(03-28-2015 07:57 PM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  

(03-28-2015 07:43 PM)80sTiger Wrote:  Regarding the OP question ... are you serious ?

Many say, if we were to fire Pastner, we wouldnt get a decent replacement since he's made the NCAA's 4 of the 6 years; so it only stands to reason Texas will struggle to fill their job after canning Barnes. No rational coach would take the Texas gig.

Well, OK, if you're tying to make some sort of point, but, outside of that, this is kind of ridiculous. Texas will have very good options.

I thought the original post was sarcastic but I guess not

(03-28-2015 09:21 PM)Timmy989 Wrote:  I thought the original post was sarcastic but I guess not

Maybe so. I'm a little slow today.

A lot of you have no grasp of the college sports landscape

Texas will get a great coach. But, just to give you all some food for thought....here is what I think pushed
it over the top for Barnes. When Texas A&M lands the #3 recruiting class in the nation and....all four players
are from Texas (Dallas area) ....that is not good if you are a UT head basketball coach. Here is the link. Oh, and
my granddaughter just got accepted at Texas A&M and is heading there.....starting school in July.

http://tamu.247sports.com/Season/2015-Ba...ll/Commits

(03-28-2015 10:41 PM)MemphisTiger15 Wrote:  

(03-28-2015 08:46 PM)bubbapt Wrote:  I'm still trying to find this magical college basketball gig where you make a couple mill per year, and the fanbase is all hugs and kisses when you don't make the Sweet Sixteen every year.

You can make $2.65M a year at Memphis, never even come close to the sweet 16, have all the job security in the world, and even have a handful of idiots praise your failures.

Incorrect. Pastner's job security is eroding away, and he knows it.

(03-28-2015 10:44 PM)DallasTiger Wrote:  Texas will get a great coach. But, just to give you all some food for thought....here is what I think pushed
it over the top for Barnes. When Texas A&M lands the #3 recruiting class in the nation and....all four players
are from Texas....that is not good if you are a UT head basketball coach. Here is the link. Oh, and my granddaughter
just got accepted at Texas A&M and is heading there.....starting school in July.

http://tamu.247sports.com/Season/2015-Ba...ll/Commits

The Big XII really is in trouble. That means we're probably a lock for membership.

(03-28-2015 10:44 PM)DallasTiger Wrote:  Texas will get a great coach. But, just to give you all some food for thought....here is what I think pushed
it over the top for Barnes. When Texas A&M lands the #3 recruiting class in the nation and....all four players
are from Texas (Dallas area) ....that is not good if you are a UT head basketball coach. Here is the link. Oh, and
my granddaughter just got accepted at Texas A&M and is heading there.....starting school in July.

http://tamu.247sports.com/Season/2015-Ba...ll/Commits

Congrats to her!

(03-28-2015 10:46 PM)PlainTiger Wrote:  

(03-28-2015 10:41 PM)MemphisTiger15 Wrote:  

(03-28-2015 08:46 PM)bubbapt Wrote:  I'm still trying to find this magical college basketball gig where you make a couple mill per year, and the fanbase is all hugs and kisses when you don't make the Sweet Sixteen every year.

You can make $2.65M a year at Memphis, never even come close to the sweet 16, have all the job security in the world, and even have a handful of idiots praise your failures.

Incorrect. Pastner's job security is eroding away, and he knows it.

I think most of the Pastner supporters are just getting beaten down by all the negativity. He actually had one more NCAA win than Calipari in his first five years, but Cal righted the ship in a big way in Year Six. Pastner took a huge step back.

The one exception is that guy who posts glowingly positive predictions of the future using excessively long paragraphs with odd punctuation. He's either a genius, an attendee at the TN Prison for the Criminally Insane, or both.

No point now but to wait and see what happens.

(03-28-2015 09:05 PM)80sTiger Wrote:  

(03-28-2015 07:57 PM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  

(03-28-2015 07:43 PM)80sTiger Wrote:  Regarding the OP question ... are you serious ?

