Who’s our next HC?

Discussion in 'Men’s Basketball' started by txlandagent, Feb 16, 2020.

  1. txlandagent

    txlandagent 500+ Posts

    I’m making a case for Mark Turgeon.
    Maryland is apparently not pleased with his inability to bring the Terrapins back to national prominence.

    But, he’s made the tournament 10 of the past 15 seasons with runs at 3 different schools. (Wichita State, Texas A&M and Maryland). 2 sweet 16’s - Wichita St. in 2006 and Maryland in 2016.

    He has nine top 3 conference finishes (in 15 seasons) including the Big 12 and Big 10 (one conference win with the Shockers in 06’).

    He recruited DeAndre Jordan, Rasheed Sulaimon, Robert Carter, Donald Sloan, Diamond Stone and Melo Trimble. He’s not really an NBA player developer but he gets McD’s AA’s and Parade AA’s.

    His buyout is $2.5M. May be a bit of a stretch. I’m trying to be realistic however.

    (For the record I’d obviously rather have Billy Donavan. I just don’t see Texas moving swiftly enough to get him here).

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  2. Htown77

    Htown77 5,000+ Posts

    Mark Turgeon would be far better than Shaka. That said, he was a step down from Rick Barnes and I thought the whole point of firing Barnes in the first place is he was "not our standard" and we were supposed to find someone better.

    I am pro Billy Donovan or Gregg Marshall.

    Beard at Tech would be my first choice, but between his buyout and Shaka's, I know that is unrealistic.
     
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  3. txlandagent

    txlandagent 500+ Posts

    Gregg Marshall would be an excellent hire. His buyout is $6M. I’m betting he’d come here but it would take stupid money. He’s got it made running things in the MO Valley Conference.
     
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  4. CreakyHorn

    CreakyHorn 500+ Posts

    Looking around... Baylor currently has top ranked men's and women's basketball teams. Tech (really?) went to the final 4. We love to dump on both of those schools, but hey!. Is our problem really only that we haven't found the right coach? Or is it more systemic? We are a football school. Just look at HF. Basketball teams get one category each, football has multiple sub-categories. And attendance. It was painful to see all the empty seats (even when they were good!). Recruits are bound to see this. Does UT just not really value basketball (at least since the heyday of Jodi Conradt?). Yeah, we're getting a new arena. Nice, but unless the culture changes, neither that, nor new coaches will make much difference. And, speaking of coaches, can we convince a highly successful coach to leave their current position and come here, just because we're Texas? If it was football, perhaps, but basketball...?
     
  5. Htown77

    Htown77 5,000+ Posts

    We are not an elite basketball program. We are not North Carolina or Kentucky or UCLA. However, if Texas Tech can find a good coach, we can. We found three in Lemons, Penders and Barnes. We have structural difficulties in men's basketball that we do not face in football or baseball, but we can find a LOT of coaches that can do better than Shaka Smart.

    As far as women's basketball goes, we are a power there and should be doing a lot better.

    Finally, Baylor cheats worse than most programs in everything. They may be one of the dirtiest athletics programs in the USA. When they get caught and punished, they go right back to it as soon as the punishment is over. I do hope that some day, sooner than later, someone puts a permanent stop to it.
     
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  6. Omniscient.one

    Omniscient.one 500+ Posts

    See that Bielen is a top candidate now after being fired by Cavs. That would be a tremendous choice. CDC needs to pounce on that. This would be a grand slam
     
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  7. txlandagent

    txlandagent 500+ Posts

    CDC needs to make a beeline for Beilein.
     
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  8. Horns11

    Horns11 10,000+ Posts

    Everyone seems to think that we have to get the "proven name" because Smart was an up-and-comer who just couldn't get the job done. This just gives a bad name to other up-and-comers. There are plenty of other up-and-comers out there who aren't Shaka Smart that could do well given Texas' resources.

    While I would love Donovan, that's probably not realistic. Marshall from Wichita State has always been a secret covet of mine, but his salary is already on par with Shaka's and it would be kind of a stretch.

    Will Wade is a good name from a powerful program, but since he just got Shaq's son to commit, I doubt he wants to move on quite yet. Plus he's got that cloud of NCAA violations over his head. Chris Jans is a dude who obviously knows how to party, but I haven't seen anyone like that who can just come right in and make a team immediately better. I associate him with the "young guns" because he hasn't coached Division I a long time, but he's 50 years old. He probably won't get a look because of his drunken stupor video, but man we could use a little of whatever he's cooking. Craig Smith from Utah State also seems to be a guy who just "gets it" when it comes to turning around middling teams and making them better.

    It might be a bit early for him, but McCasland from UNT also seems to know what he's doing. My biggest concern about him would be that he learned everything from Scott Drew, who I hate with a fiery passion, but that doesn't seem to be affecting Baylor's ability to stay ranked.
     
