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jimmyjazz

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  1. He has 5.4 million reasons to not be worried about money.
  2. I think the concept of a "blueblood" is shifting. Sure, UNC and Duke aren't gonna sully their reputations with a guy like Beard, just as Texas wouldn't (now). But unless the NIL playing field gets leveled, the "bluebloods" are going to be Texas, Ohio State, Oregon, etc. and more than a few wouldn't think twice about hiring Chris Beard. More to the point, they'd be thrilled to land him.
  3. Well, (a) I don't know that record although I'm sure it's documented on this thread and (b) two different schools with different support structures (and I don't know which one might have the advantage there). But ultimately, I would say it's a small sample size and I'd prefer to look at Miller's record overall when comparing him to Shaka. Shaka wasn't on the list. Beard wasn't on the list. Barnes wasn't on the list. Hurley wasn't gonna move, Oats was very pricey, Otz is married to an Iowa girl, etc. etc. etc.
  4. Who exactly is a "Miller pumper"? Did you think we had a realistic shot to hire Dan Hurley, Jay Wright, Billy Donovan? No? Then who? Oats? Self? Really? Miller isn't particularly exciting, but he knows what he's doing in terms of basketball Xs and Os, and with UT's NIL support I think he stands a real good chance of doing damage.
  5. I didn't even know they had brick and mortar shops.
  6. How do you know who we contacted, much less offered?
  7. If you're so right all the time, why aren't you retired after making huge bank in Vegas instead of bumbling around in central Texas?
  8. Eh, I think it was a combination of Shaka fatigue and fear of the unknown. Yeah, Tech's run was amazing, but we've seen plenty of one-hit wonders. You just don't know. I've admitted, I don't study teams and coaches the way a good AD has to, I don't have the info at hand to make an educated call. In my ignorant world, if you're not hiring Tom Izzo in 2002 then my crystal ball is really foggy. I can tell you guys I don't want. Pearl, Snyder, etc. Beyond that, I just have to wait and see.
  9. I'm saying we don't know what the future holds, because Texas basketball has only recently existed in a world where NIL is an input greater than or at the very least equal to coaching. "Recruiting" used to be the deal, and for sure there was a lot of money under the table, but now things are different, and they're about to get different AGAIN. I don't have the hours in the day to suss out all the inputs to the equation, but I assume CDC does, and it's pretty damn clear he had his sights on Miller from the jump. I'll happily sit back and watch. I'm extremely doubtful that the future isn't bright.
  10. lol wut? You've seen the endless back and forth about who Texas should hire. No reasonable person would think a coach like Miller was anywhere below the top few on that list. All of the dreams of Donovan, Wright, Self, etc. were just dreams, for multiple reasons, not the least of which is that Texas has yet to step to the front of the "dream program" list. I don't find Sean Miller particularly captivating, just as I didn't find Rick Barnes, Shaka Smart, or Chris Beard particularly captivating. You don't know how a guy will do until you hand him the reins and the money and the facilities and the recruiting base and say "all right, let's see what you can do". I don't think Sean Miller is any worse a choice than any of the other realistic candidates. We're Texas. We ain't Duke.
  11. Mack Brown's ceiling was 11 wins for 21 seasons. Do you know how stupid you sound?
  12. That's all well and good, but I never in a million years thought we'd be 5-1 in conference at this point.
  13. Wait, A&M is 0-6 and we're 5-1? Oh damn I feel bad for Mike Earley. Just kidding.
  14. No kidding. He made Omaha 3 years out of 6. That's like Elite 8 half the time or something similar.
  15. Tough to imagine a better start to the Schloss era . . . keep it up, gentlemen.
  16. As you well know, I've been known to drink a beer or two. Those guys are next level.
  17. I seriously think SXSW just needs to reformulate as a 7-day event with every venue booking their own shows but one pass gets you in anywhere. Stop the profit model, give the money to the clubs and the artists (minus a MODEST administrative fee). As it stands it's just a floundering clusterfuck. (Dibs.)
  18. Not related to the joke.
  19. Nice catch, Farmer! That was tougher than it looked.
  20. I thought Pierce was at TxSt?
  21. I'm not a particularly experienced south Texas traveler, but I got stopped by border patrol leaving El Paso for Cloudcroft, and they were not thrilled with my drivers license as proof of citizenship. You could not get more gringo than me. This was at least 2 decades ago. I doubt they've gotten more lax. At this point, I would not travel to the US if I were a foreign citizen.
  22. Those "failure to signal a lane change" tickets aren't gonna write themselves.
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