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HookEm

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  1. 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.
  2. 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."
  3. Well that was stupid as hell
  4. Our shitty 3 point defense rearing it's head.
  5. Moar game talk. Less VPN talk.
  6. Nice look by Hunter to start
  7. I would say the odds are 1 in 3 that OU makes it in now.
  8. I'm not seeing this game listed on ESPN+. Of course, I don't have ESPN+ so that could be the problem. Can anyone confirm?
  9. Agree completely. This is probably the most important game of the season to date. Not just because it gets us off the 8/9 game, but it opens up the possibility of significantly improving our seeding. If we win, that gets us to a 7... but if we keep winning we could move up as high as 5 if we win the whole damn thing. I see every win as basically moving us up one whole seed.
  10. I have no doubt we will pick up some great players. 3 yrs ago: Marcus Carr, Timmy Allen, Tre Mitchell, Dylan Disu, Christian Bishop, Devin Askew 2 yrs ago: Sir'Jabari Rice, Tyrese Hunter 1 yr ago: Max Abmas, Chendall Weaver, Kadin Shedrick, Ithiel Horton, Ze'Rik Onyema Since the portal started really changing the game, we have been able to add all-conference type players every year.
  11. Maybe I'm the only one who would rather be at Ole Miss than Louisville. Yes, Louisville has a better program historically, but with the pending demise of the ACC I would rather be at one of the big boy conferences until the dust settles. I also think Beard's hard nosed, underdog, gritty mentality will not play as well at one of the historic blue bloods. Or in the NBA for that matter. All this talk of how shitty Ole Miss is as a program and destination motivated me to see where they stand historically. I created a database of all the Massey rankings since 1980. Not the best, but they are free and directionally accurate. (I'll probably start a new thread on it because there are some interesting insights on the overall landscape). But anyway, Ole Miss ranks the following: Since 1980 - #57 (ahead of #69 Texas Tech) Since 2000 - #52 (ahead of #60 Texas Tech) Last 10 Yrs - #62 (behind #21 Texas Tech) Last 5 Yrs - #58 (behind #13 Texas Tech) Beard is the big reason why Tech is a top-15 program over the last 5 years when historically they are worse than Ole Miss. Just like his situation at Tech, they already have some solid infrastructure and are committed to improving the program (as evidenced by them hiring him in the first place). I wouldn't be surprised if he roots down there. He had opportunity to leave Texas Tech before Texas came calling and he passed.
  12. Out on playing Tech. Fail.
  13. Just saw that Miami finished the year on a 10 game losing streak. Wow.
  14. The problem is that people were ignoring the data. The fact is that the environment has changed. Yes we lost some people to the portal. Yes we lost some recruits. Replacing them takes time and usually happens in late spring to early summer. We weren't going to go 5-25. Anybody looking at the data and coming to that conclusion was a moron. I predict that this year we will lose a few players to the draft. And then we will lose a few more to the portal. A few posters will freak out, seeing 6 players on the roster and think we are going to go 10-20 and will loudly proclaim that RT isn't "the guy". Then we will get a handful of elite players in the portal and everything will be fine. Go ahead and bookmark my post. If you were one of the morons that thought we were going to have to start Alex Anamekwe, well... I hope you use the data from last year a month from now and learn from it.
  15. The dude has pretty solid mechanics and is only 20 years old. I'm not ready to say he won't develop a 3 ball yet.
  16. Kind of funny to go back and read this thread from early-April of last year. The majority of the board had written us off before we had brought in a single player from the portal. Projections of 5-25 and missing the tournament.
  17. I actually like what Mitchell brings to the team. He is averaging 10 PTS and 7.7 TRB and is defending well. His free throw shooting is up to 69% in conference, which is a huge improvement over his 40% free throw last year. He gives us a nice burst of energy and is a good complement to Shedrick who is a little slow footed. Mitchell is also someone who can really run the floor and is good for a few highlight dunks every game. I'm not convinced that this is our last year with him on the roster - and I really hope he comes back. The team has plenty of good pieces. The most important one is Hunter. If he is attacking the basket and hitting a few 3s, we can beat anybody, even if Abmas or Disu aren't playing well.
