Texas Basketball Recruiting Notes: Keep Austin Beard

[UDontKnow 10444]

16 minutes ago, texasstrong12 said:

I had totally forgot that Ulric Maligi is who recruited Wheeler to A&M too. Wheeler signed with A&M but ended up at Georgia after A&M hired Buzz.

Maligi and Sloan are close so if Sloan is the source it's definitely happening. 

Wheeler for days. He's a true PG who can help shoulder the scoring load if need be. I like how he can drive and penetrate deep into the paint and can finish himself or find the open teammate for an easy finish around the basket/uncontested 3 point shot. He can also be a pesky defender.

Buzz Williams fucked up by chasing him out of Collie Station.

 

 

Don't worry about his height. He's been hanging with elite competition for some time now.

 

[Funk Doctor Spock 12190]

So we winning a championship, my dudes? Yes. Yes we are. 

[Wulaw Horn 19069]

25 minutes ago, Spider2YBanana said:

So we winning a championship, my dudes? Yes. Yes we are. 

With so much randomness on the tournament I don’t know if that can ever be considered a legit expectation. Now- if you want to say Beard will have us as a 1 seed I think that’s fair. I’m not saying this year but some year. 

[Funk Doctor Spock 12190]

20 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

With so much randomness on the tournament I don’t know if that can ever be considered a legit expectation. Now- if you want to say Beard will have us as a 1 seed I think that’s fair. I’m not saying this year but some year. 

It was more hyperbole, but I agree about the 1 seed. Hell, even a 2-3 seed would be nice by year 3. 

[texifornia 56911]

3 hours ago, theaveragejon said:

He does this shit on the longhorn subreddit too. Except over there he says shit, people call him out and then he goes back and deletes his comments. If you wanna bitch and moan fine. Just say it with your chest. Let your tard flag fly. 

I don't get his hangup with Beard, and why he wanted Shaka. Is he the only one that refuses to see what we've all seen for the past 3-4 years. Like cmon. 

 

[theaveragejon 988]

12 minutes ago, texifornia said:

 

Woe is he. 

[HtownHorn 14677]

13 minutes ago, texifornia said:

 

Giving this dipshit any attention is all he wants. He's all that is wrong with social media, and why Twitter fucking sucks.

Edited April 29, 2021 by HtownHorn

[Funk Doctor Spock 12190]

59 minutes ago, texifornia said:

 

Talk about playing the victim. What a fucking pussy. 

 

Also, glad to see he checks in on Surly. 

Edited April 29, 2021 by Spider2YBanana

[Hank_Hill 18803]

BWG is Jimbo? Checks out actually.

[Firemans4Horn 18046]

Put him in a body bag Scott!

[Starfleet Command 441]

What was BWG’s alternative direction?  It wasn’t Ivey was it?  That would be too humorous. 
 

I think part of why BWG and some others like Haley are a little skeptical of Bead has to a lot to do with Beard’s style of play and how incongruent it is with the direction basketball is heading. If Beard can keep stacking talent I’m not sure how much that will matter. IMO, talent acquisition > development/deployment. 

[Ricky's one-hitter 9084]

5 hours ago, Starfleet Command said:

I think part of why BWG and some others like Haley are a little skeptical of Bead has to a lot to do with Beard’s style of play and how incongruent it is with the direction basketball is heading. If Beard can keep stacking talent I’m not sure how much that will matter. IMO, talent acquisition > development/deployment. 

You are correct

So You Bought A Beard

https://bitterwhiteguy.substack.com/p/so-you-bought-a-beard

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Texas made what is maybe the least surprising move ever, hiring the coach many Texas fans have been salivating after for the better part of a presidential term (no, the other one) in Chris Beard. Many Texas fans are overjoyed, many Tech fans are upset as hell, and many millions of dollars have been promised. Overall a pretty good day for the 40 Acres, no?

THEN WHY IS EVERYBODY ON THE INTERNET YELLING AT ME

Just kidding, I know why.

