Shaka Smart - Out at UT In at Marquette

[DanTheHorn 5061]

Just now, Red Five said:

He really looks better bald. That is a very exclusive club (Bruce Willis, Captain Picard) and I can't believe he's wasting it. 

MJ

[CurlyDumps 4618]

1 hour ago, Steel Shank said:

Sorry if I missed it, but has Shaka publicly said why he left UT? Has anybody addressed it formally?

Nope, and he never will, since being told to find another job or hit the bricks is pretty awkward.

We get to keep our $7 mil, and Marquette gets to think they made a big time hire.

Edited March 30, 2021 by CurlyDumps

[Wanker Bob 379]

When the opportunity came about, there was really three reasons for me and Maya [my wife] that we felt this was an absolute slam dunk. Number one, this is a basketball crazy place. This is basketball-centric department. Number two, it’s clear that Marquette is about family and that goes beyond sports. Number three, the alignment… there’s a common vision and it’s a shared vision that I have,” Smart said.

Smart’s answer was mostly looking forward to his opportunity with the Golden Eagles, but he did say those three reasons were a “better fit” compared to Texas.

https://www.kxan.com/sports/marquette-to-officially-introduce-shaka-smart-as-head-basketball-coach-monday/amp/

[Wanker Bob 379]

Texas being a basketball centric place was the only reason he kept his job as long as he did. He was hired one year after the football coach was hired. In his time that coach was fired, another coach was hired who had more success than Shaka did but was also fired before Shaka left.

That said it was definitely the smart play to bail when he did. Texas Athletics has garnered a nation wide reputation for dysfunction and he was able to play off of that to land this other job

Edited March 30, 2021 by Wanker Bob

[CurlyDumps 4618]

Marquette AD in two years:

 

[shadow_operative 15932]

8 hours ago, Burt Macklin said:

The guy who wanted to keep Shaka and thought we should all eat crow because he beat Tech and OSU to win the Big 12 tournament is telling other people they don’t know basketball. 
 

 

let's not forget that a week ago he was suggesting that Texas hire one of his buddies, some guy who's spent the last 10 years at a school so irrelevant that i can't even remember it's name. dude's career record is something like 155-150 with two NIT appearances, but motown thinks Texas should give him a look. 🙄 there's dumb, and there's really dumb, and there's especially dumb, and then there's motownhorn basketball takes. 

[Deej 77665]

1 hour ago, Wanker Bob said:

When the opportunity came about, there was really three reasons for me and Maya [my wife] that we felt this was an absolute slam dunk. Number one, this is a basketball crazy place. This is basketball-centric department. Number two, it’s clear that Marquette is about family and that goes beyond sports. Number three, the alignment… there’s a common vision and it’s a shared vision that I have,” Smart said.

Smart’s answer was mostly looking forward to his opportunity with the Golden Eagles, but he did say those three reasons were a “better fit” compared to Texas.

https://www.kxan.com/sports/marquette-to-officially-introduce-shaka-smart-as-head-basketball-coach-monday/amp/

Two reasons it's a better fit:

1) Texas figured out he's a fraud. 

2) Marquette has yet to figure out he's a fraud.

 

[ATXbronco 4381]

2 hours ago, Wanker Bob said:

When the opportunity came about, there was really three reasons for me and Maya [my wife] that we felt this was an absolute slam dunk. Number one, this is a basketball crazy place. This is basketball-centric department. Number two, it’s clear that Marquette is about family and that goes beyond sports. Number three, the alignment… there’s a common vision and it’s a shared vision that I have,” Smart said.

Smart’s answer was mostly looking forward to his opportunity with the Golden Eagles, but he did say those three reasons were a “better fit” compared to Texas.
 

So, #2 he's saying that Texas is not family-friendly?

[Js1 86926]

Throwing little jabs?

Dude....that was bc your product sucked and didn’t win enough. 

[Js1 86926]

Also 7600 capacity arena at an A-10 school versus 17000 arena at a football school 

FOH Shaka

[Wanker Bob 379]

26 minutes ago, ATXbronco said:

So, #2 he's saying that Texas is not family-friendly?

Herman probably kept hitting on his wife

[SizzleChest 8302]

1 hour ago, Js1 said:

Throwing little jabs?

Dude....that was bc your product sucked and didn’t win enough. 

 

[JimmyJames 12271]

2 hours ago, Js1 said:

Throwing little jabs?

Dude....that was bc your product sucked and didn’t win enough. 

So, Shaka is being a little bitch now. Pretty telling actually. Ecstatic he’s fucking some else’s problem now.

[Deej 77665]

2 hours ago, Js1 said:

Throwing little jabs?

