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  1. 6 minutes ago, CTC2 said:

    I read somewhere that Hunter said he was going to go through the NBA eval process like he did last year.  Assumably to get the critic. 

    “so what do you think of tyrese hunter’s game?”

     

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  2. kim mulkey gets called an asshole because she’s an asshole. it has nothing to do with her being a woman. that is the beginning and end of this conversation.

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  3. 6 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said:

    I’d like to see what people bitching about Texas hiring RT voted for in the “What would it take to keep RT” thread prior to the tournament last year. Can almost guarantee 90% voted an elite 8 or worse. You can bitch now with hindsight I guess but Texas keeping him was expected and reasonable.

    i posted right away that there was nothing he could do- including a texas national title win- that would make me think that he was good enough to be our permanent HC. several others agreed with me.

    5 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said:

    Actually I bet >90% of basketball viewers that aren’t chronically online don’t give a fuck about it now. 

    you mean now that the season is over? because every single away game played after that incident was “Horns Down Night” at the opposing arena.

  4. 3 minutes ago, harpercollins said:

    Gregg Popovich, Kelvin Sampson, Tom Izzo—all act like jerks but it’s perceived as a benefit to their teams (and themselves by extension).

    you think these guys are on the same level as mulkey? how? oh and by the way, lots and lots of people call those guys assholes! 

    listen, you guys are the ones who have made the sexism claim, and it is on you to back it up with something substantive. kim mulkey is not being treated any differently than a man, she’s being treated like she’s an asshole because she’s an asshole.

  5. 2 minutes ago, harpercollins said:

     

     


    What on earth are you talking about?

    I’m so irritated you’re putting me in the position of defending one of my least favorite coaches.

    You’re equating Mulkey with bob knight who was verifiably abusive, throwing a chair on the court during a game, choking a player on video, and arrested for assaulting a peace officer and Gregg Marshall who also had multiple accusations of assault and racist verbal abuse. I have never heard anything remotely like that about Mulkey. You’re proving the point.

     

     

    ok, so then do what i said in the post you just quoted: 

     

    2 minutes ago, harpercollins said:

    name any male coach who you see as kim mulkey's equal behavior-wise who isn’t seen as an asshole.

     

  6. 5 minutes ago, TreatyOak said:

     

     

    I literally just shared a Google link to a long list of articles from legitimate sources about how beloved Boggy Knight is. 

    i don’t know a single college basketball fan who doesn’t think that bob knight was a humongous piece of shit.

    edited to add: the top comment on that reddit thread you linked is an IU alum who says, “You could write it off as being a product of his time, but honestly he was an asshole even by those standards.”

     

  7. 6 minutes ago, harpercollins said:

    And how much women’s basketball are you actually watching to say that these guys “aren’t nearly as bad as Mulkey?”

    kim mulkey has been such a giant, gaping asshole for so long that you don’t have to ardently follow women’s hoops to have been made aware of her behavior for decades now. you’re only helping me make my point. name any male coach who you see as kim mulkey's equal behavior-wise who isn’t seen as an asshole. i can’t name one. 

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  8. i keep hearing the accusation that male coaches who behave like kim mulkey are praised for it, but i’ve yet to see any examples of it. asshole male coaches are also called out for being assholes. always have been. i’m sure it’s different in the corporate world, but that’s not what we’re talking about here. the two male coaches who most remind me of mullkey are bob knight and gregg marshall everyone thinks those guys are giant assholes.

  9. 18 minutes ago, harpercollins said:

    If Mulkey does the exact same thing as a male coach, it is perceived differently (and reflects more negatively) than if a male coach does it.

    examples? i can’t think of a male asshole coach who isn’t seen as an asshole when he constantly behaves like one. in fact there are plenty of great coaches out there who people call scumbags and assholes when they aren’t nearly as bad as kim mulkey. coach cal, bill self, rick pitino, bruce pearl, jim boeheim, john chaney, bob knight, and on and on and on. people keep repeating what you’re saying as if it’s a fact, but i’ve been following this sport my entire life and i just don’t see it. an asshole is an asshole, male or female. 

  10. dillon mitchell has been as good as i would have expected the no.300 player in his HS class to be. it’s been shocking to me how little of an impact he’s had. he’s a 10-12 mpg role player with a 5 star HS rating.

