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UT's next basketball coach - discussion/debate [Sean Miller Hired]

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  • The absolute simping for a guy who beat his girlfriend and got himself fired for being an asshole is pathetic. There should be more to life than your sports fandom 

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    I don't completely understand the poo pooing of this hire. Maybe expectations were too high regarding who Texas was going to be able to bring in? Sometimes there's a candidate that's such a perfect fi

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Considering he hyped up Weaver on two different occasions leading up to the game I’m assuming that is going to be his top retention priority 

Just now, Rimbo said:

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seems like a good choice for tournament stuff

You gotta go back ten years to find Miller’s tournament success.

Just now, royiv said:

You gotta go back ten years to find Miller’s tournament success.

Could have said the exact same thing when Tenn hired Barnes. How did that work out so far?

1 minute ago, tx 3 putt said:

excited to see who he targets in the portal

Cooper Flagg or bust.

Just now, South Austin said:

Cooper Flagg or bust.

Tre Johnson, Imo

2 minutes ago, royiv said:

You gotta go back ten years to find Miller’s tournament success.

2023 wasn't ten years ago. 

 

3 minutes ago, royiv said:

You gotta go back ten years to find Miller’s tournament success.

We played him in the sweet 16 less than 2 years ago.

Xavier fans are pissed that he’s leaving, that’s usually a good sign. 

1 minute ago, Js1 said:

Could have said the exact same thing when Tenn hired Barnes. How did that work out so far?

One Elite Eight appearance in ten years at Tennessee? One Final Four appearance in a nearly 40 year coaching career? I guess if the goal is making it to the second weekend of the tournament and nothing beyond that, sure it looks like a great hire. 

Man i wanted Miller when Barnes left in like 2015....not sure I want him in 2025 but whatever....as long as spectacles is gone.

I mean there wasn’t a home run realistic hire anyways. Change needs to be made and miller is the best. Everyone else has a massive buyout and the nba guys or jay wright was dumb af anyways and never was gonna happen.

6 minutes ago, Pancho said:

If you believe fat ketch

 

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68 rowing schollys is CRAZY.

2 minutes ago, ztejas said:

2023 wasn't ten years ago. 

 

 

2 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

We played him in the sweet 16 less than 2 years ago.

Look no further than right here that Texas isn’t a basketball school. True basketball schools expect to be playing on the second weekend of the tournament, they don’t jizz in their pants about a guy who gets you there every now and then. 

2 minutes ago, royiv said:

 

Look no further than right here that Texas isn’t a basketball school. True basketball schools expect to be playing on the second weekend of the tournament, they don’t jizz in their pants about a guy who gets you there every now and then. 

We have a more recent FF than Zona. 

And a more recent EE. And one less EE since 2001.

Zona has more sweet sixteens but you don't count those apparently.

Miller obviously wasn't my first choice but I trust CDC and I don't think it's particularly difficult to win at Texas. 

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Miller may not be the hot hire, but he a solid coach and he's never had this much NIL and strong AD backing, and that's a winning combination. 

1 minute ago, royiv said:

Look no further than right here that Texas isn’t a basketball school. True basketball schools expect to be playing on the second weekend of the tournament, they don’t jizz in their pants about a guy who gets you there every now and then. 

There's only a handful of Texas fans who think we're a basketball school.

It's always been third behind football and baseball.

Just now, ztejas said:

We have a more recent FF than Zona. 

Miller obviously wasn't my first choice but I trust CDC and I don't think it's particularly difficult to win at Texas. 

Yep, and Arizona fired Miller’s ass and sent him packing back to Cincinnati because he wasn’t getting it done. The expectations at a place like Arizona get a guy like Miller fired.

Holy Shit, if true. 

I knew him, at Pitt, well enough to talk to him. Not friends and all but, friendly. I think he is a good coach. If there is plenty of $$, which I assume you all have because, Texas. I think it can work out really well.

1 minute ago, Mo Horn said:

Miller may not be the hot hire, but he a solid coach and he's never had this much NIL and strong AD backing, and that's a winning combination. 

He had extremely strong AD backing at Arizona in Livengood and CDC and had NIL there before it was legal.

2 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

Curious @ztejas

Why not Sean Miller??

I just liked other names better and thought CDC could get a bigger name. 

25 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

Exactly.

Coaching your Alma mater is a dream for most guys.

It’s why I couldn’t understand Tech fans melting down when Beard went to UT.  

Well, they're stupid, so...

12 minutes ago, Pancho said:

If you believe fat ketch

 

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Explain this to me.

is NCAA changing scholarship limits on certain sports?

Or are their caps we’ve always stayed under on certain sports because Title IX and are just re-shuffling the deck?

Just now, UTexasFight said:

Explain this to me.

is NCAA changing scholarship limits on certain sports?

Or are their caps we’ve always stayed under on certain sports because Title IX and are just re-shuffling the deck?

