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  1. 1 hour ago, ButtFumble said:

     this is a terrible year to replace a mens BB coach in terms of availability of names and number of other programs looking for a coach....similar to when baseball was looking for a coach

     

    This was probably one of the best years to be a rich program looking for a coach. The two best young coaches with real skins on the wall were both underpaid and supposedly looking. Next year is even worse as there will be no proven young commodities that aren't getting well-paid and we will either be force to pay a ton to get a guy that might be on the downside of his career or we are reaching on a complete unknown and, knowing the way Texas works, we will aggressively overpay to cross our fingers and hope we have found a real coach with very limited data.

  2. 25 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:

    So what our $9.95ers are saying is the buyout may be closer to $10 mil.  If Dixon's current salary is $3.5-$4 mil, we clearly are going to have to be paying him more, so let's say $5 mil.  If it is a 5 year deal, and we have to throw $10 mil more at it, that's a $7mil average.  If we are going to pay that, we may wait until after UVA gets bounced and throw that (or more) at Bennett and make him say no.  

    Why no UCLA interest in Beard? Has he sworn off the West Coast completely?

  3. 6 minutes ago, Machinator said:

    Herman is simultaneously a genius for making this assistant coaching staff look better than it is, and an idiot for bringing some of these guys to Texas in the first place. Of course, it helps that Yancy is good at his job and the support staff (Carrington, Chang, Samples, Langi, etc.) appears to be A+.

    I think this is why so many defend Giles. Even the best orgs have a weak link, but Herman has several guys on his staff who are mediocre or at best one-trick ponies and it ultimately means we could have a mediocre HC as well. Not a great place to be after the last 10 years of Texas football.

  4. At this point our good options have dried up. Beard doesn't need to come to Texas to compete for titles and he is going to get paid whether he is here or in Lubbock, but he doesn't have to rebuild at Tech. Buzz never seemed like a priority and if that is the case then Muss and Wojo shouldn't have made the cut. Not sure who CDC has on his list, but there really aren't many realistic options left right now. The big name guys will still be around next year, but with salaries escalating fast I am not sure how we entice a known guy to come for a top-to-bottom rebuild without again running into the supposed money issues we faced this year. I don't see any mid-major options that would be worth taking a risk on in the near term.

  5. 1 hour ago, LTtxfan said:

    Hudl changes may ruffle feathers.....

    Hudl is planning some major changes to how film is being stored that is going to affect nearly all of their users.

    From the sounds of it, Hudl is adopting a new storage policy that will affect the games you’ve archived. In the past, games that you’ve tagged as your actual game film have not counted against your storage quota, but that is going to change.

    http://footballscoop.com/news/hudl-planning-major-changes-sure-upset-lot-coaches/  

    https://www.hudl.com/pricing/2019-updates

    Anyone want to go in on creating a competing site? We could also have our own Top 44 and I could write fake recruiting profiles. We could have Fat Kitch, Chet Brown, and Curt Bowels as our aliases.

  6. 1 hour ago, Bill Lumbergh said:

     

     

     

     

     

    My favorite part of this is his refusal to acknowledge that this is all about Texas Tech.

     

    Sure, you guys made this move because the sec competition is really heating up, not because Texas Tech just did something in basketball that you haven't done since anyone watching was born.

     

    Truth is, a bunch of aggy egos got hurt by another Texas school from the bdf having national success, so they did what aggy and twelve year old girls do when their feelings get hurt: they went shopping to make themselves feel better and overspent in the process.

     

     

     

    Can't really knock the hire and definitely think they got him at close to fair value. Considering his age, he is easily one of the Top 15 coaches. I figured they would have to pay $4.5M+ to get him. He is probably the best of the coaches that moves this off-season...assuming Tech pays bank to keep Beard.

  7. 33 minutes ago, texasstrong12 said:

    The top of the ACC is definitely better than the SEC but the SEC is a much improved basketball conference. The middle/bottom tier of the SEC is trending to be better than the ACC. 

    I think Buzz will struggle to finish consistently in the top 4 of the SEC. A&M isn't an easy basketball school to win at either. People can talk about V-Tech being a tough school to win at but I don't think there's much difference at A&M. I definitely think Marquette is an easier place to win at than A&M. 

    Buzz has finished 4th (Sun Belt), 5th (Big East), 5th (Big East), T-9th (Big East), 1st (Big East), T-1st (Big East), 6th (Big East), 15th (ACC), T-7th (ACC), T-7th (ACC), 7th (ACC), 5th (ACC). I need to go back and look at where the conferences finished in RPI but I don't remember the Big East being dominant during the stretch while Buzz was there.

    Buzz has only finished above 3rd in his conference two times in 12 years as a head coach. 

    I guess we'll see. By the time Buzz gets settled the script may have flipped, but I am not sure the middle of the SEC is trending that much better than the ACC and it is way behind the three-headed monsters at the top of the ACC. LSU has already spit the bit and Bruce Pearl is probably the most likely guy in all of college basketball to follow that script. We all know what Barnes brings to the table and I am not sure what his upside is in the long run. Howland is interesting, but if there is a place harder to win at than aggyland, it might be Starkville. 

  8. 18 minutes ago, Machinator said:

    I won't speak for Marquette, but Virginia Tech had minimal history and expectations for their basketball program to begin with. Taking them to three straight NCAA tournaments is an accomplishment in itself, never mind the Sweet 16.

