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  1. 10 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

    FG%, 3point%, AdjO, offensive rebound % and offensive efficiency all currently rank better than last years team. 

    So what?  If you are really going to make the suggestion that this is better than I can’t argue with delusion. 

  2. Just now, SL Xpress said:

     

    There is no assistant hire that's going to fix this program. And by fix, I mean put it in a place where it's competing for national championships. I don't actually think we'll be competing for Sweet 16s, and that should be the minimum. 

    That said, I thought Terry was about to completely lose the team. He didn't. That speaks well of him, even if he's still not good enough to be the long term coach at Texas, IMO. 

    I’m not disagreeing but Haith is responsible for the offense which I think is just shit-tastic. 

  3. 3 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:

    Since I feel compelled to shit all over Rodney Terry when we lose games I don't think we should, I'd like to say that he's not absent leadership skills. It doesn't make me want him to be our long term coach any more than I do - which is not at all - but I honestly thought this team was done for after losing 3 out of 4 to Tech, WVA, and UCF. That UCF game in particular just felt like a stick a fork in them kind of game.

    I hate the way we play. I hate our defense. I hate our lack of continuity or overall vision. But I'll tell you what. Beating Baylor the way we did, taking out OU in Norman, and now going toe to toe against one of the most relentless effort programs in college basketball at least makes me feel like the team buys into Rodney Terry. I appreciate that. Doesn't make me a fan, but I at least admire the effort from the guy and the effort he's bringing out in these players. 

    Fair take. Effort was good tonight. But there were several times coming out of time outs at end of regulation and especially near the end of overtime that it looked like we had absolutely no plan on the offensive possession.  In light of the effort by the players it was just maddening.  I don’t underestimate Haith being one of the issues with this team. 

  4. 7 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Here's what I think is going on with Trump.  When confronted with a new factual or legal situation, I think he looks at it pretty much like anyone else in terms of this is good for me or this is bad for me.

    As things turn bad for him in an objective way, his genius/madness is the ability to turn that negative into a positive by his relentless flood of bullshit.  At the outset, I think he knows it's bullshit, too.

    Where it starts to get weird is that he, like his followers, begins to believe the bullshit.  And probably also that things that are actually bad for him are maybe actually good for him.

    The thing is, the stuff that's happening to him now is worse than anything that's happened to him to date.  He can't escape the possibility of conviction and jail time, or liquidation of his NY entities.  In his prior legal entanglements, in the end it was always just money, and, no matter how stiff the judgment, thought he could negotiate and settle for less and then brag about it if anyone questioned him.  Not so much now.

    I'm guessing the stress of it is cooking his brain and helps account for his apparently accelerating dementia.

    Pretty good explanation of it. He grew up I think in the Unitarian Church with all that power of positive thinking crap that he just takes to the extreme. 
    What I don’t understand is how his flock thinks of him as a strong man when he is constantly portraying himself as a victim of others who are logically stronger and more powerful than him.  Have you ever seen a public figure who is more victimized than him according to his own response to every situation?  Everything is always “unfair”. 

  5. 14 hours ago, MotownHorn said:

    Brock's old man YMCA tricks don't work as well anymore because opponents and refs have figured him out. He gets called for a ton of shit that he didn't used to get called for. He used to get away with all the little pushes and shit that BYU got away with today. Now he gets called for all that. That's him developing a reputation and the refs responding, which is fully independent of who the coach is.

    Plus his shot is just off and he shouldn't be taking 6 3s in a game until he gets that fixed. RT letting him shoot last year was actually a smart coaching move. The problem is RT is still letting him shoot despite his shot sucking this year. But RT isn't shooting the shots for him. Again, his shot going cold is fully independent of who the coach is.

    If you said "Weaver should have gotten more of those minutes today" I'd agree. "Brock is a worse player due to RT" is just fucking idiotic. He's simply getting called for more and shooting worse. Which are independent of the coach.

    I say if his shot is off that’s up to the coaches to help work that out. If he is getting called for cheap fouls, maybe the coaches should work with him on it.  Every time he gets called for one he looks shocked. We have this thing called video tape and teaching.  Isn’t one of the jobs of a coach to teach, develop and correct mistakes?  I see plenty of instances of players changing their game or correcting things at the direction of coaching staff. 
    Look, I get that you have some affinity for RT and want to give him three or four years to figure things out. That’s cool. But, some of us are of a different opinion. I’m not trying to change yours. You aren’t going to change mine. 
    The thing is that I really enjoy Texas basketball and I have since 1986. 
    I’m old and don’t have the patience of Jobe anymore.  When Sark went 5-7 I knew that his team had no depth, no size on the lines etc.  I could at least see what he was trying to do and that he did not have the pieces to do it.  It was obviously going to take him a few recruiting cycles to get the players he needed. 
    Here, I don’t share the same optimism. 

