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  1. gotta have a win tomorrow. after that we go on the road to Vandy where they’ve been typically tough at home, followed by bama and UK. these next four games will tell us a lot about this team. thinking about it this is probably the perfect time to play arkansas. they’re a shitty offensive team that appeared to be nosediving only to miraculously walk into rupp and just dominate UK. i love getting them on the bounce back after that adrenaline high, and at home too.
  2. https://x.com/bobballousports/status/1886618721734496706?s=46
  3. i have TJO and Lloyd in a tier above mccasland. i know that people think that TJO will never leave ISU, but they thought the same thing about The Mayor. we can offer him everything that ISU can’t, and he can coach here for 10-15 and still have plenty of years left to go back to ISU and win there. whenever we do hire a new coach, i hope we go after him hard.
  4. duke hype gonna be insane heading into the tournament.
  5. we were 1-4 in conference play on january 21st, with our best win being against #88 st.joseph’s. we’ve played better since then, but it’s not some injustice that we aren’t currently ranked. and as others have said, our ap poll ranking really doesn’t matter. we keep winning games and the rest will take care of itself.
  6. @Fawesome
  7. guy called a perfect game in the WS. way to go dude.
  8. i was talking about this with my mom yesterday and here’s the way i see it: arteta is going to be here 2-3 decades we hope. basically our entire starting 11 + meaningful bench players will still be in their primes for years to come. january business is so, so difficult because whoever you bring in, that club has to replace. ipso facto you get bent over a table during negotiations, assuming you can even get that far since nobody is trying to sell isak, gyorkores, or osimhen in the middle of the season. over paying like that is just not how our club does business. if we get second in the league again this year then it will hurt, and fans will be pissed, and we’ll hear “arteta out” and all that bullshit again. but thinking long term, even if that happens, so long as we being in a top flight striker or scoring LW next summer then we stand to be the class of the EPL going forward, and i will have enjoyed these last three years as runners up all the same. now if we don’t bring in a prolific goal scorer this summer, then i will be really questioning wtf our board/manager are doing for the first time since Arteta’s hiring.
  9. pope/larry weaver pryor tre kaluma with weaver at his best that’s the type of small ball, pressing lineup we’d want to use to try and stage a comeback. and it’s not just his abilities on defense- his speed and ability to run the floor and get to the rim are excellent. he’s the fastest guy on the team by a mile.
  10. if we get behind in a tourney game and need to press to come back then he’s the first guy on the floor for Texas.
  11. kenpom has us winning 75-67
  12. it is wildly premature for this many people to be giving up on weaver. he was one of our better/more important players coming into this year, and we’re losing most of our players at the end of this year. he had a slow start this year and then got hurt. let’s not suddenly decide that he sucks because of that. his shot form was always good and his efficiency was on the upswing last year. as is, he is easily good enough to be on our team and give us some good energy minutes off the bench. should our staff actually be able to develop him any further then even better. we might not know how he fits with our current rotations, but that doesn’t mean he’s not good enough to play here.
  13. also this is like bizzaro world right now because i spent years here arguing with the football board denizens who swore up and down that david ash was this mega talented QB who would have been amazing were it not for his injuries, whereas i always saw him as merely being “fine”, which is exactly how i see QE and his performance at Texas.
  14. that’s not what i said. i said that i believe that a healthy davis ash would have done just as well as if not better than QE did on these last two teams. that’s two totally different things, and i 100% stand by it. you give david ash a clean bill of health, sark’s coaching, and these last two rosters and there’s absolutely no reason he couldn’t do just as well as QE, who himself was mostly frustrating and underwhelming. the bar isn’t set super high.
  15. 100% true. that said, turning around and whipping florida without zeigler or milicic went ahead and made up for that. and for those who haven’t watched tennessee, i continue to be amazed that they are as good as they are considering their lack of depth, shooters, and high end talent. that defense, as i said, is currently the highest rated defense in kenpom history. when you watch that team play, their identity is evident. i really miss having that(a clear and defined identity) here at Texas. stupid beard and his dumbass, psycho gf.
  16. you know what else i love? putting 30 guys on my recurring list and having to go one by one to give each player an offer. no “offer all” option. nope. EA just wants me to repeat the same mindless, pointless process ad nauseam. stop me if you’ve heard this, but it’s similar to fifa. i’ll have a bunch of my young players come back from loan when january hits, so i re-add them all to the loan list, which results in me getting 15, “thanks boss, i think a loan move is right for me” emails which i have to go click on individually so that they can be marked as read. the people at EA sports hate you and want you to suffer.
  17. staple of EA sports games. whenever i’m playing fifa, if i have a half time lead then i have to go move a few players in my team formation one or two clicks to the right or left, otherwise my “lack of halftime adjustments” results in my opponent, no matter how shitty they are, just steamrolling me out the gate, every time. as long as i “change my formation” though, then man city or barcelona or spain or whoever once again has a tough time breaking my team down because of those “half time adjustments.” shit is more than a decade old.
  18. wonder if that atlanta pick for SA will turn into tre johnson…
  19. people gotta stop superimposing his head onto my body.
  20. 1)tennessee is no.4 in both kenpom and net, texas is 29/24. tennessee also currently has the best defense in the history of kenpom. 2)Tennessee started the season ranked highly and proceeded to go 18-1 in their first 19 games. Texas opened up ranked 19th, lost our opening game, played the actual worst schedule of any power conference team, and then opened SEC play at 1-4, including a loss to tennessee. it makes perfect logical sense.
  21. quinn got injured and missed time every single year of his career, and subsequently was scared to death of being hit.
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