    The hard ceiling in the ACC is much lower than in the SEC. He can easily crack and maintain a spot in the Top 4 of SEC, ride the conference being overrated to protected seeds in the tourney and see what Madness happens. It's a much easier gig than the Texas job and we probably wouldn't have outbid aggy.

  9. 5 minutes ago, realgreggym said:

    Not that any of you can understand this but every team is different. Next year, we will be primarily juniors and sophs and playing in the NIT has been a great experience and that experience could help next year. I could care less about trends.  And of course, there are no guarantees. There are no guarantees that Calipari's next recruiting class will win the NCAAs. Coach K couldn't make the final four with Zion.

     

    And Burt, my comments were directed at the right audience.

    Damn, anything can happen. That's the lazy man's approach and all of us understand that. Hornsfans is the place for people who don't want to talk about evidence but just want to assume next year is the year. The evidence, I am not sure why you can't understand that, doesn't point to anything positive about next year's team based on winning the NIT. 

    Your argument boils down to, 'I am a sunshine pumper, so shut the fuck up!' If you have something better than that, then bring it. We can all hope, but after 4 years, many of us have cut bait on the program under Shaka.

  10. 4 minutes ago, MotownHorn said:

    Didn't South Carolina get to the NIT finals the year before their Final Four run?

    I mean that said, fire Shaka on Thursday night either way.

    The point is that there is no trend to suggest winning the NIT points to consistent, long term improvement. We are back to just blind hope that Shaka is the next Jay Wright marinating one more year before his breakout.

    2 minutes ago, Burt Macklin said:

    Yeah,that was the whole point of my post...

    I was wrapping in the point that greggym seems to think getting to the NIT finals is going to catapult us to great things, even as we lose all our pathetic offensive 'weapons', when the evidence suggests otherwise.

  11. 4 minutes ago, Burt Macklin said:

    You don’t get it, rickyspub. ITS FOUR HTE KEDZ! it will build momentum!

     

    Funny enough, the most prescient thought gregggym has shared on the topic is his comment below, except it doesn’t apply to the audience he intended. 

     

    Funnily enough, Walden Ponderer had already posted a list of NIT champs from the past decade on the Fire Shaka thread and indeed there was little there to suggest winning the NIT says anything positive about a team's trajectory. None of the winning programs from a P5 conference has gone on to win their conference or be a consistent player at the national level. 

  12. 8 hours ago, Walden Ponderer said:

    I did a real estate search for Cedar Park, and sorted all entries high to low, and it topped out a ~$1.1 million for this schlub of a house:

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    Evidently, even if you're not technically "poor" in Cedar Park, you may as well be. Yuck.

    You should have photoshopped Ketch in there somewhere...good lighting for some effecting shade as well.

  13. 8 hours ago, Walden Ponderer said:

    I'm bored, so I took a sampling of NIT Champions to see what they did the following year. I limited myself to just 10 years, because if you're going to pursue a meaningless statistical blip, you may as well use a small sample size when doing so:

    Year Champion Next Year's Record
    2018  Penn State 14-18
    2017  TCU 21-12
    2016  George Washington 20-15
    2015  Stanford 15-15
    2014  Minnesota 18-15
    2013  Baylor 26-12
    2012  Stanford 19-15
    2011  Wichita State 27-6
    2010  Dayton 22-14
    2009  Penn State 11-20

    So, in the last 10 years, only one team went on to have a losing record the next year... but they did it twice. Penn State sucks, which says something about the value of winning the NIT, I guess, but it also demonstrates that it takes a special kind of loser not to build in some way on doing well in the NIT.

    The moral of the story? Winning is better than losing. But don't read anything into it.
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    If you take out the mid-majors, things look really shitty. Only the two Big 12 teams (both of whom are known for padding their out of conference scheds with cupcakes) managed 20 wins in the following season. Is anyone going to feel Shaka is on the cusp of great things if we go 21-12 or even 26-12 next year? Baylor did make the Sweet 16, but was also a Smoove 9-9 in conference.

  14. 38 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    I do agree the current market of available coaches is weak since we didn't make a play at The Mayor.  Beard is off the table because he costs too much.  Seems like you just wait a year. 

    Who is available next year? I don't see any hot young coaches that would all of sudden look worth $3.2M in another season. I suppose it would have been nice to see Nate Oats play above seed in one more tournament, but we missed that boat. Do you feel great about Muss or Wojo, even if they look a bit better next year? What if they don't? The high quality coaches are going to cost us at least as much as Beard would. Are we really waiting for Donovan or someone else to get fired in hopes of pulling a reverse Barnes?

  15. Just now, Machinator said:

    IT has been pretty consistent in saying he's good in run-blocking and subpar in pass-blocking.

    Thanks, I didn't remember it being a consistent drone from across the paysite spectrum. I figured it had something to with the accolades that Roach has been getting. But they have also said that Roach is applying pressure across different positions, so it's hard to pin his success solely on Okafor's failure. 

  16. Where are the practice reports that say Okafor has been bad? I haven't really seen his name mentioned in any fashion, good or bad, on the reports that get posted here. I wasn't going to mention him in mine, but now that I have been told he sucks...

  17. 10 hours ago, destroya said:

    This shit fucking sucks.  I've resigned myself to hoping that CDC has done a thorough evaluation of the program and has come to the conclusion that Shaka is the best person to lead team.  It's a thin thread of hope, but it's all I got.

    Actually that is what I fear the most. I would almost rather CDC just say we are too poor to fire Shaka and have to keep him for 3 more years so we can afford the next guy. If he really thinks Shaka is the best the program can do...

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