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LTtxfan
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Yeah maybe just a little naive...  Texas Women's Basketball has some BIG political hurdles that CDC will have to overcome to get rid of Karen.  Plonsky moving to the side was one of CDC's first c

ruitxn
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How about lazy, out of shape for bigs. My description starts there.

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Or, she just wasn’t good enough to get minutes.

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10 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

Did we lose some players this year that caused this suckage? We were supposed to be good this year I thought.

Higgs was our only key injury among our returning players, but we have a handful of MCD's All Americans on the roster that should have been able to carry the load. Didn't happen

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3 minutes ago, ruitxn said:

Between Chris and Jodi and their kiss ass supporters, CDC finds himself in a damn mess.  Good luck Mr. AD.   This program, just as men’s, is beyond sick and beyond revamping but too many supporters can’t see this yet.

Agree that all the kiss-ass supporters of Chris, Jodi and Karen need to wake up or Texas Women's basketball is about to take another hard fall.  CDC will have to walk a tightrope with the politics in this WBB situation... but it needs to improve.

Without the Senior guards last year constantly bailing that team out, last season would have been a huge disappointment.  Aston had a great team last year that underperformed -- they should have defeated UCLA in the Sweet 16.  Karen has done a really poor job this season..... Karen needs to get her act together quickly.

There is no way that Iowa State, Kansas State and West Virginia should have won games IN AUSTIN against the Ladyhorns this year..... NO EXCUSES

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Hoping no extensions have been added.....Maybe Karen's contract is up after next season??

http://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/17621384/texas-women-coach-karen-aston-gets-raise-3-year-extension

Sept 2016:  "Aston's guaranteed salary was bumped up to $770,000 entering her fifth season, and she's eligible for $220,000 in performance incentives. Her base salary is an increase of $158,187 from last season. The new contract runs through the 2019-20 season."

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35 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

Hoping no extensions have been added.....Maybe Karen's contract is up after next season??

http://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/17621384/texas-women-coach-karen-aston-gets-raise-3-year-extension

Sept 2016:  "Aston's guaranteed salary was bumped up to $770,000 entering her fifth season, and she's eligible for $220,000 in performance incentives. Her base salary is an increase of $158,187 from last season. The new contract runs through the 2019-20 season."

Looks like she'll be coaching for her job next season.

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8 hours ago, perfectchaos007 said:

Looks like she'll be coaching for her job next season.

Ugh damn she'll be fine.  Unfortunately, Plonsky/CDC will chalk it up to losing Higgs, Joyner's early injury, Warren's mid-season concussion and never getting a single minute out of Sedona.  23 wins as a "down year" is being spoiled, since the other shit show in the FEC can't even hit 20 wins. 

Let's be real - 

SR Sug

RS SR Higgs

JR Littleton / SO Warren

SR Holmes / SO Collier

RS FR Prince

That's bordering on top 10. Having a 6'7 post player alone gets you top 10.  Very few teams can do anything to stop it. 

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Ideally, we also boot George Washington or Jamie Carey and throw an obscene amount of cash at Shae Ralph to be Associate Head Coach / Offensive Coordinator or ask Geno/Muffett who the best offensive mind is (not on their staff) and go get them. 

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On 11/23/2018 at 9:19 PM, texasstrong12 said:

If Higgs is out long-term we are screwed. If she is out we should just throw in the towel on the season to be honest. 

RS both Higgs and Prince and run it back next year. 

Glad Prince ended up RS this year. Once Higgs was injured the best move was to play for next year with a healthy roster (knock on wood). 

Sutton, Higgs, Littleton, Allen-Taylor, Underwood, Routt, Prince, Holmes, Warren, Collier, Celeste Taylor, Hannan, and Palmer. By my count there are 13 scholarship players for next year so even without attrition Texas could add a grad transfer or two. 

It will be interesting what happens with Routt and Allen-Taylor because Celeste Taylor and Palmer are going to pass them up on the depth chart.