Yes. But not every school has the resources to fully fund them, like we do

 

Starting in the 2025-26 academic year, the NCAA is implementing changes to scholarship limits and roster sizes, allowing schools to offer scholarships to every athlete on their roster and implementing new roster limits across all Division I sports. 
 
 

 

1 minute ago, royiv said:

Yep, and Arizona fired Miller’s ass and sent him packing back to Cincinnati because he wasn’t getting it done. The expectations at a place like Arizona get a guy like Miller fired.

And Texas fired Rick Barnes and just fired Terry after only two seasons. The Shaka fuckup in between isn't indicative of how Texas operates when it doesn't have a total fucking dipshit AD handing out bad extensions.

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6 minutes ago, royiv said:

He had extremely strong AD backing at Arizona in Livengood and CDC and had NIL there before it was legal.

Wasn't CDC gone by the time Miller got to Arizona?

15 minutes ago, royiv said:

 

Look no further than right here that Texas isn’t a basketball school. True basketball schools expect to be playing on the second weekend of the tournament, they don’t jizz in their pants about a guy who gets you there every now and then. 

Kansas hasn’t made it out of the first weekend in 6 of the last 7 years.

7 minutes ago, Mo Horn said:

more outlets reporting it

 

 

surly thread - miller wins a nc with that team !!!!

34 minutes ago, JustAFan said:

I’m sorry but the way I heard he treated the players at practice and in the locker room, he doesn’t need to coach anymore players.  People keep saying he’s such a good guy, yes publicly. I hope the next coach can coach and treat the players with respect. 

You mentioned this before. In general, I’m not a big believer in coaches who scream and yell so much that they treat athletes poorly. 

With that said, a ton of highly successful coaches are not easy to play for and yelling and screaming is often part of the formula for success. Beard is a screamer, as are many other top coaches. The real question is whether the behaviors cross lines, or are the players simply not mentally strong enough to take the “coaching”. 

1 minute ago, David Dennison said:

Wasn't CDC gone by the time Miller got to Arizona?

Yep, had to go back and look. I had forgotten what year it was that he took the job at Rice. Livengood was CDC’s mentor - it’s uncanny how many of CDC’s traits and mannerisms are so similar to Jim’s - so I still think there’s a level of familiarity with Miller from that association. As an aside, while Livengood hired Miler, he was long gone by the time Miller was fired.

1 minute ago, Dbeasy said:

You mentioned this before. In general, I’m not a big believer in coaches who scream and yell so much that they treat athletes poorly. 

With that said, a ton of highly successful coaches are not easy to play for and yelling and screaming is often part of the formula for success. Beard is a screamer, as are many other top coaches. The real question is whether the behaviors cross lines, or are the players simply not mentally strong enough to take the “coaching”. 

Vic is a screamer. Dude was about to have a heart attack in a 1-16 game last night. His players love him bc he coaches them hard and loves them harder 

1 minute ago, Dbeasy said:

You mentioned this before. In general, I’m not a big believer in coaches who scream and yell so much that they treat athletes poorly. 

With that said, a ton of highly successful coaches are not easy to play for and yelling and screaming is often part of the formula for success. Beard is a screamer, as are many other top coaches. The real question is whether the behaviors cross lines, or are the players simply not mentally strong enough to take the “coaching”. 

Yeah college basketball coaches are kind of dicks in general. 

Nothing I heard made me think RT crossed any lines. Players apparently thought he was weird and a little too intense and didn't like him very much but nothing would lead me to believe he shouldn't coach again. He was coaching for his job basically the whole season. Guessing stuff like that makes it less fun to play for the guy 🤷

2 minutes ago, Js1 said:

and loves them harder 

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1 minute ago, ztejas said:

Yeah college basketball coaches are kind of dicks in general. 

Nothing I heard made me think RT crossed any lines. Players apparently thought he was weird and a little too intense and didn't like him very much but nothing would lead me to believe he shouldn't coach again. He was coaching for his job basically the whole season. Guessing stuff like that makes it less fun to play for the guy 🤷

I imagine players are ok with being coached hard if they’re winning; if they’re not winning the coach is just an asshole. 

2 minutes ago, immamac said:

Weaker hire than Chris Beard. Not a bad hire though. 

If ethics don't matter, why didn't we keep Beard? 

Miller should be an improvement over RT but it's not an exciting hire. The guy has been mediocre at best the past 6 years. He was good in his first Xavier stint and at AZ while he was paying players under the table but pretty weak since he got busted.

Sean Miller doesn’t excite me much, but I’ll get on board like I always do.

 

Feels like this used to be a much more coveted job post Rick Barnes. Shaka turned down the UCLA job, but took ours. I don’t think a similar thing would happen today, we’ve got some image rehabilitation to do  imo. Terry/Beard/Shaka all catastrophes for different reasons.

Is this really the hire that excites our money to get on board? He better win big quick.

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