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I've seen plenty of people say Miller would get out coached by the likes of Bruce Pearl and Oats. Here's how many times each has been to the S16 or better. 

Miller: 8 total. 5 at Arizona and 3 at Xavier 

Pearl: 4 at Tennessee and 2 at Auburn. 

Oats: 3 at Bama and a 4th if they win again.

 

Also regarding his lack of championships and F4s at Arizona. There hasn't been a NC won by a school west of Waco Texas since 1997. He'll raise the floor of where the program has been since the late 2000s. 

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  On 3/23/2025 at 2:35 AM, Sir Ulrich said:

I've seen plenty of people say Miller would get out coached by the likes of Bruce Pearl and Oats. Here's how many times each has been to the S16 or better. 

Miller: 8 total. 5 at Arizona and 3 at Xavier 

Pearl: 4 at Tennessee and 2 at Auburn. 

Oats: 3 at Bama and a 4th if they win again.

 

Also regarding his lack of championships and F4s at Arizona. There hasn't been a NC won by a school west of Waco Texas since 1997. He'll raise the floor of where the program has been since the late 2000s. 

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Oats was at Buffalo before Bama had the good sense to hire him.  Pearl was at Wisconsin Green Bay or some such prior to low T.  He's also sat out a few seasons due to his transgressions.  His last six years absolutely are not on a par with Oats and Pearl.

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  On 3/23/2025 at 3:07 AM, destroya said:

Beard wasn’t a surprise. He went to UT, and everyone knew he was our top target. 

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nah, he was a big time surprise hire. TTU had just extended him and made him the fourth highest paid coach in basketball. everyone thought we’d missed our window. we’d never dropped money on a coach like we did on beard. i was genuinely shocked we got him after his extension at TTU. remember, their fans were completely apoplectic because they too thought that he’d been locked down with that extension. 

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  On 3/23/2025 at 3:20 AM, Derka said:

there’s a whole lot of y’all who don’t remember that hire correctly. i guess we’ll chalk it up to the mandela effect.

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Or maybe you're remembering it wrong.  Because I also dont remember him being a surprise hire. At all. 

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  On 3/23/2025 at 3:33 AM, gsoda3 said:

Or maybe you're remembering it wrong.  Because I also dont remember him being a surprise hire. At all. 

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then maybe you were out of the loop. we just had this conversation 2-3 weeks ago, i made essentially the same post as the one you’re reasoonding to, and it got a lot of pos rep (for this board). plenty of people who were just as shocked as i was. if you weren’t shocked when we hired beard then you weren’t tuned in. pretty much everyone thought we’d missed our window.

 

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  On 3/23/2025 at 3:39 AM, VinceFord said:

Is BYU’s coach a possibility? 

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nope ...

Young is married to Melissa Bailey of Omaha, Nebraska; they have two sons and one daughter. He is the great-great-great-great-grandson of Lorenzo Young, the brother of BYU's founder and namesake, Brigham Young.[15] He is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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  On 3/23/2025 at 3:46 AM, Derka said:

then maybe you were out of the loop. we just had this conversation 2-3 weeks ago, i made essentially the same post as the one you’re reasoonding to, and it got a lot of pos rep (for this board). plenty of people who were just as shocked as i was. if you weren’t shocked when we hired beard then you weren’t tuned in. pretty much everyone thought we’d missed our window.

 

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It wouldn't be the first instance time has corrupted my memory. If I have time I'll go back and find the old thread from when Beard was hired.

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  On 3/23/2025 at 3:46 AM, Derka said:

then maybe you were out of the loop. we just had this conversation 2-3 weeks ago, i made essentially the same post as the one you’re reasoonding to, and it got a lot of pos rep (for this board). plenty of people who were just as shocked as i was. if you weren’t shocked when we hired beard then you weren’t tuned in. pretty much everyone thought we’d missed our window.

 

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Oh, so you thought it was a surprise hire.

OK.

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  On 3/23/2025 at 4:21 AM, The Gimp said:

This whole thread is missing Big Dick Energy. We are doomed.

