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Tech looks like they have a pretty good coach….

8 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

Tech looks like they have a pretty good coach….

Ok? He’s in year 3. 23-11 in year 1

4 hours ago, Sawbonz said:

Tech looks like they have a pretty good coach….

 

3 hours ago, Js1 said:

Ok? He’s in year 3. 23-11 in year 1

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egg mcmuffin or a bologna sangwich in County...

It all comes down to timing.

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@immamac i meant for the thread title to be “sean miller is *already* losing me”, and it’s bugging the shit out of me. if you could change it i’d appreciate it.

1 hour ago, Derka said:

@immamac i meant for the thread title to be “sean miller is *already* losing me”, and it’s bugging the shit out of me. if you could change it i’d appreciate it.

You can edit your own thread title. Just edit the first post - should give you the option. 

  • immamac changed the title to Sean Miller is already losing me

I really want Miller to be successful and I want to like the guy.  But man, he's a really.... boring listen.  Hopefully, at some point, winning cures all.  Until then, he's really tough to listen to.   

44 minutes ago, field said:

I really want Miller to be successful and I want to like the guy.  But man, he's a really.... boring listen.  Hopefully, at some point, winning cures all.  Until then, he's really tough to listen to.   

Being boring is a bad quality for a UT basketball coach. Basketball doesn't sell itself here.

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47 minutes ago, field said:

I really want Miller to be successful and I want to like the guy.  But man, he's a really.... boring listen.  Hopefully, at some point, winning cures all.  Until then, he's really tough to listen to.   

that was one thing i always enjoyed growing up- i liked Tom Penders and he was a very candid guy, and then Barnes comes along and he’s somehow even more candid, and a great storyteller to boot. i used to love singing The Eyes at the FEC and then jessi ng straight to the car to listen to the postgame show with criag way and coach barnes. he’d tell you who did well and who did poorly, why it happened, what he told them in the huddle/locker room, and what they needed to do to get their shit straight before the next game. between Lemons, Penders, and Barnes, that’s a lotta years of coaches at Texas who were good on the microphone. i miss that aspect of the Texas Basketball experience.

On 12/19/2025 at 9:50 AM, Pato del Muerto said:

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I don't care about basketball nearly so much as I care about rock 'n roll, and that right there is a master fucking class.  It's one of my go-to videos when someone asks something stupid like "what does a great frontman really mean?" or "what exactly does it mean to be a rippin' live band that isn't exactly tight as a duck's ass?".  

How's our men's basketball team doing?

No yeah it's going great. 

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at least we aren't getting platitudes about our practice play needing to just catch up to our game play.

I suppose he's trying to find out who doesn't want to get embarrassed in conf play this year.

27 minutes ago, ztejas said:

No yeah it's going great. 

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Lol Vic Schaefer behavior. “Only won by 25? Time to chew ass”

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swain fouls out and Texas just crumbles, blowing a 7 point lead with just a couple of minutes left in regulation. worst part: MSU ties the game with 17.7 seconds left. Texas has 3 timeouts. instead of using one and drawing up a play, sean miller lets pope bring it up and just dribble the air out of the ball before taking some terrible, fadeaway jumper that was off by a mile. 0 passes, 0 plan, jay four guys watching our dumbest player take the exact shit we all knew he was going to take. we lost the game in overtime.

that’s some shaka and RT shit. i’ve seen this shit before, i don’t want to see it again. that’s unacceptable, as is his roster construction, both for this year and next. wtf is CDC doing with this program? just didn’t even attempt to do a real coaching search, and gave us this has-been who has no idea what he’s doing. unreal.

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The defense is just abysmal and so obviously not being coached well. We'll win a few SEC games because Swain is Himothy but outside of that this is a bad team that doesn't play smart, hard or for each other.

On 12/22/2025 at 10:30 PM, dcar00 said:

at least we aren't getting platitudes about our practice play needing to just catch up to our game play.

I suppose he's trying to find out who doesn't want to get embarrassed in conf play this year.

I guess we found out that the answer is "everyone but Swain". not good.

I’ve watched about 45 seconds of this team and don’t see myself watching much more. I’m a former season ticket holder that used to love Texas hoops too. I just don’t care right now.

what's his buy out ?

another year of RT would have been cheaper for similar results

6 minutes ago, Minute Bull said:

CDC has massively fucked up. Nice work my man.

ut basketball curse. i semi blame @Derka

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these kids have no idea about the BMW run !

Sean miller really? That’s the best we could have done.

Sean miller after Rick. Ok.

But Sean miller now, no thanks

What a weird press conference. Said he keeps telling the team to not cross the street because you'll get hit by a bus but they cross the street anyway.

