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HookEm

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  1. Graph is interesting, but it isn't weighted at all by the importance of the players who are injured (beyond whether they are a "top 8" player or not). More interesting would be injury minutes combined with win shares or some other metric to understand the likely wins that were missed due to injury.
  2. We were ranked #6 in the AP to end the year. I believe Stanford was like #10 and a 3-seed. I'm pretty sure we were favorites.
  3. I loved that 2008 team and was at the game in Houston when we played Memphis. DJ Augustin was a great college basketball player that year. Averaged 19 PTS, 6 AST. 1st Team All-American, 1st Team All-Big 12. Wooden Finalist. Bob Cousy Award. Great player. However... The chasm between Augustin and Derrick Rose was as big as the Grand Canyon. Augustin looked like a JV player going up against him. Rose was much bigger, faster, more athletic, better in just about every way. Within the first five minutes of that game I knew we had no shot. It was depressing because we were really good.
  4. Still waiting for this.
  5. Yeah agree, but was going for simplicity. Nobody really talks about that as much as Final Fours anyway.
  6. Here are the resumes of the guys you listed. You really have two sets... the end of career coaches and the mid-career coaches. Barnes and Samson are pretty similar in that they always have solid teams, but don't really have the hardware to show for it. Mark Few only has 2 Final Fours, but fourteen top-10 finishes. Calipari has a great resume but seems to have lost his fastball with NIL and the portal. Bill Self (61) - 2 Title + 2 FF + 7 EE + 3 S16, 15 top-10 finishes Tom Izzo (69) - 1 Title + 7 FF + 2 EE + 5 S16, 10 top-10 finishes Rick Pitino (71) - 2 Title + 5 FF + 5 EE + 1 S16, 12 top-10 finishes Mark Few (61) - 0 Title + 2 FF + 2 EE + 7 S16, 14 top-10 finishes John Calipari (65) - 1 Title + 5 FF + 6 EE + 3 S16, 14 top-10 finishes K. Sampson (68) - 0 Title + 2 FF + 2 EE + 3 S16, 4 top-10 finishes Rick Barnes (69) - 0 Title + 1 FF + 2 EE + 5 S16, 6 top-10 finishes For the mid-career guys, I have a hard time saying Hurley, Beard or Bennett are better than Scott Drew. He has a title plus more elite 8s and more sweet 16s. And he started from absolute zero at Baylor. Also hard to put Beard above Bennett who beat him for a title and has better tourney success and top-10 finishes. Need to see more out Hurley who never even made a Sweet 16 before last year. Scott Drew (53) - 1 Title + 0 FF + 2 EE + 2 S16, 4 top-10 finishes Dan Hurley (51) - 1 Title + 0 FF + 0 EE + 0 S16, 1 top-10 finish Tony Bennett (54) - 1 Title + 0 FF + 1 EE + 1 S16, 5 top-10 finishes Chris Beard (51) - 0 Title + 1 FF + 1 EE + 0 S16, 2 top-10 finishes Mick Cronin (52) - 0 Title + 1 FF + 0 EE + 3 S16, 2 top-10 finishes Hubert Davis (53) - 0 Title + 1 FF + 0 EE + 0 S16, 0 top-10 finishes (only 3 yrs)
  7. I was at the Gonzaga game. It was a great atmosphere no doubt, but it didn't approach the peak loudness that the Erwin Center was capable of. I was at a KU game, I think around 2008 when we won at home. My ears were ringing for a couple of hours after the game it was so loud. That was probably the loudest sporting event I have ever been a part of. There were a couple of games like that, but they were few and far between.
  8. If all you care about is defense, then this is the worst squad since 1999. Fair enough. Instead why don’t you post the KenPom final ranking by year? The one that sums up offense and defense and strength of schedule and everything else. Let’s see what it says.
  9. Ole Miss fan interest is gonna be pretty low next weekend.
  10. Nah. There is a 3rd option. This Ole Miss team might just be a bunch of knuckleheads that aren’t responding to his coaching.
  11. Watching this Ole Miss vs Aggy game, Ole Miss doesn’t look like it is better coached than our squad. Bad shots and turnovers constantly. Giving up tons of offensive rebounds. Just not good.
  12. The defense looked pretty damn ugly in January of last year, and that blame lands squarely on RT. I agree 100%. The success we had at the end of the year? Well in that case, credit should be given to the player-led team who finally overcame that terrible RT coaching and remembered the lessons taught to them by Beard. \Disingenuous argument
  13. Scroll up and you will see I posted much of what you are asking for. Chris Beard inherited: Andrew Jones, Matt Coleman, Courtney Ramey, Greg Brown, Jericho Sims, Kai Jones, Jase Febres, Donovan Williams, Royce Hamm, Kamaka Hepa, Gerald Liddell and Brock Cunningham. All of those dudes had eligibility left. He managed to keep: Andrew Jones, Courtney Ramey, Brock Cunningham, Jase Febres Whatever. He rebuilt the roster. When he went to Ole Miss, he lost all but like 3 guys there as well. And he will lose a ton from Ole Miss this year and will rebuild again. It is kind of his M.O. The program was definitely on a better trajectory under Beard. You would have to be a moron not to see it. And for as good as Beard is as a coach, he is an even better salesman. He knows how to generate fan interest better than literally anyone, and then he backs it up on the court. RT ain't Chris Beard. Only trolls would argue otherwise.
  14. Sure if that is how you define good or bad. In that case, RT is an average Big 12 coach with average Big 12 results. That puts him in the upper tier of college coaches.
  15. I invite you to watch some non-tournament teams. The college basketball product across the board is pretty shitty. When we play teams outside the top-50, we win 95% of the time under RT. When I say he is a "good coach", I mean it holistically, not just gameday scheme and X's and Os. In my opinion, he is a great recruiter and very good at retaining talent. He is a solid motivator and the team tends to play hard. Under other coaches, they could have quit last year when Beard F'ed up or this year in January when it seemed like the wheels were coming off. We want to attribute that to the team being "player led", but that itself is an identity that the coach fosters or destroys. He experiments with lineups and the team seems to get better as the year goes on. Most of our players have developed pretty well, even if Hunter can be frustrating. He isn't an egomaniac and seems like he respects and leverages his assistants (and they are all pretty solid). The main problem we have had is consistency. At times, the team looks like a Final Four caliber team. The blowout win at Tech was extremely impressive in that environment. The first half of Baylor and K-State were about as good as any Texas team has looked in 20 years. But then some adversity happens, like Disu getting hurt or getting in foul trouble, and the rest of the team fails to pick up the slack. They are not mentally tough like some of the teams we have had in the past. But on the flip side, pushing players to the breaking point constantly also has its risks, like the late season collapse by some Barnes teams. Or the heavy attrition under Beard just about everywhere he goes. "Good" is relative anyway. I think we can agree he hasn't been good enough.
  16. You may as well stop following Texas basketball then, because he is going to be with us for a while.
  17. HookEm

