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  1. 22 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

    Your weekly Looch transcription (I skipped the basketball crap)

    "What I will say is this, just to go off the beaten path a little bit. Alabama, you have their full undivided attention. And I heard from more than one source, that they kind of met, and this is true, this is not, this is, you're not going to get Nick Saban to admit this or something. Some of the Alabama brass, and I don't know if it was their version of 12th man foundation, or it was their higher ups in their athletic department, or just some of their bigggest donors. The question was, you know, kind of what we need, how the teams gonna look, any concerns or anything. And Nick did say. There is one right now for us. It's Jimbo Fisher and A&M. They're gonna be, They're gonna be, we're going to have to deal with them, they're gonna be a problem. That and he didn't have to say that. Just the fact htat I, you can tell. The recruiting battles they're fighting. The way things get so heated with Christian Harris and Scobby Carter and Vernon Jackson and Bobbie Brown. And Just some sources I have at Alabama that just talking about how devastated Nick was to lose Bobbie Brown. And How much he liked Vernon. The battle for Jaylen Waddle. Who else was it that year (Leon) Leon O'Neill, cancelled his visit the night before and Nick was livid. Well he wanted a lot of guys. Demarvon Leal, Baylor Cupp, I think Demani was one. You know, there's plenty of them, but, you know, Glenn Beal how Tennessee & Alabama were fighting it out, duking it out like little kids and A&M swooped in there and got him. These recruiting battles you can tell. and and. Jimbo Fisher after that Alabama game, how disppointed he was cause he knew. He wanted his team to have a better showing up there and you know they could've. You saw him throwing to the endzone with a couple seconds left to send a message that hey, you won today but we're not going anwhere. If you don't think that was part of their message. That has me fired up as anything. You have the undivided attention of the power of the conference, and the person sitting on the throne."

    I love this addtional quote

    "Ed Orgeron is a star chaser. They took a couple guys this year that A&M looked at and said no thank you."

     

    I would imagine if this were in anyway true, it is probably that aggy is throwing more money around to buy up these guys, lowering Bama's chances if they want to swoop in to get guys who are playing that game. Honestly, there really isn't that much difference in what Bama took in-state last cycle than what they have done in the past couple of cycles. It's not like Bama went from getting 4 or 5 players from the Texas Top 20 and then basically got shut out when Jimbo showed up. The past few cycles they have taken one or two Texas guys, just like they did this last cycle.

  2. 1 hour ago, Huckleberry said:

     


    That's what we thought about Barnes, too.
    Turns out some coaches just communicate with and motivate a scrappy roster better than a star-laden roster. Barnes didn't need a roster full of 5-stars, he needed a roster full of PJ Tuckers and Royal Iveys. Guys with fringe NBA talent who might make a career based on busting their ass and intelligence on the court. Give him a two-deep of those guys and you'll have the ultimate Barnes team.

     

    What we should have insisted Shaka do as well. We might not consistently compete year-in-year-out with Kansas, but we sure as hell would have won more games recruiting fringe NBA talent and running Havoc. If you want to run a traditional system and win on talent then at least pick a fucking coach that has proven success running a traditional system.

  3. 1 hour ago, SwanderedTalent said:

    It doesn't seem like that although maybe I'm not factoring in his Bulls compensation-- he's getting between $3m and $4m a year. That to me isn't Jimbo Fisher @ A&M money, but if as you say he's just gettin dem checks at this point, I guess it makes sense. 

    Puts him in the Top 10 of college basketball coaching salaries. I think he is just behind Huggin's $3.7M, which slots him in at number 8 currently, supposedly just ahead of what Buzz Williams is going to get from aggy, assuming it is right at the rumored $3.5M. I am going to bet Beard gets another extension that puts him in this range and ups his buyout again.

  4. 13 minutes ago, maninblack said:

    Surly basketball fans are pussies. Hopefully CDC is not.

    Waiting for Skipper to come around and ask your for your bank account number so he can be sure you are the one ponying up the money...According to him only big money donors willing to pay for the buyout can express their opinion that Shaka needs to go.

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  5. 39 minutes ago, Jhawk said:

    Yeah. Culturally, he fits at a program that gets under recruited talent and gets them to bust their asses. Not at a culture where he is expected to recruit top tier talent. Players who aren’t as talented play well together when they are playing with a chip on their shoulder. That’s the culture he fits into. Not one where the talent is so high players expect to win just by showing up. He doesn’t fit that. Not a stretch to say at all. What did you think I meant that because he is black he can’t coach successfully at UT?

    So what you are saying is the Bill Self wins by recruiting talent so high that they win just by showing up? 

  6. 25 minutes ago, El Squared said:

    I guess our strategy might be: let it burn itself out- over the next 3 years while vetting the next candidate.

    ( the prescribed forest fire theory)

    Long, long game.

    Or.....Maybe there is some FBI activity waiting to be revealed. One can only hope....

    It does feel like we are just going to throw silly money at another Shaka after this, hoping the next guy with minor mid-major cred is the next great one. 

  7. 56 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

    Shaka's seat for the 2019-20 season just went from hot to scorching!!!

    I would say it went from hot to cool. Who the fuck are we going to hire next year? Buzz and Beard are probably the best options for getting a proven coach and they will both be unattainable after this year. Who is going to be a better option next year? If we can't fire Shaka over $12M in buyouts we aren't going to fire him still owing him $9M. 

