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  1. 16 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    We should put into perspective that Russia’s defense budget for their entire military (not the war) is around 140 billion dollars. The U.S. and Europe easily match that just in the value of what we send to Ukraine let alone the rest of our defense spending.

    We could absorb a lot more and there was a time Ukraine could have made much larger gains. The concern is manpower in the long run. 
     

    This is what pisses me off the most. There was a time the Ukrainians had the Russians on the defensive. Then the aid stopped, and it all became a series of depressing information, while in my community no one even thinks about the war in Ukraine any more, really. Then you look at the vote in both houses, where there's overwhelming bipartisan support for aid, but the minority has been able to dictate whether the bill even gets to the floor for months now. I like how the NY Post labeled the house representative Moscow Marjorie, because that's how it's felt to me, regardless of any other politics involved. And she's not the only one. 

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  2. On 4/12/2024 at 3:51 PM, Underdog said:

    I've told you morons as long as Top Button is the UK AD, Beard will never get hired, didn't even get looked at along with Pearl and Miller per reports....  Now where's my GD cookie? 

     

    If Beard takes Ole Miss to the Final Four, we'll see if he gets looked at or not the next time the Kentucky job comes open. Unless we're all assuming Mark Pope is just the man to right the ship. 

    Of course, we're a long ways away from Ole Miss doing anything significant just yet. 

    It's just not much of a prediction when Ole Miss didn't even make the tournament last year. Not much to go on. Miller in much the same situation. 

  3. Jerritt Elliott's new contract.

    https://volleyballmag.com/texas-nebraska-volleyball-notes-041124/

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    Elliott, who won his first NCAA title at Texas in 2012, signed a new contract extension to keep him guiding the Longhorns through 2029. His total compensation of $800,000, excluding performance bonuses, makes him the highest-paid college volleyball coach. Previously, Nebraska coach John Cook was at the top of the sport with a base pay of $750,000 for 2024.

    Elliott signed his contract, obtained through an open records request, on February 26 and was announced by Texas on March 11.

    The new deal lowers his base pay from $557,500 to $500,000. However, Elliott will receive $300,000 in 2024 for “Professional Services Payments.” This includes sublicensing intellectual property as well as for personal and media appearances. These clauses are more common in football and basketball coaching contracts but are a novelty in the volleyball world. The payments increase annually to a maximum of $425,000 in 2029. The base pay does not change during the same time frame.

    The contract also contains another wrinkle: The additional payments don’t go directly to Elliott but rather to DREJ, Inc., a corporate entity registered in the State of Texas. (The corporation was formed on February 23, three days before he signed the extension.) Elliott is listed as the corporation’s registered agent.

    DREJ, Inc., is set up as an S-Corp, allowing it to pass its taxable income, credits, deductions, and losses directly to its shareholders. While they require more accounting paperwork, S-Corps are often set up as a tax planning vehicle, which allows individuals to lower their tax burden.

    With the new contract, Elliott also received a new title of Director of Volleyball in addition to Head Volleyball Coach. Based on the contract language, he will serve as the head coach of Texas’ indoor team and oversee the second-year beach program and coach Stein Metzger.

    Elliott will receive bonuses based on each program’s performance. He can receive a maximum performance bonus of 37 percent of his base salary for marks such as conference titles or advancing in the postseason. He can also receive up to a 30 percent increase for metrics met by the beach program. If Elliott were to max out his performance bonuses, he could earn as much as $1.135 million in 2024.

    The contract also contains non-monetary compensation, such as a percentage of the net proceeds from camps, club membership and spouse travel. The extension added that the university will provide him with a car.

     

     

    On 4/10/2024 at 6:23 PM, Js1 said:

    Just saw the commercial for it. One More Time. Sunday at 3

    Appropriately titled for a Longhorn Network show.

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  4. 6 hours ago, closetohumping said:

    Why would

    Beard go to ksu?

    I don't think he would. But I didn't think any of this would unfold. I'm just trying to play out the chaos in a way that most involves my various fan agendas. 

  5. 6 minutes ago, markstanco said:

    Did he accept the job?  From what I see is he turned it down. 

    Looks that way. It's hilarious either way. I would have enjoyed rooting against Scott Drew at Kentucky, but I'll enjoy rooting against him at Baylor all the same. 

  6. When Andy Enfield took the SMU job, I told all of you the only way this can go is that Scott Drew is going to end up at Kentucky. You laughed at me then, but who's laughing now?

