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  1. AdjD during the kenpom era first number is AdjD which is points given up per 100 possessions weighted for sos, the second number is the national rank 2024- 100.3 (61) 2023- 92.1 (13) 2022- 91.6 (14) 2021- 92.8 (31) 2020- 92.6 (24) 2019- 94.4 (26) 2018- 94.1 (12) 2017- 93.7 (21) 2016- 96.8 (40) 2015- 93.4 (14) 2014- 97.3 (53) 2013- 95.5 (54) 2012- 97.0 (64) 2011- 89.6 (4) 2010- 93.1 (30) 2009- 92.5 (20) 2008- 95.5 (42) 2007- 100.3 (92) 2006- 91.7 (15) 2005- 97.1 (61) 2004- 94.1 (22) 2003- 95.8 (58) 2002- 98.3 (74) 2001- 90.1 (11) 2000- 87.5 (11) 1999- 91.6 (36) this year’s Texas defense was tied for the worst defense of the kenpom era (so, since rick’s first year here) with the 2007 team that that was all skinny, tiny freshmen and basically only played six guys. a quick scan of the numbers and you can see that 100.3 is a number that is wildly high for the standard that’s been set here at Texas. a final note to drive home how bad of a coaching job this defense has been: D-1 experience: 2007 Texas: 0.37 years, 333rd in d-1 2024 Texas: 3.23 years, 4th in d-1 so not only has Terry had a shaky season with his mercurial, volatile team, he’s done so with as much as d-1 experience as he will ever have on any roster he coaches the rest of his career. the more i post, the more i can’t believe we still have people who want RT to be our HC.
  2. you know who else never played fantasy sports?
  3. there is a legitimate chance that ole miss makes the tourney next year while texas misses out. its way too early to bet on it, but its absolutely feasible.
  4. the same reason so many ceo’s are terrible people. certain levels of ruthlessness and sociopathy are often required to succeed at such a high level in such a highly demanding field.
  5. in other words, you think that if chris beard and his staff had coached texas this season, and RT and his staff had coached ole miss this season, that ole miss would be better than they’ve been, and that Texas would be worse than we’ve been. yeah, you’re TOTALLY not an RT homer.
  6. @Helobious surely you’d like to own everyone in this league with your legendary knowledge and skills?
  7. @BigOrange1 any interest in hopping in the game?
  8. yeah i wanted him to replace shaka since before we’d even played them and blown that huge lead in embarrassing fashion in the tourney. his style of play is so fun to watch and he’s a renowned talent developer. but this situation at arkansas has defintely given me pause. really weird dynamic going on up there in fayattenam. plus he isn’t everyone’s cup of tea with his energy and animated nature. but people tend to get over that when you win, and i’m sure people here would have too had we hired him 3-4 years ago.
  9. i just learned watching PTI that domantis sabonis is 10-0 in his career vs AD. i find that to be hilarious.
  10. apparently he hates his own team and they all hate and/or date each other. sounds fun.
  11. both arguments are based on merit. like i said earlier, that entire postseason run directly correlates with a sudden uptick in perimeter defense. so either RT, whose biggest weakness is 3p defense, suddenly got awesome at defending the three, then just as quickly forgot everything he knew about 3 point defense for this year, OR, our senior laden team that was full of chris beard-recruited and coached players stepped their shit up when the stakes were the highest, and the 2024 longhorns naturally suck at 3 point defense again because it’s a huge weakness of RT’s. tough call there.
  12. four days ole miss lost to a&m by 26. tonight’s game has a spread of 5.5. that’s odd.
  13. arguing that chris beard didn’t take the atmosphere/fan interest light years beyond where it had ever been previously is just wild.
  14. Texas kenpom ratings on december 7th, 2022: our kenpom ratings from january 18th, 2023, six weeks later: that drop off in defense said it all. i’ve been saying it here and there throughout the year, but the bottom line is that a whole bunch of fans simply do not understand that a great coach is so, so much more important than a great players. fans easily wrap their heads around the strengths and limitations of their players and adjudge them accordingly, yet for some reason with coaches it isn’t the same. always excuses; always glass half full; always, “hey maybe he’ll get good if we give him more time!” all the while not even understanding that it’s the coach who has the biggest impact on winning and losing in the first place.
  15. •the roster that chris beard inherited •the results after he took over •the trajectory of the program •the roster that RT inherited •the results after he took over •the trajectory of the program you pro-RT people go ahead and fill out this form for me, and then come back here add tell all of us again how RT deserves this job, deserves more time, and has done a better job than Beard.
