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    Put it on the wall!
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    Interesting considering y'all just publicly offered $48M to John Calipari...
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    This was probably one of the best years to be a rich program looking for a coach. The two best young coaches with real skins on the wall were both underpaid and supposedly looking. Next year is even worse as there will be no proven young commodities that aren't getting well-paid and we will either be force to pay a ton to get a guy that might be on the downside of his career or we are reaching on a complete unknown and, knowing the way Texas works, we will aggressively overpay to cross our fingers and hope we have found a real coach with very limited data.
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    Why no UCLA interest in Beard? Has he sworn off the West Coast completely?
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    I think this is why so many defend Giles. Even the best orgs have a weak link, but Herman has several guys on his staff who are mediocre or at best one-trick ponies and it ultimately means we could have a mediocre HC as well. Not a great place to be after the last 10 years of Texas football.
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    At this point our good options have dried up. Beard doesn't need to come to Texas to compete for titles and he is going to get paid whether he is here or in Lubbock, but he doesn't have to rebuild at Tech. Buzz never seemed like a priority and if that is the case then Muss and Wojo shouldn't have made the cut. Not sure who CDC has on his list, but there really aren't many realistic options left right now. The big name guys will still be around next year, but with salaries escalating fast I am not sure how we entice a known guy to come for a top-to-bottom rebuild without again running into the supposed money issues we faced this year. I don't see any mid-major options that would be worth taking a risk on in the near term.
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    I am pretty sure I spotted Bert in the that crowd photo on the top row...
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    I am not sure there is a 'wrong end' in aggyland.
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    "My outfit costs more than my car." -F. J. Dutch (Frappacino Java Dutch)
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    Anyone want to go in on creating a competing site? We could also have our own Top 44 and I could write fake recruiting profiles. We could have Fat Kitch, Chet Brown, and Curt Bowels as our aliases.
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    Can't really knock the hire and definitely think they got him at close to fair value. Considering his age, he is easily one of the Top 15 coaches. I figured they would have to pay $4.5M+ to get him. He is probably the best of the coaches that moves this off-season...assuming Tech pays bank to keep Beard.
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    So you are saying he was 'close to gaggling'?
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    I guess we'll see. By the time Buzz gets settled the script may have flipped, but I am not sure the middle of the SEC is trending that much better than the ACC and it is way behind the three-headed monsters at the top of the ACC. LSU has already spit the bit and Bruce Pearl is probably the most likely guy in all of college basketball to follow that script. We all know what Barnes brings to the table and I am not sure what his upside is in the long run. Howland is interesting, but if there is a place harder to win at than aggyland, it might be Starkville.
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    The hard ceiling in the ACC is much lower than in the SEC. He can easily crack and maintain a spot in the Top 4 of SEC, ride the conference being overrated to protected seeds in the tourney and see what Madness happens. It's a much easier gig than the Texas job and we probably wouldn't have outbid aggy.
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    Damn, anything can happen. That's the lazy man's approach and all of us understand that. Hornsfans is the place for people who don't want to talk about evidence but just want to assume next year is the year. The evidence, I am not sure why you can't understand that, doesn't point to anything positive about next year's team based on winning the NIT. Your argument boils down to, 'I am a sunshine pumper, so shut the fuck up!' If you have something better than that, then bring it. We can all hope, but after 4 years, many of us have cut bait on the program under Shaka.
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    The point is that there is no trend to suggest winning the NIT points to consistent, long term improvement. We are back to just blind hope that Shaka is the next Jay Wright marinating one more year before his breakout. I was wrapping in the point that greggym seems to think getting to the NIT finals is going to catapult us to great things, even as we lose all our pathetic offensive 'weapons', when the evidence suggests otherwise.
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    Funnily enough, Walden Ponderer had already posted a list of NIT champs from the past decade on the Fire Shaka thread and indeed there was little there to suggest winning the NIT says anything positive about a team's trajectory. None of the winning programs from a P5 conference has gone on to win their conference or be a consistent player at the national level.
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    You should have photoshopped Ketch in there somewhere...good lighting for some effecting shade as well.
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    If you take out the mid-majors, things look really shitty. Only the two Big 12 teams (both of whom are known for padding their out of conference scheds with cupcakes) managed 20 wins in the following season. Is anyone going to feel Shaka is on the cusp of great things if we go 21-12 or even 26-12 next year? Baylor did make the Sweet 16, but was also a Smoove 9-9 in conference.
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    Didn't someone post something about P5 NIT finalists not doing shit the next year over the past handful of seasons?
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    Why didn't you post his follow up Tweet? Ingram continued on Texas OL: 'But Denzel Okafor sucks donkey balls.'
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    Who is available next year? I don't see any hot young coaches that would all of sudden look worth $3.2M in another season. I suppose it would have been nice to see Nate Oats play above seed in one more tournament, but we missed that boat. Do you feel great about Muss or Wojo, even if they look a bit better next year? What if they don't? The high quality coaches are going to cost us at least as much as Beard would. Are we really waiting for Donovan or someone else to get fired in hopes of pulling a reverse Barnes?
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    Thanks, I didn't remember it being a consistent drone from across the paysite spectrum. I figured it had something to with the accolades that Roach has been getting. But they have also said that Roach is applying pressure across different positions, so it's hard to pin his success solely on Okafor's failure.
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    Where are the practice reports that say Okafor has been bad? I haven't really seen his name mentioned in any fashion, good or bad, on the reports that get posted here. I wasn't going to mention him in mine, but now that I have been told he sucks...
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    Actually that is what I fear the most. I would almost rather CDC just say we are too poor to fire Shaka and have to keep him for 3 more years so we can afford the next guy. If he really thinks Shaka is the best the program can do...

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