I’m not as high on this hire as most burnt orange faithful, and a fair number of people are upset at my Beard comments & tweets. Some of it I think is a misreading of me focusing on the downsides/risk as me hating Beard, and some of it is me being grumpy & tweeting through it where I was my own enemy. (Never tweet. Never, ever tweet.) I don’t hate this hire as much as some believe, and I’ll own my part in not clarifying.

I’ve put off writing this post for a couple of days, for two reasons:

It became pretty evident people wanted to celebrate and I was being a wet blanket (aka read the room, BWG)

I had to spend time internalizing what exactly I don’t like about this hire (spoiler: it’s mostly not about him at all)

I’m going to break this into a few pieces because there’s more to this than I think I was conscious of at first, and it requires some specificity to untangle the jumble in my brain. It’s going to start with Beard (upside & downside) before going into some of the externalities that bother me. Let’s get into it.

Chris Beard, the Upside
Wait, hang on.

But First, a Disclaimer
I’m probably going to belabor some obvious points throughout this article because I want to do my best to be explicit in my view, starting with: none of this is about wanting to retain Shaka. I called for him to be let go over a year ago, and after the ACU loss I said I didn’t think he had a path back, so nothing in this article is arguing that Shaka Smart deserved another year. He did not, he made his bed. Chris Beard would not be here if Shaka won more games, and that responsibility ultimately falls upon Shaka Smart. (This is, as they say in the business, ‘foreshadowing’.)

Chris Beard, the Upside
I spent most of the last piece exploring the risk/downside of Beard because it seemed to me like everyone else had the upside covered, sometimes to the point of hyperbole. On a completely unrelated note, here’s a paragraph from Kirk Bohls’ latest article:

I’m amazed there wasn’t a Wooden or Coach K reference sandwiched in there for good measure.

Since I didn’t really talk up the positives of a Beard hire, let’s go ahead and get into those.

The Title Game
Here is the list of coaches who made a Final Four in their first three seasons at a high-major program:

1987 - Rick Pitino - Providence (Pitino has been in seven Final Fours!)

1989 - Steve Fisher* - Michigan

1991 - Roy Williams - Kansas

1992 - Bob Huggins - Cincinnati (I always have to look this spelling up)

1998 - Tubby Smith - Kentucky (1st season at UK, previous 2 were at Georgia)

2002 - Mike Davis - Indiana

2005 - Bruce Weber - Illinois

2007 - John Thompson III - Georgetown

2007 - Thad Matta - Ohio State

2010 - Brad Stevens - Butler

2014 - Kevin Ollie - UConn

2019 - Chris Beard - Texas Tech

*He was named head coach when the tourney started because Michigan Man is a sacred institution, so this is more Bill Frieder’s appearance. He made other Final Fours on his own later.
That’s a pretty exclusive list, and there are some big names in the fold. There are four or so Hall of Fame coaches in that list, which should be heartening to Texas fans. Making a national championship game is rare, there are a lot of very good college coaches who never make it to the final game. Any coach who makes it to that game should tout it until they’re out of breath because it’s a feat. There’s no caveat to this, you take that accolade to your grave if you’re Chris Beard because you earned it.

The Defense
Chris Beard and Mark Adams have put together very good defenses for most of their Texas Tech tenure, the first season being less so than the other four. They’ve built a no-middle defense that actively tries to deny paint touches and drives, and most years this defense has been extremely effective. It’s not often that a Beard/Adams defense gets lit up; most of the time they’re frustrating the other team, and if they can get an elite rim protector in the mix they can really lock down opponents. Baylor adopted this defense and it’s one of the reasons they’re in the national title game; it must be a pretty effective defense if it can convince Scott Drew to abandon his 1-3-1 zone security blanket defense and go to the no-middle style.

The Transfer Portal
One of the college basketball market inefficiencies the last few seasons has been the variance in which teams take advantage of the transfer portal. There are good reasons to supplement a program with transfers; they’ve been in the college game for a season or more so you have better data on how they’ll play compared to a high school player’s AAU tape, they’ve spent time in a college S&C program so they’re probably stronger than a high school player, and if they wash out it tends to be a shorter window where the program has to back-fill. (One of our esteemed readers regularly comments here that the downside is transfers are generally expected to start so them washing out can be a bigger hole to fill, which is also correct.) There are few high-major coaches who plumb the transfer portal depths more thoroughly than Chris Beard, and it has brought him players like Tariq Owens, Matt Mooney, and Matt McClung. He is active in this realm and it pays off more often than not, so his teams tend to be experienced even if they’re new together. Beard is also starting to bring in top-50 high school recruits to Tech, so talent acquisition has been one of his strengths in his Tech tenure.