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  6. 27 minutes ago, Foggy Notion said:

    A friend of mine and former band mate owns one of these original Schecter PT’s from the 80s. Bought it from Zach Blair the guitarist from Rise Against back in the late 90s when he was in Hagfish. That Tele is about as rock and roll as it gets. Just a killer guitar that plays like butter. 

    Schecter Saturn. Most of the production ones were made in Dallas with the Fender style headstock. I still haven’t seen one in the wild but I hope to buy one at some point. 

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  7. On 1/14/2024 at 9:50 AM, atomheartbevo said:

    Abbott would frame that and hang it in his office as proof that the librools hate him.  He’s probably sent a copy to Trump campaign HQ.   

    Someone should ask around about why Hot Wheels stopped sending busses to Portland. 

  8. 21 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

    This is where most people should be at. Like said above, it's certainly possible he ends up being awesome but it's all based on hope, which is fine as a fan. The only thing getting mocked around here is people attempting to act like his résumé is great. 

    On one hand, if A&M had hired this guy we would have laughed as their writers tried to fluff him as a great hire. On the other hand they fuck up everything so maybe the current trajectory of the Texas program helps this guy be what we hope he can be. Like I said, it's all fan hope. Now he has to prove himself. 

    Hope is not a winning strategy. 

  9. 2 hours ago, closetojumping said:

    You know enough people to ask about this, but after Beard was out, supposedly conversations with Few were real. He was awestruck by the experience at Moody and viewed Texas as fallow ground for becoming a title winning legend. He was willing to give it a 10-15 year go. Allegedly. 

    If this is true our guys are as stupid as the athletic department  is rich. There is no excuse for caving to media and social pressure if this deal could have been worked out.  It’s almost such a no brainer that I can hardly believe it. 

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  10. Just now, Atticus said:

    He developed himself into a five star HS DT prospect, big time contributor at Texas, and eventual draft pick and NFL player. Now, he's developed himself into a pretty good coach worthy of being considered as the DL coach at his alma mater.

    He's also young enough to relate to most of these guys while still commanding respect.

    He doesn't have a ton of skins on the wall as a coach, but I'm sure he can sell what he's accomplished so far in his life.

    You don’t have to defend it. I was just pointing out what kind of hire I would have thought they would be after. 

  11. 48 minutes ago, BornAndRaised said:

    "Rod Wright isn't good enough to coach at Texas!

    Oh, ok, who is then?

    "I DONT KNOW, BUT YOU DONT EITHER!"

    I swear to God immamac should just lock this thread for 12 hours so people can get their thoughts together.

    For me, I would probably be looking for a guy who can point to players they coached and developed into the NFL as opposed to a guy who coached them after they had already been developed enough to make the league. 
    I see a lot of recruits talk about wanting development towards the NFL. 
    Not saying Wright won’t be successful but there was no question that Davis was very good with development and had the resume to back it up.  
    Now, who that would be, I have no idea.  As such, Wright I guess is as good as anyone. 

  12. 1 hour ago, JohnnyRage said:

    40-50% of construction jobs in Texas are immigrants. While you might think that means roofers and day laborers, it is also a lot of middle class jobs like heavy machine operators and the running of crews. But as stated many times Texas/Texans/Americans are all addicted to value and low prices, and Republicans have no interest in solving this problem going back decades, and most people don't care to be informed.

    I'm sure the numbers are much higher in other industries that employ the 3rd party contractor or recruiter model - like landscaping, cleaning services, child care.

     

    Hotels, restaurants, warehouses, meat production, food processing and packing, the list goes on and on.  Anyone saying they want to round all these people up and deport them is not being straight with you about the economic consequences. 

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  13. 2 hours ago, Rickylovesweed said:

    I'm really not sure why people think there's no chance RT won't be fired after 1 year. 

    A 3-15 Big 12 finish would be our worst year in conference play in about 40 years. That would probably also lead to roster turnover and losing at least one of those top recruits. RT is 100% getting fired if Texas finishes 3-15 or 4-14 in Big 12 play. 

    I predict we will lose at least two of the recruits anyway. 

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