    BTW, I'm rooting for Jerome Tang to take the Baylor job. Maybe Beard takes the KState job and then Ole Miss hires Gillespie. Why not?

  7. 14 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

    I don't think it is unreasonable to "hope" that Texas basketball can at some point return to a level like 2002 to 2008. 

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    I thought we might be on our way back to this type of program with Beard until his dumbass domestic scuffle.

    RT needs to get this roster right, his staff right, and coach his ass off.  If the play and results of his team don't improve, then it's fair to criticize him and want better for Texas Basketball.  

    I thought that's the way it was going to be for the rest of my life for UT sports. Particularly football, men's basketball, and baseball. 

    Narrator: It wasn't. 

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  8. 3 hours ago, Lonestar88 said:

    Even if this thing crashes and burns the way some of y’all are predicting, Terry still won’t be as bad as Shaka, he’s already cleared that low bar.

    Wetlich, too, for that matter. Wetlich was even worse than Smart. What a terrible time to be a Texas basketball fan.

  9. 8 hours ago, UTEE97 said:

    We just need to be patient with RT. Rome wasn't built in a day. There are plenty of examples of hall of fame coaches who didn't exactly set the stage on fire in their first few years as head coaches. Dan Hurley was pedestrian in his first 4 years at UConn as others have pointed out. The screenshot below is the record of another HOF coach at a blueblood program. Guess who that is. Give RT 5 years to prove himself.

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    I will always be proud of UT for how patient the administration was with Shaka Smart. My sanity was a much lower priority, as it should be. All I could think about was how proud I was of everyone responsible for keeping him on, as I beat my head against a wall for 5 of those 6 years. 

    I don't care who anyone cites, if Terry misses the tournament the next two years he shouldn't be the head coach at Texas any more. 

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  10. 1 hour ago, aggie08 said:

    Great post. 

    It's also why I can't help but push back on the narrative that CDC HAD to hire Terry. A top 10 program--which Texas strives and has the resources to be--doesn't automatically hire an interim coach with a mediocre track record as a HC because he coached half a season and makes the Elite 8. They do their due diligence. If Terry is the guy after weighing the options, then so be it. And, who knows, maybe they did kick the tires on a few potential candidates quietly before deciding to give Terry the reins.

    They did not. I mean, they thought about it before the tournament but the tournament run sealed it.

    I don't know why people want to dismiss the Elite Eight berth. Tournament performance simply is THE metric college coaches are measured by. There's not really another that comes close. Then you look in the rafters, and it's not exactly brimming in Elite Eight banners. Yes, it was Beard's team and program that was built and Terry inherited it. But he also inherited it under adverse conditions and righted the ship. 

    It's going to be fine. We just have to live long enough to see it. Either Terry is going to get this right or he's going to be fired and CDC will go out and hire his main target. Because that's what he does. 

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  11. 8 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

    Too many fundamental mistakes this past year.  RT has to develop an offense, get more discipline from his team, and close out games better.  

    This thread won't die unless the product gets a lot better.  

    I feel like you have a different view of human nature than I do. It won't die because it's controversial, it's topical as long as Terry is the head coach, and people have passionate opinions on the subject. It's pretty easy for someone to offer an opinion that someone else will disagree with. Like Red Bull, that gives threads wings. 

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  12. 5 hours ago, CTC2 said:

    We should just go ahead and start arguing about whether RT is fired or extended after year three. 

    If we all agreed about everything message boards would be a dull and empty place. 

     

    3 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I disagree.  If I had to choose one coach to fire today -- Pierce or Terry -- I'd pick Terry without any hesitation.  Pierce has shown he CAN do it.  Terry has only shown he can do it under very odd circumstances.

    And to be clear, I don't think it's reasonable to consider whether Terry should be fired right now. I think a legitimate discussion - as far as message boards go, that is - can be made whether he will be fired in the future or keep his job until he retires, but heck, there aren't many coaches at Texas who get to do that. Even some of the very best ones. You not only have to win at a high level to keep your job. You have to keep winning at a high level. 

    David Pierce has been practically under the gun since that debacle of a hiring process where we got 4 or 5 coaches significant raises at their current job. Probably the worst coaching search I've ever seen conducted at Texas in my lifetime for a sport that should be a slam dunk. That's just not the CDC way. He identifies his target and then gets them. He had his hands tied with Rodney Terry in what I find completely understandable ways. I understand that baseball has a richer tradition at Texas, and frankly there's no reason not to have the best coaches in the country want to take this job, but the truth is college basketball is more prestigious and higher profile. There's no reason why Texas can't be elite in every sport it fields, which is not something that any other school can say. It just takes the right coach. And we've shown if we don't have the right coach we'll keep firing people until we find them. 

