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RollingPresidential

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  1. When I was interning with the Arlington PD's office, we defended a guy accused of DV for shoving a peanut butter sandwich in his wife's face (not guilty). I'd like to say that the prosecutors bringing this case to trial means they think they have a strong case, but that experience gives me pause.
  2. I said on the recruiting board that I was underwhelmed by Beard and got quite a few downvotes. I'll stand by that - we looked like the same grind-it-out mudball team that was mentally weak in 2021-2022 as we did with Shaka or late-period Barnes, we just had a few wins over borderline division II teams to pad the win stats and didn't vomit all over ourselves in the first round for the first time in a decade, so that was something Beard gets credit for I guess. This year? Excellent, no complaints, if Beard had done that, I'd not be underwhelmed, and he gets credit for putting the roster together, but also should not get hardly any credit for what the team actually did after he was gone considering the reason he was gone. RT did a great job this year. Maybe he's not the guy long term, but Beard's one year was not enough for me to think that the good two years at Tech were not outliers compared to the other ones. It also seems rather ridiculous for everyone to be freaking out that we haven't landed anyone yet and using that as a judge on RT long term. Kansas really wants to take Terio with his trial looming? Surprising to me.
  3. Having been pushed his podcast "Stars Matter" a few times via the Spotify algorithm, he's just an empty vesselr. I heard him say that Johntay Cook chose Texas because Texas A&Ms offense stunk but that A&M was better set up for the long term in recruiting due to their 'commitment to NIL' and haven't really taken anything else he's said seriously.
  4. He's also married to an Aggie and regularly talks to Billy Liucci.
  5. It's gotta be tough out there going against an arm of the actual athletic department.
  6. Has anyone contacted UT alumnus Harlan Crow? He seems very generous. no CR
  7. Gotta imagine that his name will give him some endorsement deal in Texas
  8. Given your track record with AJ Johnson recently, I think we can assume Neto's gone.
  9. I know absolutely nothing about baseball but weren't we a run or so away from the final series two years ago? And might've beaten Sandy in the same way MSU did, given they wore out their arms?
  10. Didn't take them for defund the police folks
  11. Is the Morris and RT stuff related at all to Morris's other issues
  12. It's not height or even size, it's skill. Omier was a big bulky rebounder, sure, but the bigger thing was we had no one who could roll over and contest the drives that they were reasonably afraid of. Granted, with those refs, that guy would've fouled out in the first five minutes of the second half...
  13. We need a shot blocker. Like Ricky said, Beard’s best teams at Tech were the teams with a center that could switch and help. The refs fucking sucked on Sunday, but having Disu or someone bigger than Bishop there as an anchor on the drives would’ve helped immensely. If we are keeping Beard’s defensive schemes (which a ton of teams in CBB run anyway), having someone to funnel to would help a lot. I was most worried about the next round and facing Sanogo and the giant white dude for UConn. You can’t teach hoss.
  14. Beard still underwhelming, RT 4ever!!!!
  15. A GBH one. He's a 3%er or whatever generally but also a homer and good at trolling.
  16. Amazing how Beard continues to ventriloquize these game plans even while he has a new job.
  17. I'm all aboard the "Beard can fuck off" train (see my posts in the recruiting board) but I'm very interested in what these other incidents are.
  18. Just fondly remembering the Justin Wells "wait until you see this coaching staff" tweet and then it was Tom Herman's friends from UH.
  19. I never understood why y'all got so mad at him, but whatever. I'll take my negs. Dude's gone, but feel free to keep caping for a guy who basically did late period Rick Barnes here.
  20. Been posting/lurking since 2014 and this is my first time getting this kind of reaction, I’m honored. I did not like the Beard hire in the first place because he played an aesthetically awful brand of basketball at Tech and seemed like an asshole. Last year we were a preseason top 5 team and didn’t look that different than the regular middling dreck that Shaka put out. It was nice to win that tournament game and it was clear that Beard could scout defense well. This year, if you recall, we lost to a middling Illinois in the same manner we lost a bunch of dumb games last year - going cold on offense, missing FTs, etc. Then he was gone. The Gonzaga game, in retrospect, seems fluky as hell (at least that it was a blowout) given that was the last time Hunter could hit the broad side of a barn. Was he building something? Maybe. But again, we were preseason top 5-10 in 2021-2022 and celebrated winning one tournament game. Yes the media is dumb and should’ve noticed there was a reason that all of our old transfers hadn’t left for the pros yet, but I feel like we didn’t tolerate that shit from Shaka and should’ve expected better. Anyways, all I was saying was that I’m not convinced the record is particularly different with Beard vs. Terry this season. Whether Terry can build the program long term seems like a bigger question, and it does seem like Beard had that in a better direction. If Beard was the one who identified Sir’Jabari Rice, then I take back all my underwhelmingness and am very whelmed.
  21. That makes sense considering Terry's reputation as a recruiter. I found Beard tremendously underwhelming and don't particularly think he does any better with this season's roster than Terry did. The long-term program building stuff is hard to square for Terry, assuredly, but maybe he's learned?
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