Fire Shaka Smart

[Brandywine 1326]

What a mess. 

[VaLonghorn99 358]

Maybe we just need to play our game instead of trying to only win the ones we're supposed to. Like football, we are full of 4 and 5 stars in basketball too. We are not developing players. It's like a curse, a Brown-Barnes curse.

[Goo Punch 4275]

tf?

 

Edited January 6, 2020 by Goo Punch

[Goo Punch 4275]

i've been biting my tongue all season about a certain post game ritual for Shaka and his guys, because i figured, "hey, we're winning our games right now, let's not be so negative." welp, that's over. not only does this shit piss me off, it is a *crystal clear* sign of just how far out of his element Shaka Smart is in this conference. so what is it that has me so pissed? Shaka's team enjoys little dance parties after every single win. 
 

 

 

check the date on that. November 30th. that footage is from the night we barely scraped by McNeese State in our own building. that's right, we celebrated like that after beating this fucking team:



are you fucking kidding me? the scene in that locker room should be a sober one, with every single man in the room silently reflecting, asking himself why some high school team from Louisiana nearly just beat you on your home floor. but not us! not Shaka's boys. we're dancing! we're fucking dancing! and our head coach is hootin' an' hollerin' and hugging and high fiving his players, joyous over his team's landmark victory. what the fuck. what an absolute fucking clown. he clearly has zero fucking clue what he's doing, he has even less self awareness, and he's passing it on to our players. well here are my thoughts on that:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

until this very moment, i have publicly maintained throughout the years that I did not hate Shaka Smart the man, i just hated pretty much everything about how he coaches. nope. not anymore. cannot do it. FUCK Shaka Smart. what an absolute fucking clown, and an embarrassment to our entire athletic department. "we are the joneses". christ. that shit left with DeLoss. this is our new standard. we are the clowns


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Edited January 6, 2020 by Goo Punch

[2300 Nueces 163]

18 minutes ago, Goo Punch said:

i've been biting my tongue all season about a certain post game ritual for Shaka and his guys, because i figured, "hey, we're winning our games right now, let's not be so negative." welp, that's over. not only does this shit piss me off, it is a *crystal clear* sign of just how far out of his element Shaka Smart is in this conference. so what is it that has me so pissed? Shaka's team enjoys little dance parties after every single win. 
 

 

 

check the date on that. November 30th. that footage is from the night we barely scraped by McNeese State in our own building. that's right, we celebrated like that after beating this fucking team:



are you fucking kidding me? the scene in that locker room should be a sober one, with every single man in the room silently reflecting, asking himself why some high school team from Louisiana nearly just beat you on your home floor. but not us! not Shaka's boys. we're dancing! we're fucking dancing! and our head coach is hootin' an' hollerin' and hugging and high fiving his players, joyous over his team's landmark victory. what the fuck. what an absolute fucking clown. he clearly has zero fucking clue what he's doing, he has even less self awareness, and he's passing it on to our players. well here are my thoughts on that:

 

 

 

until this very moment, i have publicly maintained throughout the years that I did not hate Shaka Smart the man, i just hated pretty much everything about how he coaches. nope. not anymore. cannot do it. FUCK Shaka Smart. what an absolute fucking clown, and an embarrassment to our entire athletic department. "we are the joneses". christ. that shit left with DeLoss. this is our new standard. we are now the clowns


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Can you imagine our locker room if we hired this guy?  This used to be the type of coaching that was prevalent in sports.  I know mine was. LOL

Listen at your own risk.  Turn the volume down..... trust me.

https://youtu.be/Chdg7wEGfYw

Edited January 6, 2020 by 2300 Nueces

[LTtxfan 49909]

23 hours ago, LTtxfan said:

So how many consecutive losses in 2020 to start B12 Conference will cause CDC to fire Shaka in-season??

Would love to see Shaka fired with 2nd half of 2020 B12 Conference games still left to play.  Maybe Feb 1st or Feb 3rd will be Shaka's final game coaching Texas...