The upside for Beard is that when he has everything clicking, he can compete for Big 12 titles and make deep tourney runs. If you’re an optimist or even a ‘benefit of the doubt’ person by nature, Chris Beard gives you a lot of reason to be hopeful for the future. His ceiling is about as high as one can be without hiring a Hall of Fame coach.

Chris Beard, the Downside
I went through some of these already in the last post so I’m not going to rehash it all, but there are some pieces I want to talk through.

About That Coaching List
The sample size for analogues to Beard is already pretty small, and pruning it down means there’s more variance inherent in comparing/projecting Beard based upon it. That said, there are some names that should probably be removed:

Rick Pitino - He made the Final Four with Providence and bolted for the NBA, and frankly projecting anything based upon a guy who bounces between college and pro and college and pro and college and Greece as he does is sketchy. There are also the sanctions that seem to follow him everywhere he goes, so if you want to make the Pitino/Beard comparison you’re going to have to deal with that angle as well.

Bob Huggins - Yes, he made the Final Four at Cincinnati…which was just into the Great Midwest conference at the time. It’s not exactly a high-major conference, even when they moved to Conference USA that was closer in stature to the Mountain West than the ACC.

Mike Davis, Steve Fisher, Kevin Ollie, Brad Stevens, and Roy Williams were all long-time assistants who didn’t have any head coaching experience prior to taking over where they hit paydirt. If we’re trying to get as close to apples-to-apples as possible they’re probably out, but I wouldn’t argue if you wanted to keep them in.

That leaves us with the following list:

Thad Matta - first 5 years (OSU): Ineligible, R32, 2nd place, NIT Champ, R64 - 2 conference titles

Tubby Smith - first 5 years (2 UGA, 3 UK): S16, R64, Natty, E8, R32 - 2 conference titles (both UK)

John Thompson III - first 5 years (Georgetown): NIT Quarters, S16, F4, R32, NIT 1st round - 2 conference titles

Bruce Weber - first 5 years (Illinois): S16, 2nd place, R32, R64, Nothing - 2 conference titles

Chris Beard - first 5 years (Tech): Nothing, E8, 2nd place, COVID (est. 10-seed), R32 - 1 conference title(tied)

The four non-Beard entries in this list had an average of 2 conference titles and 1 Final Four or better run per coach in their first 5 years. They combined to miss the NCAA tournament a total of 4* times in 20 combined seasons, so 1 in every 5 seasons on this list. (I’m not counting the ineligible season against Matta, which would make it 5.)

Beard has a 7-year deal, so let’s look at the next 7 years at the same school for those coaches:

Thad Matta: S16, S16, F4, E8, R64, R32, NIT 2nd Round (resigned 1 year later) - 3 conference titles

Tubby Smith: S16, S16, E8, R32, E8, R32, R32(“resigned”) - 3 conference titles

JTIII: R64, R64, R32, R64, NIT 2nd round, R32, Nothing (fired 1 year later) - 1 conference title(tied)

Bruce Weber: Nothing, R64, Nothing, R32, Nothing(fired) - no conference titles

The four entries had an average of 1.75 conference titles per coach and one F4+ run in their 26 total years. They combined to miss the NCAA tournament a total of 7 times in 26 combined seasons, so a touch more than 1 in every 4 seasons (0.269, if you’re curious). In other words, on average they did worse than they started. There are limits to how applicable this data is to Texas - Tubby ditching out from Kentucky for being insane about their demands on results is more extreme than Texas fans would be in that run, and Thad Matta resigned for health reasons rather than performance ones - but at the very least this is a pretty reasonable “past results do not guarantee future performance” argument, and is a counterpoint to the idea that Beard is guaranteed to make a F4 run in his first three years at Texas.

(He might!)

(He might not!)

