Fire Shaka Smart

[SwanderedTalent 5,761]

Michigan used to win it all the time when they stopped going to the NCAAs, but I guess never back to back. Damn you Tommy Amaker!

[dcar00 14,030]

I wish CDC would fire one of Aston or Smart mid year and maybe put some of these shitty coaches in our athletic department that things are going to be different. 

 

[LTtxfan 48,962]

3 hours ago, dcar00 said:

I wish CDC would fire one of Aston or Smart mid year and maybe put some of these shitty coaches in our athletic department that things are going to be different. 

 

Feb 3rd beat down for Shaka on National Television should be Shakalaka's final game coaching for Texas!!  😁 

 

[Rockethorn1978 6,061]

3 hours ago, dcar00 said:

I wish CDC would fire one of Aston or Smart mid year and maybe put some of these shitty coaches in our athletic department that things are going to be different. 

 

Yea right, I’m starting to think CDC is here to raise money, have fun on bevo Blvd and that’s it. It’s not hard to make game day at DKR fun so I’m not impressed by any of that. So he corrected Patterson’s fuck up! Big deal! Go hire championship coaches and stop letting shit stay on and continue to fuck everything up.

[SwanderedTalent 5,761]

10 hours ago, Rockethorn1978 said:

Yea right, I’m starting to think CDC is here to raise money, have fun on bevo Blvd and that’s it. It’s not hard to make game day at DKR fun so I’m not impressed by any of that. So he corrected Patterson’s fuck up! Big deal! Go hire championship coaches and stop letting shit stay on and continue to fuck everything up.

all of that other shit is secondary to winning

I don't even accept that it's a precursor, but I'll sit quietly seething to wait and see if that's borne out with some success on the field. If it isn't, then hey, what a fucking shock, Texas athletics has yet another glad-handing snake-oil salesman in charge of something that should be measured in wins and championships and instead happily settles for leading the way in off-field shit that may or may not benefit the fans. 

Chris Del Conte can be happy with a cash-rich, profitable athletics program that doesn't generate any negative headlines. I can't be happy with it if football, men's basketball,* and baseball aren't winning their conference and competing for national titles.  

Yay.

* I will strangle the first motherfucker that uses success in women's basketball (if we ever have it again) to claim the athletic department is doing something right. We have three sports that matter. 

Edited January 14, 2020 by SwanderedTalent

[immortal13 4,059]

Women sports DO matter as well, you little prick

[RockyMountainHighHorn 889]

CDC’s biggest fuck up so far is not openly having a surly account to really connect with his people. 

[SwanderedTalent 5,761]

1 hour ago, immortal13 said:

Women sports DO matter as well, you little prick

nope

we start winning in women's sports and football continues to be a clusterfuck, we are no further down the road than we are today

Edited January 14, 2020 by SwanderedTalent

[Goo Punch 4,275]

totally indicative of where our program currently is: our official texasmbb social media is treating our 5-star, HS All American freshman like he's a fifth year walk-on, because that's just where we are now. fucking celebrating that this dude finally made a basket, and on an awful shot no less.

three slides of Baker, his teammates, and even fans smiling and laughing like he's Yair Harari. fucking joke.

[jimmyjazz 45,546]

Well, to be fair, Will looks like he sucks.

[Deej 76,545]

I'm thinking they wait to fire Shaka until we are ready to move into the new arena. New digs, new coach. Imagine a new coach dropping a Shaka-like turd heading into christening the new place? One more year of Shaka lowering the bar.

[2300 Nueces 163]

25 minutes ago, Deej said:

I'm thinking they wait to fire Shaka until we are ready to move into the new arena. New digs, new coach. Imagine a new coach dropping a Shaka-like turd heading into christening the new place? One more year of Shaka lowering the bar.

Well, you risk having an empty Moody Center for the opening if you wait that long.  Prolly going to be an empty open regardless.  They are going to have to have a coach K type coach to get it full for opening night.   Anything less and it's going to be 3-5 years b4 it is sold out and that's being optimistic.

Edited January 15, 2020 by 2300 Nueces

[Deej 76,545]

Make a splash hire that gets everyone excited, maybe not. But what are the chances of that?

[Goo Punch 4,275]

29 minutes ago, Deej said:

I'm thinking they wait to fire Shaka until we are ready to move into the new arena. New digs, new coach. Imagine a new coach dropping a Shaka-like turd heading into christening the new place? One more year of Shaka lowering the bar.

he's going to be fired this April. 