^^^Still hoping that Feb 3rd is Shaka's final game coaching the Texas Longhorns!!!

[Goo Punch 4275]

1 minute ago, 2300 Nueces said:

Can you imagine our locker room if we hired this guy?  LOL

 

https://youtu.be/Chdg7wEGfYw

before i edited my post (yes it was actually longer than that before i chopped it down some lol) i had typed out, "Bobby Knight would legitimately have punched someone in the face." 

mad seriously, name any elite coach who you have respect for- Belichick, Saban, Poppovich, anyone- can you imagine them doing that? it is so completely time deaf and out of touch...i just can't even find the words to describe how awful that is. you will never win with a coach/attitude/mind frame like that. 

[2300 Nueces 163]

20 minutes ago, Goo Punch said:

before i edited my post (yes it was actually longer than that before i chopped it down some lol) i had typed out, "Bobby Knight would legitimately have punched someone in the face." 

mad seriously, name any elite coach who you have respect for- Belichick, Saban, Poppovich, anyone- can you imagine them doing that? it is so completely time deaf and out of touch...i just can't even find the words to describe how awful that is. you will never win with a coach/attitude/mind frame like that. 

Old school military.  Bobby Knight was more common than one might think, especially 30-40 years ago.  We have become soft but his flare for the dramatic was over the line.  However, not many kids can even stomach an angry look today.

Edited January 6, 2020 by 2300 Nueces

[Goo Punch 4275]

i just went and shitted all over Shaka in the comments section of that locker room dance video and Isaiah Taylor just liked the comment, lol. 

[Gut Wagon 8214]

If the admin doesn’t care enough about basketball to fire this jack-o’lantern, why would we pay him (or anyone else) as much as we did to begin with? Performance clearly isn’t a priority. Might as well have Jody do the job between critiquing trash can tosses and guacamole seasoning.

[Burt Macklin 19210]

7 hours ago, Goo Punch said:

i just went and shitted all over Shaka in the comments section of that locker room dance video and Isaiah Taylor just liked the comment, lol. 

Everyone knows he’s a shitty coach, especially our b-ball alumni. Hell, maybe we can get KD to chip in for the buyout. 😂

 

[Goo Punch 4275]

McNeese just lost to by 10 to this team:




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[MAUFRAIS 6731]

Super casual fan here but Derka has pushed me over the edge. I will be booing Shaka at the 2 games I go to this year and will boo him at the globetrotters and monster jam too for good measure.

[SwanderedTalent 5761]

12 hours ago, 2300 Nueces said:

Can you imagine our locker room if we hired this guy?  This used to be the type of coaching that was prevalent in sports.  I know mine was. LOL

Listen at your own risk.  Turn the volume down..... trust me.

https://youtu.be/Chdg7wEGfYw

That tirade Knight gives was, I think, right before they went to Purdue during the 1990-91 season. At that point, Indiana was 14-1, ranked third nationally, and had won 12 games in a row.

Knight was kind of a fucking wackbag.

[HtownHorn 15243]

20 minutes ago, SwanderedTalent said:

That tirade Knight gives was, I think, right before they went to Purdue during the 1990-91 season. At that point, Indiana was 14-1, ranked third nationally, and had won 12 games in a row.

Knight was kind of a fucking wackbag.

and was one of the greatest college basketball coaches ever. Along with Wooden, and his protege.

[SwanderedTalent 5761]

3 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:

and was one of the greatest college basketball coaches ever. Along with Wooden, and his protege.

OK, sure, but if someone posts an insane tirade like it was a positive thing without providing the relevant context, I think it's valuable for those of us better acquainted with Knight to provide said context.

[dcar00 14899]

in regards to the baylor game. I think our D is pretty good but our rebounding(from the eye test, maybe adv stats show otherwise) is not good and offsets our good D to some extent.  Of course we hired likely the best defensive assistant in the country.

Our O is flat fucking awful. I still maintain Smart is making these guys worse shooters.

CDC needs to be ready. 