  18. This would be a better point if it wasn't being made in a thread titled "Fire Rodney Terry". 🤪
  19. OU can definitely do better than Porter Moser. They should be gearing up to do some damage in the SEC. Over the last 40 years, OU isn't that far off from blueblood territory and actually has a better average Massey rating than Indiana, Michigan, Florida, UConn, Virginia and Louisville. Here is where they rank over various periods: Last 5 years - 29 Last 10 years - 16 Since 2000 - 19 Since 1980 - 14 It is a shame that Beard didn't just sit out the 2023 season, because he would have made a tremendous hire for them. They may go after him anyway.
  20. I can't back it up. Like I said, it's really weird.
  21. It's weird that so many people have this wrong opinion of you.
  22. Really the worst part of hiring RT is that it is going to be very hard to fire him. The resources at UT are so good (the NIL money, the new arena, Austin, the UT marketing machine, the money to hire good assistants), that it will be hard for Terry to fail bad enough to get fired. Simply making the tournament every year will likely be enough for him to finish his contract. I really think subconsciously (or consciously) everyone is aware of this. So I think all this fighting really boils down to the anti-RT folks hoping that we go ahead and fail hard enough that we have to fire him, so we can move on and get a great coach. While the pro-RT folks are hoping that he can defy the odds and get us to a high level, because we know we are probably keeping him through his contract anyway. I don't think either side is delusional. We all have the same data.
  23. Success probably means the same as for the "anti-RT" folks. For me, it means being a top-10 program, which means regularly finishing in the KenPom top-10 and regularly being a top 1-3 seed. And making 2nd weekend about half the time, with a Final Four sprinkled in every now and again. Missing the tournament should almost never happen. Unfortunately we have never achieved the kind of long-term success that we are capable of. Certainly not with Shaka. Not with Beard (key words being long-term). Not with Penders. And not really even with Barnes. I don't think a single one of the "pro RT" folks think he is capable of any of the above. I don't.
  24. Literally nobody. There isn't a single UT fan that I know of, on this board or in real life, who believes that RT would have gotten the job if the Beard fiasco had happened in the offseason and we opened up an actual coaching search. All of the "RT apologists" are simply rooting for the team and providing a check against the doom and gloom. Not one of us believe he is on the same level as Chris Beard (or Tom Izzo or Bill Self). Let me repeat that for the millionth time. Not one of us believe he is on the same level as Chris Beard (or Tom Izzo or Bill Self). But, I think a lot of us tire of the seemingly unfair characterization of RT. He actually did a good job at Fresno State. You could argue that he did the best job of any coach there in the last 40 years. And his tenure at UTEP was short and interrupted by Covid right in the middle of it. At both spots he recruited way better than their historical averages. People don't have to mischaracterize RT as a bottom quartile coach, to show that he isn't good enough for Texas. Once again, not one of us believe he is on the same level as Chris Beard, and we all believe that is the caliber of coach we can get. But... RT is our coach for at least a few years and I'm rooting for him to succeed. And so far he is doing better than his previous record would suggest. He has worked Porter Moser, a coach who had better accolades than him going into the job, coaching at a school with arguably a better basketball history. I also wouldn't trade him for Jerome Tang or Wes Miller or Michael Boynton. He also finished the year ranked better than OUR historic mean over the last 30 years. And those years were under the leadership of three coaches who have all won National Coach of the Year. So, I would say he is doing a pretty decent job all things considered, but let's see what happens over the next few weeks.
  25. Imagine thinking finishing in the top half of the Big 12 and top-25 in NET is average. Lololol. You may expect more at Texas, but it isn’t average.
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