer the B1G, PAC or ACC than anyone else.

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  2. 1 hour ago, shadow_operative said:

    i am extremely gruntled with the assistants we are bringing in. it's easily the no.1 reason that i'm not unavoidably focused on our lack of, you know, an actual basketball team. even if this next year suuuuucks (watch us have a Bad News Bears roster that trounces Shaka's Jarrett Allen-led 11-win roster), there is every reason to believe that recruiting is going to be out of this world going forward, and that Chris Beard will be able to maximize said talent. i mean shit, i hate doing this- i always try my best to be the last guy who goes full-on blinders/uber positive just because we have a new coach, but just look at the bona fides of our new HC/assistants. these guys are all known commodities. Beard is not fucking around at all. 

    what i'm about to say should in no way be interpreted as me saying that the 2023-24 Longhorns are the CBB equivalent of the 2016 Cubs, BUT- the only other time i've ever felt this way regarding a regime change was when the Cubs brought in Theo Epstein and Joe Maddon, and we all obviously know that in that instance it *did* result in a championship. That said, CBB titles are exceedingly difficult to win. A sampling of head coaches with one NCAA title:

    Phog Allen, Frank McGuire, Pete Newell, Al McGuire, John Thompson, Rollie Massimino, Larry Brown, Lute Olsen, Jim Boeheim, Tom Izzo (Tom fucking Izzo!!!), Bill Self (best HC in NCAA last 20 years), John Calipari, and more.

    I think that people around here are so used to crushing Barnes for never winning a title that they've all forgotten/never realized how difficult it is to win one. Chris Beard doesn't need to win a national title at Texas to be a huge success, or even to be the best coach in program history. BUT- with his resume, and the work that his assistants have done in the past, plus the financial commitment from CDC, I cannot help but believing that Texas Basketball winning the national title could actually become a reality, as admittedly difficult and unlikely as that is. In my opinion, the Chris Beard era at Texas is off to an outstanding start.

    And some of the coaches you listed didn’t have to win 6 games in a row to get their title, either. The tournament is a fickle bitch—she can put out and she can be ice cold...

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  3. 3 hours ago, Trey3216 said:

    I think they look shitty comparatively, because the teams they're playing in the Big XII don't look as good offensively (when playing WVU) because of how WVU is allowed to play.  It's as though they're not as good when they aren't allowed to beat people to death on the other end of the floor.   

    KU fits that description as well.

    Look, this conference will never get love in anything if f’ing Baylor carries the water. It didn’t when they won in football and it won’t in men’s basketball. Nobody cares about women’s basketball except them.

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  4. Just now, ChickenSandwich said:

    If this motherfucker has any sense of pride, accountability, or fucking dignity he resigns tonight. He has taken enough money to do absolutely jack shit at his job. 

    He has millions of reasons to counter the arguments you listed above. Dude ain’t going anywhere...

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  5. 2 hours ago, Brian Fantana said:

    Woot! Congrats to UT, way to go. I feel like the top 7 teams in this conference are all legitimately capable of making deep runs, gonna be fun to watch.

    It’ll be interesting—the Big 12 has been known to really fall apart come tournament time. I don’t see OU making any noise. Not looking real solid for KU, WVU  or Tech for making noise either. I’d peg Texas and Baylor as best bets, but have OSU as a true wild card as Sweet 16 and farther teams. The other four look too beat up or just not as good as they had been at certain points this season. Usually, that makes teams ripe for upsets by mid majors.

  6. I still like the idea of the Pac-12 getting the best of the Big XII and becoming the Pac-18. You get three time zones to have at your control. UT/Tech, OU/OSU, KU/ISU make up a division where everyone plays each other annually. Keep the current Pac-12 divisions as is. Each division plays 2 teams from the other two divisions, so you have 9 conference games. No kickoff after 7pm CST or before noon PST. Then, for football, the two best division winners play each other for the conference title.

    In hoops, each divisional team plays each other twice, then play the other 12 teams once for a 22 game conference schedule. 

  7. The reason that the PAC is the better option to join with relatively big  names not called Baylor or TCU. No lawsuits to fight. And join a better league with much better name recognition and better bowls connections. Join with OU, OSU, Tech, KU, and ISU.

  8. 1 hour ago, Randolph Duke said:

    No way OU gets into the BIG. Not AAU.

    Texas isn't joining the SEC. Ever.

    When the NCAA presidents get together to discuss the future of athletics, we will get some clarity on things. Until then, nothing changes. NIL rules have to be decided on. Congress is going to get involved. The report of the Knight Commission needs to be considered.

    Right now, individual schools know their financial situations moving forward. next, the conferences need to assess the overall health of the various schools and look at championships are going to be supported over the next few years.

    Once the conferences have their shit together, Congress and the NCAA should have the NIL crap sorted out.

    At that point (June 2021?), realignment can start to be discussed. My best guess is that the FBS splits into two separate sub-divisions with major ramifications for the continued existence of the current conference structures.

     

    I disagree on OU getting into the B1G. Since Nebraska is no longer AAU, that precedent has been set. And they will just pimp out that they take in more National Merit Scholars than anyone else to help ease in. The worst kept secret is the idea that OU and KU are the B1G's next combo to get to 16. 

  9. 53 minutes ago, Wiler77 said:

    1990 was also the year of LMU vs LSU.  148-141 LSU win in overtime.  I used to have this game on VHS and would pop it in every now and then to watch.

     

    This was the game where the sideline printer that would print out the details of each possession of the game burned up because the action was too fast...

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  10. Just now, ztejas said:

    Timeline is a bit off here. Melo was pre one and done rule. 

     I know he went second in the NBA draft after LeBron...so I guess you are correct, on that part. I know that after this, it just became one and done...

  11. Couldn't stand him or Georgetown. And as great as his teams were, how he only won one title is really amazing. 

    That said, he represents a big part of the golden era of college basketball--the Tournament became huge when CBS took it over in 1982, and we had great coaches AND players we all knew.

    Ewing and Thompson, Dean Smith and Michael Jordan,  Phi Slamma Jamma, Bobby Knight and Steve Alford, Larry Brown and Danny Manning, Denny Crum and his Cardinals, Tark the Shark and UNLV with Larry Johnson and his crew, Coach K and Laettner/Hurley/Grant Hill, The Fab Five, Nolan Richardson and 40 Minutes of Hell, Lute Olson and Miles Simon/Mike Bibby,  Pitino's UK teams that were just stacked, then led into Uconn and Jim Calhoun's crew, and Tom Izzo/Mateen Cleaves. 

    For those two decades, we had champions with kids we got to know and coaches who were larger than life. Then we got Carmelo Anthony as the first big one-and done, as the NBA wouldn't take kids straight from high school anymore. Nothing has messed up college basketball, in my opinion, than teams building around one-and-dones, which hasn't helped build any real fans to stick with the game. Instead, it just added to following the sport in March, at best.

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