[Red Five 41594]

It's not like shooting and rebounding are important or anything. 

[Huckleberry 34405]

14 hours ago, Goo Punch said:

that shit left with DeLoss

What in the world are you talking about? Dodds said that winning too much isn't good for the kids. Let's not start with some revisionist history where he demanded excellence.

[SwanderedTalent 5761]

6 minutes ago, Red Five said:

It's not like shooting and rebounding are important or anything. 

i'm not a basketball coach but if I was, I would look for guys who could do those two things and then I would "recruit" them to come play basketball for me

[SwanderedTalent 5761]

Just now, Huckleberry said:

What in the world are you talking about? Dodds said that winning too much isn't good for the kids. Let's not start with some revisionist history where he demanded excellence.

yeah the slogan is "We're Texas" not "We're Excellent". Good enough is good enough. We have our own cable network and we lead all universities in athletic department revenue, what, you guys want to win games, too??? 

[Goo Punch 4275]

4 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

What in the world are you talking about? Dodds said that winning too much isn't good for the kids. Let's not start with some revisionist history where he demanded excellence.

well, he hired Mack, Barnes, and Augie (first try on all three) and made Texas THE preeminent school for athletics (not counting all that goofy shit they play in northern california that nobody else knows or cares a about). even if he didn't "demand excellence", he got the job done and had Texas as "The Joneses" for at least the entire decade of the aughts. 

[aggie08 21732]

7 minutes ago, SwanderedTalent said:

i'm not a basketball coach but if I was, I would look for guys who could do those two things and then I would "recruit" them to come play basketball for me

I would subscribe to your newsletter.

[Huckleberry 34405]

Right. But when those coaches faltered he didn't give a shit. He hugged them on the sideline when they beat a crap school. It was basically the AD equivalent of that stupid locker room dance party after the McNeese State win that you just rightfully mocked. 

[cochamps 1885]

1 hour ago, Huckleberry said:

What in the world are you talking about? Dodds said that winning too much isn't good for the kids. Let's not start with some revisionist history where he demanded excellence.

.Healso apparently thought it was a good idea to fire Abe Lemons & hire Weltlich.

[VinyVango 707]

2 hours ago, SwanderedTalent said:

yeah the slogan is "We're Texas" not "We're Excellent". Good enough is good enough. We have our own cable network and we lead all universities in athletic department revenue, what, you guys want to win games, too??? 

I get the fact we have basketball games on LHN each year (though not a fan of the network), but why the hell are there also conference games on a 2nd PPV service (ESPN+) this year?  Shitty.

 

[jimmyjazz 46970]

17 hours ago, 2300 Nueces said:

Can you imagine our locker room if we hired this guy?  This used to be the type of coaching that was prevalent in sports.  I know mine was. LOL

My HS coach wasn't.  He was a Fellowship of Christian Athletes guy who constantly told us we needed to "have PRIDE".  He didn't know jack about wrestling, but he sorta knew football, so he just stuck us in the weight room.  I was stronger than every kid I ever wrestled and I got beat over half the time.  I also had no pride.

I'm not much for meathead coaching techniques but sometimes the Shakas of the world overcook it.  Well, in his case, he always overcooks it.

[CurlyDumps 4618]

A fucking dance party after McNeese State. Christ.  What a perfect distillation of Shaka Smart’s failings as a leader and program builder.
 

This team isn’t sniffing a tourney bid.

[Wally Pryor 5388]

Meh.  We'll just win the NIT again, have a trophy for our case and all will be okay going into 20-21.

Yeah, I'm 95% sure that wouldn't / won't be the case again but I'll believe Smart is gone when he's gone.  Until then, just have to sit back and what him make a mockery of what a good coached and well disciplined team should look like. 

[Bevo 13823]

4 hours ago, Wally Pryor said:

Meh.  We'll just win the NIT again, have a trophy for our case and all will be okay going into 20-21.

Yeah, I'm 95% sure that wouldn't / won't be the case again but I'll believe Smart is gone when he's gone.  Until then, just have to sit back and what him make a mockery of what a good coached and well disciplined team should look like. 

