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Derka

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  1. wow, three straight turnovers. unreal.
  2. what i really want to see from this program can’t be summed up with tourney results or rankings. it’s a specific look and feel from our team, a look and feel that was never stronger with me then it was on december 19th, 2009: the team was big, fast, strong, physical, aggressive, assertive, confident, and competent. yes, they fell apart shortly thereafter, but anyone else who was there that day at jerryworld remembers that team and that game. you look out on the court and you see J’Covan Brown- 21 pts reb Avery Bradley- 20 pts 4 reb Jordan Hamilton-large, athletic wing, future all american Damion James- 25pts, 15 reb Dexter Pittman- 23 pts, 15 reb you just look at the guys on the floor and they’re huge, they’re fast, they’re athletic, they’ve got a motor, and they just play with such confidence and aggression, that it can only come from being an extremely well put together, well coached, well drilled team. thats what i want back. there’s all kinds of different coaching personalities and styles, and im really just less concerned with that than i am with recapturing that feeling of looking out onto the court, seeing our five guys, and being like, “fuck yeah. we got this. 100% confidence.” i just want that feeling back, because if we can get back to that place then the wins and the trophies will follow.
  3. yeah i’m just learning from this thread about wade’s handling of the situation at lsu. sounds like he’s the furthest thing from what we’re looking for… …although i kinda wish we’d get over it and go hire us a beard, pearl, pitino type coach again. i really do.
  4. almost nobody makes the S16 every couple years, and miller has made it once since 2017, and that’s in the weak ass pac 12 and big east.
  5. believe it or not, i’ve never actually been to little caesar’s myself, so this has been quite illuminating for me:
  6. if the goal of this article was to get people to share it (to mock it) then they nailed it: https://fansided.com/4-rodney-terry-replacements-texas-five-star-talent-march-madness their list of “4 Rodney Terry replacements who could actually make the most of five-star talent at Texas”: 4.Ben Mccollum 3.Alan Huss 2.Randy Bennett 1.Niko Medved
  7. purdue fans worst nightmare just came true. another double digit seed in their way.
  8. clemson should have started playing the foul game with 2:30 left. not only do they not do that, they don’t even play the foul game with 00:30 left lol. shambolic.
  9. clemson down 40-16 with 15 minutes and change remaining. even with an injury to your best player, that wild.
  10. clemson with 11 points with 2:06 left in the half.
  11. no, because he’s leveled out and is no longer the rising star that he was a decade ago. you’ve got this sean miller: yep, i’d like to hire him. but then you’ve got this sean miller: so he falls off a cliff at arizona, gets canned for rampant cheating, gets welcomed back home at xavier, finishes 56th and 40th in kenpom the last two years, and would be willing to bolt from xavier *again* after they welcomed his cheating, losing ass with open arms. that’s why i don't want it to be sean miller.
  12. god damn mcneese looks awesome. i honestly don’t see any difference in wade and miller scandal-wise other than the show-cause, and i think i speak for most of us here when i say id rather have wade than miller. i would be really interested in hearing why we won’t touch a guy like wade if we do end up hiring miller.
  13. yeah, ok, i can get behind that hire.
  14. this must-have possession ended with xavier getting the offensive board and an uncontested putback. five Texas players inside the arc, only one Xavier player, and the one Xavier player gets the board and the bucket to effectively end the careers of half of our team and coaching staff. Texas A&M couldn’t hit the ocean from space but they’re a four seed because they actually are well coached, as ugly as that style may be. i’m beyond sick of this fundamentally unsound, low iq basketball. the next guy needs to be obsessed with playing the right way. that’s a trait that’s shared by pretty much every elite coach in the game.
  15. why don’t we money whip jon scheyer, this is Texas, and Austin > Durham. CDC get this done!!
  16. he also took UALR from like 16-15 to 30-5 with a tourney win in one season.
  17. tough week for wvu fans, lol.
  18. “potential candidates include scott drew and will wade.”
  19. you look at all of the home run hires that cdc has made, you look at the state of Texas Athletics, you look at the women being a 1 seed, you look at KD calling Austin a basketball city, you look at Texas hiring chris beard right after TTU extended him and made him the fourth highest paid HC in the country, and you look at Texas building Moody (where the NBA is already playing regular season games), and you tell me what you think we’re gonna do: hire the guy whose last job move was a step down/step back to his old job, or hit another one over the batter’s eye in center field?
  20. doesn’t change what i’ve heard. even if we ultimately can’t afford our no.1 guy because of an $18m buyout, that doesn’t change what i’ve heard, which is that the basketball BMD’s are not trying to pussyfoot around with any more shaka’s or RT’s. they want the next hire to be chris beard without the scandal- an elite coach who is here for the long haul. they’re not trying to pinch pennies, they’re trying to hit a home run.
  21. the people i’ve talked to have said the opposite. the basketball BMD’s are ready to money whip oats if they can. they’re sick of this mediocrity and they know that the only way you actually win in college hoops is to have an elite HC who’s going to stick around for a decade or two. assuming he can keep his hands to himself.
  22. if he’s talking about seeing the finish line “after 50 years in coaching” (his first job was as a hawaii assistant in 1974) then we don’t want to hire him in the first place.
  23. https://x.com/thebenboothshow/status/1902444964404928750?s=46
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