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  1. That sounds like a good plan. Certainly better than mine, where I have a lasting bitterness about Chris Beard and his decisions that led to that night. Let's root for a deep run this coming weekend and beyond. These guys have been fun to follow, and I'm grateful to Terry for helping to get everyone to this point.
  2. I was called out by UTEE7 for name calling because he was making nonsensical posts. I felt like I was very unemotional in explaining my responses to him. You keep mentioning this "our standard" thing. I don't know where you're getting this from. I've never claimed to speak for UT or what its standard should be. I have my opinion, and that's it. That's all its ever been.
  3. No, it's 10k or nothing. If this is going to take 5 years I want it to be worth my while. I haven't seen a good portion of posters say they'd rather lose in the first or second rounds if it means being rid of Terry. I've seen one, and I think he's an idiot. The escrow is as much for your protection as mine. But 5 years is a long time. If we're doing this, let's make sure the funds are there. I have no idea what "our standard" is. Why am I suddenly speaking for anyone other than me? My opinion of Terry was formed a long time ago while he was an assistant under Barnes. Nothing he did after he left changed my mind. This season doesn't change my mind. I've liked what I've seen the last few games, but that doesn't say anything about his ability to run a program. I know Gerry is saying none of the assistants are going to leave, but they haven't had Beard make an appeal to them, yet, and they haven't had tensions in the staff, yet. I've already said what my parameter is. He just needs to be able to keep the job. Do well enough to stay as the head coach at Texas and he's done enough to be considered a success as far as I'm concerned. That seems pretty cut and dried to me. But again, I'm not trying to speak for anyone else, and I'm certainly not trying to pretend my "standard" should be anyone else's.
  4. That's why the money goes in escrow. If I'm not around the money still is. Frankly I find it beyond idiotic to make a bet that won't have a result in five years. I hate making bets anyway. But if we're going to do it, let's do it. If Pancho won't hold the money we'll find someone we can agree on who will. I'll send the money out FedEx tomorrow in certified funds in the name of whoever is the escrow agent to their address. If you haven't matched it in 14 days I'll get my money back. I don't need your money, and I have no desire to send you any, so it will go to a charity of our choosing, whoever wins the bet. If Terry is the coach at the start of the 2029 season, it will go to a charity of your choosing. If he leaves the job before then it will go to a charity of my choosing. I want to be clear I think the whole thing is stupid, and I think you're dumb if you take me up on it. But whatever. Talking about bets to make a point is lazy in my mind, so it's worth calling you out on it for that reason alone.
  5. Is this supposed to hurt my feelings? I'm answering your posts as honestly as possible. Not sure what more you want, and I don't really care. I'll bet you $10,000 dollars Rodney Terry will not be the coach at Texas for the season 2029-30. Is that better? Charity of your choice, with the same conditions for you. We can give the money to Pancho as an escrow agent. BTW, no money in escrow, no bet.
  6. I would say so. I've already pointed out our new emphasis on the post up game. I feel like Allen having to take a seat allowed Terry to move the lineups around in ways he wasn't willing to do previously, and it's helped in a variety of ways. Not that the team wouldn't be better with Allen, because I think they would, but being able to play with different lineups for the first time since Beard's suspension has been good for the team, IMO. Also, Hunter has come on of late. Could be he's better healed from an injury? I don't know. The problem is so much of how a coach is measured is in terms of tournament performance. So while all of this has been a feel good story, and I'm ecstatic we won the Big 12 tournament, next week is when the rubber hits the road. But absolutely I credit some of the things I've seen this weekend to coaching.
  7. The chances of me being active in 5 years are not very good. I'd likely welsh on it if you won. But yes, with next year being the first year, if he lasts through 5 years to make it to a 6th year, he will have been more successful to have done that than I anticipate. I'd consider that success on his part.
  8. Keeping his job in year 5. That would be a success I don't expect. Is that enough of a goal post?
  9. I don't understand this post. The federal government already intervened when they shut the bank down to stop the run on deposits and preserve its asset base as much as possible. It's going to have a ripple effect across the banking system. How big of one is unknown. Huge is a pretty subjective term. They're going to backstop it to whatever degree is necessary to get the remaining assets of the bank sold. That's how this is going to work. There's not a need to make any other choice.
  10. It's why they moved the Big 12 tournament up a day. They wanted the championship match to have some kind of impact. Several conferences did that.
  11. I wouldn't support hiring that weasel Scott Drew right now, much less after his first 8 years. I cannot stand that cocksucker. And if Rodney Terry is a career success at Texas, that will be a complete surprise to me. Doesn't mean it can't happen, but your lists aren't proving anything to me.
  12. Scott Drew made huge leaps when he ditched that horrible zone defense he kept parading out there. I can't stand that bastard, so it's caused me all kinds of consternation to see him succeed wildly. I don't care if people want to be hopeful about Terry. I mean, I'm not. I'm more akin to resigned. Just don't try to turn my frown upside down with talk of other elite coaches who struggled before hitting their stride. Bill Self's first two years at Oral Roberts before hitting the Willie Wonka elevator to storied heights is not a good analogy, as you've pointed out. To me, let's get a big run here, have a lot of fun rooting on our team, and if Terry is hired as the head coach because of it, so be it.
