Basketball News/Recruiting Thread

[tejasrulz]

 

On 2/25/2023 at 9:37 PM, BWilk55 said:

1 more win and Texas seals the big 12 regular season championship. In play for a 2 seed in the NCAA tourney too!

The women laid an egg last night at home vs Baylor. 

[TB14]

I really don't think Coach Terry is the long term answer at Head Coach.  I just don't know who we should hire. Don't want Calipari. Seems to constantly under perform and only recruit prima donnas. A lot of meh candidates out there.

[Sirhornsalot]

1 hour ago, TB14 said:

I really don't think Coach Terry is the long term answer at Head Coach.  I just don't know who we should hire. Don't want Calipari. Seems to constantly under perform and only recruit prima donnas. A lot of meh candidates out there.

If it were up to me, our next HC would be the guy at K-State. What he's done there is nothing short of incredible.

Agree, I'm starting to think Terry isn't the guy. Calipari is fools gold.

[gmcc]

Agree, I'm starting to think Terry isn't the guy. Calipari is fools gold.

I think hiring Calipari would be a slightly less mistake than if we would have hired Urban Meyers.  I would lean towards a younger coach. 

[tejasrulz]

2 hours ago, Sirhornsalot said:

If it were up to me, our next HC would be the guy at K-State. What he's done there is nothing short of incredible.

Agree, I'm starting to think Terry isn't the guy. Calipari is fools gold.

Oats (Bama HC) would be first on my list followed by Tang (K-St HC) or Drew (Baylor HC).

[david ficken]

So, Ole Miss is considering Beard for their new head coach.

[Baron]

3 hours ago, tejasrulz said:

Oats (Bama HC) would be first on my list followed by Tang (K-St HC) or Drew (Baylor HC).

Rodney Terry is not the answer. This team needs motivation from the start of any game. They have fallen behind in far too many games. I heard Terry say that there was no reason to get excited or anticipate having a must win mentality for the last two games. For me this eliminates him from contention. The regular season crown is paramount. The higher your seed, the easier your path.

Oats can't be the HC at Texas. Not after you fired Beard for conduct unbecoming. Oats is allowing an individual who was involved in a murder, to one extent or another, to play without repercussion. Those optics are as bad as the Beard situation.

[Wayne]

15 minutes ago, Baron said:

Rodney Terry is not the answer. This team needs motivation from the start of any game. They have fallen behind in far too many games. I heard Terry say that there was no reason to get excited or anticipate having a must win mentality for the last two games. For me this eliminates him from contention. The regular season crown is paramount. The higher your seed, the easier your path.

Oats can't be the HC at Texas. Not after you fired Beard for conduct unbecoming. Oats is allowing an individual who was involved in a murder, to one extent or another, to play without repercussion. Those optics are as bad as the Beard situation.

In some ways worse. We didn’t let Beard fester. Oats is letting this thing get really bad. Driving a gun to a murder at the request of the murderer. And the murderer (alleged) was on your team too. So was the charged accomplice and another player.  But I guess “winning” is everything. 

I don’t like that mentality. Shows a lack of moral courage and character. 

[Sirhornsalot]

3 minutes ago, Wayne said:

In some ways worse. We didn’t let Beard fester. Oats is letting this thing get really bad. Driving a gun to a murder at the request of the murderer. And the murderer (alleged) was on your team too. So was the charged accomplice and another player.  But I guess “winning” is everything. 

I don’t like that mentality. Shows a lack of moral courage and character. 

the problem with that is, when the gun was requested and he took it to him, there was no murder or murderer. That happened later.

Legally, I don't think there's anything they can do. If they kick the kid off the team, he files a lawsuit.

[Wayne]

4 minutes ago, Sirhornsalot said:

the problem with that is, when the gun was requested and he took it to him, there was no murder or murderer. That happened later.

Legally, I don't think there's anything they can do. If they kick the kid off the team, he files a lawsuit.

He knew there was a fight going on. It happened right after he got there. He was parked in front of the car the girl was shot in and another player was parked behind her so she couldn’t leave. 

[david ficken]

Someone help me out with the issues going on with the bama team. 2 players kicked off yet the star player may or maynot have had knowledge of what these other 2 players intent to kill a lady?  What I've seen and read the coach at bama seems to have a Dave Bliss mindset on the issue(s).

[david ficken]

So, we need to win out to get a tied for the regular season conference title and be at least #2 in the conference tournament. Otherwise,  we might be 3rd in the conference tournament.  Let's see how we play against TCU on Wednesday night.

[Billybass]

Terry needs to be evaluated after completion of the season. Got to give the guy a chance. It doesn’t look good right now, but really it will boil down to how far we go in the tournament.

