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  1. the part about Texas: A)i don't agree at all with the idea that he was winning his job back with that cute little win streak we had, and B)we don't owe him $10.5M today, we owe it over the course of the next three years, and C)we have to pay him that money no matter what, so i also disagree with the idea that it would be a "bad look" for Texas to fire an awful coach based on the economy taking a dive. lazy journalism there, something we've seen a lot of lately with national journalists who suddenly have opinions on a program/coach they haven't been following for years.
  2. also- Texas BMD's might not care about basketball, but they also love nothing more than being buddy-buddy with one of the big coaches on campus, and if CDC brings in a winner *cough* John Beilein *cough* then there will be no shortage of BMD's ready to jump on his dick so that they can brag to their golfing buddies on Sunday how Coach Beilein ate Chilean sea bass at their house on Friday night. Facts. CDC knows this. He's not incompetent. Firing Shaka is the only move *if* CDC takes his job seriously, which I happen to think he does. I will be extremely disappointed and pissed if Shaka is still our coach one month from today.
  3. i'll put it to you this way: I, Derka Derka (along with Wulaw and at least a few other brilliant internet experts) recognized that Shaka was in way over his head in the Big XII three years ago. you have to have a very, very low opinion of CDC to think that he hasn't known what a fraud Shaka is for a very long time now. if you really think that CDC hasn't known *exactly* what he plans to do with Shaka for months now then you really must not think jack shit of CDC. any mate season results/happenings have no affect on the decision. if you think otherwise, then you have zero faith in CDC to do his job.
  4. the only reason Shaka wasn't fired 1-2 years ago is because of that ridiculous guaranteed contract we gave him after his first year here. it has nothing to do with passion. we are now beyond the point where it's a question as to whether or not Shaka Smart is going to work at Texas. We've held onto him to this point to save money, but that time has come and gone. We are talking $3-4M now, to not only fire a terrible coach, but to back up all of the "top 10 across the board" talk. It CDC takes his job seriously then Shaka is done.
  5. that, and on-field success in sports that people care about. Baylor might open next season as the #1 team in the country. I remember when they hadn't beaten us in like 15 years or something. that shit is not cool.
  6. Bullshit. The decision of whether or not to fire Shaka Smart/hire a new HC/staff is one that involves us spending tens of millions of dollars. If we fire Shaka/his staff that costs ~$11.5M. then we have to go sign a new head coach (and his entire staff) to a lucrative contract. The popularity of the team/sport is totally irrelevant. When it comes to spending tens of millions, it's never something that's taken lightly. It's a big deal. with all of that said, it only reinforces my point re: what do we even gain by not firing Shaka/encouraging him to move on? A few million bucks? That's it? Why would that stand in the way of Texas signing John Beilein when he's miraculously available and we happen to already employ his top assistant who helped lead the two best teams that Beilein has ever coached? If saving $3-4M is more important to Texas than hiring John Beilein then fuck us. There's no way I'm buying that. No way.
  7. CDC doesn't need to do some major fund raising effort to come up with a few mil to fire a guy who is killing our program. if that's a legit excuse then there's no difference in Texas and Baylor.
  8. so then your answer would be "yes", we can't/aren't willing to spend $3-4M to fire Shaka. not sure how we expect to be top 10 across the board in all programs if that's the case.
  9. Texas ex David Mulugheta. edit: looks like catdaddy already got it covered
  10. i think we owe him around $10M at this point, and if we fire him we have to pay him and his staff in full. it's like $3-4M/year that we owe him. the most realistic scenario that sees us saving any money on this is one where CDC nudges Shaka towards finding another job so as to save face from being fired, and we promise to cover his salary, or take care of him and his staff financially in one way or another that falls well short of having to pay the full $10M to get him to go away.
  11. we save, what, $3-4M if we give him another year? is that really something we can't/aren't willing to swing because of oil tanking?
  12. A)nobody said that this was his biggest decision at Texas, and B)this is a decision involving spending tens of millions of dollars to fire one staff and hire a new one, so yeah, it's a pretty big deal. also, LOL at the notion that CDC ever considered firing Tom Herman for one millisecond. you whiny football fans might have wanted him fired, but that was never anything that was ever even up for consideration. so yeah, this whole Shaka deal might be the biggest decision he's had to make thus far. thanks for pointing that out.
