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  1. Mark has been one of the biggest busts in Texas bball in a long time.
  2. I had that video in the 70’s. It was my bible for learning how to swing a golf club. I never had the money to have enough lessons to learn the golf swing properly so that was the best I could afford. Interestingly, that video was missing some critical bits of information about the swing that I never learned over the next 50 years. Finally 10 months ago I embarked on the journey to truly learn the right golf swing. I’m still not there, but I’m getting closer. That video started it all.
  3. Dbeasy

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    You checked on the wrong Sysco trucks. He meant Cisco trucks. Routers and such.
  4. Yes it’s new. As you just said, things have changed. Texas last year did not get commitments a few weeks before signing day from four white three star players who had offers from just lower level schools. That’s definitely different.
  5. Did she also do testing on the cancer cells themselves to verify they aren’t the type that requires chemo and radiation? That is a second critical gene test. I’m sure she did, but I have found some doctors don’t do that test when the cancer is caught early, and they really should.
  6. Way to avoid the question. At the time Alabama hired Oats, was the Alabama program a better destination than Texas, yes or no?
  7. Good grief. Are you really this dense? No, not Alabama now. When they hired Oats originally. Seriously dude, are you half asleep right now?
  8. That’s the person that coordinates the offense. Any other questions I can answer?
  9. Agree. He needs a year. I just know that Beard immediately showed a massive impact.
  10. I’m not saying at all that the mistake was not getting Oats to leave Alabama. Let me try again to restate the point. My point was that Alabama, a school similar to Texas (not a top destination job and more of a football school), managed to find a great coach and keep him. They found him in obscure Buffalo. That was very impressive coach scouting. Meanwhile, Texas took a guy who on paper has some real questions. If Miller kicks ass, then great. All this worrying will have been for nothing. And when Alabama took Oats I’m sure there were tons of questions about his hire. But it turned out to be a very good hire. And he was a pretty unknown entity. Miller is a pretty well known entity, and if history holds he won’t be as successful as Texas or its fans would expect or want. That’s what I find frustrating. It’s a little bit like OU finding Stoops from the DC ranks and Riley from the OC ranks and then beating Texas fairly regularly. Those guys weren’t the big names when they were hired but the OU powers knew enough about football to make sure they got the true up and coming coaches. Of course Riley has plateaued and may flame out, but at OU he caused a lot of issues for Texas.
  11. I would agree with that 100%. Hence my question to Aces. Just because the Texas job was according to him, ā€œover-ratedā€, which might be true, he missed the whole point of my post, which was that another school that has the same challenges as Texas (Alabama), still managed to hire what appears to be so far an outstanding coach. If Miller succeeds, then this message board fodder will have been pointless, but many, myself included, are all speculating about the quality of Miller.
  12. So many of the products and services today are becoming enshitified, it’s actually a pleasant surprise when you are a customer of products that aren’t enshitified. I thought about that when I renewed my AllTrails subscription. So far, still an awesome product.
  13. Ok, but do you believe Alabama was a better basketball job than Texas?
  14. I think what was most frustrating about the Miller hire is Oats. Alabama had a shit basketball program and somehow not only found him, but have kept him (so far). I just don’t buy the argument that Miller was the best Texas could expect given the state of the program. But maybe the administration really believes Miller can win big. We’ve got a ways to go before we find out.
  15. There is clearly a new idea on the 40 acres about how recruiting should be done. I’m not sure where these new insights are going to take the program, but it will at least be entertaining to see if all these guys succeed or fail at Texas. I’m very skeptical.
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