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  9. Handler

    Handler 1,000+ Posts

    My top 3 would be:
    1. Billy Donovan
    2. Billy Donovan
    3. Billy Donovan
     
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  10. MajesticII

    MajesticII 1,000+ Posts

    Shaka coaching his way into year 2020-2021 !!!!!!!
    Or maybe these Big 12 coaches are SMARTer than we think, and are throwing these games so we keep Shaka around. They don't want to lose their edge over Texas.
     
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  11. caryhorn

    caryhorn 5,000+ Posts

    I get it with Drew. Just looking at him coaching on the sidelines is enough to make me want to go full Elvis and start shooting my TV.
    HOWEVER, the fuccer seems to know how to recruit and coach. Maybe I would learn how to like him if he was coaching our Horns and had them in the top 5 looking at a # 1 seed. Mehh, probably not.
     
  12. Run Pincher

    Run Pincher 2,500+ Posts

    I'm surprised no one has mentioned Jay Wright or Mark Many. Seems like they have done pretty damn good at schools without a lot of resources. I guess you could argue they don't have Texas ties so may find it difficult to recruit, but whoever is successful on the court can recruit at Texas.
     
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  13. Omniscient.one

    Omniscient.one 500+ Posts

    Yeah, that’s not happening. It’d be like the football HC at Texas leaving for Gonzaga or Villanova. We just aren’t a program that draws elite coaches unless we were to pull up to their house with a few Brink’s trucks.
     
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  14. Horns11

    Horns11 10,000+ Posts

    That'd be hilarious if a national champion coach who makes $4MM/year was like "yeah this isn't really working out for me... I think I'll go to the program in the shitter and try to figure out why Texans just don't seem to follow basketball all that much."
     
  15. BurntOrangeLH

    BurntOrangeLH 2,500+ Posts

    Gee, there is a real hot guy in the B12 right now. Coaches at some school in Texas.

    Catchy name too. Shaka Smart! Ever heard of him?
     
  16. Htown77

    Htown77 5,000+ Posts

    Bill Self?
    Scott Drew?
     
  17. SabreHorn

    SabreHorn 10,000+ Posts

    Great choices; but neither knows how not to cheat, and Drew's family tree is less than stellar. Let's just say that if either showed up at my family gathering as a potential member, he would leave horizontally.
     
  18. Sangre Naranjada

    Sangre Naranjada 10,000+ Posts

    So Sabre gives Scott Drew a hard "no". Would you settle for Dave Bliss?
     
  19. SabreHorn

    SabreHorn 10,000+ Posts

    Only if I can have Art Briles as Head Football Coach and Robert Sloan as school president
     
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  20. ViperHorn

    ViperHorn 10,000+ Posts

    Now you have ruined my day by bringing up that name. He was the head of the pimple that when squeezed blew the head off Baylor's ill gotten athletic gains. Unfortunately no one at the Big XII or the NCAA has the balls to do anything about it.
     
  21. SabreHorn

    SabreHorn 10,000+ Posts

    Including Baylor, their BOR, and donors
     
  22. Vol Horn 4 Life

    Vol Horn 4 Life Good Bye To All The Rest!

    I have been absent from the basketball board for a couple weeks in complete denial about this five game run and the fact that this will save his job. It's absurd to me that winning five in a row is enough to keep him another year with a book of work which shows he's incapable of sustained success.....or really any success.

    Remember it took losing almost half the team to injury to get this group on the floor playing together. He has no clue why this is working, but he keeps saying how "the process" is working. Shaka's process is crap. Move on dude!
     
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  23. SabreHorn

    SabreHorn 10,000+ Posts

    While last night's win was outstanding, the coaching was far from adequate. Anyone watching that **** show, as to think it was more a case of OU losing than us winning.

    That said, again I ask, who is his replacement? OJT or quality? Who will come?
     
  24. txlandagent

    txlandagent 500+ Posts

    Shaka still sucks. streak or no streak. I'm tired of this regime he gotta go.

    Billy D., Beilein, Turgeon, Bray....anyone but Jamie Dixon. We can throw ridiculous amounts of cash at any of them to get them here. Coaching bball at a football school can't be the worst gig going..
     
  25. BurntOrangeLH

    BurntOrangeLH 2,500+ Posts

    Yeah, out-hustling the home team who had over 25 foul shots to Texas' two was pretty bad.

    Too bad Abe Lemons s dead, otherwise he would be smoking a big cigar right now.
     
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  26. uisge beatha

    uisge beatha 1,000+ Posts

    How many other threads do you want to post this conspiracy theory on?
     
  27. caryhorn

    caryhorn 5,000+ Posts

    I am watching the osu game. From what I see the Y leagues have better coaches than what Shaka has put together today.
    I’m saying we can’t do worse, really, can we??
     
  28. Omniscient.one

    Omniscient.one 500+ Posts

    I think we can do much worse than winning 5 of last 6, no?
     
  29. SabreHorn

    SabreHorn 10,000+ Posts

    Can we do "much worse" than getting run out of our own gym by a mediocre, middle of the pack team?
     
  30. longhorn47

    longhorn47 500+ Posts

    Middle of the pack? I believe OSU is ranked 8th.
     

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