Ah pancho beat me to it.

Maybe they rather get hit by a bus than have 20 sec and3 time outs and let pope fadeaway hero air ball

So something has to give

Either Texas fans and donors start to pony up or people need to stop bitching about the product. You can’t say “we aren’t giving a lot of NIL to basketball” then complain when the team sucks.

Not investing in basketball is how you end up with retread Sean Miller as your coach.

26 minutes ago, Pancho said:

So something has to give

Either Texas fans and donors start to pony up or people need to stop bitching about the product. You can’t say “we aren’t giving a lot of NIL to basketball” then complain when the team sucks.

This is kind of sunk cost fallacy. Miller needs to prove he can coach here before anyone is going to open up the checkbook for him.

20 minutes ago, kingkoopa6 said:

4th…

Football

Baseball

Quidditch

5th

volleyball

6 hours ago, ztejas said:

This is kind of sunk cost fallacy. Miller needs to prove he can coach here before anyone is going to open up the checkbook for him.

This is what Penders understood. He knew he had to build it before they would come.

What exactly in Sean Millers coaching history says he is going to build a championship team to begin with? The guy peaked 10 Years ago and was hired because CDC was at Arizona the same time he was.

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8 hours ago, David Dennison said:

This is what happens when basketball is a distant third behind baseball.

Yeah, Miss St doesn't care about baseball

^^^ when it comes to TEXAS MBB, any opposing team can easily win at the MOODY CENTER. blasphemous.

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8 hours ago, Pancho said:

So something has to give

Either Texas fans and donors start to pony up or people need to stop bitching about the product. You can’t say “we aren’t giving a lot of NIL to basketball” then complain when the team sucks.

CDC set the standard with his “all top 10 programs” comments, and frankly he’s mostly delivered. it’s his job to make sure that the team has the resources it needs (which we absolutely do, we just don’t want to use them), and it’s Miller’s job to coach the team. that shit does not fall at the feet of the fans, especially when neither of those guys is holding up his own end of the bargain. this is Texas Basketball, a niche sport in an international city with a million other things to do and see. you don’t tell the basketball fans that we need to give CDC and sean miller money before either of them can just do (punches the white board) their job!!!

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There was a play yesterday where Swain and Mark were in a 2 on 1 fast break. Swain had the ball and Mark was slightly leading. With a well coached team, Swain kicks it to Mark who lobs it back for an alley-oop dunk over the opponent. It works every time, the players get excited and the crowd gets pumped. Instead Swain kept the ball and we didn’t score.

I told myself… next time Mark gets the ball he won’t pass it either. Sure enough, Mark gets the ball next possession and forces a bad elbow jumper (miss) without even attempting to look at anyone.

This is losing basketball. If I was the coach, I would have yanked Swain after the initial fast break and given him an earful. I don’t care if he has 30 points. Selfish basketball is a cancer, and this team is full of selfish players. I would lose by 50 before I would allow it on my team.

Miller has done nothing to change it.

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speaking of miller’s brother, remember when he was one of the hot young names in coaching and all of the big schools were interested?

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oof. he seems to be making URI better year on year, but that’s still pretty bleak compared to where he thought he’d be at this point in his career.

On 12/17/2025 at 4:07 PM, Surly Bevo said:

Change this title to "Basketball, especially college basketball, is losing me" and then we might have something.

I know, right?

Why do basketball players only have to play 1 year and CFB players 3? NBA vs NFL mandates, I know, but I'd like consistency for player development. And why the hell are NBA G-League and Euro pros allowed to return to college? NIL and the no-penalty transfer portal will ruin this sport, too.

9 hours ago, Pancho said:

So something has to give

Either Texas fans and donors start to pony up or people need to stop bitching about the product. You can’t say “we aren’t giving a lot of NIL to basketball” then complain when the team sucks.

So Miller’s best years came when he was buying players at a clip above almost everyone, so much so the FBI got involved, and even then his best finish was a Final Four appearance that came at the expense of Texas getting screwed by a ref. And this is the guy that CDC thought would be a good hire at a school that doesn’t prioritize basketball?

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Two things:

Its too early to write the book on Miller, but the early returns are bad to very bad

I thought he was a bad hire, but not sure who we should have/could have gotten instead

Regardless, its gonna take a lot more money to return Texas basketball to where it should be…. Making the tourney every season

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3 minutes ago, GreenspointTexas said:

not sure who we should have/could have gotten instead

the majority of great recent hires have been younger guys from smaller schools who play to a specific style, and who were not splash hires at the time. if we had simply done an actual search for the best coach we would have found someone much better and on a more upward trajectory than sean miller.

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