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RichUT

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  1. He was good, but ultimately not good enough. An important player in changing the trend line of the program, and he left it all out on field. Hook 'Em Quinn.
  2. I've been vocally critical of Quinn since he came back from the injury, but a lot of the these comments are fucking pathetic. Quinn was the reason we were even in that game. That was a really good D and they won a healthy majority of the 1 on 1 battles. You hang this loss around Sark's neck for going completely brain dead at the 1. Quinn was a flawed player but he left everything on the field tonight.
  3. And that’s on Sark, so we’re clear. That 2nd down call was an all time terrible call. Just atrocious.
  4. That third down throw sailed because they managed to get pressure despite rushing 3. I think Cam got beat inside and there was no way to step into it.
  5. Good job seeing the pressure and knowing he had to go hot. He’s been far from perfect, but we’re in the fight despite the fact that we’re generally doing a shit job of beating the guy across from us on most plays.
  6. Time to give up on that idea. Arch hasn’t seen meaningful live action in 3 months. It’s not going to happen here.
  7. I know nothing about our basketball NIL but I can't imagine the money wouldn't be there if/when needed. But the people providing it want to feel like the ROI will be there, and I don't think RT inspires confidence that it will be.
  8. You are trivializing that season to suit your narrative by focusing on how it ended. Terry took over before conference play, held the team together, won the Big 12 tourney (emphatically), and had the deepest tourney run we'd had in 15 years. And every player on that team stumped for him to get the job, iirc. For the record, I had real reservations that he would be able to sustain that performance, as did many others. There was no home run option out there, which meant that every possible hire carried a level of risk.
  9. It's a virtuous cycle. Better players want to feel confident that they are going to be developed and prepared for the next level. That takes a great coach. You can get a few mercenaries if you're willing to pay stupid money, but that's not a recipe for sustained success.
  10. Show you work. CDC makes the coaching hires, last I checked. I could infer that you are suggesting there was a mandate made (presumably by Hartzell), but I seriously doubt he'd take such a strong stance. More likely it was a decision that the two of them arrived at together. My experience with people at the C-level of any organization is that they try really hard not to tell their leadership team who to hire/fire. That sort of thing would make our AD job a hell of a lot less attractive.
  11. I'm a decade younger than CDC and could easily retire if I wanted to. But I'd be bored and I like making money. You said "Decisions made out of fear are rarely good ones" (among other things), which I could only assume was pointed at CDC's decision to hire Rodney Terry due to the optics of making a different decision. Go ahead and tell me what I got wrong there and then I'll give some thought to fucking off.
  12. Our football program wandered the desert for over a decade, but one good hire was able to right the ship in ~2 years. With NIL and the portal, Rodney Terry is incapable to doing irreparable harm to our program. He got his chance. All indications are that he'll come up short and we will move on. That's hardly the end of the world in my book. There are a ton of great things to see and do in Austin in the spring. Some of you guys should check them out.
  13. Spoken like someone that has zero appreciation for how much relationships matter in this sport. And they matter in all sports, but I'd argue that they matter more in basketball than any other revenue generating sport. i mean look at every other decision that CDC has made in his time here. He generally doesn't fuck up. So maybe a different way to think about this situation is to trust that he actually did make the best decision possible under super shitty circumstances. Or just sit back in your lazy boy and criticize a guy that has done well enough to ascend to one of the best AD roles in the whole country. I'm sure your professional accomplishments are just as impressive.
  14. A bit more than just political optics if you just stopped and gave an ounce of thought to it. What do you think the schools we recruit against might have said about UT in a world where CDC ran off Terry after that tournament run?
  15. That's revisionist history. Everyone had concerns, but most understood that there was no world where we could not hire him unless there was a slam dunk hire to be made. And there was no such candidate available at the time. I'm sure there was some back channeling with the guys we'd all be thrilled with (e.g., Donovan), but when they didn't bite we were stuck. The optics of hiring someone without real skins on the wall over the Black interim head coach that damn near got us to the Final 4 could have set this program back much further with recruits than we are now. CDC had the long term view in mind, and made the best decision possible in a really bad situation. Sometimes all the options are bad and you need your leader to choose the least bad option. I think CDC did his job there, just as I have confidence he will do his job here when the time comes.
  16. Well, Tito’s is made in Texas. So I mean, I guess your statement is accurate depending on how you’re looking at it.
  17. Anyone with a brain won’t ding CDC for that hire. He was in an impossible situation from an optics standpoint. In the end, he did the sensible thing with the $3MM per year deal that I am sure won’t be extended.
  18. He's not, but he's throwing to a couple of guys that are. And sometimes that can be enough. I'm not saying we're fucked, but those WR's give him a lot more margin for error than most.
  19. This fucking club man. They can't put a match away to save their fucking lives.
  20. Because….why? It doesn’t fit your narrative? Get the fuck out of here with that shit. There were four eligible receivers on the play. There is also always the option to throw it away or even not throw at all. The guy with the ball in his hands has to make the right read and the right throw.
  21. Without the ability to ask him, I don't know how you'd go about proving that. Strategically, that makes very little sense and I have a really hard time buying it. If somehow that were proven to be true then my opinion here would change.
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