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I will say I would not be shocked by the Donovan news. 

Like I told @Lonestar88 in the recruiting thread Donovan's days with the Bulls are cooked. He's going to be there maybe 1 more year even with the recent extension. Then another NBA team won't hire him after failing at his 2nd NBA gig. 

My guess is Donovan will be back in college basketball next season or the year to follow. 

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14 minutes ago, Rickylovesweed said:

On a serious note, Texas needs to hire Rick Stansbury as an assistant. 

He's not a good head coach but a great assistant and recruiter. 

Yup, he was the gold for aggy when they had those S16 runs. But I do believe he’s sketchy on the recruiting trail.

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17 minutes ago, Rickylovesweed said:

I will say I would not be shocked by the Donovan news. 

Like I told @Lonestar88 in the recruiting thread Donovan's days with the Bulls are cooked. He's going to be there maybe 1 more year even with the recent extension. Then another NBA team won't hire him after failing at his 2nd NBA gig. 

My guess is Donovan will be back in college basketball next season or the year to follow. 

Not sure on timeline but coach Donovan wants to come back to college bball now that cheating is legal (NIL). Sounds like there is real interest from his side for the potential UT job, but not sure how you move on from RT at this point.

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Just now, SirLurksAlot said:

Not sure on timeline but coach Donovan wants to come back to college bball now that cheating is legal (NIL). Sounds like there is real interest from his side for the potential UT job, but not sure how you move on from RT at this point.

I'm all for the RT love but if we pass on Dilly Donovan for RT it would be a monumentally stupid decision. 

Granted, I need to see more confirmation that Donovan actually wants the job. 

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43 minutes ago, Rockethorn1978 said:

I’d take BD all day. 

Yea.  He’d do great here.  First choice for me

16 minutes ago, Pancho said:

I do not believe Billy Donovan is interested in fucking tech. Neither is Pitino. That is tech people putting that out there to make themselves se grander than they are.

Lmao.  Idk about pitino but Donavan ain’t going to tech

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2 hours ago, SirLurksAlot said:

Not sure on timeline but coach Donovan wants to come back to college bball now that cheating is legal (NIL). Sounds like there is real interest from his side for the potential UT job, but not sure how you move on from RT at this point.

you move on from RT if Billy D is available, and you find a way to show RT love at the same time. cdc tells RT that Donovan is a serious candidate, that both will be considered, and ultimately, when cdc chooses BD, he does everything he can to do right by RT. eg make RT the highest paid assistant in the country, make him the HCIW, fill his contract with bonuses, or have cdc help to find him a different HC job somewhere where RT would be really happy. whatever it take to show love and respect to RT for the loyalty he's shown Texas and the job he's done this season. i'm 100% on board with RT being our next HC, and i'm even excited about it...unless we can get Billy Donovan to take over right away. 

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25 minutes ago, shadow_operative said:

you move on from RT if Billy D is available, and you find a way to show RT love at the same time. cdc tells RT that Donovan is a serious candidate, that both will be considered, and ultimately, when cdc chooses BD, he does everything he can to do right by RT. eg make RT the highest paid assistant in the country, make him the HCIW, fill his contract with bonuses, or have cdc help to find him a different HC job somewhere where RT would be really happy. whatever it take to show love and respect to RT for the loyalty he's shown Texas and the job he's done this season. i'm 100% on board with RT being our next HC, and i'm even excited about it...unless we can get Billy Donovan to take over right away. 

Without looking, I’d bet Terry is older than Billy.  
 

I think RT won the job but he would not be my first choice.   Donavan is.  Proud of RT and it wouldn’t upset me if he were the coach but this Donavan we’re talking about

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3 minutes ago, closetohumping said:

Without looking, I’d bet Terry is older than Billy.  
 

I think RT won the job but he would not be my first choice.   Donavan is.  Proud of RT and it wouldn’t upset me if he were the coach but this Donavan we’re talking about

Yup, it's essentially an Urban Meyer type hire for the basketball program. And any talk of RT deserves it would take care of itself because of the clout Donavan would come with.

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You can’t just bestow a HCIW title on someone with out the new head coach agreeing to it. It would also imply the new coach isn’t going to be here long in which case why would you hire him? If it’s Donovan, yes you’d have to hire him. Terry can get a HC job on his own, although CDC can’t force another school to hire Terry but he can give a great letter of recommendation.

 

EDIT to also say you can’t force an assistant coach on a HC. So if we hire someone else, it would be their right to fill out the staff as they see fit. 

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2 hours ago, shadow_operative said:

you move on from RT if Billy D is available, and you find a way to show RT love at the same time. cdc tells RT that Donovan is a serious candidate, that both will be considered, and ultimately, when cdc chooses BD, he does everything he can to do right by RT. eg make RT the highest paid assistant in the country, make him the HCIW, fill his contract with bonuses, or have cdc help to find him a different HC job somewhere where RT would be really happy. whatever it take to show love and respect to RT for the loyalty he's shown Texas and the job he's done this season. i'm 100% on board with RT being our next HC, and i'm even excited about it...unless we can get Billy Donovan to take over right away. 

Fuck off, you flip flopping piece of shit. You were literally stating not even a week ago that he shouldn’t be our coach even if he won a national championship this year because he couldn’t build winning programs at UTEP and Fresno State and denouncing anyone who challenged you. A few days ago in a separate poll, you espoused that he would get offered the gig if he made it to the Sweet 16, but he shouldn’t regardless of how he performed.

 

Now, magically after winning 2 games, it’s “I love RT. He’s the best. I am fully on board. Help me with photoshop everyone, he’s hot rod. I add value to the board.”

 

What a fucking tosser. You and Loop can get fucked.

 

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I think hiring another coach and asking RT to take the HCIW title as an assistant is a bigger "fuck you" than just moving on.  Beyond that, his resume would be no better with more years as an assistant than it will be once/if we get bounced from the 2023 tournament.

I strongly suspect CDC would help broker a great landing spot if he goes for a bigger name than RT.

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