  11. 4 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    . . . and yet you can't seem to get it through your monumentally thick fucking skull that "nobody" thinks we would have hired RT under normal circumstances.  Seriously, drop it.  We all understand what happened.  What you don't seem to understand is that The University of Texas was never going to cut him loose after last year's tournament run, no matter how much stooges like you think we should have done so.  It's a non-starter.  Stop starting it.

    you get so upset every time you respond to me, and then like 1 out of every 3 those times you end your own angry post with “rant incoming”. it’s never not funny seeing you rage at a simple differing opinion only to then project it onto the target of your own anger.  

    i don’t think Texas was obligated to hire RT long term. you do. only one of us is repeatedly losing his mind over this disagreement. something to marinate on.

  12. the RT martyrdom posts are impossible to take seriously because we endured six years of shaka here, and people here *hated* his tactics, his style, his fake persona, his lack of tourney wins, etc, and people passionately wanted him fired for years. the things that people said and felt about shaka were a million times worse than anything that anyone has said or feels about RT.

    nobody is rooting for Texas to lose. nobody has even been particularly harsh on RT. every single argument that’s been made against him being our coach has been based on his career resume. the horns down shit was embarrassing as well. but as far as coaches in RT’s position (plenty of the fan base not having faith that he’s the answer) go i can say for a fact that he’s been treated more fairly and less harshly than any other coach in UT message board history. the idea that anyone is rooting against Texas so that we’ll dump RT is totally baseless. it’s a joke.

  13. it was also hilariously tone deaf when, in the middle of her “i’m such a victim” diatribe she talked about how she’s been sexualized. you don’t say…

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    angel- you are a women’s college basketball player who is worth 7 figures because you have put yourself, and your attitude, and your body out there, unapologetically. you don’t get to cry victim when there’s a downside to the fake that you’ve actively sought.

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  14. 31 minutes ago, TreatyOak said:

    My wife says there are two sets of standards for men and women coaches. She says when a man is a hard-nosed, mean SOB, people praise him for how tough he is and how he makes his players better with tough love, blah, blah, blah. She says when a woman coach acts exactly the same, people call her a nasty bitch who's angry and a monster. I think she's right.  

    pat summit was the meanest, nastiest, most slave-driving coach ever and people revered her. she also kept her nastiness behind closed doors and wasn’t a total cunt out in public. i think it has more to do with how the coaches behave in public than it does with how much a hard ass they are. 

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  15. 2 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Regardless, you're a fool if you think Texas could have cut RT loose after a run to the Elite Eight

    of course we could have. all we had to was weigh his 27 year career vs his half season with chris beard’s team, come to the only logical conclusion (he’s not the man for this job), and hire someone better. again, if we hadn’t hired RT then what would he be doing? he’d be at some MWC or CUSA school doing nothing of note. where would the outrage be coming from?

     

    4 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Don't speak for me, Derka.

    lol ok you got it. if Nate Oats were the Texas HC and RT was going 18-13 at UNT then you’d still be in here bitching that we didn’t hire RT. feel better?

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  16. 1 hour ago, idigTexas said:

    Context matters.  Everyone with any functioning brain cells understands why Terry was hired, and why it was the right thing to do.  We all want the best coach possible for all of our programs, but sometimes shit happens that has to be taken into consideration.  If you are looking to blame someone for the Terry hire, he lives in Mississippi, and his name rhymes with Chris Beard.  

     

    1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I don't understand why this is so difficult for some people to understand.

    CDC is the one who came out and set the standard: we should have top 10 programs across the board, and we should go after and hire only the best of the best. last i checked rodney terry didn’t save all of our players from a burning building and then personally nurse them back to health from his bed in the icu- he (barely) managed not to crash the auto-driving tesla. lest we forget that we entered the 2023 postseason with 100% of this board believing that RT was almost surely gone after our underwhelming regular season under him, and that penn state was 1-2 missed shots away from sending us packing in the round of 32.

    Texas Athletics is not a charity, it’s huge business. hiring Terry being “the right thing to do” is a)subjective, and b)really really low on the list of reasons to give someone a 5-year contract to be the HC at Texas. we’re supposed to be going after national titles, not “doing the right thing” by hiring a guy who we’d otherwise never even let interview for this job in a million years. 

    if we had money whipped timmy lloyd, nate oats, or even tj otzelberger then Texas would be in the beginning stages of what is hopefully the most prosperous era in the history of Texas Basketball, while RT would be coaching an UT-Arlington or somewhere similar, doing his typical mediocre job, and absolutely nobody here, including you two, would be raging about how Texas failed to do the right thing.

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