Another Shaka shitshow

[Bear19 3,278]

RADFORD 62

TEXAS 59

at home

embarassing

[Sirhornsalot 11,069]

I've never seen a Texas basketball team play THAT bad.

 

[MikeV73 2,941]

22 hours ago, Sirhornsalot said:

I've never seen a Texas basketball team play THAT bad.

 

Well, you haven’t seen my 10 year old daughter’s team ball out SHA.

[longhorn_mig 692]

[dillohorn 1,969]

I was done with Shaka last season.

[longhorn_mig 692]

The long pause before answering the first question is downright painful.

[MikeV73 2,941]

I attended the game tonight vs VCU....complete waste of time.  This team is not being coached up, no tangible offensive sets are run, poor ball protection and lazy passes continue.  This team is better than this, and this reflects on the coach.  I have waited for him to produce, and have given him enough time.  He needs to be terminated ASAP.    Losing to radford and VCU is pathetic.  Two losses in a row to his former assistants...that is pathetic and shows he doesn’t have what it takes to lead this team.  CDC needs to make a move.

[83Dee 702]

PLEASE don’t build another 17K seat arena for basketball!  What’s more embarrassing than the play is seeing half the seats are empty.  

[MBHORNSFAN 2,364]

There were a string of games during the Strong era that deep in my soul I knew it was not going to work but there was always hope the next game it would begin to click.. That is where I am with Shaka...

 

 

tick tock

[TexCoyote 399]

I don’t know all that much about CDC’s history of coaching changes. I don’t know if he would make a change or not. I just don’t understand why you can’t look better than that at Texas. It just seems like it takes so long to even see improvement at Texas. You look at other teams with less resources and they show improvement.... ie Tech, TCU, Baylor, Oklahoma and the list could go on. I guess I am not smart enough to understand the problem. We should have a top at least 15 team in every sport, every year. I hope CDC is the man to get us there.

[DBut82 985]

I think it's too early to determine whether or not Shaka is successful this season.  I mean, we've beaten UNC and then back to back losses to Radford and VCU.  The play has been inconsistent no doubt.  But if this team places 2nd in conference (face it, no one is beating Kansas), makes the tournament and advances to the sweet 16, it would be kinda hard to say Shaka should be fired.  We can complain and say "no way this team does this, that, yada yada yada.  But we didn't expect this team to go as far as they did last year either.  Give it time (again) and let's see how this squad is playing in March.  HOOK 'EM!!!

[longhorn_mig 692]

You know I'm the ultimate Shaka apologist and I'm in a very dark place after that loss. Not good. Just to give you a true appreciation of the dumpster fire that ensued at the end of the game:

7:09 - Dylan defensive rebound

6:51 - Dylan turnover

6:30 - Dylan defensive rebound

6:13 - Dylan turnover

6:09 - Dylan shooting foul

5:48 - Dylan turnover

4:54 - Dylan misses the front end of a 1-and-1

Dylan gets benched. Gee, I wonder why...

From there: Jericho makes a FG, Matt turnover, Courtney turnover, Jaxson turnover, Kerwin brick, Jaxson turnover. That's downright depressing.

Finally, Kerwin followed up his 2-12 FG, 1-7 3PT against Radford with a 1-11 FG, 0-3 3PT tonight.

[83Dee 702]

1 hour ago, TexCoyote said:

I don’t know all that much about CDC’s history of coaching changes. I don’t know if he would make a change or not. I just don’t understand why you can’t look better than that at Texas. It just seems like it takes so long to even see improvement at Texas. You look at other teams with less resources and they show improvement.... ie Tech, TCU, Baylor, Oklahoma and the list could go on. I guess I am not smart enough to understand the problem. We should have a top at least 15 team in every sport, every year. I hope CDC is the man to get us there.

Agreed.  When you get the “right guy” as a coach, improvement is typically seen almost immediately.   Certainly by year 2.  This facade that you cannot make judgments until they have all their own players in place is naive.  

[DBut82 985]

I just think we get too trigger happy when it comes to coaching changes. @longhorn_mig post is really a great example.  Like how do you put that on Shaka?  Ya'll think he's coaching these boys to miss shots?

