Gut Wagon

For a couple years late in Rick's tenure at Texas, no school produced more solid draft picks with less to show for it. When he followed up a string of disappointing postseasons with quotes like this, I think we all knew he was on thin ice: "We would love to win a national championship, but we're not obsessed with it because we're obsessed with these guys trying to live their NBA dream. What's happened to Kevin Durant, LaMarcus Aldridge, T.J. Ford -- I'd give up a national title for all of our guys to be able to live their dream." https://www.barkingcarnival.com/2011/06/29/rick-barnes-and-the-nagging-question

We're a perfect example of a team that could stun a 2 or 3 seed or look inept in losing to them by 23. Would welcome another crack at Marquette but am hardly confident we'd beat them. It's probably a coin flip that we'll even reach that round. We seem to have trouble building on any big win. Maybe today and Monday will show we can.

Following online, I can't tell if we're a bunch of Mario Mendozas or the LSU pitcher is Sandy Koufax...or both.

We now know why he couldn't tackle in space.

Hmmm. Who make up your 7 deep for Texas next season? If one of them is a 6-10 or taller freak of nature with skills now playing at another college, and another is a big, quick transfer guard who can shoot, I might agree with you. But those are hardly givens, no matter how the freshmen pan out.

Two years ago, she was a crucial late-season spark plug. This year, she's been misfiring repeatedly. Not sure what's up, but she's not leading this young team by the best of examples.

I don't think Mitchell will suddenly learn to shoot in the pros. So what will he be with all that height, wingspan and athleticism? I fear he'll be Kai Jones without the dance moves.

They made jumpers. Except for Booker, we didn't make anything. Did Gonzales even score in the second half? And why can no one grab the ball when it matters? Just a really bad effort on many fronts. Still, but for a couple really tough calls, we'd have won anyway. As infuriating a loss as we've had.

No replays of anything that mattered. OU broadcast was so bad.

She's not alone.

We're getting nothing offensively out of some folks who normally score. Booker's exhausted and simply can't do it all.

That was a putrid last few minutes.

Hard to lose what you never had.

Need a big dose of Disu right now, then Abmas later.

Lock it down right here. FTs and D.

Just kids having fun out there.

Pivotal stretch here. I know, they all are...but just saying. Don't give them any realistic hope at all.

Every roster changes with a coaching hire, provided it's made between seasons. That's part of what you expect and generally need to happen. Of course, among players with eligibility left, you hope the best guys stay and the worst leave, with an overall higher floor set by the replacements. We didn't get that. Losing Morris was a big talent negative. At least Weaver has softened the blow there, in terms of hustle and culture. But we certainly haven't benefited much from Shedrick, Horton, Onyema or even Abmas here lately. The bigger and more physical B12 teams have guys like them for lunch. Meanwhile, the returnees have disappointed as a group. Disu and for the most part Mitchell have done their jobs, but Hunter and Cunningham clearly haven't. Maybe the two stud freshmen who bailed would have made those regressions easier to accept, but that's all moot. Aside from the "Texas" on their jerseys, the only common denominator in all this is the head coach.

Colorado looks really bad on offense, and UCLA isn't much better. Hard to imagine these are even 3 seeds. Hope at least one is in our region.

Well...Beard hired him into a position that let him become interim HC when Beard got himself canned. So in that sense, we can blame Beard. But who am I trying to fool here? No one. Terry's woes are all on Terry.

So let's follow that up by being even worse so far today. Maybe our leaders need to lead.

If that actually worked, I'd have posted it every time we batted after the Atwood HR last night. 😝

The depths of offensive ineptitude are being plumbed in this one.

If there's any good news tonight, it's that it took us going to extra innings in a defenseless game to barely lose to the "best" pitcher in the land. I'm still not calling that positive, but it wasn't like we got blasted.