I hope we go on a tear. He seems like a good guy. We will know pretty quick 

[david ficken]

Well we lost 2 in a row 1st time this year.  This team has had 1 good 1st half this year I think. Another bad start with bad turnovers, bad shot selecting, no rebounding effort on either end of the court, and coach Terry seem unaffected to change much up other than playing Disu and Bishop a few minutes together.

2nd half wasn't much better until the last 12 minutes. Terry did get a "T" over a non call.  The final was 75-73.

Disu seems confused out there at times on by ends of the court. Guess je thinks he can block any shot, but usually gets called for a foul instead. Offensively he can score, but he also allows guards and smaller forwards to get steals from him due to him bringing the ball down and trying to dribble the ball. 

[tejasrulz]

On 2/28/2023 at 7:39 PM, david ficken said:

So, Ole Miss is considering Beard for their new head coach.

Man, so many different thoughts on this. If Beard is hired by Ol Miss, are they that desperate? Maybe Texas should have kept him?

On 2/28/2023 at 8:21 PM, Wayne said:

In some ways worse. We didn’t let Beard fester. Oats is letting this thing get really bad. Driving a gun to a murder at the request of the murderer. And the murderer (alleged) was on your team too. So was the charged accomplice and another player.  But I guess “winning” is everything. 

I don’t like that mentality. Shows a lack of moral courage and character. 

Yea, the more I read about this maybe Oats isn't the guy we go after.

 

[TXFF]

Before the season, there was concern that this team's weakness was that it didn't have any big bodies. That seems to be playing out against opponents who can out-muscle us on the boards. So it's a match-up problem that some teams can take advantage of. Not sure how you coach around that when it's a past recruiting issue.

[MBHORNSFAN]

I am officially in the we need to go find the best available basketball coach camp. Terry has done a decent job but he is not the long term answer... 

[Sirhornsalot]

Is this just our late season fade playing out again? It seems to span across coaching regimes. Happened under Barnes. Happened under Shaka. Now under Terry.

[Baron]

1 hour ago, Sirhornsalot said:

Is this just our late season fade playing out again? It seems to span across coaching regimes. Happened under Barnes. Happened under Shaka. Now under Terry.

My sentiments exactly regarding Terry coaching like Smart. I don't really remember a late season fade with Barnes, I just remember being very disappointed by losing more than we should.

[Sirhornsalot]

4 hours ago, Baron said:

My sentiments exactly regarding Terry coaching like Smart. I don't really remember a late season fade with Barnes, I just remember being very disappointed by losing more than we should.

I can't remember what year it was, but we started out 17-0 and were ranked #1 for a week. Then we had a tailspin that never ended and we screwed the pooch. That was under Barnes.

 

[tejasrulz]

9 hours ago, Sirhornsalot said:

I can't remember what year it was, but we started out 17-0 and were ranked #1 for a week. Then we had a tailspin that never ended and we screwed the pooch. That was under Barnes.

 

You sure you're not thinking about the 81-82 Horns when Mike Wacker went down with an injury? That was Abe Lemons' last season. Started 14-0, Wacker went down and finished 16-11.

[Sirhornsalot]

8 hours ago, tejasrulz said:

You sure you're not thinking about the 81-82 Horns when Mike Wacker went down with an injury? That was Abe Lemons' last season. Started 14-0, Wacker went down and finished 16-11.

No, not thinking of that. Barnes' teams were notorious for fading in the 2nd half of the season (except for TJ Ford's year).

[david ficken]

On 3/2/2023 at 9:33 AM, tejasrulz said:

Man, so many different thoughts on this. If Beard is hired by Ol Miss, are they that desperate? Maybe Texas should have kept him?

Yea, the more I read about this maybe Oats isn't the guy we go after.

 

My opinion on Ole Miss is that the AD is doing the this to see the reaction from the alumi, boosters, students,  etc.  But the AD for Ole Miss is a former player for Ole Miss so maybe he has a pass? 

Man, Oats did or allowed for players to show a lack of class in their introduction on Wednesday night with the act of announciing Miller with them doing some sort of TSA scanning of him.

[david ficken]

3 hours ago, Sirhornsalot said:

No, not thinking of that. Barnes' teams were notorious for fading in the 2nd half of the season (except for TJ Ford's year).

I believe you are thinking of the Avery Bradley year? We got to #1 and then lost to K-State and then lost something like 5-8? 

[Sirhornsalot]

18 hours ago, david ficken said:

I believe you are thinking of the Avery Bradley year? We got to #1 and then lost to K-State and then lost something like 5-8? 

That might be right. I remember we were loaded that year.