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I already said I'd change my handle if Texas hires Sean Miller and let the community vote on it and I was super hammered when I said that but I stand by it. 

So miss me with the "missing BDE" shit. 

Also - I'll do it for a year if it happens. So y'all get 365 days of whatever you come up with.

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  On 3/23/2025 at 4:28 AM, Derka said:

fwiw here’s a screenshot from page 1 of the chris beard to Texas thread:

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it was very surprising when we landed him after that six year extension. 

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Hey that’s me!

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  On 3/23/2025 at 3:39 AM, VinceFord said:

Is BYU’s coach a possibility? 

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That dude is pretty Mormon, I thought. 

Also—BYU has basically come out and said they are throwing tons of Mormon bucks at basketball because they want to be a power. I think they think they can be nationally relevant in that sport more than football.

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  On 3/23/2025 at 4:42 AM, Pancho said:

 

That dude is pretty Mormon, I thought. 

Also—BYU has basically come out and said they are throwing tons of Mormon bucks at basketball because they want to be a power. I think they think they can be nationally relevant in that sport more than football.

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and honestly they’re not wrong. 

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  On 3/23/2025 at 4:35 AM, ztejas said:

I already said I'd change my handle if Texas hires Sean Miller and let the community vote on it and I was super hammered when I said that but I stand by it. 

So miss me with the "missing BDE" shit. 

Also - I'll do it for a year if it happens. So y'all get 365 days of whatever you come up with.

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Whatever you say AssholeFister69

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  On 3/23/2025 at 4:35 AM, ztejas said:

I already said I'd change my handle if Texas hires Sean Miller and let the community vote on it and I was super hammered when I said that but I stand by it. 

So miss me with the "missing BDE" shit. 

Also - I'll do it for a year if it happens. So y'all get 365 days of whatever you come up with.

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Um, I thought we already decided that.

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Not sure which fact blew my mind more:

-Waco furthest west title since 1997

-Kevin Young being a descendant of Brigham Young. Was his great x4 grandfather a character in American Primeval?

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Sean Miller's last 7 years

3 NCAA appearances - 1 Sweet Sixteen, 2 Round of 64

3 missed tournament 

1 NIT

Sean Miller has only 3 total NCAA wins in his last 7 years lol. Rodney Terry has 4 in 3 years lol. 

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The “surprise” hire of Beard was different than the surprise being discussed now. Everyone knew he was the top target of Texas, but most thought Texas couldn’t get him because of the extension. The surprise was that we did.

This surprise would be a coach that no one is thinking about because Texas doesn’t have a clear top target. 

Different type of surprise. 

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  On 3/23/2025 at 11:43 AM, jimmyjazz said:

Miller has coached at legit tournament schools for something like 20 years.  Pearl is at ~16 years, Oats is at ~ 6 years.  I'd say Oats is winning that comparison.

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Xavier, Arizona, Tennessee, Auburn and Alabama.  Pretty much all the same?

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  On 3/23/2025 at 11:47 AM, Horn80 said:

Find it interesting that Bill Self hasn’t come out publicly yet with a hard no about Texas.

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Neither has Jay wright but….

 

actually if anyone can pull this off it’s cdc 

  On 3/23/2025 at 12:46 PM, South Austin said:

Students accused of cheating. AP test scores were vacated. Do not want.

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Bro they took the test a second time and scored even better.   Racist. 
 

though I’d assume Mr. Escalantes network is centered around the Hispanic community which doesn’t really produce a lot of great players.  So pass

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  On 3/23/2025 at 1:14 PM, Im_smarter_then_you said:

Neither has Jay wright but….

 

actually if anyone can pull this off it’s cdc 

Bro they took the test a second time and scored even better.   Racist. 
 

though I’d assume Mr. Escalantes network is centered around the Hispanic community which doesn’t really produce a lot of great players.  So pass

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Yeah, but the make up exam was proctored by a shady casino owner, so I'm not sure how much those results can be trusted.  

  On 3/23/2025 at 1:16 PM, westexhorn said:

where's the new corch

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You mom's house.  

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