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  1. seriously, i mean saka >>>>>> palmer. so what is it? is it just because he’s english and white? why does this guy constantly get included in stuff like this?
  2. I’m not ready to start the “Fire Sean Miller” thread, although i could have just as easily titled this thread, “We Should Not Have Hired Sean Miller In The First Place”, because that’s how i felt about the prospect of hiring him to begin with, and now only ~6 weeks into his inaugural season i’m pretty much checked out and assuming that not much is going to change that, not only over the course of this season, but going into next season as well. as has been posted here many times, sean miller hasn’t really done shit in the last 10 years. his only good teams came more than a decade ago when he was cheating his ass off, and he showed even more obvious character issues with the way that he immediately ditched Xavier for the Texas job after Xavier had welcomed him back home with a soft landing spot and open arms after his fbi/cheating scandal at arizona. the guy looked like a star 10 years ago, but that’s eons ago in the world of college basketball. since then, his resume is “meh”. miller has won a tourney game in two of his last 10 seasons. he’s missed the tourney three times during that span, soon to be four. he hasn’t made the elite 8 during that time, and he’s never made the final four. six out of the last nine years his team has finished the season ranked lower than where it started in kenpom. he also does not have a system that he can lean on and recruit to. he just gathers talent and then sees what he can do with it, and those coaches are becoming dinosaurs. speaking of grabbing talent, our highly rated recruiting class for next year is three shooting guards, none of whom will be an impact player next year. in fact only one of the three projects to be a guy who gets more than 15-17 minutes next year. these are guys who will take years to develop as part of a more complete roster, they are not game changers. so not only does this season look bleak, but the future doesn’t look any better. ideally, at this program, in year two, a player like Vok should be your 5th best player, maybe 4th best if he cuts down on fouls and silly mistakes. as of now he’s going to be our best player next year. so unless miller is able to sign a transfer class with four different guys who are going to come in and be better than Vok will be (and at least one of them needs to be a high end PG, and another needs to be a 2-3 level scorer) then i don’t see how next year is going to be markedly different than this one. the guys i talked to when the miller rumors were really heating up said that CDC has wanted him for years and was basically zoned in on him. he figured he’d be a safe hire with a high floor who would cost a lot less than tommy lloyd, or anyone else we may have considered had we actually had any ambition when it came to this hiring. so now here we are, still wandering the goddamn desert like he have been since ~2012, save the oases that were shaka’s first year and beard’s cup of coffee with the program. and i don’t see no more oases on the horizon. i see a disjointed roster full of third tier sec players and a future that’s more of the same. i’ve never been this down so n a coach this early into his tenure, in any sport, but what the fuck man. there’s just no objective, fact based argument that says that sean miller has Texas Basketball anywhere near being in a good position- not now, and not for the future. shit is depressing.
  3. nobody over 30 will care, but the players care, and it’s going to become a big deal at some point in the future, the equivalent of the FA Cup in soccer. the young guys in the league are mostly rich, cultured, and fans of soccer, plus we have a ton of international players for whom this kind of tourney is old hat. those guys care, and while the rest of us really don’t care right now (in the competition’s infancy), i’ll bet you that in 10 years it’s become a really big deal.
  4. seriously, there’s basically no downside. do it.
  5. palmer and bellingham make it but raphiña doesn’t? how?
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  7. they’re from syracuse, ny, their mascot is the dolphins, and they shoot 40% from deep. might be a fun game.
  8. the rest of the developed world is going to leave us behind faster than we can blink.
  9. this is the OP ^^^. they said this would happen and it did. and we aren’t even one year in. the immediate future is bleak.
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    West Wing

    i’m about to finish veep for the first time, and when i do, a WW rewatch is going to be my methadone.
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