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  1. so who is it then? who are the people out here posting about RT the same way that many of us were posting about shaka? i haven’t seen them.
  2. you guys remember the fire shaka thread. you guys know what it actually looks like when people hate the coach and eagerly await his departure. nothing remotely close to that thread/those posts has taken place with RT. there was a real deal anti-shaka crowd and those of us in that camp all wanted him gone asap, and we loudly voiced this opinion for years. there is no real anti-RT crowd. there is one crowd who doesn’t think that he’s the right man for this job and who have been rightfully but not overly critical of him at times, and there is the pro-RT crowd who gets offended by these posts and who constantly insinuate that only a cynical, hateful, anti-RT person would ever say anything critical about the HC of Texas Hoops. those are the two factions. that’s it.
  3. ok but who in this forum is doing anything different? we have “reality check” out here going very hard in the paint to defend RT. who is his anti-RT counterpart? there is none. i can’t name a single poster here who has been going out of their way to shit on him, to call for his firing, to root against him, nothing. all that ever happens is that some people make fact based posts about his record and performance, and that then gets twisted into this idea that we have people out here who hate RT and who want him to fail. these people don’t exist. nobody here has been going after RT. everyone here wants him to do well. what’s the issue?
  4. that’s a pretty severe injury in my book. extremely painful, and takes forever to heal properly. that really sucks. he’s one of the most exciting young players in basketball.
  5. btw theres nothing “weird” about this entire group of pollyanna RT kool aid drinkers all repeating the same totally bullshit party line over and over. i don’t care how many people claim that trump actually won the 2020 election, or that we never went to the moon, or that i’ve been going out of my way to bash RT all year- a bunch of uninformed morons with an agenda and an axe to grind all saying the same irrefutably false shit doesn’t make it true.
  6. go ahead and back up the claim then. four of y’all have made these claims in the last 24 hours, yet you’ve produced nothing to back them up. the claim i’m constantly going out of my way to bash RT, that i’m anti RT, that i root against him; all of it is totally fabricated bullshit. but go ahead, prove me wrong. we have an entire thread dedicated to firing RT. since i’m just constantly going out of my way to bash the guy and since i apparently openly root against him, it should take you all of 30 seconds to go that thread and back up what you’re saying with countless examples of this. so go do it!
  7. the fact is that RT has nearly three decades as a D-1 coach in his resume. the ga f is also that you don’t get to give RT credit for leading Texas to the elite 8 last year only to turn around and claim that this year is his first year as HC. you people are so beyond disingenuous with this shit it is completely asinine.
  8. jesus fucking christ you people keep saying this stupid, whiny shit and it has never been remotely true. you are literally just making this shit up. stop it. just fucking stop it. christ.
  9. almost nobody better at developing lower ranked prospects and building them into all league players. barnes doesn't get nearly enough credit for this. really impressive.
  10. this is the michigan state team we’d be playing in round one of that bracket: that’d be one helluva 7 v 10 matchup.
  11. outstanding job by barnes recruiting and developing DK. from averaging 16.5 at colorado state to becoming the first player since 2010 to average 24+ ppg in SEC play and (we assume) finishing runner up for national POY. DK has what it takes to become an absolute tourney star. here’s to hoping he can help lead the Vols to their first ever final four.
  12. your presence here is an absolute beating.
  13. he’s in his 29th year as a d-1 coach for christ’s sake, and beyond that, people like you want to give him credit for leading the team to the elite 8 last year, so how in the hell do you figure he’s in year one? bull. shit. this is a lie. stop repeating it. it’s 100% false.
  14. the reason people get labeled bullish on RT is because we have a group of posters who really bend over backwards to make excuses for RT, and to paint everything about him and his team in the most positive light at all times. people who make excuses for him only to then turn around and be dismissive of everything that barnes, or beard, or another coach does successfully. thats why y’all get labeled bullish. a better term might be “RT homer” or “RT apologist”, but you can understand why that makes people think that you’re bullish on him. because you hold him to a different standard than you do any other coach out there. without naming names, we have posters here who see rick barnes winning big all season with a team that’s been top 5 in kenpom all year and they say, “we all know he’s gonna implode and blow it” (he didn’t btw), who then turn around and insist that, “we have no idea what RT will do with this team, let’s wait and see!” we have posters here who say that chris beard should make the tourney with this team: yet who act like RT has done a really great job this year even though he really hasn’t done a particularly great job despite having an experienced, athletic, highly rated team that can really shoot amd that returns key guys from an Elite 8 team. and forget about any of you guys even admitting that being no.250 in the country and dead last in the league in 3-point defense is a problem. y’all never address that giant elephant in the room. you’ll say, “if only we had won our close losses then we’d be a 4 seed!”, but you’ll never say, “if we weren’t absolutely pathetic at defending the three we’d be a 4 seed. bottom line: you guys hold RT to a much different standard than you do anyone else. you treat him with kid gloves; you make excuses for him; you ignore his weak points; you blindly project success for him and praise whatever job he does while also predicting failure for/being way harsher on better coaches at different schools. so with all of this being the case, then a)you can see why people think y’all are bullish on RT, and b)if you truly aren’t bullish on him, then why all of the mental gymnastics and rose colored (gold rimmed) glasses for everything RT does?
  15. when it happened i said aloud that it wouldn’t be overturned because that’s just the way this stupid shit goes. even the announcers are complicit. they sit there and bend over backwards to act like the obviously incorrect call was correct. it’s goddamn ridiculous.
  16. agreed. coming into this season we all expected to have a good offensive/shooting team and that’s exactly what we have. it’s been really enjoyable to have such a reliable offense.
  17. the number of friends we made along the way.
  18. i read this as “gaystub” and now i feel funny.
  19. you would think so, but then again in 2011 our team which finished #5 in kenpom (post tourney) got a 4 seed in the tourney, plus the toughest draw of any 4 seed. i’ll never forget that shit.
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