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Texas Basketball Recruiting Notes: Shaka Edition
Welcome to the Longhorn Basketball Family. We have a long tradition of Bakers wearing burnt orange. OK, a short tradition but welcome!
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Texas Basketball Recruiting Notes: Shaka Edition
I actually see a little greggym in Kai.
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Fire Shaka Smart
when he wasn't gassing my family.
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Fire Shaka Smart
I recognize that you're trying to be an asshole and you have succeeded. I am aware of the problems they had years ago. That doesn't mean they haven't done good work.
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Fire Shaka Smart
I've never lived there but there is a great non profit called Cal Farley's Boys and Girls Ranch. Given them money when possible since the early 70s. They do a great job with at risk kids. As a matter of fact, there was a big kid from there that played football for Baylor a few years ago. Its tough to root for Baylor but I did for that young man.
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New UT Basketball Arena
I would like to believe this but we were told the same thing about the Drum. 5 years later, everything was ready to go.
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Poll: Predict the Texas Longhorns 2018-19 regular season win total
Thats the greggym option since 1970.
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2018-19 Texas Longhorns thread
You don't get it. Have a great day.
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2018-19 Texas Longhorns thread
The G league is no guarantee.
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2018-19 Texas Longhorns thread
In my opinion, if he wants to get to the league, he needs to be back 100%. Taking an extra year is not a big deal if it gives him a better chance to make the league. He's 20.
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2018-19 Texas Longhorns thread
12, I am speaking as a former letterman and a cancer survivor. I realize that I was older than Andrew when I went through my treatments. While going through some nasty treatments, I was out running everyday but I wasn't the same and I doubt he is either. If he wants to go pro, his body needs time to recover. He can still have a normal life by going to class and going to practice but not necessarily competing. I get it about the doctors but I am looking longer term and not just this season.
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CR Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting
Good post.
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2018-19 Texas Longhorns thread
He needs to redshirt this year.
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New UT Basketball Arena
If DKR was still AD, that would probably happen. Although being on/close to campus is no guarantee of student attendance, its even less likely that students will get in their cars or take some type of transportation to a game.
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New UT Basketball Arena
You can have 16k seats but you have to have the right configuration. In the day, the Marriott at Center at BYU was the largest gym in the country at roughly 22k but if I remember correctly, it was one level and the slope was so gradual , the gym wasn't nearly as loud as it should have been. Have as many fans as is possible as close to the floor as you can and you'll have a great atmosphere. Just don't build a gym that is everything to everyone. You build it for hoops and if you want concerts there, its in a hoops configuration.
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CR Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting
- New UT Basketball Arena
I would love to see about 10k seats at Gregory. The problem is that its an old building and you would need to do a big remodel. For example, our locker rooms are now offices and because the structure is old, I am not sure it would work. They can tear it down and build a similar structure but not until I am dead and buried.- New UT Basketball Arena
You want the gym as close to campus as possible. However even then, there is no guarantee that students will show but at least its a better option.- 2018-19 Texas Longhorns thread
I need to lend him my burnt orange tie.- Texas recruiting notes 2019
Of course it is but I blame it on The Schwartz.- Texas recruiting notes 2019
Mel definitely had character issues.- 2018-19 Texas Longhorns thread
café, since you seem to remember those prehistoric times, here's something that shows how strange recruiting can be. As mentioned Larry played at Hobbs NM which was a national power back in the day. Coaches from all over the country descended on Hobbs but not to see Larry. Hobbs had a 6'9 white kid I think his name was Kyle Williams who every one wanted. Our coaches go to see Kyle and they see this skinny black kid who was unstoppable. All the other coaches were infatuated by Williams. Our coaches started recruiting Larry and since I believe he was born in Lampasas, he had no problem coming to Austin. Kyle wound up going to Kansas State and played for the legendary Jack Hartman. Johnny Moore is another great story.- 10.22.18 Coach Herman press conference (Noon)
I am good with that as long as Barry isn't in one of them.- 2018-19 Texas Longhorns thread
café, Larry's freshman team had better attendance than the varsity did.. There were a couple of other kids on that frosh team that left school or the team would have been even better. Very few know that freshman were not eligible to play varsity until 72. I would have loved to see Larry's high school team in Hobbs play the Wheatley teams in those years. No 3 point shot and no shot clock and yet those teams felt bad if they didn't score at least 100 every game.- 2018-19 Texas Longhorns thread
Your Dad is correct. He should have a lot of stories since he was part of the sports media back then. Larry was drafted I believe in the 5th round but was the last cut because he had bad knees. He hurt his knee in our last non conference game against OU and missed his entire JR conference year. Came back the next year and was conference MVP. He was probably the best player in the SWC in the 70s. We recruited his brother Ronnie but ultimately he went to NMSU because he didn't want to be known as Larry's little brother. He did go to Sweden and as of a couple of years ago, he was still there and I hope that has lived and will continue to live a great life. He's a good guy. As far as the UH story goes, that was the first round of the NCAAs and that game was in Las Cruces. That was literally a 1-16 battle. We had to win a playoff game I think against SMU to win the conference. UH was considered to be a final four team in Los Angeles I believe that year.. They had Dwight Jones and Dwight Davis who were both NBA lottery picks. The game started and we couldn't break their press. Jimmy Blacklock was our starting point guard but couldn't break their trap. We were down by something like 11 points and Coach Black called a time out and put in Larrabee. Harry was probably 5'10 and slow as molasses but UH couldn't contain him. We fought our way back and near the end of the game if I remember, we took the lead. Near the end, there was a jump ball between Harry and either David or Jones. and damn if Harry doesn't get the tip. Robinson came up huge that game and out played the entire UH frontcourt on one leg. The rest is also true. I remember the media telling us that if we didn't go and just forfeited the game, the final score would be 2-0 instead of the ass whipping that UH was going to give us. The lesson to be learned is that can never count out any team or any player because you don't know his heart . Any team on any given day can beat any other team and thats why you don't sell any opponent short. Thats what UH did and they paid a big price. - New UT Basketball Arena
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