This conversation goes the same fucking way every time and @Sbbruin should know better.
A: "Texas should never have fired Rick Barnes, best coach they ever had and he's killing it at Tennessee."
B: "Sure, but look at his last 7 years at Texas. It was time to move on."
A: "But Terry is awful and isn't even as good as Barnes was in those years."
B: "Except we didn't replace Barnes with Terry. We replaced him with Smart, then Beard, and then gave Terry the job as a thank you for handling the Beard debacle."
Anyone familiar with the recent history of Texas basketball already knows all this shit. I don't know why we get baited into repeating it again and again. Keeping a great coach is the goal, but when he has almost a decade of mediocre to bad seasons, it's time to move on. It's what's best for him and what's best for us. And yeah, sometimes you downgrade with the replacement. It sucks, but that's the risk you run. I'd still rather take the risk and try to improve our situation than just sit there and learn to be content with mediocrity.