 

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Aston definitely has some mack brown to her. Great recruiter but very little results and blow outs against our main rival. Hopefully she can randimly put it together for one season. At least by the rankings, we should be able to roll out a starting lineup full of five stars next season.

The team seems to suffer from the same limited coaching on the offensive side of the game as the men's program. Maybe she needs to shakeup an assistant coach from elsewhere.

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Aston definitely has some mack brown to her. Great recruiter but very little results and blow outs against our main rival. Hopefully she can randimly put it together for one season. At least by the rankings, we should be able to roll out a starting lineup full of five stars next season.

The team seems to suffer from the same limited coaching on the offensive side of the game as the men's program. Maybe she needs to shakeup an assistant coach from elsewhere.

Aston really struggled this season.  Great play from the Senior guards last season made Karen look better as a coach than she may be..  Baylor coach really owns Texas during games as Karen sucks at in game adjustments.... if Karen can't step up her results in 2018-19 then CDC should be willing to hire a better coach.  Texas WBB should be able to win a B12 Championship and at some point make it to a Final 4.  

 

Need more players like Ariel... 

http://www.dailytexanonline.com/2018/07/12/ariel-atkins-nominated-for-ncaa-woman-of-the-year-award

 

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43 minutes ago, AnTiM said:

The only problems with this team are poor defense, no decent three shooters, and several players who can't make a fkn basket when they are standing right under it

How about lazy, out of shape for bigs. My description starts there.

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Holly warlick fired at Tennessee per Jeff Goodman

 

gives me hope that if it came to it we would fire Aston 

Of course we would.  One average season isn't going to do it, though.  

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Plonsky and Jody would cash in every political favor in their circle to make sure Karen remains while they're around, no where near a hot seat at this point.

Bball having below average coaching has to be worst case scenario for CDC with this new arena on his plate.

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CDC isn’t going to do anything this year.  The real problem is next year after both  programs fail to make the kind of improvements needed and really shows what fans and CDC already knows  about how flawed our coaches are.  I think Shaka will be gone next year but it looks like to me we are still 2-3 years from getting a real women’s basketball coach. Primarily due to the Plonsky, Jodi effect and their head-in-the sand followers.  I know them, and I’m sure most of you do to, and they aren’t close to being ready for a coaching change.

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CDC isn’t going to do anything this year.  The real problem is next year after both  programs fail to make the kind of improvements needed and really shows what fans and CDC already knows  about how flawed our coaches are.  I think Shaka will be gone next year but it looks like to me we are still 2-3 years from getting a real women’s basketball coach. Primarily due to the Plonsky, Jodi effect and their head-in-the sand followers.  I know them, and I’m sure most of you do to, and they aren’t close to being ready for a coaching change.

Great Post!!

CDC needs to win over the political group that favors Women's Basketball..... Take Down the Plonsky/Jody wall please CDC!!

Karen is extremely overrated.  Senior guards last year hid how poorly Karen coaches.  What's Aston's current contract expiration??

Best info I found is from Sept 2016....  "Women's Basketball coach Karen Aston receives three-year extension through 2019-20 season."

https://texassports.com/news/2016/9/23/womens-basketball-ut-board-of-regents-approves-contract-extension-for-karen-aston.aspx

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13 hours ago, perfectchaos007 said:

Sounds like our program is back in purgatory. Next few years are gonna be rough.

Hard to say.  If Collier bolts, watch out.  It's going to get ugly.  If she stays, plus Higgs, Prince, Sug and Celeste Taylor - it won't be purgatory.

Littleton wasn't happy after her freshman year either, it took a few 'come to Jesus' talks to get her to stay for this past season.  She might just not be happy.  Remember, we got LUCKY to even get her because USC fired Cooper-Dykes.  And almost lost her after a year.

Howevah, Karen may have gotten screwed with some "diva" type recruits in that 2017 class.  Boothe for sure - headcase.  So much talent, so much attitude.  That 2017 class had some problems  In Fact, it looks like the 2017 class was so offensively focused (Chaz Buckets, Boothe, and the top HS scorer in America), it was nothing like what Karen puts first and foremost - defense.

