UT's next basketball coach - discussion/debate

[Thiefery 5,017]

UNC isn't going to hire Beard..  This wasn't a retirement surprise, I'm sure they have been knowing this

[Zhorn96 1,773]

17 hours ago, closetohumping said:

I see you’ve never been to macaroni grill

I read this right after "Ain't no way a single girl can beat off 5 dudes" and was all wtf have I been missing at Macaroni Grill all these years?

[boilerhorn 1,399]

2 minutes ago, slorch said:

So UNC offers Beard $5MM/ year and he giggles...

 

He’s going to be a lot more expensive than he would have been a week ago, no matter where he goes/ stays.

UT should have paid the $5MM buyout when they had the chance.

Hard to disagree with this logic.  However, Roy Williams likely did not wake up this morning and decide to retire.  This must have been in the works for some time; agents, reps working back-channels.  Beard's reps must have known this was happening before today...

[Teryor 4,482]

Just now, Thiefery said:

UNC isn't going to hire Beard..  This wasn't a retirement surprise, I'm sure they have been knowing this

I'm more in this camp, but at the same time, it isn't a surprise to them and there hadn't been leaks/names thrown out as potential successors 

[jeevsie 3,740]

UNC is def like Oklahoma - they like to keep it in the family.

[TrashMaster G 17,599]

10 minutes ago, HookEm said:

I'm not too worried about Beard to UNC. I don't think that is the style they are looking for. Plus they seem to like keeping it in the UNC family. 

Wes Miller to UNC?  Probably a stretch, but he is an alumni, only 38, and has won the Southern Conference 3 of the last 5 years, going 105-42 (71.4%).

Mark Turgeon is from the Roy Williams coaching tree and could be a candidate. Yesterday he said he's not interested in the OU job, so maybe he had forewarning about Roy retiring.  He has only done "ok" though at Maryland, going 105-79 in the Big 10 and winning the conference once in 7 years.

MJ is available.

[Pato del Muerto 52,600]

4 minutes ago, RollLeft said:

Again, we really need a wtf emoji or at least a look of disgust emoji.

Jagsfan 

[Guest]

1 minute ago, jeevsie said:

UNC is def like Oklahoma - they like to keep it in the family.

Sounds more like Arkansian relations. 

[Pato del Muerto 52,600]

3 minutes ago, Zhorn96 said:

I read this right after "Ain't no way a single girl can beat off 5 dudes" and was all wtf have I been missing at Macaroni Grill all these years?

The Alfredo sauce

[Laxtonto 12,116]

1 minute ago, boilerhorn said:

Hard to disagree with this logic.  However, Roy Williams likely did not wake up this morning and decide to retire.  This must have been in the works for some time; agents, reps working back-channels.  Beard's reps must have known this was happening before today...

April 1 gives him a 30 day window for his UNC system HR paperwork and whatnot to work. My guess is that this was known in the last 2 weeks and they planned to announce it today for both the PR and HR reasons...

 

Real spontaneous retirements don’t happen the first calendar day of a new month...

[GreenspointTexas 9,664]

4 minutes ago, boilerhorn said:

Hard to disagree with this logic.  However, Roy Williams likely did not wake up this morning and decide to retire.  This must have been in the works for some time; agents, reps working back-channels.  Beard's reps must have known this was happening before today...

The timing is interesting for sure

[Pato del Muerto 52,600]

1 minute ago, TrashMaster G said:

MJ is available.

They didn’t interview me, and I took that personally. So I went to wake and beat their asses unmercifully for 15 years. 

[CowtownHorn 5,126]

5 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Jagsfan 

+1 or -1? @immamac

 

Edited April 1, 2021 by CowtownHorn

[Machinator 32,099]

 

[MonkeyDoughnut 10,356]

Beards agent about to accept his $1M/yr raise:

... reads UNC news...

[Pato del Muerto 52,600]

Just now, CowtownHorn said:

+1 or -1?

 

Neg or neutral 

[RollLeft 5,045]

1 minute ago, Laxtonto said:

April 1 gives him a 30 day window for his UNC system HR paperwork and whatnot to work. My guess is that this was known in the last 2 weeks  YEARS and they planned to announce it today for both the PR and HR reasons...

