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UTEE97

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  1. Beard came to Ole Miss with a lot of baggage. I bet that didn't make it easy for him to build the roster and the staff in year 1 at a program where there was not much basketball history. If he truly is a top 5 coach, he should be able to turn it around mext year with his baggage farther in the rear view mirror. Of course, it's also possible that his psyche has been permanently damaged by what happened at Texas and he may never be the same coach again.

  2. 7 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    Someone who would know indicated that it was a freakish kind of lockup with no further ramifications. Do they bench him for OU as a precaution? I can see it, but they're daring the selection committee if they lose to OU.

    Shedrick and Onyema are going to have career days vs. OU. /ducks

  3. Every team in this league has a few games where everything goes their way and so they look like world beaters. I believe Fran was talking about that during the game. The great teams are more consistent than the average ones obviously. While beating Tech is always fulfilling, we need to play with more consistency to be great and to prove that those games are not flukes.

  4. 33 minutes ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

    Tech friend of mine mentioned that Brock needs to freshen up his LinkedIn...was good for a chuckle...

    On his X (fomerly known as Tweeter) post, many were telling him to enjoy working as an insurance salesman or something along that line. There is no projection there whatsoever.

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  5. 5 minutes ago, HookEm said:

    SMH.

    I’m not supporting Terry. To be clear, I wish we hadn’t hired him and don’t think he will ever be very good. But there is no need to have revisionist history. Just go look at threads from a year ago.

    It is possible to give Terry a lot of credit for last year and also think we made a mistake in hiring him.

    Well, that's a rational take but that's not what some other posters are saying. Yes he did a phenomenal job last year under unique circumstances but that doesn't mean he would be a good long-term coach. This is a thread to discuss his shortcomings as a coach and why he deserves to go. Why do you have a problem with that? Why try so hard to project long-term coaching success based only on last year while ignoring his entire coaching tenure under normal circumstances? That's what I have problems with. Just admit that we probably made a mistake and let's just hope we are not stuck with this situation for too long. If he is not good enough to get an extension, then obviously he is not good enough. Why prolong the inevitable just for the optics?

  6. 33 minutes ago, HookEm said:


    The level of doom and gloom around here was off the charts in December and January. Every game was followed by Derka posts showing how our defense was falling off a cliff. The negativity really picked up after K-State worked us at home, a full month after Beard was arrested. It all peaked in February when we lost 4 of 6 and narrowly avoided a 5th loss, again to OU. The program was absolutely a mess for those 2+ months.

    Then we beat Kansas at home and got hot in the Big 12 tourney. But things were pretty bleak in February.

    Nobody can take you seriously when you make the kind of arguments that you make in support of RT. I actually don't mind the coaching job he has done so far because I think it's to be expected given his long resume. Some of you are trying too hard to make him seem like he is not and never will be. Might as well come out and state the source of your irrational bias so we know what we are dealing with.

    Edit: what do you think is more likely? RT gets canned in 3 years or get an extension? Since you think he is so great, you must think he would get an extension.

  7. 7 minutes ago, Reality Check said:

    This... if people here are complaining about the status of Texas basketball on Feb. 27, 2024 with Rodney Terry as coach, imagine what it'd be had we not hired the Black coach who took over the train wreck Chris Beard created with his stupidity and took us to the Elite Eight.
    No matter who was hired, he'd be fortunate to ever get a Black Top 100 prospect to ever pick up the phone -- and the reverberations would have been felt in football, baseball and elsewhere. 

    It's nice to see that Coach Terry now has enough money to hire his social media and fan message board promotors. He should send Christmas gifts to Beard every year for changing his life.

  8. 3 hours ago, HookEm said:

    The program was certainly in a mess when RT inherited it.  Rice... RICE took us to overtime in his first game.  And we barely beat OU, who had a losing record.

    There is so much wrong with these arguments and you know it. Rice was the first game after the Beard news and OU is our arch rival. Why would any objective person point to those games as evidence that the program was a mess? It's like saying Michigan was in bad shape for the way they played when Harbaugh was suspended.

  9. 6 hours ago, Hookem2147 said:

    That all sounds reasonable and great, but the market is the market. Agents run college athletics. You can not expect your coach, whether a promoted assistant or brand new, to go out and recruit against the best of the best on a new 3-year contract. He would get crushed. Fair or not, that is the way it is.

    It's not football where you need a few years to build the program. In this age of NIL and transfer portal, you can instantly build a winning program if you're good and have the donor support. I think it's time to rethink the 5-year minimum contract.

    The good thing about RT's contract is that it's equivalent to a 3-year price tag ($5M per year) for a perceived good coach. Hopefully, there are offset clauses that will make the BO even less. Texas can get rid of RT wihtout much hesitation when it comes to BO, but as is often the case, they may not do it because of the "optics."

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