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  1. Welp, I've got a new favorite moment of the year: Kalani may not even wash her ass.
  2. Really talented guy, and only 56. RIP.
  3. question for greggym- how many of your coaches spoke to you the way you speak to everyone around here?
  4. It's just really, really hard to win the tournament, and Gonzaga's schedule does them zero favors in getting them prepared to win what usually amounts to one easy game followed by five really tough opponents in a row. To me it's that simple. There's nothing about Few that prevents him from winning it all, it's just super hard to actually do it.
  5. Mark Few would do well with this squad too (as would many coaches), but ultimately Roy's up-and-down style seems perfectly suited for this roster. I hope that Shaka agrees.
  6. Because unlike you I actually know what I'm talking about and I picked the coach who is best suited to succeed with this type of roster based on his style of play. I could have picked Bill Self, or Tom Izzo, or Tony Bennett, but it was Williams who I deemed the perfect fit to coach this type of roster: a long, athletic, speedy, deep, senior laden team with ample shooting, and the ability to run up and down the floor all day. That is why I said that Roy Williams (specifically) could take this roster to the Final Four, you belligerent, uninformed, self-important ass.
  7. White dude Dad with a Spanish or Italian wife, an Asian daughter, a black daughter, and a "white" kid who could easily be Spanish or something else. The black girl is that ubiquitous brand of black girl who always shows up in commercials and on network TV: you can tell that she's "black", although she's clearly mixed, with that classic, non-threatening mocha skin tone that the execs and audiences apparently love. Same with the only other black dude on the show, some cornball brother who makes Drake look like Lysol. and guess what happens between these two characters in episode one? they meet, and immediately fall in love while hip-hop dancing with one another. I am going to watch this show for 2-3 episodes and just hate the ever living shit out of it. At that point i'll probably lose interest, but man, so far i am sadistically loving how fucking awful this piece of shit show is.
  8. Really, really bad. Just terrible, and trite, and overtly PC, and just a bunch of sappy, feel-good diversity in place of any sort of original concepts or writing. It'll probably last 9 seasons and win 16 Emmy's. Ugh. Shows like this being popular is what keeps the smart, original shows from being able to exist on network TV.
  9. Seismic?? Beard's impact has been "seismic"?? No. The impact of Barnes (and more specifically TJ and KD) has been seismic. Texas had no basketball history pre-Barnes. Kansas State had a more legit hoops pedigree than Texas when Rick Barnes was hired. Everybody ignores this fact, but it's true. Before Barnes we had *made* the tournament something like 7-8 times in the previous 30+ years. And yet people act like Texas was a perennial top 25 team before Barnes. Oh and not to mention, the only reason we were even in the market for a new coach was because of a pretty ugly scandal which saw coaches get fired and players transferring. To act like Barnes was stepping into some great situation is ridiculous. Now then- since Rick Barnes came and left, our program has remained one of the top programs in the country in every way except for winning, which ironically says a lot about how far the program went under Barnes. To wit, college coaches have unanimously called Texas one of the top jobs in the country for years now. Texas was a "nothing" job pre-Barnes. That's why we were able to get "The Guy" when he became available (ugh). Similarly, recruits have continued to come to Texas in a never-ending procession towards Austin on their way to the NBA. Texas is a destination school for recruits and has been for a very long time now. Which leads me to my final point. What TJ Ford, and particularly Kevin Durant have done to elevate the status of Texas hoops is immeasurable. THEY had a seismic impact on a basketball program. Those two are the reason that Texas remains a destination school despite employing a clown who looks like a muppet as our head coach. Their impact on this program >>>>>>> whatever Beard has done for Tech.l in his four years. He is the man, but it's just not close. Rick Barnes put Texas squarely on the map when he brought TJ and KD to Austin, and we have not fallen off the map since. You really think that's what Beard has done in four years? You guys went to one title game and lost. If Chris Beard left next year and was replaced by Shaka Smart, you think TTU would still be among the upper echelon destinations for potential players and coaches? I don't think so. TTU would fade into oblivion if that happened. Texas as a college hoops brand has survived Shaka Smart because of the groundwork laid by Barnes, TJ, and KD. Nothing Beard has done at Tech comes close, and that's not a diss, it's just a fact.
  10. That's comical. A hilariously bad take. Question for the Longhorn fans in here: How many of you would trade what we had under Barnes for what Tech has under Beard? We give them: an entire decade of being a top 10 national program, 17 NCAA tournaments in 18 years, five Sweet 16's in six years, a permanent spot in the upper echelon of national recruiting, TJ Ford, PJ Tucker, LaMarcus Aldridge, DJ Augustin, more than a dozen other NBA players, and most importantly global icon Kevin Durant, whose one year at Texas/subsequent love for Texas is easily the single most important factor in this entire argument. They give us: Four total years of a coach, two of which are really great, and we establish our program as an up-and-coming force in college hoops. hmm, tough decision.