  13. x/posting from a different thread: there's a ton of people in the fire shaka thread speculating that his job has been saved by this pandemic, and i think that all of you are wrong. i don't think the corona virus plays any part in the decision, nor do i think that any result against Tech would have played a part in the decision. It's so strange to me that 95% of people here think that CDC is "waiting to see how this season shakes out" before making a decision. This is one of the biggest decisions of his entire career at Texas, it involves a lot of money, and the decision has surely already been made by now. Our AD isn't going to wait to get the ball rolling on that process just so that he can see whether or not we defend our NIT crown. If CDC is fit to be the Texas AD then he's been making moves behind the scenes for months now. No result at the ass end of Shaka's fifth year here is going to change anything.
  14. there's a ton of people in the fire shaka thread speculating that his job has been saved by this pandemic, and i think that all of you are wrong. i don't think the corona virus plays any part in the decision, nor do i think that any result against Tech would have played a part in the decision. It's so strange to me that 95% of people here think that CDC is "waiting to see how this season shakes out" before making a decision. This is one of the biggest decisions of his entire career at Texas, and the decision has surely already been made by now. Our AD isn't going to wait to get the ball rolling on that process just so that he can see whether or not we defend our NIT crown. If CDC is fit to be the Texas AD then he's been making moves behind the scenes for months now. No result at the ass end of Shaka's fifth year here is going to change anything.
  15. man i don't even know how to feel about this. on the one hand, my team had lost only one matchup since Halloween and, imo, was steamrolling its way towards a title. On the other hand, Drummond's trade and an insane rash of injuries to my star players (including Gobert) had my team looking weak as shit since the playoffs started. was going to be an interesting ending. my opinion- i think we should settle up now. Adam Silver has said that the NBA is done for at least a month (which imo means 6-8 weeks or more without hoops is totally likely), and even then if they did return we would still have another 3.5 weeks to play out. with that, and all of the questions that we don't have answers to right now, it seems like we should call it a year, say congrats to RC Ranger and name him league champ, and name our keepers for next year. my opinion anyway.
  16. per 40 stats: J Allen- 16.7 pts, 10.5 reb, 1.9 blk M Bamba- 17.1 pts, 14.0 reb, 4.9 blk J Hayes- 17.1 pts, 8.6 reb, 3.8 blk J Sims- 14.3 pts, 12.0 reb, 1.8 blk not bad.
  17. Grand Canyon (13-17) finished ranked 265 in Kenpom. Guess who I saw 11 spots behind GCU at #276? Why it was mighty McNeese State! You might remember that our boys and their head coach enjoyed a festive post-game dance party after we beat McNeese State by one point at home earlier this season. The same McNeese State that would later go through this stretch: Yeah. We literally had a dance party after beating escaping that team by one point at home. And Shaka wonders why he finds his players "in shock" and visibly unable to recover from an early deficit against a bad team. Total fucking joke. He's an embarrassing hire, and the sooner he's gone, the sooner our program is headed in the right direction. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  18. he's gotta go. global pandemic has nothing to do with the decision. he's been one of the worst coaches in major college basketball for the last four years. if he's still our HC next year then i hope that *literally* nobody attends a single game until he's fired.
  19. gg you made a huge stink about how you will always answer any question that anyone (besides me) gives to you, and since then you've done nothing but avoid answering the questions that other people have been asking you for days. just answer the questions.
  20. Huge news. Mark Few is being interviewed on ESPN right now just as they broke the news, and he said he is, "extremely, extremely disappointed", and that there was a 100% consensus among the coaching community that they wanted to wait a few weeks-a month before outright canceling it.
  21. Mark Emmett just announced that the tourney is canceled. not postponed, canceled.
  22. and since we're back, just for the record, greggym didn't disappear when *i* pressed him about one of Shaka's coaching decisions (Smart's decision to go with EDJ over Hamm and Banks)- that was 100% other posters asking him those questions, and gg disappeared when those questions were asked. that is to what i was referring. also i stand by what i said because it's the truth- i generally do not take cheap shots at our players- i've actively tried to avoid doing that for years. i'll call it like i see it, and i'll call a spade a spade, but i really try to avoid just shitting on a college kid who's just out there trying his best. I hated how many minutes/three point shots Baker was getting, for example, but I don't recall ever insulting him in any way. hell, i generally don't even take cheap shots at Shaka- why would I do so towards the players?
  23. then there was that part where our fifth year head coach admitted that his players were "in shock" at being behind after OSU's early run, and that he could see early on that they didn't have it in then to fight back.
  24. i'm down with this solution if it comes to that. i'd like to play this thing out if we can, but if not then that appears to be the answer.
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