  13. I wasn't trying to be antagonistic. That part comes naturally. I was being cheeky, not antagonistic in my first response. From there I feel like I replied organically to nonsense.
  14. I don't know that I had a point. I don't think I care that much. It was mostly a reference to the horrific circumstances Scott Drew inherited when he took over at Baylor. It went beyond a normal "they were a terrible team." It wasn't meant as a correction, as much as I assumed you'd get the reference and laugh/groan/frown about the whole sordid affair. Then you posted a screenshot of Baylor's records going back to 1988 as if that meant something. When I tried to educate you as to what I was referencing, you called me obnoxious. Which, fair point. Then you post the sentence, "You are missing an irrelevant point," I'm assuming in an effort to test my sanity. That's my take on our exchange here.
  15. I'm missing an irrelevant point? Do you understand how stupid you sound?
  16. Are you purposefully being this dense? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baylor_University_basketball_scandal
  17. Actually we beat them soundly in the first half and then they beat us even worse in the second half. UH outscored Texas overall.
  18. I'm not sure saying Baylor was a terrible team when Scott Drew was hired quite covers the situation he inherited there.
  19. I'm rooting for a fun and historic end to this season. I am not rooting for Terry to fail because I want someone else as the head coach. That seems dumb and short sighted. But it would be a silver lining if Texas falls in the first or second round and that seals his fate. That's not the same as rooting against him. but it is an honest reflection of how I think he'll do as the head coach the next few years. To be honest, losing as a #2 seed in the first round sounds horrible. Please don't let that happen. I don't give a shit about silver linings. But we'll see what transpires. Regardless, this team has been a joy to watch. And Rodney Terry has been a huge part of that. I'm thankful as a fan for everyone in the basketball program who circled the wagons to help make this happen.
  20. @Jackson P. Neighbors has a great post on page 5 where he talks about some of the amounts involved: "What we saw yesterday should not happen. $42B deposit outflow and resultant -$958M cash position in one day is worthy of Congressional investigation in my opinion, and I have zero axes to grind. Previous posters showed the data on deposit size % which is spot on. Prudential regulators are going to have to reassess the entire playbook on liquidity management after this. Bank failures occur mostly due to liquidity, but it happens over weeks and months and quarters which gives the bank and regulators time to find buyers for assets, etc. Technology, an astute and influential client base, and a huge average relationship balance meant that this could happen with unprecedented speed." Here's an interview with a different CEO who describes her company's mad scramble between 12pm and 3pm to move all their cash above the $250k threshold somewhere else:
  21. I was plenty exposed. Still am. I enjoy reading about what transpired from various points of view. I was asking for a specific recommendation if you had any. I appreciate your response.
  22. I don't know that it is outside the scope of the failure issue. I wouldn't expect gross incompetence to be limited to one area of the business. They were obviously very good at obtaining huge deposits. It's unclear what else they were good at. What's the mechanism for holding management accountable? You mention SVB justifying the policy. Who do they end up justifying this whole thing to? Does someone end up with the Kareem Serageldin treatment?
  23. I guess. If you want to feel like I'm overgeneralizing and exaggerating what is being said, that's a perception on your part. I'm not going to argue you're wrong. It's your perception. But it's MY perception that people ABSOLUTELY want to see depositors lose their uninsured money. There's a righteous moral indignation involved. They were stupid. They should have known better. They're all tech bros and cancers on society. There's almost a celebration on this thread that it might occur. I don't know how it can be interpreted differently than that. I don't think this is a harbinger of a broader economic collapse, either, but I do think it sends a harmful market signal (that's only MY opinion, and I do not expect others to share it) if the depositors ended up losing their uninsured deposits. Which you and I agree they won't.
  24. There's a question mark there for a reason. I'm asking. I'm not a mind reader. I'm asking for clarification. If I get something wrong I appreciate being corrected. I'm asking for anyone you value that argues the position you hold as a reference to better understand where you're coming from. Google is not going to provide that. I don't think it's ever clear in the middle of a crisis what should or shouldn't be done. I've read plenty of arguments about what should or shouldn't have been done. Since we only have one course of action we can demonstrably measure, it becomes difficult to make legitimate comparisons. What I'm saying is that if nothing had been done it would have upended the global order on a bigger scale than what we saw in the 30s and 40s. A lot less would have had to be done if Lehman Brothers hadn't been allowed to just shut its doors. But of course that then creates its own issues. But that is absolutely the event that created the global freeze in the credit markets which brought the system to its knees.
  25. I understood it was sarcasm. My question was in reference to why anyone would think the planet is at stake here. Trey3216 answered the post was based on a Twitter feed he read, not on this thread.
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