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Ketch's 10 Thoughts From the Weekend (Great stuff, not so great stuff and Elmo shrugs...)

AOC will be very disappointed in you. You are insuring the death of the planet in 12 years! ;)
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I sure hope you were addressing this to @Ketchum. If not, you need a major adjustment to your sarcasm meter.
 
Evans has struck up friendships with players like Chad Lindberg, Logan Parr and Damieon George, and that group has talked about the possibility of playing together in college. Recently, Evans has been in contact with fellow five-star running back Kendall Milton – who just happened to visit Texas on Friday – and Evans stressed this week how much he’d like to team up with Milton at the next level.

“Kendall Milton, I’m serious, I want to play with him. I’m serious,” Evans said. “We can change the game. It would be nice to play with somebody who can ball just like you.”

Sounds like a Milton commit would help, not hurt.

That's also really good news for Georgia and Alabama who are way up on Milton's list.

I agree with @Ketchum on Milton. He commits early he likely decommits at some point to look around. Evans can say he wants to play with him all he wants, but it allows schools to work on him as being the lone prize featured back. As time gets closer that will win out IMO over playing with another superstar back.
 
So by 2022 Casey will be a RS correct? With one season under his belt as a starter... if that’s the case that Alabama game will be a hell of a game.
 
Are Green and Ossai really "under the radar?" I feel like if you ask OB to name their top 5 most anticipated guys for next season who weren't starters or heavy PT guys those 2 pretty much make every list.

I will say Cade Brewer is a guy who is "under the radar" who is going to be on it rather quickly.
 
So by 2022 Casey will be a RS correct? With one season under his belt as a starter... if that’s the case that Alabama game will be a hell of a game.
Yes, assuming he's the starter, which I don't know if I would assume.
 
With a non-suspended Kerwin Roach, Saturday's game against Oklahoma was there for the taking, but as soon as the news hit that he'd be out of the line-up, you just knew before the opening tip that Texas would almost certainly spin its wheels in the process. I'm just not sure what to say about this season and this team that hasn't already been said. Watching this basketball team play makes me want to either quit watching basketball altogether or take anti-depressants … or both at the same time.

We're reached the stage of things where I can't even remember the last time I thought Texas basketball was fun.

Has Roach played his last game at Texas?

I would say the Thompson/CoJo team in '10-'11 was the last real fun season.
 
Are Green and Ossai really "under the radar?" I feel like if you ask OB to name their top 5 most anticipated guys for next season who weren't starters or heavy PT guys those 2 pretty much make every list.

I will say Cade Brewer is a guy who is "under the radar" who is going to be on it rather quickly.
I think Green qualifies. Maybe not Ossai, but I wanted to work that little nugget in.;)
 
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Has Roach played his last game at Texas?

I would say the Thompson/CoJo team in '10-'11 was the last real fun season.
I'm going to say he plays again, otherwise he wouldn't have been on the bench. Maybe back in time for the Big 12 Tournament?
 
I also understand that Aston is in year seven as head coach and has failed in each of the last three seasons to build off of what seemed like a real springboard in 2015-2016 when the team made the Elite Eight. Since then, the program has pretty much been stuck in neutral. Don't get me wrong, she's been a hell of a lot more successful than Shaka Smart, but just like her male counterpart, I often come away from watching her teams play wanting to never watch them again.

CLEARLY I'm not defending Smart, but with regards to Aston, her job should be a HELLUVA lot easier than Smart's. Honestly, there's damn near little reason for a Texas women's basketball HC to have a program in such distant second in the Big 12 after 7 seasons.
 
I'm going to say he plays again, otherwise he wouldn't have been on the bench. Maybe back in time for the Big 12 Tournament?

Just reading tree leaves, that seems to indicate a bit of a non alignment between Smart and the Texas administration.
 
No. 5 - Meanwhile, down in Lubbock ...

The prodigal son has done one hell of a job down in Lubbock, as Chris Beard doesn't just have the Red Raiders on the verge of a possible conference title, but he has them playing a mouth-watering brand of basketball.

Oh, and they kicked the hell out of Kansas on Saturday, possibly knocking KU off its conference domination axis in the process.

Frankly, Beard has done at Tech what Smart was supposed to do at Texas, except he's done it in less time and without any natural resource advantages. It's Lubbock, for gosh sakes, the place where the football program historically flies its players in for official visits at night so that the visitors aren't too caught off guard by seeing the place in the daytime. I couldn't be more impressed.

I had a nice chuckle at a poster this weekend who somehow thought Tech hasn't fared well this season after a December thread of mine saying how impressive they were. Sure. A team picked to finish SEVENTH who is now 22-5/10-4, top 15 in the nation and winners of 7 of their last 8 including 5 in a row with margins of victory of 31, 12, 28, 25 and 29, clearly has not done well. =)roll
 
Buy or SELL: Shaka won’t be back next year?

(Sell) I $till think he'$ going to get another $ea$on.