[Deej 76,545]

Just wait until he brings home that 2nd NIT title. 

[Goo Punch 4,275]

nah, i'm thinking we go for the CBI title this year. more hardware to add to his already impressive resume.

[immortal13 4,059]

49 minutes ago, Deej said:

I'm thinking they wait to fire Shaka until we are ready to move into the new arena. New digs, new coach. Imagine a new coach dropping a Shaka-like turd heading into christening the new place? One more year of Shaka lowering the bar.

I don't see any way that he survives this season.

[Deej 76,545]

You guys have a lot of confidence in an athletics department that doesn't seem to have any balls.

[Goo Punch 4,275]

i don't see a mid season firing happening, but i also don't see Shaka employee at Texas past April. 

[jimmyjazz 45,546]

Yeah, I don't see him getting fired before the season is over.

I do see him getting fired the day after the season ends.

[Hard Times 296]

18 hours ago, Deej said:

You guys have a lot of confidence in an athletics department that doesn't seem to have any balls.

That may have been the case before CDC arrived, but it isn't anymore.

[PilotsError 2,281]

There's zero evidence of that.

[MoJames 8,241]

Is anyone actually watching the games?

[VirginiaLonghorn 4,750]

11 minutes ago, MoJames said:

Is anyone actually watching the games?

Not even if someone pays the ESPiN+ sub fee ...

[Goo Punch 4,275]

28 minutes ago, MoJames said:

Is anyone actually watching the games?

hey our team isn't dead yet; we're only mostly dead. 

[El Squared 1,793]

On 1/14/2020 at 8:02 PM, Deej said:

You guys have a lot of confidence in an athletics department that doesn't seem to have any balls.

There’s no mystery here, the balls are not present. The ovaries however are intact and producing loads of estrogen. Style over substance. Cash over wins. It’s a pattern.

Edited January 16, 2020 by El Squared

[Vic Mackey 46,932]

2 conference wins in a row. Extension!!

[GotThatFire 166]

1 hour ago, Vic Mackey said:

2 conference wins in a row. Extension!!

As you wish!

[Goo Punch 4,275]

22 minutes ago, GotThatFire said:

As you wish!

[perfectchaos007 6,596]

Don't think we have any signature 1st quadrant wins this year. We have no chance at making the tournament 

[GotThatFire 166]

How long has this dude been the coach here? I legit can’t remember. It’s all a blur. 

[Chad 1,728]

Beating KSU and Okie St didn't mean much, those are the two worst teams in the Big 12. Baylor bitch slapped Shaka despite playing their worst game of the season. I'll be genuinely surprised if Texas wins 8 conference games.

[Tired Horn 734]

21 minutes ago, GotThatFire said:

How long has this dude been the coach here? I legit can’t remember. It’s all a blur. 

Maybe that's Shaka's plan---play such a dreary, unwatchable brand of basketball that, after a while, the powers-that-be can't even bring themselves to think about our men's basketball team.

The extensions will just roll out on auto pilot.

[Gucci_Suit 2,610]

On 1/15/2020 at 3:32 PM, Goo Punch said:

hey our team isn't dead yet; we're only mostly dead. 

 

[Nueces River Rat 5,529]

Anybody excited about the NIT yet?

[TejasPedro 1,849]

Sobering facts are, we are not even close to being Baylor good or even Tech good for that matter. Something must be afoot.

[Redneck Mutha 7,935]

[Napoleon 8,600]

5 hours ago, GotThatFire said:

How long has this dude been the coach here? I legit can’t remember. It’s all a blur. 

It might be a blur because, as one of the announcers said in the 2nd half:

 "Shaka Smart is one of the great motivators in college basketball."

🙄

 

[Napoleon 8,600]

3 hours ago, Nueces River Rat said:

Anybody excited about the NIT yet?
 

 

[Tired Horn 734]

6 hours ago, Nueces River Rat said:

Anybody excited about the NIT yet?
 

I wasn't even excited about winning it last year.

[Nueces River Rat 5,529]

7 hours ago, Tired Horn said:

I wasn't even excited about winning it last year.

Who did we play?

That's how memorable it is.