Many say, if we were to fire Pastner, we wouldnt get a decent replacement since he's made the NCAA's 4 of the 6 years; so it only stands to reason Texas will struggle to fill their job after canning Barnes. No rational coach would take the Texas gig.

Well, OK, if you're tying to make some sort of point, but, outside of that, this is kind of ridiculous. Texas will have very good options.

Lol he WAS trying to make a point to all the folks who say WE will not be able hire anyone good.....

I've heard countess national writers write or say that it is one of the best jobs because you have an unlimited budget with no real pressure to do anything. Heck, no one shows up to their basketball games until after New Year's

I would think Texas would be a great job. Lots of local talent, great place to live. Relatively little pressure with reguards to a BB school. I know they fired Barnes, probably because he could never get beyond a certain point, but they gave him almost 20 years.

We will see just how serious they are. They could throw football numbers at Cal. He would take that, he ego could never say no to an offer like that. I don't think they are that serious about basketball personally, but they have the money.

(03-29-2015 09:50 AM)dcg141 Wrote:  We will see just how serious they are. They could throw football numbers at Cal. He would take that, he ego could never say no to an offer like that. I don't think they are that serious about basketball personally, but they have the money.

Right now they need a distraction from the shinanigins in Foosball. .....The ability to do that is,as they say, PRICELESS. .......Stay tuned

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(03-28-2015 06:44 PM)fsquid Wrote:  No pressure there at all

There's pressure anywhere if you're making the kind of money it will take to hire Gregg Marshall.

I think, Kentucky, Kansas, Duke ect live in fear of Texas, Alabama and other football powerhouses taking basketball seriously. Right now they are the big fish in the small pond and they like it that way.

(03-29-2015 09:50 AM)dcg141 Wrote:  We will see just how serious they are. They could throw football numbers at Cal. He would take that, he ego could never say no to an offer like that. I don't think they are that serious about basketball personally, but they have the money.

That is a very interesting thought. If Cal wins out, what price? Why shouldn't we see an unprecedented bidding war?

(03-29-2015 11:11 AM)Claw Wrote:  

(03-29-2015 09:50 AM)dcg141 Wrote:  We will see just how serious they are. They could throw football numbers at Cal. He would take that, he ego could never say no to an offer like that. I don't think they are that serious about basketball personally, but they have the money.

That is a very interesting thought. If Cal wins out, what price? Why shouldn't we see an unprecedented bidding war?

A friend of mine wondered out loud if Alford doesn't go to Indiana and Cal to UCLA.

Texas has had a great run under Barnes, he did what it took to get there, they just need someone that can get to the Elite 8 every couple of years and Texas has the resources, facilities and talent in the state to do just that.

(03-29-2015 11:47 AM)Tiger46 Wrote:  

(03-29-2015 11:11 AM)Claw Wrote:  

(03-29-2015 09:50 AM)dcg141 Wrote:  We will see just how serious they are. They could throw football numbers at Cal. He would take that, he ego could never say no to an offer like that. I don't think they are that serious about basketball personally, but they have the money.

That is a very interesting thought. If Cal wins out, what price? Why shouldn't we see an unprecedented bidding war?

A friend of mine wondered out loud if Alford doesn't go to Indiana and Cal to UCLA.

Texas has had a great run under Barnes, he did what it took to get there, they just need someone that can get to the Elite 8 every couple of years and Texas has the resources, facilities and talent in the state to do just that.

and they always have.....that's what is so perplexing why their football and basketball teams aren't better year in and year out

(03-29-2015 10:59 AM)dcg141 Wrote:  I think, Kentucky, Kansas, Duke ect live in fear of Texas, Alabama and other football powerhouses taking basketball seriously. Right now they are the big fish in the small pond and they like it that way.

+1

Barnes taking UT to the tourney 16 out of the last 17 years is like taking the football team to a small bowl every year and a New Year's Day bowl half a dozen times during that - he was Mack without the National Championship. I'd actually compare him to Josh: recruited well, ran a pretty clean program, did just enough to keep his job, but never fully met his potential.

But for the right coach, Texas could be a Duke or Kansas very quickly.