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pigmeat markham
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Got some guys he knows already committed to Memphis and they've put together a good class, so I understand that is attractive to him as well. As to announcing, tweeted today "your question will be answered soon". Perhaps we'll know sooner than later.
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Change of subject here, but what do you hear about RJ Hampton and where he might be headed? Seems to be a lot of conflicting information in his case. Jayhawks like their chances? I'm thinking Memphis, but it's certainly a mystery to me. Appreciate your thoughts.
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If it's any time indicator, Beard certainly didn't play with Khavon Moore this year. He gone. Wasn't a 5 star but until last year the highest ranked basketball player TT had ever signed. We'll soon get an idea I guess. Has one 5 star signed currently and still with the chance of getting Hampton (supposedly the kid is more pro TT than his dad, so who knows?). Btw, even with better players I wouldn't expect the role of defense in Beard's scheme to diminish.
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TT just within the last week or two increased their basketball asst. salary pool, to if you believe what you read, the first or second highest in the conference. Maybe that will get it done. As a fan, I'd hate to lose him.
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Credible sources have reported the Bulls have offered to double his current salary. But at his age, with his son coaching nearby, at what's likely very near the end of his career, does he really want to pick up and move to Chicago?
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Supposedly, the Holgerson concerns were related to character issues. Littrell's primary negative is Hocutt viewed him as being basically a rent-a-coach until Riley moves on from OU. I might add Hocutt is very tied in at OU. He's very close with their current AD and many anticipate Hocutt being named their next AD. Venables and Hocutt are tight and he indicated he would not consider leaving Clemson until his son was out of high school.. As someone mentioned, it is the general view that given the micromanager that Tuberville was, he didn't really allow Brown to demonstrate his offensive capabilities and truly run his offense. Littrell, Brown and Holgerson had all coached at Tech, had TT ties and knew the turf. Likewise, , of course, Tech knew them well.
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Thing is, with Yost you're not really getting away from the Leach tree. Yost at one point was on the staff at Washington State. Lots of similarities. Big Leach fan here, but I was perfectly fine with getting away from his style. But Matt Wells? I've got my doubts.
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We remember it very differently. There was no homework to do regarding Beard. He had been at Tech 10 years or whatever it was at that point. I believe Beard was the only serious candidate whose name even came up amongst rank and file fans, deep pockets and administrators alike.
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From LTtxfan- Curious if most Tech fans think Wells is a better hire than Holgy?? My 2 cents opinion: Wells + David Yost >>> Holgy I personally would have preferred Littrell, Neal Brown, Holgorsen, Brent Venables, pretty much a lot of people. Three of Wells' last 4 years at Utah State were losing seasons. Not overly impressive in my opinion. I very much like Yost though. Two prominent donors had their jet ready, flight scheduled and details established for Dana to come visit with Hocutt. Hocutt would have nothing of it. Wasn't interested in Seth or Brown either. They don't even compare with Wells, not worth even a conversation? He did have a phone conversation with Venables though.
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Hocutt got pretty lucky with Beard. He wanted to hire him so badly he did all but turn cartwheels to keep Tubby from leaving. Some truth I suppose to the old better lucky than good adage. As far as Billy Clyde is concerned, granted the hire was in the works prior to Hocutt's arrival, but he most certainly was in a position to, at a minimum, offer up a "let's tap the brakes a little" had he been even slightly aware of the walking disaster that TT was about to hire. So, in that sense he played a role. Also, seems to me like KK actually did have quite a few things in common with Beard and Tadlock. Don't find it bizarre at all that one feels the need to offer a defense of the AD during what are pretty good athletic times. That is, when the discussion at hand is how much credit he deserves in creating that success.
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Well, I would think you must admit both coaches certainly have Lubbock roots which not only impacted their hire but their retention as well. And in regard to the poor women's coach hire you allude to, how bout not only the hire itself, but the contact extension he later followed it up with? Quite the move.
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And yours points are? It doesn't take much football knowledge to be aware of the fact that obviously great players can come from some very minor programs. I would have thought it would have gone without saying that generally speaking a school like ULM or Rice is hardly known as the paragon of football talent ownership.