Smart has to go this year. If Herman falters next year and Smart is still around, it means the athletic director will have to fire coaches from the 2 main sports in the same year. That is just too much work and it is a bad look. It would be much easier to replace Smart this year. Plus, it is painfully obvious that Smart has no hope turning the program around.

[Jhawk 1075]

Won’t he still be owed $10M. Smart isn’t going anywhere. 

[Goo Punch 4275]

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[VinyVango 707]

4 minutes ago, Goo Punch said:

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I'd guess those were Incarnate Word or UT Rio Grande's numbers (minus perhaps the blocked shots) if I didn't know any better.

Even more damning is the fact these stats were accumulated against a VERY soft early schedule, which announcers like Lowell have heralded as Texas' best start in several years without providing the important caveat that the wins came against an out of conference schedule that A&M Corpus Christi might consider too bottom heavy.  The Purdue game was an outlier... a tease of what this team could be if they drove the ball inside to draw fouls.

There's blood and guts in the water.  You either turn into a turtle or fight like hell to keep your job.  I'm seeing a quiet turtle on the sideline at our games. 

[dcar00 14899]

16 hours ago, Bevo said:

Smart has to go this year. If Herman falters next year and Smart is still around, it means the athletic director will have to fire coaches from the 2 main sports in the same year. That is just too much work and it is a bad look. It would be much easier to replace Smart this year. Plus, it is painfully obvious that Smart has no hope turning the program around.

this is the year because Kai Jones will go NBA either way(not that he should) and we really won't care if anyone else transfers. Coleman probably rides it out.  the question is if we can hire a coach that can keep Greg Brown.

[Bevo 13823]

That is the way I look at it. I can't imagine UT keeping a lame duck coach just to save money. 

[Goo Punch 4275]

Free throws made this season:

Marquette PG Markus Howard: 95

The entire Texas men's basketball team: 107

our entire team is beating Markus Howard in FTM by less than 1 FT per game.

Edited January 7, 2020 by Goo Punch

[2300 Nueces 163]

14 minutes ago, Goo Punch said:

Free throws made this season:

Marquette PG Markus Howard: 95

The entire Texas men's basketball team: 107

our entire team is beating Markus Howard in FTM by less than 1 FT per game.

Pussy starts at the top.

[smwhorn 484]

6 hours ago, Goo Punch said:

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Damn.  Please stop posting these.  Those numbers are so fucking depressing and really just unbelievable considering the shit schedule we've played so far. I'd like to think they can't get any worse, except our schedule only gets tougher.  So please stop posting these stats.  (no not really.  but maybe really.  i can't decide).

 

[Newdoc 3508]

Rumors are that Shaka is the next installment of AT&T’s “Just Okay is Not Okay” ad series.

[Napoleon 8801]

10 hours ago, Newdoc said:

Rumors are that Shaka is the next installment of AT&T’s “Just Okay is Not Okay” ad series.

Hopefully he packs up and moves to the next town.

[CurlyDumps 4618]

LOL. It’s Jan. 8th and the Longhorn season is already over. 
 

Absolutely fucking incomprehensible that this fucking fraud is still employed here.

[kingkoopa6 8593]

lates my dude!

[MirrOlure 15185]

Fire this motherfucker tonight

[Goo Punch 4275]

i don't know guys, i think we should give him five more years, it usually takes 10 years to turn around a basketball program.

[Fozzz 152]

NIT invitation may be this team’s ceiling. 

[GreenspointTexas 9933]

Hes fucking done

 

im not sure ive felt this much animosity towards a UT coach, in any sport, before

 

fucking fire this bitch tonight and let Tweeder take the snaps the rest of the season

[MirrOlure 15185]

Fire this motherfucker tonight

[Aldo Raine 122]

Do we get to 5 conference wins?

[Juke_Em 47]

That NIT championship experience hasn't helped in these last 2 games

[Radical Larry 28814]