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  1. https://x.com/emcochranetv/status/1903793863841432041?s=46
  2. prisoner of the movement (i mean xavier lost in the first round) but this team really does seem to be dumb as shit. that’s no surprise with love running the show, but still- sean miller teams don’t have reputations for being dumb. this tommy lloyd team reminds me of a shaka team. just trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
  3. nobody here doesn’t understand why beard was fired.
  4. ho-lee shit.
  5. holy crap what a swing.
  6. whoa. nice play.
  7. caleb love the decision maker:
  8. RIP mid majors
  9. you know a lot of people ask me, “derka, don’t you ever get tired of being right about everything all of the time?” and i say, “no. i love it. my life is amazing. i can’t even imagine not always being right about everything i ever say or predict. it’s goddamn amazing. i love it.”
  10. yeah but you’re just some dipshit kid who yodels at unwitting walmart shoppers, so.
  11. broadcast just said that beard’s ole miss team is the first d-1 team since 2019 to have six players averaging double digits. rebels currently up 76-51 with 5:58 left in the game. anybody still confused as to why people call him elite?
  12. we’ve hired sean miller within days of: •Rodney Terry losing in a play-in game •Shaka losing as a favored seed *again* in the first round •Rick Barnes going to his third consecutive S16 •Chris Beard taking Ole Miss waaaaaayyyyy beyond where they should ever be at this point in time (currently up on 3 seed isu 63-43 with 11:27 left, with a roster of guys who will never play a minute in the g league) within that context, the sean miller hire- unfortunately- feels like a letdown. is he going to be RT or shaka? nope. 0.0% chance of that. he is easily in a different class from them. but- is he going to be a better coach and program builder than beard or barnes? if you’re being honest with yourself, you know that the answer is probably a resounding “nope”. he’s a safe hire who should placate the fans, and frankly, i’m not even mad at it. i simply have to accept that i’ve been fooled. i really really thought that with the foundation that Beard had laid, and with how evident it is that the right coach is worth more than 12 top flight recruits (barnes, beard, pitino, hurley, golden, oats, pearl, sampson, just some of the recent examples of this), that we were going to go all out to make the home run hire, and if we couldn’t hit a guaranteed homer that we’d at least swing for the fences. instead, we took a six pitch walk. not bad, but not great either. not what we wanted. not what we were hoping for. not when the program is down 3 in the ninth. there’s reason to believe that things will be better, but miller has a lot to prove before there’s reason to believe that he can take us to the final four like barnes, or have us at no.1 in kenpom like beard. it’s the safest hire possible. don’t love it, but i don’t hate it either. i just have to support it and hope that miller is reborn.
  13. yeah, but that kind of moves the goal posts, or strays away from the point of the analogy. david pierce’s results for UT baseball are, on paper, similar to rick barnes’ results for UT men’s hoops. but pierce’s results in context within the standard of Texas Baseball are more akin to tom penders results with Texas Basketball. penders made the tourney every year and was a threat for the S16 most of the time, which is great- but that’s no longer what we aspire to. to be clear i’m in no way saying saying that sean miller is a tom penders level hire, just giving my interpretation of the analogy. pierce’s results were not good enough for Texas, even though most teams would kill to have them. i think that’s what people mean when they say that miller is a david pierce level hire- that he’s going to objectively be pretty damn good, but that he probably won’t break any new ground for Texas Hoops.
  14. you’ve gotten an overwhelming amount of neg rep for this, but you’re not wrong.
  15. once again something that could have been brought to my attention YESTERDAY!!!
  16. what a bucket from brakefield. he’s just got that knack for hitting shots like that, it’s amazing.
  17. queen! onions!!!!
  18. no, no i didn’t. just like i didn’t say that we should ban all guns. who’s jumping to conclusions again?
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