I hope for all of our sakes Beard is more Tubby Smith than Bruce Weber, but I can’t shake this feeling that Texas hired a coach who added a couple of pieces to another coach’s core to make their crowning achievement. Which, hey, it’s good he was able to do that, that’s part of being a high-level coach. In the two years since that core graduated though, the results have been a couple of steps down. Let’s talk about that.

The Last Two Years & Those Market Inefficiencies
One of the things I liked about following Shaka (who, again, earned his exit) was seeing the evolution of the team’s tactics over the years. He made a number of course corrections, from changing the offensive system and what shots it prioritized to changing the defense to better match the talent on hand. It didn’t work all the time, but there was logic to the changes and it is a primary reason why I stuck with the experiment as long as I did. I say that to say I do not see the same things from Beard at Tech. His offense, such as it is an offense in that it attempts to put the ball through the hoop, isn’t markedly different than it was 5 years ago. If anything, it is less coherent than the original motion-y offense he used his first couple of years at Tech; it may have changed in that it devolved, which isn’t exactly filling me with excitement. The defense hasn’t changed much, which is fine as long as it continues to produce elite results, but the thing about market inefficiencies is that they don’t stay inefficient forever. The no-middle defense is not a new defense, but it wasn’t being used a ton until a few years ago. Teams have now seen it and started adapting their offenses to attack it more effectively; given how little tactical evolution Beard has displayed to date, what is he going to do when the no-middle is less than elite in its results? The last two years provide a potential clue, Tech has gone 18-17 in the Big 12 and has been consistently outmatched by Kansas & Baylor, going 0-8 against those two programs. You may want to respond that so has everybody else and you would be largely correct, but isn’t the goal of this hire to not be consistently outmatched by the class of the conference?

This potentially goes double if Mark Adams doesn’t follow Beard to Texas. Adams is considered the defensive mastermind on the staff, if he gets the Tech job will Beard be able to keep up this level of defense? It’s possible, but not a given. I may be over-thinking things, but until I see Chris Beard come up with a second trick I’m having visions of Chip Kelly’s struggles once everybody else got used to super-fast tempo offenses.

The other market inefficiency of the transfer portal is less of a concern to me; perhaps Beard won’t be the market leader in unearthing gems, but there will be enough players in it each year that it may counteract the loss in marginal gains. Plus, I covered my concerns around his roster retention issues in the last piece.

The Externalities
There are some issues around this hire I do not like that have nothing to do with Chris Beard himself and should not be reflected upon him when I talk about my view on the hire, which I will cover here. The first is that this coaching search looked nothing like a search and more like the boosters getting what they wanted for the last four years; they gave Royal Ivey a Rooney Rule checkmark 15-minute interview and…that’s it? That kind of tunnel vision makes sense when you’re going after Nick Saban, but Chris Beard is not him. I just talked about appreciating someone dealing with failures by investigating their process and making course corrections, and this coaching “search” displays zero signs of that sort of analysis. Texas fans spent the last few years complaining about having a coach who “doesn’t recruit shooters”, “can’t run offense”, & “doesn’t play exciting basketball” and their favorite target to replace Shaka Smart was…uhh, noted offensive savant Chris Beard. If you’re unhappy with the current guy, fine, but why replace him with someone who has similar gameplay issues? Why not try something different this time around? We’re in Year 21 of Texas being run by a defense-first coach whose grasp of advanced offensive basketball execution is sketchy at best and we just signed up for 7 more years of the same; it’s a specific kind of madness that triples down two decades in. Would Royal Ivey have been better? Maybe, maybe not, but it would at least be an interesting new angle to try. I swear, there is a big chunk of Texas fans who care about winning more than sports and they let their desire for Winzzz Over Everything blind them to the functional/specific ways to make it more likely to happen. Texas fans would have bypassed a Mark Few and Roy Williams assistant using this method because they’ve been laser-locked on Lubbock for nearly a half-decade.

