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  1. ok surely we can make this helo vs ztejas 1 v 1 happen.
  2. “whatever excuse to want to give” lol. it’s not an excuse it’s a very valid explanation. that was the one year during this stretch where MJ showed up mid-season, and it’s the one year the bulls didn’t win it all. that’s not happenstance or coincidence; those events are linked to one another.
  3. i’m quite certain he’s not. there’s a reason he was an assistant after 27 years of d-1 coaching. he went 126-108 (62-58) at fresno state before making a lateral move to UTEP. he was 37-48 (19-33) at UTEP before making a downward move to an assistant coach under Beard, which is where he still would be/should be if beard weren’t such an idiot. how is this even a conversation. if our football team went an hired a guy who’d spent 2/3 of his nearly three decade career as an assistant with a career HC record ~.500 at mountain west and CUSA schools the fan base would lose their minds. when the team then didn’t perform well/up to its potential the fan base would be pulling its collective hair out pressuring CDC to fire the chump and hire Westlake’s HC who they’re all certain is a better HC. our basketball fans? nah. “hey let’s give him some time! gee, i wonder where he ranks among the national HC landscape? maybe he’s going to put it together! he does have that one good recruit coming in!”
  4. try and make sense of this one:
  5. how many good players is a great coach worth? realistically, if RT and chris beard were coaches in the same league, let’s say the big xii- how enormous of a roster advantage would RT have to own to have a better season than chris beard? w/l record, kenpom, NET rating, postseason results, performance in relation to expectations, etc? i’ve talked about this a few times this year, but it continues to amaze me how huge the disconnect is among 99% of fans, specifically that they can all see how impactful one great player can be, yet they consistently fail to understand how much more important having a great coach is. chris beard is worth five max abmases. a great coach will make chicken salad out of chicken shit, while a mediocre-bad coach will mismanage and ruin the potential of an otherwise pretty good roster. we’ve seen this on both sides for as long as anyone can remember. and yet at still the majority of fans place more weight on a single player than they ever do the HC. why don’t people understand this: your head coach is so, so, SO much more important than any one, or two, or even three players in 99.9% of cases. yet when the team loses a disu, or an isaiah taylor, or a cam ridley it’s like, “shit, that’s a really big deal!” but then when you replace a top ~5 coach with a guy who shouldn’t even be a HC at this level people are like, “now hold on, let’s not jump to any conclusions, let’s just wait and see what he can do.” why is that? i mean whenever this job has opened up in the past, not a single person has said, “let’s go hire (anyone even remotely close to RT as a coach).” it’s like, “let’s get jay wright, or billy donovan, or Coach Cal!” for some reason the pedigree of the HC matters when we need one, but then once we hire a guy who is proven to not be able to do this job, suddenly we throw his CV out the window and just assume/predict the best. well, i say “we” when i really mean “a whole bunch of y’all”. i understand the importance of a coach; i do not understand why so many other sports fans don’t.
  6. why? we are worse this year than we were last year despite losing zero players as good as disu and abmas. all that would do is accentuate the underwhelming job that RT has done.
  7. i don’t disagree with your premise, i just disagree that it applies to this coaching staff. if we still has chris beard and were losing/retaining the exact same squad there’s no way i would be forecasting anything at this point in time. but as long as RT is running this program, it is what it is. a great HC makes up for deficiencies within the team, while a coach of RT’s character probably gets less out of the team than what they’re capable of. overturning the roster and winning with a bunch of new faces is pretty much exclusively done by great HC’s. RT doesn’t have that in his bag. at all.
  8. disu > gone abmas > gone hunter > yikes. 50/50 to return mitchell > severely limited, 50/50 to return horton > gone; also not good shedrick > 10-15 min role player, possibly gone onyema > non factor brock > probably gone, but you never quite know with this guy weaver > first guy on the list i’m excited to have back rodney terry > returning you cannot objectively look at this, add a couple freshman and 3-4 transfers and come to the conclusion that we won’t be worse off next year than we are this year.
  9. it’s weird how nobody accused me of being negative when beard was here. 🤷🏼‍♂️
  10. i’m gonna stop you right there. if you spoke to a single person who knows me they would absolutely die of laughter at the idea that i’m a negative person. the people who know me marvel at how i’m always so positive all things considered. there are lots of people here who know me. ask any one of them about my daily disposition. hell my former employer posts here. he used to spend every single day with me. ask him if he wouldn’t describe me as *wildly* positive on a daily basis. see what he says. this has nothing to do with me. i am so far from a negative person its insane. in fact i’ll point out for the thousandth time that every single game thread for years and years and years is full of negativity and personal jabs at our players, something that i decline to participate in 99% of the time. calling a spade a spade does not make me a negative person. you acting as if the only possible reason that someone could project next year’s team to not be very good simply makes you a delusional person.
  11. always funny when people who don’t have the stones to ever give their own takes or opinions to talk shit about those that do.