 

Edited January 19, 2020 by Nueces River Rat

[Nueces River Rat 5,529]

9 hours ago, Napoleon said:

It might be a blur because, as one of the announcers said in the 2nd half:

 "Shaka Smart is one of the great motivators in college basketball."

🙄

 

ESPN overhyping one of our coaches again.   Go figure.

Thank goodness Herbstreet doesn't do a basketball gig or he'd be calling our fanbase a dumpster fire or something like that for suggesting we should accept mediocrity.  

 

[Horn80 6,075]

49 minutes ago, Nueces River Rat said:

ESPN overhyping one of our coaches again.   Go figure.

Thank goodness Herbstreet doesn't do a basketball gig or he'd be calling our fanbase a dumpster fire or something like that for suggesting we should accept mediocrity.  

 

ESPN is more into PC optics than results.

Edited January 19, 2020 by Horn80

[closetojumping 62,219]

2 hours ago, Nueces River Rat said:

ESPN overhyping one of our coaches again.   Go figure.

Thank goodness Herbstreet doesn't do a basketball gig or he'd be calling our fanbase a dumpster fire or something like that for suggesting we should accept mediocrity.  

 

Yeah, the commentators going over the top in support of Shaka Smart being a “great coach” and running down the players was nauseating. This fucking fraud is a piece of shit as a coach. 

[TwiceHorn 31,263]

On 1/9/2020 at 10:40 AM, dcar00 said:

 

Fenves is an idiot.  that quote says it all.

I don't think Fenves is all that interested in athletics.  I'm pretty sure he delegates all of that to the AD, as any university president probably should.

I think having an interim AD forced Fenves' involvement to a greater degree than would otherwise be seen.  He's been virtually silent on matters athletic since CDC came aboard.

So, that quote is just a bunch of happy crappy probably written for him by some athletic department minion to make Perrin look like less of an "empty suit."  I put that in quotes because I don't think Perrin is actually an empty suit in his usual capacities.  He was out of his depth as an AD, of course.

[Horn80 6,075]

36 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

I don't think Fenves is all that interested in athletics.  I'm pretty sure he delegates all of that to the AD, as any university president probably should.

I think having an interim AD forced Fenves' involvement to a greater degree than would otherwise be seen.  He's been virtually silent on matters athletic since CDC came aboard.

So, that quote is just a bunch of happy crappy probably written for him by some athletic department minion to make Perrin look like less of an "empty suit."  I put that in quotes because I don't think Perrin is actually an empty suit in his usual capacities.  He was out of his depth as an AD, of course.

Fenves getting on a plane with Perrin and Strong to go hire the Tulsa guy was embarrassing especially considering the abysmal results.  

[TwiceHorn 31,263]

1 minute ago, Horn80 said:

Fenves getting on a plane with Perrin and Strong to go hire the Tulsa guy was embarrassing especially considering the abysmal results.  

And that, I believe, was a product of an interim AD following a disastrous hire at AD and HFC.

Not Fenves' preferred capacity, nor should it have ever been.  Powers' involvement with the athletic department, really only football, is/was unprecedented as far as I can tell and did not improve things..

[Guest Lobo]

11 minutes ago, Horn80 said:

Fenves getting on a plane with Perrin and Strong to go hire the Tulsa guy was embarrassing especially considering the abysmal results.  

That really was.  At the time, I liked his "let's do whatever to get this shit done" to salvage Strong's career attitude.  But almost immediately afterwards, it became a very awkward anecdote about our University.  Reminds me of Dean Gilligan being used to recruit a golfer for our team, which he considered to be beneath his station at the time. 

[jinx 2,635]

On 1/15/2020 at 3:02 PM, MoJames said:

Is anyone actually watching the games?

Bucky and Erin said there had to be less than 7,000 in attendance against Kansas.

But I wouldn't know, because I don't actually watch the games. 

I quit in January of 2018 after we blew a 62-50 lead over Okie State with 6 minutes to go and managed to lose 64-65.  I have never seen more pathetic basketball in my life, and I chose to discontinue watching for the sake of my health and my tv's health. 

I keep hoping for the day that this thread is no longer needed.

[Mudcat35 196]

I'd be surprised if there were 7,000 there.  I do know that there was a pretty large continent of KU fans.  They were sitting all around us and made almost as much noise as the Longhorns crowd.  I never for a second thought we were actually going to win the game, even when we were up 8, but at least they played competitively.  I really wasn't expecting that.