Will be interesting if we miss the tournament. Needless to say this is a huge week for that. We need 2 more wins to get in. 4 games left. If we win just 1 then our tourney hopes take a pretty large hit. At RU and then home for ISU.
 
Buy or SELL: If Kendall Milton wants to commit you take it and risk losing Zachary Evans.

(Sell) Personally, I'd encourage Milton to take all the time in the world. No need for a commitment at this point. I'm not doing anything to damage my situation with Evans, as I believe Texas is a heavy favorite.

I don't. This isn't 2004. 5-star RBs would be wise to join another and be able to save as much tread on their tires as possible before leaving after 3 seasons. I don't think either Milton or Evans is blowing smoke about wanting to play with each other.
 
Will be interesting if we miss the tournament. Needless to say this is a huge week for that. We need 2 more wins to get in. 4 games left. If we win just 1 then our tourney hopes take a pretty large hit. At RU and then home for ISU.

I think we only win the TCU game.
 
No. 9 - The List: Top 10 All-Time Texas Offensive Lineman ...

I don't know why it has taken this long for me to get to the big uglies, but it's time to cross this one off my "to do list". I know this one will be hotly debated.

10. Derrick Dockery
9. Blake Brockermeyer
8. Bob Simmons
7. Bud McFadinn
6. Doug Dawson
5. Leonard Davis
4. Bobby Wuensch
3. Justin Blalock
2. Dan Neil
1. Jerry Sisemore

Really and truly, it was a two-player discussion for the top overall spot. Flip a coin with Neil and Sisemore. Tie goes to a damn good cheesesteak.

Kudos for the inclusion of Derrick Dockery as he his criminally underrated. Ask OB to name the top 5 OL of the Brown Era and Studdard mistakenly gets included on 90% of ballots while Dockery barely warrants correct inclusion. That being said, Mike Williams probably needs to be on the list also.
 
Kudos for the inclusion of Derrick Dockery as he his criminally underrated. Ask OB to name the top 5 OL of the Brown Era and Studdard mistakenly gets included on 90% of ballots while Dockery barely warrants correct inclusion. That being said, Mike Williams probably needs to be on the list also.
It came down to Williams/Dockery for the last spot. Dockery had more high level seasons as a player IMO.
 
I don't. This isn't 2004. 5-star RBs would be wise to join another and be able to save as much tread on their tires as possible before leaving after 3 seasons. I don't think either Milton or Evans is blowing smoke about wanting to play with each other.
I think it's just something guys say.
 
Watching this basketball team play makes me want to either quit watching basketball altogether or take anti-depressants … or both at the same time.

No. 4 - Speaking of not having fun ...

I'll be the first to admit that I'm not an expert on the Texas women's basketball team. Over the years, my interest level in the program seems to dwindle little by little each season, to the point that I find myself watching some of the games, but certainly not all of them ... or even the majority of them.

The Karen Aston Era just does nothing for me.

Oh, I understand that there have been injuries. I understand that Kim Mulkey won't go away. I understand it's always something.

I also understand that Aston is in year seven as head coach and has failed in each of the last three seasons to build off of what seemed like a real springboard in 2015-2016 when the team made the Elite Eight. Since then, the program has pretty much been stuck in neutral. Don't get me wrong, she's been a hell of a lot more successful than Shaka Smart, but just like her male counterpart, I often come away from watching her teams play wanting to never watch them again.

With a trip to Waco looming on Monday night, the truth about this team is that it only has a single win over a ranked team all season (two less than Shaka if you don't include his team's win in Manhattan) and is no closer to dethroning Baylor as a conference champion than it was when any of the current seniors were freshmen.

If the goal is to just be pretty decent, Texas has the right coach, I suppose. If the goal is to be good enough that the program becomes must-watch on a semi-routine basis, Texas likely doesn't have the right coach.

Time to get a beat reporter on the softball team. They have the right coach and are definitely fun to watch. From various angles.
 
I think we only win the TCU game.

That's certainly fair. We know we aren't winning at Tech. I think RU beats us in Waco. ISU has been a bit shaky of late so perhaps we get them at home. I will say this for TCU. For a team that could have thrown in the towel a long time ago with all their injuries, they are really staying in it. Granted, they've got a touch closing stretching including visits from Tech and KSU, but it's not out of realm of possibility that our game with them is pretty much do or die for both teams.
 
Spot on on Alston. She has done better than Gail who could not pull it out of the dumpster that Jody left but the program is stale with no sign of a break through. Good recruiter but not a great coach. Hiring someone with her short head coaching experience and mediocre record is not the model we need going forward.
Disagree. She hasn’t had the services of the star 6’7” center, only a few games w her top player this year, Higgs. Don’t forget the two transfers just before the season started, as both were projected w important playing time. She continues to recruit very well, but has been seriously limited this season, as Holmes was out 10 games or so, thwarting needed development.
Imagine if the same circumstances occurred for Mulkey or any other coach this year. Would you be calling for them to be replaced, too?
Maybe if those who are so dissatisfied w Aston actually followed the situation closely, they would see promise for the lady Horns in the next year or so.
 
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