It does look like her 2019 and 2020 recruits are more "junkyard dog" types.  Celeste especially.  

The key is finding the junkyard dogs with elite talent - ain't another Ariel Atkins walking through that door.  

14 hours ago, ruitxn said:

CDC isn’t going to do anything this year.  The real problem is next year after both  programs fail to make the kind of improvements needed and really shows what fans and CDC already knows  about how flawed our coaches are.  I think Shaka will be gone next year but it looks like to me we are still 2-3 years from getting a real women’s basketball coach. Primarily due to the Plonsky, Jodi effect and their head-in-the sand followers.  I know them, and I’m sure most of you do to, and they aren’t close to being ready for a coaching change.

100%.  As long as Jody is in Karen's corner, we're screwed.  The 80s and 90s Jody sycophants will follow her off a cliff.  

And don't even TRY to bring up hiring someone with a penis.  That's going too far with them.

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100%.  As long as Jody is in Karen's corner, we're screwed.  The 80s and 90s Jody sycophants will follow her off a cliff.  

And don't even TRY to bring up hiring someone with a penis.  That's going too far with them.

CDC needs to win over the politics of WBB and take down the Plonsky/Conradt Wall......

Time for Karen to get her act together or move on if Texas WBB expects to compete with Baylor while Kim is there..... 🤘

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Never understood how our coaches from the 80s and 90s were dietized for supposedly “being far ahead of the game” when it came to WBB. Bottom line is our program has only ever won 1 championship. Don’t know why they are worshiped as some pioneers of the sport at Texas. 1 chip over the course of 2 decades is better than zero, but idk why people act like they were winning everything. Louisiana Tech was more ahead of the field in that regard. 

 

Tldr: Jodi is overrated and shouldn’t have the pull she has but plonsky enables this bullshit

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Never understood how our coaches from the 80s and 90s were dietized for supposedly “being far ahead of the game” when it came to WBB. Bottom line is our program has only ever won 1 championship. Don’t know why they are worshiped as some pioneers of the sport at Texas. 1 chip over the course of 2 decades is better than zero, but idk why people act like they were winning everything. Louisiana Tech was more ahead of the field in that regard. 

 

Tldr: Jodi is overrated and shouldn’t have the pull she has but plonsky enables this bullshit

Tennessee took what Jody did and turned it to 11 while Jody was taking cat naps.  Then Tech swooped in and knocked us down a peg in the early 90s.  That's about when UConn, Stanford and Duke took our place.  Then Kim's ratface burst on the scene in 2005 and we hit the edge and then OU kicked us into oblivion with those mid-00s Sherri Coale teams - we're still trying to crawl out 15 years later! 

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On 3/29/2019 at 3:16 PM, Js1 said:

Tennessee took what Jody did and turned it to 11 while Jody was taking cat naps.  Then Tech swooped in and knocked us down a peg in the early 90s.  That's about when UConn, Stanford and Duke took our place.  Then Kim's ratface burst on the scene in 2005 and we hit the edge and then OU kicked us into oblivion with those mid-00s Sherri Coale teams - we're still trying to crawl out 15 years later! 

Coale and OU sure fell off the map.  Wasn't it Coale we used to call "poodle-do" or was that rat-face-cunt Kim?

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On 3/29/2019 at 3:16 PM, Js1 said:

Tennessee took what Jody did and turned it to 11 while Jody was taking cat naps.  Then Tech swooped in and knocked us down a peg in the early 90s.  That's about when UConn, Stanford and Duke took our place.  Then Kim's ratface burst on the scene in 2005 and we hit the edge and then OU kicked us into oblivion with those mid-00s Sherri Coale teams - we're still trying to crawl out 15 years later! 

Great comments..... How much longer is Karen under contract??

Watching Baylor consistently kick our ass has to stop..... Karen is just NOT that great at player development or in-game adjustments.

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