  8. 3 hours ago, Machinator said:

    The tournament is and always has been a crapshoot. The best way to achieve success is to make it every year with a favorable seed, which is why regular season success should be valued more than it is by fans sometimes.

    This was a somewhat disappointing result for Tennessee but they still managed a Sweet 16 out of it. That's what being a 2 seed will get you.

    To me the way to judge is whether you at least played to your seed. That makes it hard to really judge the mid-major guys who are always starting out as a low seed, but the great coaches are getting to the Elite 8 with a 2 seed, while the good coaches just make the Sweet 16. 

    If Beard wins tomorrow he will enter that list posted above at #1 with an .800 win percentage. If he loses he enters at a #6. If there were a coach to throw the bank at he's my pick.

  9. 1 minute ago, Skipper said:

    No, I opine that posters that believe CDC sucks as an AD if he elects not to pay millions in buyouts are idiots unless they are offering to kick significant $$ in and solve the problem.  But I don't expect you can grasp that nuance.

    I guess you can't grasp the nuance that we have no idea what is going on in the background or that people are allowed to have opinions regardless of their pocketbooks. You can assume that CDC will always make the best decision and someone else can worry that he is going to let our chance at Chris Beard pass over the buyout or that he knows he has a lame duck coach but won't fire him because he didn't find him a soft landing spot. They are all just opinions and we are all free to express them and argue for or against them, but your insistence on trying to shut someone else's opinion down because they are or aren't a big money boosters is pathetic and just shows your inability to engage in a debate. You obviously aren't forking over the money either, so you have no idea if the financial wherewithal is in place or not.

  10. Just now, Machinator said:

    He also beat Jim Calhoun's UConn team in that Final Four run. Roy Williams was the year afterwards. John Beilein in the 2006 Elite Eight run (the Kenton Paulino shot).

    I almost added Calhoun, but I couldn't remember the year. Obviously guys like Izzo and Coach K and Calipari have a laundry list of wins over other top coaches. Self always seems to underperform at the late stages of the tourney, I wonder what his record looks like against the cream of the crop.

  11. 1 hour ago, Bitterwhiteguy said:

    You can be a top-15 coach throughout the year and not win a national title because usually you end up facing other top-15 coaches after the first round or two of the tourney.

    2019: lost to Matt Painter

    2018: lost to Loyola-Chicago who had the elite octogenarian nun in the tourney.

    2015: lost to Chris Holtmann (then at Butler, now leading the Ohio State turnaround)

    2014: lost to Beilein

    2012: lost to Mick Cronin

    2011: lost to Sean Miller

    2010: lost to Dino Gaudio, who is clearly the most amazing co-oh, right, he's been an announcer for years.

    2009: lost to Coach K

    2008: lost to Calipari

     

    I could go back further - and somebody else is free to do so - but I think there's merit to the idea that Barnes is a top-20 or so coach who tends to stumble when he runs across the coaches in the top 15. Not all of the results I listed are HoF guys, obviously, but the guys who bounce him from the tourney more often than not tend to be the elite guys.

    This is an interesting idea. I wonder what Barnes's profile would look like in a broader comparison of coaches. Looking not just at whom they lost to but also whom they beat. Obviously all the better coaches on this list would have a win over Barnes on their ledgers. I believe Barnes beat Gene Keady and Izzo in the Final Four run and I am certain he beat Roy Williams once, but I am drawing a blank on any other HoF-level or near-to-HoF coaches he has won against. We know how empty some Elite Eight and Final Four profiles can be when winning through a Madness-weakened bracket, so is Barnes's record ultimately really good?

  12. Just now, Machinator said:

    Even VT boards have conceded that Buzz is gone unless he makes a miracle run to the Final Four.

    Timing is everything with coaching changes. We had it on our side with football, perhaps not so much in basketball.

    And the Tech people are adamant that Beard stays. What does that tell us? VT fans think their AD won't get into a bidding war and/or that Buzz wants out no matter what. Tech fans here think Beard wants to stay at Tech and Tech will pay to keep him. No different than most of here think Shaka stays because of the high buyout. But nothing has happened. Games are still being played (on the court and likely in backrooms with agents) and no public moves have been made regarding any of these coaches. For all we know the Buzz to aggy talk is just a misdirection for Buzz to Texas.

  13. 12 minutes ago, Machinator said:

    If it's no-brainer money, then CDC would have the deal done.

    Or he would have engaged in the bidding war for Buzz.

    You make this sound like it has already been written in stone. I haven't heard that Buzz is even leaving VT. I thought he was still playing for a national championship. Did your bot-level NSA access reveal the signed contract with aggy? Beard is going to cause a bidding war, though it may just be within the confines of Tech's admins. I am confident neither will be the coach at Texas in 2 years if they aren't our coach next season. I know I'll be pissed if we fire Shaka next season and replace him with another lottery ticket hire from a mid-major that played above seed once in the tournament.

     

  14. Did Rick ever have a starting 5 at Texas that was all upperclassmen? At the end here it seems like the team was always trying to integrate some heralded freshman or two and there was never any chemistry or consistency...basically like Shaka's entire tenure.

  15. 1 hour ago, Radical Larry said:

    Well, it's Jimbo. 

    I can't wait to see the hoops he will jump through to defend a player he really needs. Might be hard for him this time when he doesn't have Candi to send in to suck out any ill-will. He better learn that sending a sheep will net him more sympathy than sending in Meemaw.

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