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  13. 3 hours ago, HookEm said:

    This thread isn't titled "We shouldn't have hired Rodney Terry".  That is the conversation that I'm so exhausted from. 

    The thread IS titled "Fire Rodney Terry" and that is the question I'm asking.  Is anyone proposing that we actually do what the thread is titled?  If not, then this thread should die. 

    If you want to post about whether we should have hired him in the first place, then go ahead and start that thread and I can just avoid it.

    I don't think this thread is going to die.

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  14. 49 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I totally forgot about that, which might go to your point that winning cures all.  Is there a video out there?

     

    I like my coaches with a little fire in them. Tbh, most of the time Sarkisian seems so relaxed. 

    I remember Barry Switzer saying he had to pull back Mack Brown when he was an assistant at OU because he was too hard on the players. It often made me wistful. 

    In any case, Terry ain't going anywhere this offseason at the very least. I refuse to be in a place where I do anything but hope for the best. I'm pleased with how the season turned out after the loss to UCF, given that I didn't think we were going to make the tournament. Let's see what happens this coming year with the SEC move. 

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  15. 32 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

    in this particular instance I do.

    And in this particular instance your favorite money person was instrumental in Terry getting the job.

    Okay.

    All I can tell you is the basketball people I know were not excited about the whole circumstances surrounding Terry getting the job, but feel like he deserves a chance. Which he is getting. 

    And then there are other people who are not money people who feel like this is a good example of why Texas will never be great in basketball. Because this wouldn't have happened in football, the argument goes. Which I don't agree with. If a situation analogous to what happened with Beard and Terry occurred in football, I think it would have been very difficult to make a change. Even in football. 

    We just have to let it play out. Hopefully Terry ends up being a home run hire. 

  16. 8 hours ago, dcar00 said:

    the money wanted Terry and the AD loved the idea so much he gave him the minimum contract he could possibly get away with.

     

    I don't think you know anyone who could possibly be considered "the money."

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  17. 22 hours ago, dcar00 said:

    yeah and also easier to moneywhip someone to take over the best program in the country.  

    we may have gotten fortunate with Sark as it was certainly a risk. time will tell how consistent he is keeping us at the top. Basketball we hired Beard and the money wanted Terry after the incident and I am guessing CDC didn't have a better option at that time.  we'll know in a couple of years if Terry works out.

    Baseball is the one where our AD being a disaster caused us to "reach".

     

     

    What are you talking about "the money wanted Terry after the incident." He was the fucking assistant head coach. The whole scenario played out practically by the book after Beard's arrest. Anyone could see what was coming. I did. He was named the interim head coach. There were a lot of people - Del Conte included - that hoped something could be worked out other than firing him, but it just wasn't in the cards. Then once Terry made it to the Elite Eight it was all done. I think it's more accurate to say the administration wanted Terry, and that was enough.

    It feels like you're throwing shit out there without having a clue what you're talking about because you're disgruntled Terry is the head coach. Which I get. But it doesn't mean we live in some kind of alternate reality where the money people were just begging for Terry to be the guy. They weren't. 

    I understand the sentiment that wishes it had gone down differently, but I don't consider any of those sentiments reasonable. He's the coach until he's proven he can't get it done. One season where we lose in the second round of the NCAA tournament ain't it. 

    We'll either have our shot at a big time hire in a couple of years or Terry will have proven to be a better fit for the job than I give him credit for. 

    Oh, and if you want a silver lining, the raise in pay for Sarkisian means there's more room to pay the head basketball coach without eclipsing the football coach's salary, which is a plus. 

    But we've got some time to kill until then. Maybe it works out with Terry. Who knows?

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  18. 11 hours ago, shadow_operative said:

    watch this and tell me you aren’t rooting for Tennessee tomorrow.

    I haven't watched it. I will though.

    But I'm not rooting for Tennessee. I think the world of Barnes. I still want him to lose.

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  19. 20 hours ago, BurntOrangeBlooded15 said:

    Fuck Cal.  I’d rather have RT as our coach the next 40 years than that fuck coach at Texas.   Some dumbasses around here wanted him post Beard too. 

    I would not root for Texas if they hired Calipari. I might actively root against us. It would be as if the football program hired Barry Switzer. 

     

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