[longhorn_mig 692]

That about sums it up.

[DBut82 985]

I will say this: if this team doesn't make the tournament, I would lean toward letting Shaka go...

[tejasrulz 2,542]

21 FTs to 8 FTs, that was the difference. Some of those 21 FTs shouldn't have been taken while there should have been more than 8 taken.

 

1 hour ago, DBut82 said:

I will say this: if this team doesn't make the tournament, I would lean toward letting Shaka go...

Agree

[dillohorn 1,969]

Shaka should have been gone last season.

[Bear19 3,278]

5 hours ago, MBHORNSFAN said:

 

 

[Bear19 3,278]

Another wasted year. It was clear after year two he was not the guy to get it done.

And we ain’t going to no sweet 16. Yada yada yada.

[longhorn_mig 692]

Shaka isn't going anywhere unless you can find a booster that cares enough about basketball to pay that $12.9 million buyout. If it was football, you'd have boosters lining up. Not going to be the case for basketball.

[MBHORNSFAN 2,364]

1 minute ago, longhorn_mig said:

Shaka isn't going anywhere unless you can find a booster that cares enough about basketball to pay that $12.9 million buyout. If it was football, you'd have boosters lining up. Not going to be the case for basketball.

Buyout is 9 million after this year. CDC has a new basketball arena to fund. CDC will do what it takes... 

[longhorn_mig 692]

7 minutes ago, MBHORNSFAN said:

Buyout is 9 million after this year. CDC has a new basketball arena to fund. CDC will do what it takes... 

Is it? I thought he was guaranteed through 2022-2023 thanks to the extension from Perrin. Here's the original terms:

https://sportsday.dallasnews.com/college-sports/collegesheadlines/2015/05/12/see-the-full-details-of-shaka-smart-s-contract-with-the-texas-longhorns

But then Perrin extended him another year:

https://texassports.com/news/2016/8/25/university-of-texas-board-of-regents-approve-contract-extension-for-mens-basketball-coach-shaka-smart.aspx

Before the new terms of that extension, I think it would have been $9 million. If I'm wrong, please let me know. That would make me feel better. Also, if that's the case, then someone needs to correct BON's reporting:

https://www.burntorangenation.com/2018/4/2/17189646/shaka-smart-contract-guaranteed-texas-longhorns-chris-del-conte

"After the 2018-19 basketball season, that number will drop to $12.9 million. That’s still a lot of money."

[J.B. TexasEx 5,693]

10 hours ago, 83Dee said:

PLEASE don’t build another 17K seat arena for basketball!  What’s more embarrassing than the play is seeing half the seats are empty.  

It'll have to be at least that if ATX is paying half of the tab and wants to host concerts and special events there.

[longhorn_mig 692]

https://www.hookem.com/2018/08/03/texas-ad-chris-del-conte-creating-longhorn-live-womens-athletics-new-arena/

On a new Texas basketball arena: “We average about 9,000 for a home men’s basketball game. The stadium seats 16,000. It’s just too big. Our game times are at 8 o’clock. Interstate 35 is pretty hard to come back on at 8 o’clock. Television has made it so easy, you get a 60 or 80-inch TV at Ikea where you can never leave your couch. 

“The Drum has been great for us, the Erwin Center has been great, but I think that was built in ’76. It’s had its time, but we have to do that in a thoughtful manner. And that’s just where we’re at right now.”

On building a smaller arena: “Now this is just my mind, no one else’s mind, so let’s just start with that. But there has to be, if you start with a lower bowl that seats say 10,000. You know that upper rake, couldn’t you have a garage door that comes down that’s padded? You never see those seats. 

“Somehow a garage door comes down right now and you never see my garage. Imagine if it was padded. You’d never open it up. Now, you have a 10,000 seat basketball stadium. You’re playing in the Spurs’ arena, close the gates on the upper rake and then open them up when you have a concert. Why can’t you do that? 

“No one ever thought you’d go from the 8-track to the cassette to the Discman to an iPod to the phone. … Someone’s going to find that technology at some point and time that works for everybody.”