    Terry 4ever

    No team with a NET ranking of higher than 33 has ever missed the tournament. Right now we are sitting at 28. We are comfortably in. We should be hoping for a 10 seed. Anything to get out of the dreaded 8/9 seeds.
  18. I just like clarity. If someone is going to be a blowhard and say stupid shit like we are going to finish 10-20 next year, then they should clarify their projection and stand by it. And in the spirit of clarity, I will reiterate my position on RT. He is performing slightly better than I expected and right at our historical average over the last 25+ years. And Texas can do a lot better than that. He isn't a shitty coach, or even an average coach considering the whole landscape of college basketball. He is a good coach. But he will likely never be an elite coach and that is what Texas should want (and what we had with Beard). The fact that he is a good coach is actually our worst case scenario. If he was shitty, he would indeed go 10-20 and we could fire him easily. But because he is a good coach with tremendous resources, we will likely make the tournament every year with an occasional run. (Hell, we could still make a run THIS year.) We will finish in the top half of the SEC next year. We will reload with some good players in the portal. And it is going to be very unlikely that RT will fair hard enough to be fired before his contract ends. I think most of our fans understand this about RT - even the ones who are entrenched on both polar ends of the spectrum. The ones who are overly negative want him to suck so that we can fail quickly and move on. The ones who are overly positive know he is likely to limp along for years making the tourney and hope against hope that he will outperform expectations. Neither scenario is likely to happen and both are just coping mechanisms. We are all stuck with good, but not great RT for the foreseeable future.
  19. I'm sure the goalposts will move. "No no no... I meant we will have a losing season in CONFERENCE". Then... "No no no, I meant we will have a losing season against top-10 teams."
  20. Well that was stupid as hell
  21. Our shitty 3 point defense rearing it's head.
  22. Moar game talk. Less VPN talk.
  23. Nice look by Hunter to start
  24. I would say the odds are 1 in 3 that OU makes it in now.
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