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  1. HookEm
    If Rick Barnes can get back to his old self with a change in scenery, I’m sure Calipari can. The problem with Kentucky is, how do you turn down blue chip high school players in favor of older, but lower potential transfers? He will be forced to use the portal at Arky.
  2. HookEm
    Gonna be funny when Arky hires Calipari and then Kentucky hires Beard.
  3. HookEm
    Does anyone have a summary of the transfer portal players who are considering us?
  4. HookEm
    No, we are only allowed to look backward on this thread.
  5. HookEm
    Arkansas could definitely be a destination job for Beard. Musselman took them to two elite eights and a sweet 16 all in a row. And Beard is a better coach than him. You could easily argue that Arkansas has a better history than Texas in hoops. Moreover, they are consistently in the top-10 in attendance. Beard and his ridiculous promotion skillz would be a thing to behold there. And the fact that it is a complete rebuild means nothing. Half the teams in the country are essentially in full rebound every year now.
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    BTW, even the originator of this thread isn't advocating for firing him anymore.
  7. HookEm
    This thread isn't titled "We shouldn't have hired Rodney Terry". That is the conversation that I'm so exhausted from. The thread IS titled "Fire Rodney Terry" and that is the question I'm asking. Is anyone proposing that we actually do what the thread is titled? If not, then this thread should die. If you want to post about whether we should have hired him in the first place, then go ahead and start that thread and I can just avoid it.
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    Beard would be such a ridiculously better hire for them than Tang.
  9. HookEm
    RT's horns down comments aren't in the same universe as being as bad as Sark's "Don't F****N' touch me again MOTHERF****R" moment: And nobody cares about that anymore at all. Turns out that winning gets you a lot of grace from the fanbase. RT needs to win and win big. Or he needs to go.
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    I mainly tire of the constant re-whining that we hired him. It is exhausting. We all get it, Terry would have never been considered for the job under different circumstances. Cool. We all agree. WE ALL AGREE. But who cares, what is done is done. He is our coach now and we can't go back in time. So the question is, what do you think CDC should do NOW? Should he really fire RT after the season we just had?
  11. HookEm
    There have been plenty of players who started as terrible shooters and developed into good shooters. Mitchell has shown gradual improvement in his free throw shooting, which I think is a good proxy for overall shooting potential. 40.5% - Last Year 58.7% - This Year – OOC 68.6% - This Year – In Conference For comparison, Kai Jones shot 68.9% from the line during his 2nd year, which is virtually the same as Mitchell in conference. His issue seems to be more about confidence than about mechanics. I also think we are going to REALLY miss his rebounding. He was 2nd in the Big 12 in rebounds per game and 3rd in Defensive Rebound %. Our best returning rebounder is Shedrick and he was not very good.
  12. HookEm
    I appreciate that Mitchell understands his game well enough to not be chunking up shots when he doesn't have those skills. He is also a very willing defender and does the dirty work on the glass. Another year in the weight room and shooting and he should continue to improve. He is also a college power forward and should get most of his minutes there.
  13. HookEm
    What about now? Coming off a second year with a tourney win, a top-25 KenPom final year ranking, and having just signed the #8 HS recruiting class? If RT wanted out at Texas and tested the water, I think he would land a decent job. Maybe not as good as Marquette or Tennessee, but better than Fresno State. I think RT would do better at Stanford than Kyle Smith (for instance).
  14. HookEm
    Following last season, T.J. Otzelberger was 41-27 at ISU and they were an 11 seed and got bounced in the 1st round. And at UNLV before that he was 29-30 and missed the tourney both years. It isn't like he was a sure-thing hire. Tommy Lloyd would have likely parlayed any interest from us into a big raise at Arizona. We probably could have gotten Nate Oats.
  15. HookEm
    Once again, adding black to UT gear makes it horrific. That would be pretty bad regardless.
  16. HookEm
    I agree with this. If he misses the tourney, the bar is going to be pretty high the following season, maybe Sweet 16 to keep his job.
  17. HookEm
    Literally nobody was thrilled with the hire of RT. Literally nobody is currently thrilled with him. Literally everybody knows that we can do better. The only argument is whether there is any chance we fire him anytime soon. I personally don’t think there is. He would have to win only like 10 games next year to be fired - and he isn’t going to. We are going to sign a very good haul in the portal to go with our excellent HS class and win 20+ games again. And honestly my take is the most doom and gloom take you can have. Thinking we are going to suck isn’t doom and gloom. It is actually an optimistic take because there is hope we can hire an elite coach. My “good but not great” take is the worst case scenario because we may not move on for 6-8 years.
  18. HookEm
    I was happily surprised when it was reported that he was staying a few weeks ago. I think he will end up being a very solid player when all is said and done. Oh well, we should be able to get someone who can more immediately contribute. I don't think he was going to suddenly become awesome overnight. He is probably not going to be very good for at least another full year
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    Unreal
  20. HookEm
    Well I guess I won’t have him on my roster and minutes projections this year. You can all relax.
  21. HookEm
    Not only are these ugly as shit, and the orange is the wrong color, they have by far my biggest pet peeve for Texas gear... adding black to the mix. Black is not one of our colors. We aren't Oklahoma State. Our colors are Orange and White. That's it. If you have to have another color, throw some gray in there. Example: The one on the left is good. The one on the right is shit. I hate, hate, hate black outline on burnt orange. \Rant
  22. HookEm
    I was thinking, hmmm maybe we should go after him. Then I looked at his stats. Ooof. Inefficient AF. Compared to everyone's favorite... Tyrese Hunter, who half the fans want to transfer
  23. HookEm
    Marquette is the #39 program per KenPom going back to 1997. They have finished 56, 10 and 14 under Shaka, which puts them ~top-20. If I'm honest, Shaka is better than a top-40 coach, and is just on the fringe of the top-25. So, for Marquette he is a great fit. At Texas, he had us with the #23 best average KenPom ranking over his tenure. He had VCU as the #31 ranked team over his tenure there. I wish he would have worked out at Texas. I was really excited when we hired him... almost as excited as when we hired Beard. And he was just about as hot as Beard as a coach when we hired him. But he was such a moron here, that I will root for him to fail wherever he goes. Does that make me petty? Yes. Next question.
  24. HookEm
    OK. Now we can make fun of Shaka again. Whew!
  25. HookEm
    I'm going to hold off on further comments about Shaka choking until he bows out this year. He beat the hell out of us and very well could be in the Elite 8 by this time tomorrow.

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