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Also I heard the verse was Galatians 3:28. Not sure though. There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus

I know some moderate / high boosters of Tech basketball who would disagree with you. I’m just going to say the door isn’t completely closed.

You don't think playing for the #1 overall tournament seed, where they get to PICK the Sweet 16 location matters? When one of those locations is Kansas City? Okaaay. I guarantee you that if Houston is the #1 seed, they will pick Kansas City and force KU to Louisville or Las Vegas.

I agree. Our offense didn't look quite as crisp as it did when we played A&M Commerce.

Maybe I just misinterpreted previous posts. Obviously we have regressed from when Beard coached the team. But I'm pretty sure the comment was saying that we had specifically regressed in late February - and that other big 12 coaches have now "figured us out". Based primarily on us losing AT Baylor and TCU. That is absurd in my opinion. We are basically the same team we have been for the last 2 months, with the same strengths and the same flaws. It seems like people keep feeling the need to compare us to what we could have been. That is wasted energy IMO. Beard is gone and he isn't coming back. He absolutely fucked this program and these kids. What we do from here remains to be seen, but I'm tired of talking about him. It also feels like people are more critical of this team simply to justify that we shouldn't hire Rodney Terry, which I understand. But... we just knocked off KU and there is less joy in that and actually even some hand wringing that it might lead to us hiring Terry. If that is the focus, then I think people are going to miss out on a potentially amazing run. For me, this is the most fun team we have had in over a decade. It is actually the most FUN team for me since probably the DJ Augustin Elite 8 team. I trust that CDC will make the right decision after the season, so for now I'm just going to enjoy it. It doesn't mean I have blinders on to our team's flaws, but I try to keep them in perspective vs. all the other teams in CBB. Every team out there has flaws this year and we can beat anyone.

Using Massey ratings, y’all have played 8 teams ranked 51 or higher (OUs rank, the worst team in the Big 12). You went 4-4 in those games. Nine out of 12 teams in the Pac12 are ranked lower than the Big12s worst team. It is easy for me to believe you would have 6-8 losses in the Big 12. There is no way you would have been favored in more than 10-12 games.

Gabe Muoneke actually has a great story about Ime. Think it may have been posted here before…

I know the optics would be questionable, but Ime Udoka is still out of a job. I imagine he would turn it down and wait for an NBA job that is sure to come. He is better than anyone else mentioned on this thread.

CDC isn’t an idiot. There is ZERO chance Terry gets the job before the season completes. Even if he wins the Big 12 Tournament.

Dick has good size but doesn't know how to use it. Dick is soft.

I generally agree, but KU was also missing a lot of open 3s. I thought the interior / help defense was very good though. And we were giving a lot more effort rebounding.

It was annoying to hear Dick Vitale talk about how "good guy" Shaka Smart was not liked by Texas brass. Well dumbass, maybe it is because he adopted a new, boring, unpopular system the second he got here instead of the fun system he was running at VCU. And maybe he is having success again because he is back to playing the type of basketball that made him successful in the first place. I'm calling it now. We will be the #2 seed and Marquette will be the #3 seed in either the South or East regional. And maybe Tennessee will be the #4 seed for good measure.

Still think we have regressed? It is strange that these other Big-12 teams figured us out but Bill Self didn't. Or maybe we were just playing REALLY good teams on the road in the toughest conference in the last 20 years. Losing happens in college basketball. Especially on the road to decent teams. Just today the following higher ranked teams lost: #2 Alabama (at #24 Aggy) #3 Kansas (to us) #7 Baylor (at home to UR Iowa State) #11 K-State (at UR West Virginia) #12 Tennessee (at UR Auburn) #20 Providence (at home to UR Seton Hall) #22 TCU (at UR OU) I feel as good about our chances in the tournament as I have in at least 10 years. We have never had a team this experienced or this deep. Sure we have glaring issues, but every team in the field does as well.

I guess time will tell, but I just don’t think we are playing that bad. We are generally winning when we are favored and losing when we are underdogs. We have had some impressive beat downs in the last couple of weeks including destroying ISU (likely 6 seed) and WV (likely 11 seed). I doubt we are an underdog in the tournament until the Elite 8 or even the Final Four. We won’t play in another hostile away game (like Tech) all season. We won’t face a team as hard as KU or BU until the Final Four. I don’t think teams are figuring us out. I think we are playing away games against freaking solid teams and losing. It happens I college basketball. Hell, TCU beat KU by 17 in Lawrence. And KU could win the title. I’m not that worried about the first tourney game. This team isn’t a one and done. Especially not as a 2 or 3 seed.

Well, those people would be idiots then. Again, only a complete moron would think that Terry will be as good as Beard, who is probably one of the top 3-5 coaches in all of college basketball. It is possible for all these things to be true at the same time: Our defense actually got worse Our competition got better, so our numbers made our defensive slip look even worse than it was Rodney Terry has done an amazing job to right the ship Rodney Terry will never be as good as Chris Beard especially defensively Rodney Terry might do better at Texas (even adjusted for the talent level here) than he did at Fresno or UTEP because his intangibles translate better here Or he might regress to his career mean

To be clear, anyone who would argue about whether we are better under Terry or Beard is an idiot and should be ignored.

I don't really think we are regressing. We are just playing the hard part of the schedule. I bet if we had played all these games at the start of the conference slate we would have fared about the same. Since Jan 30 we have played: at #2 KU - Loss #8 Baylor - Win at #8 Baylor - Loss at #13 K-State - Win at #19 TCU - Loss Outside of the Tech game, we haven't really lost any games that I EXPECTED to win.

Not sure who exactly you are referring to, but I can't recall anyone saying he is doing just as good as Beard. Link or quote would be nice. My point all along has been that I want the season to play out before I make a decision on whether I would support hiring Terry or not. I have liked a lot of what he has done. And there are some areas where he is CLEARLY inferior to Beard. I'm still not ready to say "Don't hire him", but I'm definitely trending in that direction.

Decent take.

I think UT can make a very attractive offer to Bennett - and Austin is right smack in the center of a lot of talent in Texas. But lets not act like Charlottesville is a long way from any good talent. They are within an easy drive of talent hotbeds of in DC, Maryland, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. And Virginia itself has good talent. And the whole Northeast is MUCH closer than in Austin. Bottom line, I don't think PROXIMITY to talent will make a difference. Ability to GET that talent with big NIL deals is a different story.

People on this board shit on Mark Adams pretty consistently. This is especially true when talking about who our next coach will be. I'll go on record that I think he is actually a good coach and they will be a lot better in the future. I don't think last year's Sweet-16 run was a huge anomaly. Tech is young and has little experience playing together this year. They only brought 3 players back after last year and only one is any good. Here is their minutes breakdown: Freshman = 28% Sophomore = 24% Junior = 18% Senior = 30% Just for reference, this is our minutes breakdown this year: Freshman = 17% Sophomore = 14% Junior = 0% Senior = 69% But... even more importantly here is the breakdown of new players vs. carryovers: New to team: 72% Carryover: 28% They have also had bad injury luck. Aimaq has been playing injured all year. When he is in the lineup, Tech is a completely different team.

Those people are idiots IMO.

I would rank them: Apple Pie > Hot Dogs >>>> Chevrolet >>>>>>>> Baseball

Went to Cody Johnson last night and I sat in the upper deck (wife's work deal). The sound was atrocious. Terrible. If I had paid for the tickets I would want my money back.

You are missing the stop at UNLV. Lol.