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You're right, I don't know what I was thinking. La.-Monroe is one of the most prestigious programs in the country.
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Got it. Hocutt gets credit for the good hires and no blame for the bad ones. I certainly agree Beard and Tadlock are great coaches. How much credit Hocutt deserves in acquiring them is another question. Shit, Tadlock was already on staff. Beard was the obvious choice by the masses given his previous tenure in Lubbock. Zero insight in the least required there. Imo, it is hardly stupid to point out the guy has yet to make his first successful career hire in the most important sport of them all, football.
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I would add Tadlock of course as well as track coach Wes Kittley whose men's team is currently ranked number one in the country. Additionally, they just upped the salary pool for Beard's 3 main assistants nearly 300k.
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The entire Randy Shannon and Al Golden experience at Miami was a fiasco. Given your KK thinking I suppose he gets no credit for Beard then. The KK hire was of course an abysmal failure and Hocutt made it even worse IMO by the absurd decision to bring Kliff back that last year with absolutely no justification or logical reason to do so. It delayed considerably the start of hopefully righting the ship. KK went on to have the lowest ranked Power 5 recruiting class in the country that year and we're now taking transfers from U of La-Monroe.
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Pancotti was going to see zero playing time.Fulcher and Wallace were suspended by the coaching staff and weren't going to be back. TT announced what appears to be a decent WR grad transfer today, Reginald Turner out of ULM. Been a fairly productive guy and looks good on video In 2016, 23 catches, 38 in 2017, and 36 in 2018. A little over 1600 career receiving yards and 10 touchdowns.
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if only Hocutt knew how to hire a football coach.
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Relax chief, I've railed on this very board on more than one occasion about the folly of arguing subjective views such as city preferences. As such, my post was hardly a Lubbock good/Lawrence bad sort of missive. Not my point. Rather, I found more than a little irony in a post from a guy who is a fan of a school located in the garden spot of Lawrence, Kansas of all places, alluding to TT being located in "the shithole of the nation" and probably having a lot of weird majors because of it, etc.(a transfer rule that no longer even exists).
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Well, that's pretty funny coming from a guy who's the fan of a school located in the so very urbane metropolis of Lawrence, Kansas, (.that's right, Kansas) a town roughly a third the size of Lubbock. And your logic that since Tech is located in the "shithole of the nation (as opposed to Lawrence who is frequently mistaken for Paris) probably has a lot of fucking weird majors and grad degrees" is most certainly irrefutable. They only have an enrollment of 40000 within the next year or two, so clearly they have to have weird majors to get anyone to go there. Somebody got their feelers hurt by not winning the conference title this year.
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You posted "Even if the facilities are on par, UT in Austin would have much more cachet with recruits than TT in Lubbock. For one thing, Lubbock is 2 hours farther from Dallas than Austin is, and 5 hours farther from Houston. That alone is an advantage." Of course, there's no doubt Beard could recruit well in Austin. My simple point in regard to the TT roster is given its national, even international make up, a school being closer to Dallas and Houston doesn't amount to a pile of shit in the cantaloupe patch as an advantage. He can recruit as well in West Texas as he can in Central Texas.
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Oh, I think I understand. In football regarding Austin/Lubbock that's certainly the case. Basketball not the case IMO. See my TT roster post above. Different creatures totally.
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Catdaddy's point regarding basketball recruiting being a different animal is correct and well taken IMO. This year's TT roster as an example had players from the Dominican Republic, Va, Ariz, Md, Illinois, Ark, Italy, France, Ga., etc. And I understand well the national name that UT is as well as its significance. That said, perhaps as a non TT fan some of the national buzz created by Beard currently has escaped you. It has been immense.
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Though the quality of UT coaching jobs are obviously always a consideration in coaching hire circles, I'm not firmly convinced Beard's contract language was a poison pill specifically targeting UT. KU could always be an attractive job if for some reason it came open. Lots of other quality programs in the conference as well. If Hocutt were to go to OU at some point as some project as an example, they could always become a potential suitor.
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I dunno man, though older, the USA is a pretty nice facility. Secondly, currently under construction is a new 30 million dollar basketball workout facility that is state of the art. Some really good facilities.
