CDC is the one who came out and set the standard: we should have top 10 programs across the board, and we should go after and hire only the best of the best. last i checked rodney terry didn’t save all of our players from a burning building and then personally nurse them back to health from his bed in the icu- he (barely) managed not to crash the auto-driving tesla. lest we forget that we entered the 2023 postseason with 100% of this board believing that RT was almost surely gone after our underwhelming regular season under him, and that penn state was 1-2 missed shots away from sending us packing in the round of 32.
Texas Athletics is not a charity, it’s huge business. hiring Terry being “the right thing to do” is a)subjective, and b)really really low on the list of reasons to give someone a 5-year contract to be the HC at Texas. we’re supposed to be going after national titles, not “doing the right thing” by hiring a guy who we’d otherwise never even let interview for this job in a million years.
if we had money whipped timmy lloyd, nate oats, or even tj otzelberger then Texas would be in the beginning stages of what is hopefully the most prosperous era in the history of Texas Basketball, while RT would be coaching an UT-Arlington or somewhere similar, doing his typical mediocre job, and absolutely nobody here, including you two, would be raging about how Texas failed to do the right thing.