 

Real spontaneous retirements don’t happen the first calendar day of a new month...

fify

[Teryor 4,482]

Is this good

[Beau Vine 54,429]

10 hours ago, Napoleon said:

You worried that Jesus will be all snug-as-a-bug-in-a-rug in his man cave already by the time the news breaks and that he won't hear about it until Sunday?

Technically, state employees have Friday afternoon off.

[Zhorn96 1,773]

1 minute ago, CowtownHorn said:

+1 or -1?

 

this is my work computer wallpaper

[CowtownHorn 5,126]

Just now, Teryor said:

Is this good

[Pato del Muerto 52,600]

1 minute ago, Teryor said:

Is this good

[Zhorn96 1,773]

1 minute ago, Machinator said:

 

[Huckleberry 33,096]

Nice, obviously we had the advantage over North Carolina because of our Nike connections, amirite guys?

[TrashMaster G 17,599]

1 minute ago, CowtownHorn said:

[Js1 85,574]

2 minutes ago, Teryor said:

Is this good

He was one of the first to break the Shaka to Marquette news. 

[Skipper 6,200]

13 minutes ago, slorch said:

So UNC offers Beard $5MM/ year and he giggles...

 

He’s going to be a lot more expensive than he would have been a week ago, no matter where he goes/ stays.

UT should have paid the $5MM buyout when they had the chance.

Does anyone actually think this wasn't known in the coaching and Agent circles for a while now?  Roy didn't just drop this bomb on UNC today.   I guarantee every Agent knew this was a possibility for weeks and knew it was happening definitively for days now.  Cmon people.

Edited April 1, 2021 by Skipper

[GreenspointTexas 9,664]

April fools?

[Machinator 32,099]

 

[fatheryeet 1,543]

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[CowtownHorn 5,126]

Hook’em!

Edited April 1, 2021 by CowtownHorn

[Laxtonto 12,116]

[Beau Vine 54,429]

[Machinator 32,099]

Just now, CowtownHorn said:

https://twitter.com/MattNorlander/status/1377639840234278922?s=20

 

[Machinator 32,099]

 

[Beau Vine 54,429]

Just now, CowtownHorn said:

https://twitter.com/MattNorlander/status/1377639840234278922?s=20

Not that difficult.

[Js1 85,574]

Can we finally STFU about how CDC sucks and has no balls and can't land coaches?

Vic Schaefer
Eldrick Floreal
Mike White
Chris Beard

Suck it, haters. 

Edited April 1, 2021 by Js1

[Beau Vine 54,429]

[RGBIII 22,840]

Fuck off Tech

[Beau Vine 54,429]

Bring on the Zorro tears!

[Guest]

16 minutes ago, Thiefery said:

UNC isn't going to hire Beard..  This wasn't a retirement surprise, I'm sure they have been knowing this

Sure it wasn’t a surprise.

Neither is it coincidental that it was announced on today, with regard to Beard’s availability.

 

[closetohumping 17,470]

What kind of offense does this bro run?

[Beau Vine 54,429]

 

Screenshotting, because these guys are now deleting tweets.

Edited April 1, 2021 by Beau Vine

[Rockethorn1978 6,102]

Hell yes. It’s gonna be a epic street battle between UNC and tech for mark few or Brad Steven’s. 

[clapclapclap 9,000]

 

50 minutes ago, Hiphopopotamos said:

I wanted Ivey anyways...

1:20 pm

https://sportsurge.net/#/groups/0

Edited April 1, 2021 by clapclapclap

[Pam Cummings 9,662]

[ATXbronco 4,089]

Keep Austin Beard! 

 

(we're taking that too)

[TrashMaster G 17,599]

9 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Can we finally STFU about how CDC sucks and has no balls and can't land coaches?

Vic Schaefer
Eldrick Floreal
Mike White
Chris Beard

Suck it, haters. 

It has always been a moronic narrative driven by impatient children.

 

5 minutes ago, Rockethorn1978 said:

Hell yes. It’s gonna be a epic street battle between UNC and tech for mark few or Brad Steven’s. 

Brad Steven's what?

[closetohumping 17,470]

But but but why would Beard leave a blue blood for Texas??

[Red Five 40,895]

6 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

 

Sorry that you cheer for a stepping stone school guys. Taking a better job, with his alma mater, doesn't make him a fraud.