Did Barnes Tank It?

For a number of reasons I'm not so sure Barnes didn't prepare or coach this game as he would have if it was for more marbles.

I know I'm going to get blistered for this view but here are some of my reasons for the comment.

1.) #2 seed in Houston bracket
2.) get his teams attention
3.) let his friends son get a top 5 win
4.) get all the hype off his team


Some of the coaching in the game was suspect as well....substitutions..fouling at wrong time(I'm not talking about GJ mistake) going to zone late in half.

Oh well, I'm not real upset about the loss, just hope this gets the team ready for 11 game winning streak for the Big 12 Title and National Title.

Hook'em!

 

So weak it's not even worth a real response so....

 

And, of course, Barnes knew beforehand there was absolutely no possibility of having to go to Charlotte as a 2 seed or Phoenix as less than a 1 seed and there was no chance of Texas dropping another game, other than Big 12 tournament final, thus ensuring a 2 seed in Houston.

But did he count on Stephen F. Austin taking out Memphis in the second round and having equal geographical advantage in the Texas-SFA matchup in the regional?

Rick, you FOOL! How could you be so blind?

 

I guess you guys feel that Rick had his guys fired up and the game plan was as good as it gets.

Now I'm worried.

 

Have you ever thought that you can "fire up the kids" and have the best gameplan but sometimes, it's just not your night? To say that we lost this game "on purpose" is pretty much the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Ever. There is NOTHING guaranteed in the NCAA tournament when it comes to seeding. So to think a coach would lose a game because his friend's son is coaching the team....WTF? Who the hell thinks like that?

 

I'm not sayong "on purpose".
Sometimes you let the players dig thier own hole so they can learn or it is better for the overall picture.
Just bouncing off an idea.

I'm not married to it.

 

Don't know how you could think that Barnes preferred that his team come back from double-digit deficits four other times in B12 play this year, but this time, he wanted to teach them a lesson.

 

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Willie Conway: Yeah, no, I heard about this. It's a new trend in the diamond trade, they're trying to create a new market.
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Well lets just hope the team doesnt "tank" against okie state or nebraska.

 

I hear the earth is actually flat. Just a hunch, but I'm not married to it.

 

i give you 1 star. if it was possible to give you negative stars i'd give you 5,000 of them. if you could have at least made an attempt at humor i would have given you negative 4,999.

 

No. but nice try

 

Mr. UTPerks, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

 

Okay, a simple "wrong" would've done just fine.

 

Now THIS is what you might consider an "aggy" thread.

The only games even worth "tanking" are the games in the conference tournament since we'd get a little more rest for the Big Dance.

And if we were in tank mode, why did we try to come back at the end? Sorry, but that doesn't look like a tanking team to me. Had Tech just missed more of their FTs, we could have won this game.

 

Nope swing and and a miss on this one.

 

This thread is useless without a spamming of FAIL pics. Help anyone?

 

Speaking of aggie thread... if you stop and think about it the clues are all over the place on the underpinnings of this loss...

It was in fact the aggies who tanked their game with a 44 point loss at home to the Raiders, all in order to (a) set up the Horns with an over-confidence mentality, and (b) drive Pat Knight to pulling a Junction II on the Tech players.

 

The only redeeming aspect of this post is my theory on conspiracy theories: for someone to invent a conspiracy theory about you, you must be fairly important in the scheme of things. No one is going to invent a conspiracy theory when aggy loses at this point, for example.
Well, it's just a theory.

 

I haven't been this speechless after reading a post (and followup confirming that I didn't misread the post) since the last time I was on Texags.