Further, if you’re in the “money is no object to Texas” camp, why not make a run at Calipari? Most of us (myself included) were skeptical at the notion Calipari was interested in Texas, but I’ve heard from several people in the last few days that it was a legitimate option. If all you care about is winning and money really is no object, $9m/year to Calipari who has 6 Final Fours and a title to his name should be an easy call. Did anybody kick the tires on that guy in one of their many refractory periods between Chris Beard fever dreams? It doesn’t sound like it. Y’all can’t even go big correctly.

So yea, a chunk of my grumpiness the last few days has been about the process of hiring a new coach, which seemed less like a process and more like a law signed 4 years ago that kicked in the moment Shaka Smart got on a plane. Texas just handed over roughly the same amount of guaranteed money to Beard they did to Shaka without any appearance of seriously considering alternatives, it’s maddening.

In Summary
At the end of the day, I think Chris Beard is a good coach whose reputation is probably a bit overheated. My guess on the most likely outcome of a 7-year Texas tenure would involve Beard sitting in the chaotic middle of the Big 12 (where the difference between 3rd & 6th is 1-2 games) with a record somewhere around 10-8 most years. He’ll take Texas to the tourney 5 or 6 times, making the second round more often than not with maybe a Sweet 16 or two if the matchups work out in Texas’ favor. It’s not a bad outcome, a lot of programs would be very happy with that. Is that what Texas is paying $5m+ per year for though? I have my doubts; if it isn’t, we’re going to be back to the same spot we were with Shaka Smart and the last few years of Barnes. I would like to be wrong about this, but time appears to be a flat circle in Texas basketball.

You may now resume yelling at me on your social media platform of choice.

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[Fud 9552]

You guys should unfollow BWG. I did 

[BurntOrange&White 39931]

25 minutes ago, Fud said:

You guys should unfollow BWG. I did 

Why would you follow in the first place?

[Fud 9552]

2 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Why would you follow in the first place?

Because I think he actually does really good work when he's not unhinged

[Pato del Muerto 52489]

9 hours ago, Spider2YBanana said:

Talk about playing the victim. What a fucking pussy. 

 

Also, glad to see he checks in on Surly. 

I’m not surprised he’s big mad at surly considering how many of us have fucked his wife and female relatives of age. 

[closetojumping 62604]

15 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

I’m not surprised he’s big mad at surly considering how many of us have fucked his wife and female relatives of age. 

I view this BWG dipshit as if he’s the basketball twin for Ian Boyd. I’ve never read an interesting thing from him and I don’t think he’s ever written anything with less than 1,000 insipid words. I know he posts or used to post on Surly. Did he really mention Surly in that voluminous word vomit?

[Wiler77 1566]

I don't follow basketball recruiting like I used to, but that Wheeler kid reminds me of Terrell McIntyre.  At least in the 3 minutes of video I watch.  Clearly it's a well researched opinion.

[Ricky's one-hitter 9084]

18 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

Did he really mention Surly in that voluminous word vomit?

He made mention of internet people asking him multiple times if Beard fucked his wife, which, yes we did that multiple times. 

[Viper 12108]

19 minutes ago, Ricky's one-hitter said:

He made mention of internet people asking him multiple times if Beard fucked his wife, which, yes we did that multiple times. 

I think the better question is when did Beard stop fucking his wife.

[MuellerHorn 4229]

7 hours ago, Starfleet Command said:

What was BWG’s alternative direction?  It wasn’t Ivey was it?  That would be too humorous. 
 

I think part of why BWG and some others like Haley are a little skeptical of Bead has to a lot to do with Beard’s style of play and how incongruent it is with the direction basketball is heading. If Beard can keep stacking talent I’m not sure how much that will matter. IMO, talent acquisition > development/deployment. 

Uh, so, Shaka?...

[Machinator 32099]

Just now, MuellerHorn said:

Uh, so, Shaka?...

The problem was that Shaka was nearly a zero in the development/deployment arena. If he were just 10-20% better there he would still be the head coach.

[CurlyDumps 4471]

13 hours ago, Acropora said:

He's kinda become the basketball version of that idiot from bon...wescot something.  

Beard may fail.  Early returns and history suggest otherwise but ultimately if you're a fan of texas, why be a whiny cunt?  Maybe try approaching life with a little bit of optimism and enthusiasm?  What's the point of being a fan if your entire outlook is pessimistic?  It's not even like we fired a somewhat successful coach and replaced him with a spare.  Shaka Smart was terrible.  Why die on this hill?