Dude....that was bc your product sucked and didn’t win enough. 

We learned not to take the shitty product Rick Barnes put out there at the end for granted. 

[CurlyDumps 4618]

Shaka was well aware of attendance numbers when he turned down Marquette and took the Texas job a year later. Sure seems like a high salary and low expectations was his preferred situation not too long ago.

Sellout crowds at a basketball school might expect things like...an offensive identity, game plans, and in-game adjustments. Good luck with that!

[kevwun 16269]

Does he tell them he's not running havoc now or surprise them with it at their first game?

[SwanderedTalent 5761]

18 hours ago, Wanker Bob said:

When the opportunity came about, there was really three reasons for me and Maya [my wife] that we felt this was an absolute slam dunk. Number one, this is a basketball crazy place. This is basketball-centric department. Number two, it’s clear that Marquette is about family and that goes beyond sports. Number three, the alignment… there’s a common vision and it’s a shared vision that I have,” Smart said.

OK so it's really just two reasons.

Just more corporate HR training word salad. Same shit he peddled for six years here. All talk and no results. That, to me, is not in any way likeable, but maybe I've been around these types of parasitic pseudointellectual glad-handing douchebags in corporate America more than some of you. 

[SwanderedTalent 5761]

18 hours ago, Wanker Bob said:

Texas Athletics has garnered a nation wide reputation for dysfunction

who fucking cares?

I want us to garner a nation wide reputation for winning too much, and that was never going to happen with Shaka Smart or Tom Herman here

[BurntOrange&White 41646]

2 minutes ago, SwanderedTalent said:

who fucking cares?

I want us to garner a nation wide reputation for winning too much, and that was never going to happen with Shaka Smart or Tom Herman here

I mean it's pretty fucking bad, listen to the podcast with Shark. 

[Herpa Derpa 6314]

2 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:

I mean it's pretty fucking bad, listen to the podcast with Shark. 

I remember some football program that had 6 coaches over a 7 year period, including one who only lasted through his first spring practice before being shown the door for his improper use of department funds to pay for strippers. And that was their best sport. Now that was a fucking dysfunctional athletic department. Wonder how things worked out for them with that 6th coach.

One thing cures all. Win. 

[Funk Doctor Spock 13120]

Celeste Taylor is kinda fine, tho. I'd let her beat me 

[CurlyDumps 4618]

2 hours ago, kevwun said:

Does he tell them he's not running havoc now or surprise them with it at their first game?

The system will be a surprise to everyone, including Shaka, since he runs “whatever my guys feel like doin” that day.

[SunUvAbitchMarcos 129]

“Final Four” talent doesn’t lose to Abilene Christian even if Betty White is coaching


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[shadow_operative 15932]

lmao at this guy^^^. talk about a one note poster. you make cameltoe's posting catalogue look varied and nuanced. 

[Underdog 29099]

Asshole, don't be badmouthing Ms. Betty White, Neg cannon is revving up. 

 

 

[Steel Shank 9533]

On 3/26/2021 at 10:58 PM, Steel Shank said:

I think Beard stays in Lubbock. You people underestimate how people think.

Nailed it!

[SwanderedTalent 5761]

hey Marquette FYI if Chris Beard sucks here, you can have him too in five years

[Machinator 32102]

 

[Wulaw Horn 19560]

1 hour ago, Machinator said:

 

Let’s burn it down and hope he’s underinsured for like replacement value only. I Hate the idea he’s going to make a big profit on this that’s like getting an extra salary. 

[Napoleon 8800]

45 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

Let’s burn it down and hope he’s underinsured for like replacement value only. I Hate the idea he’s going to make a big profit on this that’s like getting an extra salary. 

Shaka could have stuck around and shit the bed and demanded to be paid off like Mack. 

He didn't.

As a thank you, I hope that he sells this house for ABOVE asking price.

He saved UT millions and allowed CDC to move in a timely manner so that work on restocking the cupboards could begin immediately.

Shaka can't coach for shit, so sorry to the fans and players up at Marquette, but I appreciate the way he exited (even if he whined about crowd support) so that we could rebuild from a position of strength (ready to go after players from mid-April with a full staff) rather than weakness (scrambling to add a full roster of players during the summer.).

Edited May 20, 2021 by Napoleon

[shadow_operative 15932]

i don't appreciate anything about Shaka Smart, other than the fact that he's 1,200 miles away from our program now.

[LTtxfan 49906]

10 minutes ago, shadow_operative said:

i don't appreciate anything about Shaka Smart, other than the fact that he's 1,200 miles away from our program now.

 

C'MON...