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  1. csb: i’ve never revealed this before, but one of my sources actually tipped me off to the james harden to brooklyn trade like 10 days before even ESPN had it. i wasn’t allowed to blatantly share the info, but i knew for a fact that it was a done deal, so i came to the nba thread and simply posted, β€œharden to brooklyn?” something like 7-10 days before it was announced. there was zero speculation about this move at the time. nobody here seemed to notice as nobody responded to the post, and like i said, maybe a week later it was announced. that was my biggest every β€œscoop”, and i’ve never acknowledged or taken credit for it before now, but in a lifetime of me being privy to basketball moves and behind-closed-doors dealings before anyone else knows about them, that one stands out as the coolest.
  2. what about Lanier? did he not make 1st team all league? he just made the list for the final 15 for the wooden award. this league is so talent rich and deep that it wouldn’t even surprise me to see a guy be 2nd team all sec and 2nd team all american.
  3. the guy who went for 30-20-20 on 3 FTA.
  4. barnes has two top 15 finalists for the wooden award (lanier and ziegler) and the NDPOY in mashack. barnes is one of the all time greats at getting the most out of lowly rated recruits and role players. he really is. beyond that, i am honestly thankful to have had the tennessee program to watch and enjoy over these last however many years its been since Texas was a program that signed and then developed players over the course of 2-4 years. its been really enjoyable seeing the same faces year after year for the Vols as Texas has not only gone the mercenary route, but done so ineffectually. watching players grow and develop into studs over time is something that i sincerely miss from our own program. just makes every season feel hollow.
  5. last thing i posted about it was the last thing i heard. basketball BMD’s are heavily invested in bringing in a top flight coach, with nate oats at the top of the list.
  6. the people i have with connections have been emphatically more in tune with what’s happening than gerry ever has been. i can’t tell you the number of times i’ve h been told something that refutes what gerry has been saying, only for gerry to eventually find out/share the exact info i’ve been given days later. i straight up don’t have any respect for anything he says, the guy is often less in the loop than i am.
  7. beard had a buyout of $4m and a $5m annual salary. all of sudden a $5m buyout and a $7-8m salary (which even according to gerry is a given) is too much? Texas Athletics either can’t or is unwilling to spend that to hire a HC whose expectations will be to have Texas as a premier hoops program for the next 20 years? that makes sense to y’all? that sounds to you like that’s how CDC operates?
  8. i’m arguing that there is literally nothing in the history of CDC being here that says that we’d rather have a lesser coach than to drop a few bucks, *especially* after building the moody center. i’m also arguing that CDC’s track record >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> gerry hamilton’s dumb ass speculation. if i actually believed anything gerry says, which i clearly don’t, then id seriously rather just keep rodney terry until we fail so miserably for so long that we β€œchange our minds” and decide that the money that this AD finds in the couch cushions is worth spending on a top tier men’s basketball coach.
  9. chris beard cost a lot of money, didn’t bring in any stars or nba talent, and had our program flying after one transitionary season where we still won our first tourney game in 8 years. shaka smart and rodney terry didn’t cost a lot of money, between them they brought in a bunch of top 10 classes and players like tre young, and they make us all want to poke out our eyeballs with rusty spoons when we watch their teams β€œcompete”. a great coach is worth more than a million five star recruits or transfers, *especially* in this sport. there is not a single sport on the planet where winning is more directly affected by the HC than men’s college basketball. the coach is the crown jewel; the coach is the one you break the bank for; not the players.
  10. and on this subject, the posters here (and there are surprisingly a ton of them) who spend all of their time between the football board and cloak room and never really post about baseball, soccer, books, movies, art, etc are the most mentally ill people on the planet, and that’s coming from me. anyone who purposely subjects himself to those two boards on a daily basis is an absolute psychopath and a threat to public safety.
  11. i wasn’t aware that i had anyone on ignore until i went to put someone there just now and saw that i already had one person there. both of them feature prominently in the same fucked-up ass thread from the blood soaked, nightmarish hellscape that is the football board. the guy who was already there: he’ll blame your dead grandmother for UT football’s struggles before he’d blame quinn ewers, and he’d do it 30x per page. the other guy thinks that quinn ewers is a pussy.
  12. CDC: β€œwe want to be top 10 in every sport. that’s the standard………..unless it costs money to hire elite coaches, and in that case we’re not really interested in being good, or winning, or filling that $375m basketball arena we just built.” yeah, because that makes sense. so on the one hand you’ve got chris del conte who has stated in no uncertain terms what our athletic goals are, backing it up with elite hires across the board, not to mention a $375 million dollar basketball arena, and then on the other hand you’ve got gerry fucking hamilton, who knows fuck all about anything, saying that a $5m buyout is too rich for our blood. gee, just a really tough call on who to believe.
  13. jokic gets fouled so, so much more often than SGA, and yet: vs
  14. then just keep rodney terry and come out and say, β€œwe don’t give a shit about men’s basketball.” i don’t for one second believe that Texas was willing to break the bank for chris beard, see overwhelming success virtually overnight, then wander through the desert with terry, only to say, β€œwe’re not spending any money to get a top flight coach to replace RT.” gerry hamilton is full of shit.
  15. what a nebulous, non specific statement, that’s addresses nothing in reality. so if nate oats and tommy lloyd have a higher buyout than ben mccollum then we’re just going to pass on those two for ben mccollum? and that’s going to pay off in the long run because instead of getting decades of a tier 1 coach we might get another tre johnson for 5 months? this shit makes zero sense whatsoever.
  16. what the hell does this even mean? the richest athletic department in the country isn’t going to consider any coaches with large buyouts because that wouldn’t be smart? on what planet? why does anyone listen to anything gerry hamilton says?
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  18. pancho, i mean this genuinely: i’m very clearly joking.
  19. Derka

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  20. ok so in the conference tourney we beat vandy; then we beat a&m, because they suck and we’ve already done it once; then we beat tennessee because BaRNeS iN mArCh; then we beat ole miss who upset 1 seed auburn; then ok, we lose to florida in the final, but we’re in the tourney as an 11 seed. round one we play 6 seed marquette, beat them by 30, obviously; round two we play 14 seed lipscomb who beat 3 seed a&m; S16 we beat 10 seed utah state, who beat 15 seeded bryant, who upset 2 seed wisconsin in the opening round. voila, we’re in the elite 8! are you REALLY gonna sit here and tell me that this can’t happen?!? you sure about that? you sure about that?!?!
  21. i don’t know anything about karen aston, but tom herman is a huge prick who embarrassed the university both on the field and off, so that’s a pretty easy one. and again, i’ve said from the beginning that it’s unlikely, but your idea that there’s just a zero percent chance that CDC could sit down with RT, explain to him that we’re moving on, and then see if he can help RT find a new gig makes zero sense to me. seems like would pretty much be SOP, and far from β€œfantasy land”.
  22. we kicked shaka out the door without firing him, so it’s not only a thing, it’s a thing that we’ve already done. the two situations aren’t 100% analogous, but it’s possible to let RT go without leaving him out on his ass. is it likely? no. is it possible? yes.
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