Bwg seems like the kind of guy to bitch about taxes after winning the lottery...

 

Wescott Poopbutts. And yes, the fan-shaming twat/social media martyrdom schtick is starting to sound similar. That’s a corner nobody should want to occupy. 

BWG isn’t perpetually negative. He spent years giving Shaka a pass, conveying beliefs like, “Shaka does everything right except notch wins.” (in year 4 or 5). This is all about Beard, a resentment that has grown over the years as Beard soared past Shaka and our program in terms of success, and an assertion that Texas fans are just the worst because they care more about winning more than play style.

I welcome dissenting opinions on Beard, but the Wescott-esque fan shaming shit is so fucking cringe and completely unbearable.

[MuellerHorn 4229]

6 minutes ago, Machinator said:

The problem was that Shaka was nearly a zero in the development/deployment arena. If he were just 10-20% better there he would still be the head coach.

I certainly agree with that statement. However, if one says it too definitively, you end up with a scenario like Shaka.

Although, the fact that Beard actually makes in-game adjustments will manufacture an entirely different scenario.

[MuellerHorn 4229]

4 minutes ago, CurlyDumps said:

Wescott Poopbutts. And yes, the fan-shaming twat/social media martyrdom schtick is starting to sound similar. That’s a corner nobody should want to occupy. 

BWG isn’t perpetually negative. He spent years giving Shaka a pass, conveying beliefs like, “Shaka does everything right except notch wins.” (in year 4 or 5). This is all about Beard, a resentment that has grown over the years as Beard soared past Shaka and our program in terms of success, and an assertion that Texas fans are just the worst because they care more about winning more than play style.

I welcome dissenting opinions on Beard, but the Wescott-esque fan shaming shit is so fucking cringe and completely unbearable.

The weird thing is that BWG used to have (arguably) the best breakdowns of Texas Basketball. These were everything from recruiting, metrics, to adjustments he thought needed to be made. I don't know wtf happened, but you're correct; it seems like it's just some inward emotional dissonance to Beard. Which is why, to all of us outsiders, it seems like Beard must have drilled his wife.   

Edited April 29, 2021 by MuellerHorn

[Teamdirtyleg 1060]

1 hour ago, CurlyDumps said:

Wescott Poopbutts. And yes, the fan-shaming twat/social media martyrdom schtick is starting to sound similar. That’s a corner nobody should want to occupy. 

BWG isn’t perpetually negative. He spent years giving Shaka a pass, conveying beliefs like, “Shaka does everything right except notch wins.” (in year 4 or 5). This is all about Beard, a resentment that has grown over the years as Beard soared past Shaka and our program in terms of success, and an assertion that Texas fans are just the worst because they care more about winning more than play style.

I welcome dissenting opinions on Beard, but the Wescott-esque fan shaming shit is so fucking cringe and completely unbearable.

I don’t see what Wescott writes anymore since he blocked me long ago on Twitter for calling out his bitchassedness and I stopped going to BON. 

[Red Five 40852]

BWG sure seems confident that Beard will have much less success at Texas than he had at Tech. 

[HtownHorn 14677]

42 minutes ago, Red Five said:

BWG sure seems confident that Beard will have much less success at Texas than he had at Tech. 

It's crazy that he thinks Texas is small, but we already have a couple of guys that are taller than his Tech team last year that went further in the tournament that Shaka's team of versatile bigs. Granted I would like a defensive minded guy off the bench to come defend the rim, but I think rebounding is going to be a strength of this team next year and not the weakness it was under Shaka.

[texasstrong12 4668]

Even if you had doubts about Beard you should still give him credit for what he’s done to flip the roster in a matter of weeks. 
 

BWG can’t even give Beard credit for landing high profile transfers when every national analyst has said Beard is killing it. Everyone knows if this was Shaka the reaction from BWG would be drastically different. 
 

BWG can’t have a rational discussion about Beard and that becomes more obvious by the day. 

[UnhappilyMarried 815]

1 hour ago, Red Five said:

BWG sure seems confident that Beard will have much less success at Texas than he had at Tech. 