  12. go look at the makeup of our ~10 best teams of last 25 years (so dating back to RB’s first year). then compare those teams and their makeup to the best possible scenario for next year, coaching staff included. when you look at our best teams you’ve got teams full of 2, 3, 4 year players who’ve developed real chemistry together; you’ve got all conference and all american players; you’ve got one of the best HC’s in college basketball, with assistants who will go on to be HC’s themselves; you’ve got teams with concrete identities who consistently play a specific brand of basketball that is confident, competent, and played at full speed at all times, a style that the HC intentionally and successfully recruits to. every single good team we’ve had looks like that ^^^^. how anyone can look at those teams and their composition, look at the composition of our crappier teams, then look forward to next year’s team, and come to the conclusion that it will be one if the good teams and not one of the frustratingly inconsistent-downright shitty teams is wild. we have so many examples of what both good and bad teams look like, and you’re not only going to choose to be willfully blind and positive beyond reason, you’re going to say that it’s the people with the opposing view who are really out here on a limb for emotional reasons. that’s just wild to me.
  13. i have never/will never understand this reaction. every time someone projects a player or team to be awesome nobody ever has a problem with it. yet every single time that someone says that a player or team won’t be good/as good as everyone else wants them to be, we get this, “wow you’re so miserable and pessimistic!” response. you wanna ask if we’re going to do stuff all over again? i might ask if this is going to be a repeat of 2016-17 when my take that we were in for a rough year was met with fiery opposition in the board, with vehement insistence that there was no way to possibly project what the season/team would look like. before that season started, when people said that shaka’s second team could be even better than his first team that finished 3rd in the big xii (dead serious i remember you being one of these people) nobody cared. nobody called it outrageous, even though it really was an outrageously optimistic statement. but when i said that we wouldn’t be that good, suddenly people had a big issue and i got this type of reaction. it’s been this way every single time i’ve taken this position on any player or team from this university to this day, and to this day i don’t understand it, at all. you people take an objectively rational take and, because it’s “pessimistic” (more reasonable people might call it “realistic”) you act as if it’s just totally unfounded and baseless, that only a miserable, cynical person could possibly come to this conclusion. it’s ridiculous. we’re losing the bulk of our production from what is already a mediocre team, the players who are returning are either young, unproven, mediocre-bad, or all of the above, and our head coach has irrefutably proven himself to be out of his depth at his position. do not act like this take is some overly negative, cynical view of things. it’s based firmly in reality. for christs sake, shaka smart is a much better HC than rodney terry, and you’re seriously gonna sit here and act like there’s no reason to be down on our prospects going forward? stop it.
  14. so it’s your contention that those guys will be important pieces of a good Texas team next year? also, uh, might want to pick another subject when trying to take a jab at what i am/am not knowledgeable about. like if i were going to take a jab at you for example i would say something about you being overly negative, volatile, and reactive. i definitely wouldn’t question your ability to suck as a poster and contribute nothing to any discussion on this site.
  15. dalton knecht is my favorite player in the country. man i hope he lands in the right spot in the nba.
  16. can’t recall another half of basketball that slow and inefficient. second half has been a veritable track meet in comparison.
  17. we’re pretty good offensively thanks to our top two guys being efficient/high volume scorers. we are pretty bad defensively, and inept at defending the three. we do however tend to try pretty hard, the effort is generally there. there are plenty of teams out there who could beat us on our best day, but because our top two guys are borderline all american talents, we could conceivably make the S16. we could also play some ugly ass 8/9 game where the winner turns the ball over 16 times and scores 60 points. going forward, we’re pretty much spinning our wheels as long as RT is our HC. sucks, but it is what it is.
  18. there’s a possibility that we could lose to a&m, arkansas, ole miss, and tennessee next year. my god. what a terrible realization to have.
  19. everyone here hates shedrick, so let’s not start acting like keeping him would be a big deal. chris johnson has got to be gone, he’s been a complete afterthought for this team, i can’t imagine him staying, especially considering that he showed up here last minute anyway. and while it’s possible that pryor is a real contributor next year, it’s really really unlikely that he’s a real contributor on a good team. these guys are either unlikely to be here or are unlikely to be impact players here next year, especially on a good team. and RT is no Beard, not as a HC, and not in the portal. we’ve been worried about the bubble all year, and the odds of next year’s team even being as good as this year’s team are slim to none. it’s gonna be a rough season next year.
  20. talking about next year’s team in another thread, so we may as well bring that discussion over here where it belongs: gone: disu, abmas, brock, shedrick, horton defintely returning: weaver, onyema may or may not be here: hunter, mitchell likely additions: tre johnson, nic codie so at best we’re building around this roster: tyrese hunter tre johnson chendall weaver dillon mitchell ze’rik onyema bench: nic codie and and worst you can delete hunter and mitchell from that lineup. so we’ve got that lineup, + whoever RT is able to sign, and RT is still the head coach. yeah. next year’s team is going to be bad.
  21. …which is a pretty good indication that it’s going to be bad. gone: disu, abmas, brock, shedrick, horton defintely returning: weaver, onyema may or may not be here: hunter, mitchell likely additions: tre johnson, nic codie so at best we’re building around this roster: tyrese hunter tre johnson chendall weaver dillon mitchell ze’rik onyema bench: nic codie and and worst you can delete hunter and mitchell from that lineup. so we’ve got that lineup, + whoever RT is able to sign, and RT is still the head coach. yeah. next year’s team is going to be bad.
  22. next year’s team is going to be bad. we’re getting out of the big xii just in time, which is such a fucking depressing thing to say. i love this league, but next years team would project to be a bottom dweller in the big xii.
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