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4 hours ago, Derka said:

i also hope the us loses the world cup because of donald trump. i’ll gladly take the hit today to make things better in the long term. 

I hesitate to ask, but…

…how does the U.S. losing in the World Cup make things better in the long term vis-à-vis Donald Trump?

Posted (edited)
11 minutes ago, MotownHorn said:

I hesitate to ask, but…

…how does the U.S. losing in the World Cup make things better in the long term vis-à-vis Donald Trump?

i hope that the usa’s golden generation loses their home soil world cup because our cruel and demented president has scared the rest of the world off from trying to travel to our country, as a lesson for what happens when you elect an actual fascist as your president. i hope that trump has to watch canada and mexico take the world cup from him. we’ve created an unsafe environment for the world to come here, and we deserve to be punished.

Texas Basketball has been giving the middle finger to its season ticket holders while raising prices and building a new arena, and they deserve to have an empty arena for consistently giving their dedicated fans one garbage home schedule after another for more than a decade.

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our fans are the exact opposite of what pancho said they are. we give our donors and season ticket holders this:

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and our entire online fanbase (so, the hardcores) are unanimously saying, “what are you even complaining about???”. and y’all have been saying that through shaka, beard, terry, and now miller. y’all have been beating the “we’re gaming the NET system bro!” drum for years, making excuses for the super rich university while villainizing the fans who want a better home schedule. “cater to me” he says. yeah right.

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Posted
9 hours ago, MotownHorn said:

I hesitate to ask, but…

…how does the U.S. losing in the World Cup make things better in the long term vis-à-vis Donald Trump?

If Derka's response wasn't clear, he is advocating for the World Cup to be pulled from being hosted by the U.S. for political reasons, not for Team USA to lose in the competition.  

Posted
25 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

What's the connection between soccer and Texas basketball?

Attention whoring by someone 

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Posted
23 hours ago, Blotto said:

yeah.... that didn't happen

My bad. Misread the chart.  Still, it was our best 3 year stretch with a Final Four and two sweet 16s.  And we played almost no good OOC teams at home over that period.

Here are our OOC home opponents since 2000 that finished with a top-100 computer ranking.  Top 10 is orange.  Top-25 is blue

Rick Barnes = 12 top-25 and 27 top-100 teams in 16 years

  • 2000 - Arizona (13), San Diego (70)
  • 2001 - Illinois (4), Cal (35), Utah (67)
  • 2002 - Arizona (10), Providence (86)
  • 2003 - 
  • 2004 - Wake Forest (16)
  • 2005 - Memphis (51), UNLV (79)
  • 2006 - Villanova (4), Tennessee (16)
  • 2007 - Arkansas (41)
  • 2008 - Wisconsin (6), Oral Roberts (76), St. Mary's (51)
  • 2009 - UCLA (14)
  • 2010 - Michigan St (19), USC (63), 
  • 2011 - UConn (5), Arkansas (87)
  • 2012 - Temple (40)
  • 2013 - North Carolina (21)
  • 2014 - Michigan St (6), SF Austin (76), Vanderbilt (90)
  • 2015 - Stanford (38)

Shaka Smart = 5 top-25 / 12 top-100 teams in 6 years

  • 2016 - North Carolina (3), UConn (31), Vanderbilt (36)
  • 2017 - Alabama (58), UT Arlington (77)
  • 2018 - Michigan (6), Ole Miss (90)
  • 2019 - Purdue (11), VCU (57), Providence (66)
  • 2020 - LSU (35)
  • 2021 - Villanova (15)

Chris Beard = 3 top-25 / 4 top-100 teams in 2 years

  • 2022 - Tennessee (8)
  • 2023 - Gonzaga (2), Creighton (19), Louisiana (99)

Rodney Terry = 1 top-25 / 1 top-100 team in 2 years

  • 2024 - 
  • 2025 - UConn (18)

Sean Miller (projected) = 0 top-25 / 1 top-100 team in 1 year

  • 2026 - Virginia (~90)

Barnes, Shaka and Beard all played about the same number of elite and top-100 teams on average. The only tenure that really stands out was Rodney Terry.  Not only were there almost no elite or even average opponents, the dregs of the schedule were truly bottom feeders.  It looks like more of the same for Sean Miller's first year.

Time will tell if this is a result of the new NIL / SEC environment or if it will adjust back to the type of scheduling we had from 2000-2023.

Posted
15 hours ago, Derka said:

our fans are the exact opposite of what pancho said they are. we give our donors and season ticket holders this:

IMG_8567.thumb.jpeg.1545b224bca5681654edbe863135f115.jpeg

and our entire online fanbase (so, the hardcores) are unanimously saying, “what are you even complaining about???”. and y’all have been saying that through shaka, beard, terry, and now miller. y’all have been beating the “we’re gaming the NET system bro!” drum for years, making excuses for the super rich university while villainizing the fans who want a better home schedule. “cater to me” he says. yeah right.

Most of ‘the hardcores’ don’t spend a dime going to games and never did during the FEC days…

Posted
9 hours ago, idigTexas said:

If Derka's response wasn't clear, he is advocating for the World Cup to be pulled from being hosted by the U.S. for political reasons, not for Team USA to lose in the competition.  

Ah got it. Thanks. I'm not a soccer guy

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