I’m guilty too, but can we please stop giving him attention? A random blogger armed with a premium KenPom subscription, CBBReference in his bookmarks bar, and a massive emotional grudge does not deserve this many posts about him. 

[Ricky's one-hitter 9084]

Coleman goes pro

 

 

[RGBIII 22840]

Hey BWG, I know you’re reading this. Did Beard fuck your mom? 

[Fud 9552]

Hey BWG, did Beard fuck your dad? 

[Red Five 40852]

[SydneyCarton 48076]

20 minutes ago, Fud said:

Hey BWG, did Beard fuck your dad? 

With his level of resentment, I think it makes more sense that Beard is his dad, and he's pissed because pops was the one who got to fuck his mom. 

[MuellerHorn 4229]

8 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

With his level of resentment, I think it makes more sense that Beard is his dad, and he's pissed because pops was the one who got to fuck his mom. 

Did y'all know that Sophocles' final posthumous tragedy is called "BWG Rex"? 

[RabidM 2666]

Hey BWG, did Beard fuck you and not call? 

[SA-KC_Horn 1295]

BWG lurks Surly for @NowThis URLs.

 

[Tigersnake 670]

4 hours ago, RGBIII said:

Hey BWG, I know you’re reading this. Did Beard fuck your mom? 

[RGBIII 22840]

I think this accurately depicts Chris Beard

 

 

Edited April 29, 2021 by RGBIII

[Hornlover 8830]

5 hours ago, RGBIII said:

Hey BWG, I know you’re reading this. Did Beard fuck your mom? 

@Bitterwhiteguy It works better when you actually summon him, instead of pussyfooting around.

[Degenerate Gardner 4085]

Sorry if this has already been discussed somewhere in the preceding BWG word salad, but when does Sims decide?

[HtownHorn 14677]

Gerry said that he just entered the portal and Texas has reached out. Would be a very good get as the last guard to the rotation.

https://247sports.com/Player/Pelle-Larsson-46086628/

Good athlete + size ratio

46.3% BTA

88.3% FT

Edited April 30, 2021 by HtownHorn

[Bevo 13576]

27 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

Gerry said that he just entered the portal and Texas has reached out. Would be a very good get as the last guard to the rotation.

https://247sports.com/Player/Pelle-Larsson-46086628/

Good athlete + size ratio

46.3% BTA

88.3% FT

https://www.sltrib.com/sports/utah-utes/2021/04/29/prized-utah-mens/

 

Larsson averaged 8.2 points, 3.2 rebounds, and 2.8 assists per game

[maninblack 7974]

Athletic combo guard that can shoot. Sign me up when Jones eventually picks Michigan.

[Catdaddyhorn 3444]

2 hours ago, HtownHorn said:

Gerry said that he just entered the portal and Texas has reached out. Would be a very good get as the last guard to the rotation.

https://247sports.com/Player/Pelle-Larsson-46086628/

Good athlete + size ratio

46.3% BTA

88.3% FT

I'd rather this guy than Wheeler. For such a short guy I'm surprised that Wheeler isn't more of a quick twitch or super speedy player. I'd rather get a guy like Larsson who looks to have a multifaceted and mature skillset in a 6'5" body. He's Jace Febres with actual game or an analogue to AJ1. Plus he's the type of guy I'd like to see starting alongside Arterio Morris and Keyonte George the year after next. 

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IT

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Inside Texas continues to believe Coastal Carolina guard DeVante Jones will pick Michigan over Texas, Texas Tech, and Memphis.

IT also believes Georgia transfer Sahvir Wheeler and Texas aren't going to end up being a fit due to Wheeler and his circle‘s expectations of overall minutes and differing opinions on his post-college talent level.

The Texas staff has two or three more irons in the fire at guard.

 

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https://247sports.com/player/emoni-bates-46056542/

 

any chance?

[Pato del Muerto 52489]

Sounds like he wants pro money...even if it comes from a university. 

[Dr. Teeth 5844]

Everyone thought pro before MSU, so have to believe it is pro now. Don’t think anyone is beating $380k plus unless he really wants to play in the tournament.