  16. anyone who understands what they are watching saw chris beard take our defense to a level that went beyond 99% of even rick barnes’s best defenses, and he did so without having the likes of Doj Balbay, Avery Bradley, Damion James, and Dexter Pittman all playing on one team. anyone who understands ball knows how remarkable the defensive coaching job was by beard with a roster full of players who were pretty much all no more than 70%-80% as good as the type of players who are ideally a fit to excel in beard’s system. so of course, anyone who knows what they are watching saw the immediate and drastic drop off in defensive intensity, buy-in, and results from the very moment that RT took over. the team literally went from being a U of H level defense to a crappy defense overnight. simply replacing beard with RT reduced our team to a shadow of its former self. it was immediate, it was evident, and it was jarring to watch. this drastic and immediate drop off is the reason that i have been so completely flabbergasted that we have so many people here who either are pro-RT or who “want to give him time”. if you understand what you’re watching then you knew right away that RT had taken over a ready-made title contender and immediately reduced it to a shell of itself. that was your sign. that should have shown you everything you needed to see. hell, most of you DID notice, as our results under Terry were totally underwhelming, and the consensus on this very board early last march was that RT would not be hired as our next HC. it was done. only then the postseason run happened, and suddenly those three weeks of better basketball (which was the product of a bunch of 22 year old men fighting their asses off knowing every game could be their last one together, and not the product of RT’s amazing coaching) made a whole bunch of you forget what you’d already watched and seen and understood, and now here you are a year later leading the charge for patience for RT. it’s surreal. it’s just surreal to me.
  17. dude. stop. this is why the word disingenuous keeps getting used. this pro-RT crowd incessantly boils down what beard did here to “he won one tournament game”.’ stop it. just stop. in one breath you use UT Basketball’s mediocre history to praise RT for “leading” us to the elite 8 (when we all know good and damn well that it was beard’s players who led that run), only then you turn around and denigrate the job that beard did to end our 8 year stretch without a tourney win, suddenly ignoring said mediocre history and what a huge achievement that was for this program. beard took over a roster that couldn’t even fill out a starting lineup, signed the no.1 transfer class in america, finished behind only KU, BU, and TTU in the toughest league in america, and then ended our nearly decade long tourney drought, again, with a team that had no size, no athleticism, no shooting, and no nba talent. he then brought in tyrese hunter and jabari rice + a good recruiting class and by december of his second year he had Texas at no.1 in kenpom for the first time in school history, and nationally regarded as one of the 3-4 favorites to win the ncaa tourney. speaking of school history, chris beard took over a program where fan interest had been killed by shaka smart’s unique blend of top 5 national recruiting + inept teams + horrible results, and all Beard did was create the highest level of fan interest and best game day atmosphere in the history of the program, essentially overnight. chris beard was doing at Texas what he had done everywhere else he’s ever been: make his program elite overnight by instilling his ferocious yet consistent style of play and coaching up his players to be able to execute it. every single thing that rodney terry has “accomplished” at Texas he did so with beard’s players who were already well drilled 20-somethings with tons of experience and prior elite coaching. when RT has been in charge on his own he has produced one of the worst defenses in modern Texas history, THE worst three point defense we’ve ever had, a completely volatile and mercurial product on the floor, he’s taken a wildly consistent team and made them wildly inconsistent, and he’s taken all of the basic tenets of wining which his predecessors rick barnes and chris beard tried to instill in him and he’s thrown them out the window. bad shots, low IQ players, crappy defense; its as if he learned nothing from them. IQ is down, consistency is down, wins are down, defense is WAY down, fan interest is down, and all of this has happened despite RT taking over a situation that was 1,000x more set up for success than the situation that Beard had taken over just 18 months prior. and you guys want to come in here and seriously claim that RT has already done more here than Beard ever did. what a load of horse shit. these incessant arguments saying that RT has accomplished more than beard did here are one of two things: a downright lie that you’re trying to perpetrate because you’re butthurt about Beard, or a scathing indictment on your ability to understand what you are watching when you watch Texas basketball. either way, everyone here will be better off when you people stop it with this completely disingenuous nonsense.
  18. ole miss and a&m played each other a few days ago and a&m won by 26. they play today and a&m is only -5.5. 🤔
  19. that didn’t happen after the tournament, it happened after we were a month into the offseason and all the news we’d gotten was that our entire recruiting class had opted out of the NLI’s, that dillon mitchell was gone for the nba draft, and that all of our transfer targets were choosing other schools. people had every reason to be worried.
  20. gareth southgate is twat, and it is zero coincidence that arsenal announced the ben white contract extension when they did, replete with video of his teammates effusively praising him. great job by the club there. if only saka didn’t play for england i could properly hate them and hope they lose every match.
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