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SwanderedTalent

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  1. He might be coming from where I am, which is that it's a little hard to swallow a quarter-billion dollar enterprise can't keep enough cash on hand (speaking euphemistically) to make critical personnel moves when it needs to make them. The impact of COVID throws a monkey wrench in my skepticism but it's just hard to reconcile the rhetoric we've lived with for 20+ years and the reality of operating under financial constraints, legit or otherwise.
  2. I'm not advocating for him to be hired, approached, or considered. I mentioned him because he's a name, the same way Nick Saban is a "name" in college football, in order to provide an example of a coach that I don't think we could get even if we decided we wanted to try (but who people will advocate for), in further order to explain why I like Royal Ivey as a candidate.
  3. I would personally be fine with hiring Ivey. There's no Urban Meyer out there (Beilein comes closest but is old and has a negative reputation among NBA players), and I'm skeptical we could pry any of the other names (Musselman, Wright) loose. That means gambling on a hot midmajor coach and we just tried that. So if we're going to roll the dice anyway, let's see what an alumnus of the program can do.
  4. On and on for multiple pages, eh
  5. Lol ok!!!!! I'm not telling you how to think or feel. I'm telling you what it looks like to other people. Do what you want.
  6. OK, fine. You went on and on and fucking on about how much you "like" a coach you've apparently never met. When I asked why, you gave me an insipid word salad of meaningless motivational-poster nonsense. You like him because you think he's a great dude. Awesome, man. You liked how his teams played six fucking years ago, amazing. You want someone who coaches Texas basketball to succeed-- what a novel concept. That is precisely the kind of reasoning I would expect from someone who in 2021 says they "like" Shaka Smart. I despise him because he's a shitty basketball coach who's lingered too long and needs to be fired.
  7. If you want to. I got what I expected.
  8. Bitterwhiteguy did that last fucking year.
  9. I'd pay to watch her read the phone book
  10. I would like my screen name changed to Tony Febbo
  11. Why do you care if Nebraska makes $40 million or $50 million? How does it benefit you as a fan? Hint: it doesn't. That money isn't used to enhance your experience as a fan, and it's a wash in terms of providing a competitive advantage. It's not helping you narrow the gap with Ohio State. It's not helping you establish a competitive advantage over Purdue. It is ultimately meaningless to fans. Only the worst college football fans bleat about how much money (revenue, mind you) their athletic department generates. It's about winning games on the field. Everything else is pussy hurt equivocation and deflection. And that includes all the fucking retards in our fanbase who think Texas is "the Joneses". You keep saying that, but you keep coming back to a Texas message board to tell Texas fans how little you care about Texas.
  12. This is something you'll have the chance to make amends for in the future, if you strongly feel the need. It's an admirable attitude but for now, just praying you're taking it day by day and being selfish about getting better because early on, that's our best bet.
  13. Agree with that. It's not the right time for him to assume he's hit his ceiling at Tech, and if he does decide that, he can do better than a program that has had such a hard time competing at its expected peak for nearly thirty years. Their 1993 team might have won the national title if Alan Henderson hadn't gotten hurt, and after that Knight never had another national contender. Mike Davis had a fluky run to the final in 2002, and then what was their best season since then-- Crean made one Sweet 16? Beard should sit tight, see if he can get Tech to Baylor's level, and if for some reason it doesn't happen, he can always move on to an actual current-day blueblood. I love Indiana's tradition, but that's clearly not helping them win anymore.
  14. Right. Indiana says it raised private funds to buy out Miller's contract, which at 100% would have cost them around $10m, and they mentioned the COVID related financial pressures the athletic department is under when they announced the move. Oats' buyout is (going off memory) almost twice what they are on the hook to pay Miller. I don't see how they could do it, and based on one strong season I don't see how Indiana could spend $30 million to bring him on even if he had a crimson-and-cream striped hard-on. If Thad Matta had taken a job last year and gone 24-6 and been a 2 seed, maybe.
  15. He has a team preparing for the NCAAs, of course he said no. If they're patient, he hasn't really told them no. The buyout is probably prohibitive, though, and it doesn't fit to walk Miller out the door and then sit on their ass for three weeks waiting for Alabama to lose. edit, mentioning him was somewhat tongue-in-cheek anyway if you look at what I was responding to.
  16. 0.0% chance Indiana even seriously entertains the idea of Steve Alford. If they seriously consider Fife or Cheaney, it will be because they struck out on their first six choices and that will firmly establish them as the Nebraska of college basketball.
  17. I think some of that's wishful thinking. Indiana doesn't have "patience" because in college basketball, rebuilding doesn't take more than three years. Example, Texas Tech under Chris Beard. There are plenty of reasons for him to stay but this idea that Indiana is going to shoot him out of the saddle before he gets a fair shot is silly. If you're right, though, then maybe Indiana will prefer Oats since he's got Alabama on the cusp of the top line in his second season.
  18. Big 12 conference tournament champions.
  19. We didn't win the conference championship this year. We won the conference's post-season tournament. Those are not the same thing; that is a fact. You are badly informed about college basketball if you aren't aware of that.
  20. we don't really agree on what that means anymore, so it's pretty easy to see how people would see a lot of logic in the premise
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