  11. As simple as I can say it: Take where TTU Basketball was as a program before they hired Chris Beard; look where the program is now, and all that it has accomplished since Beard's hiring. Take where UT Basketball was as a program before we hired Rick Barnes; look where the program is now, and all that it accomplished after hiring Barnes. Its not close. TTU is a good story and an up-and-coming program that may be a basketball powerhouse for years to come. The future is super bright for TTU, no doubt a out it. Texas otoh is a national name, a national brand in college basketball, something that it was not before Barnes, TJ, KD, et al. It took 10+ years of Sweet 16's, All Americans, multiple NPOY's, and eventual NBA All Stars for Texas to reach this profile, but we did it, because of Barnes (and TJ, and KD, and PJ, and LA, et al). Texas jumped a few rungs in the hierarchy of college basketball under Rick Barnes. I'm sure Beard will eventually do the same at TTU.
  12. explain to me how in your eyes Chris Beard has done more to elevate the status of Texas Tech basketball than Rick Barnes did in elevating the status of Texas Hoops. I'll wait. And agin, absolutely none of this is even remotely critical or dismissive of the job Chris Beard has done at Tech. Zero percent. With that said, there's simply no argument that says that he's done more for Tech Hoops than Barnes did for Texas Hoops. Now of course the fact that Beard has only been HC at Tech for four years (with no tourney to play in this year) certainly plays a huge role in that. Knowing where UT was pre-Barnes and where it is now, it would be totally unreasonable to expect any coach to do more for his program in only four (slightly truncated) years than Barnes did during his time at Texas. Beard is the fucking man. But what Barnes did for UT hoops is bigger than most of what made that list. I mean Fred Hoiberg? Really? He did more for ISU than Barnes did for Texas? Come on.
  13. yeah, you can't even keep up with what we're talking about. i'll repeat it for you one more time, but if you still are too dense to grasp the concept then there's no point in continuing this discussion. so, one more time: This is not a ranking of the best coaches in college basketball, it's a ranking of the best coaching hires in the last 25 years. in no imaginable way has Chris Beard had a bigger impact on TTU hoops than Rick Barnes did on Texas hoops. The gap is so gargantuan that it's not even remotely up for debate. Nobody is saying that Barnes is a better coach than Beard, I'm pointing out the indisputable fact that Rick Barnes did more for Texas hoops than Chris Beard has done for TTU hoops. Again, it's so far from being even the tiniest bit close than it's not even an argument. If you really can't wrap your head around the difference between "who's a better coach" and "who did/has done more for his program" then that's your own problem.
  14. first off, taking Beard over Self is just dumb. Second, that's a list of "best hires", not best coaches. Beard has one shared league title and one national title appearance. all of that is awesome, but it's frankly nothing compared to what Barnes did for Texas as a program. Same with Self at KU (whole he didn't *make* them dominant, he damn sure kept them dominant. imo he's the best regular season coach in NCAAB). all of this is to say, while Beard definitely has been a home run hire for TTU and is deservedly on this list, there's zero argument that he's done more for TTU hoops than Barnes did for Texas hoops, so to leave Barnes off this list when so many other inferior coaches in his own league(s) made the list is just plain dumb.
  15. Ask the fans of Texas Tech, WVU, Baylor, ISU, and TCU whose success they'd rather have experienced- what Barnes did at Texas, and what those coaches did at those schools. It's absolutely laughable.
  16. Shaka was literally the 4th best coach at VCU betweeen himself, Capel, Grant, and Wade. The one notable thing he's ever done as a coach should have never been able to happen anyway, as that final four team *clearly* should not have been let into the NCAA tourney (they finished 4th in the Colonial Athletic Association, and ended the season losing 4 of their last 6, including losses to #93 Drexel, #106 James Madison, and an 11 point loss to #194 Northeastern). But yeah, what an AMAZING hire that was for VCU. 🙄
  17. it's laughable. What Barnes did for Texas basketball > any Big XII coach on that list not named Self, and yes that includes Beard. Beard has YEARS of building his program and/or a national title to win before he does for his Tech what Barnes did for Texas. Shit, Barnes has done more for Tennessee than a bunch of names on that list, including Shaka Smart at VCU. just a joke of a list.
  18. particularly because Wes is so full of himself/the character he plays in his head, that his antics usually come with an obvious degree of showmanship or bravado. he was so calm and matter-of-fact about Josh being the worst player in the game that it made it land that much harder. this wasn't rivalry smack talk, this was a coolly delivered line that just eviscerated Josh. I loved it.
  19. Wes destroying Josh was my favorite scene of the season so far.
  20. https://247sports.com/college/tennessee/Article/Tennessee-Vols-Basketball-Recruiting-Paolo-Banchero-Top-Six-146629686/Amp/ Tennessee basketball is one of the final six programs for five-star power forward Paolo Banchero, the No. 4 overall player in the class of 2021. The 6-foot-9, 235-pound big man from Seattle, Wash., announced his top six schools on Twitter Wednesday afternoon, with the Vols surrounded by Washington, Gonzaga, Kentucky, Duke and Arizona.
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