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  1. We've got a very good draw imo. I am used to getting hosed by the selection committee, so this is a pleasant surprise. Of course they had to set up a potential matchup between Barnes and his former school and assistant in the second round.

  2. 2 hours ago, ChickenSandwich said:

    When it comes to student attendance, Chris Beard is slowly but surely changing Texas basketball culture – The Daily Texan

     

    Finance senior Spencer Van Gelder was one of the students denied entry. Saturday’s game was the first time that he was turned away from the Frank Erwin Center. 

    “We went to the student section entrance,” Van Gelder said. “At that gate, they told us that they weren’t letting any more students in.” 

    For Texas, a full student section is almost unheard of. The last time a men’s basketball game sold out was in 2016, when Texas hosted No. 1 Kansas. 

    After Saturday’s 52-51 win over Tennessee, Beard thanked the fans that sold out the Drum for affecting the outcome of the game. 

    “Today’s crowd was the best in college basketball,” Beard said. “There might have been one as good, but there wasn’t one better and they helped us win the game.” 

    Beard has gone out of his way to incentivize students to show up to games and build a home-court advantage. The head coach visited multiple fraternity houses in the preseason,  hosted a party at the UT tower for the student body in November and hosted an event on campus called “Coach Beard and Coach Beard,” interviewing actor Brendan Hunt from the popular TV show Ted Lasso. 

    The program also continues to provide freebies for students that show up to games. Free breakfast tacos were given out to the first 500 students that showed up to the Jan. 22 game against Oklahoma State, which had 13,203 people in attendance. The Erwin Center’s total capacity is 16,540. 

    Beard is slowly but surely building up a basketball culture at Texas that aims to compare to blue blood programs like Kansas and Kentucky. He and his team have already experienced the environment of a “basketball school” — loud and sold-out student sections. 

    Texas’ game against Gonzaga was a “tent city” game for the Bulldogs with students camping out days in advance of the game to secure their seats inside the arena. 

    I don't understand how a Texas fan can deny what Beard did for the program in such a short period and the trajectory he was in. It just bottles my mind! Unfucking believavble!

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  3. 8 minutes ago, HookEm said:

    I invite you to watch some non-tournament teams.  The college basketball product across the board is pretty shitty.  When we play teams outside the top-50, we win 95% of the time under RT.

    When I say he is a "good coach", I mean it holistically, not just gameday scheme and X's and Os. In my opinion, he is a great recruiter and very good at retaining talent.  He is a solid motivator and the team tends to play hard.  Under other coaches, they could have quit last year when Beard F'ed up or this year in January when it seemed like the wheels were coming off. We want to attribute that to the team being "player led", but that itself is an identity that the coach fosters or destroys.  

    He experiments with lineups and the team seems to get better as the year goes on.  Most of our players have developed pretty well, even if Hunter can be frustrating.  He isn't an egomaniac and seems like he respects and leverages his assistants (and they are all pretty solid).  

    The main problem we have had is consistency.  At times, the team looks like a Final Four caliber team.  The blowout win at Tech was extremely impressive in that environment.  The first half of Baylor and K-State were about as good as any Texas team has looked in 20 years. But then some adversity happens, like Disu getting hurt or getting in foul trouble, and the rest of the team fails to pick up the slack.  They are not mentally tough like some of the teams we have had in the past.  But on the flip side, pushing players to the breaking point constantly also has its risks, like the late season collapse by some Barnes teams.  Or the heavy attrition under Beard just about everywhere he goes.

    "Good" is relative anyway.  I think we can agree he hasn't been good enough.  

    I hate to quote Fran but he described this syndrom very eloquently during one of our games ( i believe it was the tech game). Big 12 has a number of teams that look like world beaters in 4-5 games and then look awful in other 4-5 games. That's your middle of the pack. How you look during the rest of the games defines you how good or bad you are.

  4. 8 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:


    Chris Beard won 0 conference tournament games and 1 tournament game

    Rodney Terry won a conference tournament title and 3 tournament games.
     

    The whitewashing of what a wife beating coach accomplished here is impressive.  

    Lol what? He took over a rotten culture left by Shaka Smart. He has a long track of success. He energized the fanbase and made watching Texas basketball fun again. There is a lot to dislike Beard for as a person but what he did for Texas basketball in a very short period time is not one of them. 

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  5. 11 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:


    He was the head coach for our first visit to the second weekend in March Madness since George W was president. Your overrate Texas Basketball history. If Disu didn’t go down we likely make the final four last year.

    Granted we have had a mediocre history in this sports, but you can't change that culture if you keep accepting mediocrity. The fanbase was energized by Beard, as we thought we finally had someone who could take us to the promised land. It's deflating for most of us now that we appear to be heading back to mediocrity.

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  6. 41 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:

    This team has two high level offensive players, the rest are unreliable at best, inept at worst. 
     

    Abmas looks bad some games because we can’t punish teams offensively for over playing him. He is successful in spite of the roster. 
     

    Disu is basically the same, and when he goes out Max is 5 on 1 offensively. 
     

    And RT fucked up putting Horton back in the starting 5. Our best chance for high level wins is to surround Disu and Max with our three best defenders and Brock. 

    @HookEm Disu is our only player who plays consistently well when he is on the floor and he was not one of RT's recruits. I disagree with the position you are taking that he is a good coach. Our offensive scheme is basically dribble, dribble and jack up 3s. We have no consistent defensive identity. We can get up for some games like an underdog playing Texas does and we look good when our 3s are falling. I don't know how you watch this and say he is a good coach.

    Sorry, I didn't mean to quote @ChickenSandwich. I agree with you.

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  7. 11 minutes ago, HookEm said:

    I'm sure the goalposts will move.  "No no no... I meant we will have a losing season in CONFERENCE". 

    Then... "No no no, I meant we will have a losing season against top-10 teams."

    Do you not want Texas to be good at Basketball? Why do you want to set the bar low so that your guy can cross it and say it's all good, as he did better than expected.

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  8. 1 minute ago, Brian Fantana said:

    Only if you make the wrong hire.

    I must have missed the PR where RT was let go. We have a lot more misery with this hire before it gets better.

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  9. 5 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:

    Abmas waited until the last 50 seconds of the game to get his shot going. Too little too late.

    3 pointers are lower percentage shots. The averages will catch up to you. That's why you gotta have an inside game.

  10. 3 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

    ^the exact type of response I would expect from someone who openly wonders if college basketball players can understand their coach.

    Looking forward to seeing more of your hot takes this week leading up to the tournament.

    It will be a shame if you don't get anything out of sucking up to RT 247. I can't imagine a greater loser if you don't. Your constant 3rd grade level excuse making gets annoying. 

  11. 17 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

    Not as good as when you tried to say players couldn’t understand the coach because of the way he talked

    As long as you understood him while you were blowing him, it's all good my man. He is gonna need you tonight. Rest up and be at your best.

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