Charlie is not a damn good coach. His recruiting was avg for texas, his record was horrible, his selection of asst coaches puzzling, his game planning bizarre, his program mgmt lacked strategy and vision, strength and conditioning embarrassing and his attention to detail nonexistent. Theres probably 100 texas high school coaches more talented than charlie strong! Cth corrected about 500 things wrong w the program in year one. You have lost credibility.
Ketch's 10 Thoughts From the Weekend (Shaka is a damn good coach)
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Charlie is not a damn good coach. His recruiting was avg for texas, his record was horrible, his selection of asst coaches puzzling, his game planning bizarre, his program mgmt lacked strategy and vision, strength and conditioning embarrassing and his attention to detail nonexistent. Theres probably 100 texas high school coaches more talented than charlie strong! Cth corrected about 500 things wrong w the program in year one. You have lost credibility.
He will not. Team will be worse. No shooters with added benefit of no big = 15 wins maybe 17. No tourney again.
People are bottom line thinkers
If you have not won a conference championship you suck
I agree with your view on Shaka
But most horn fans are just tired of waiting
My point as well. Good post. We are who we are and as fans we are willing to accept just getting in the dance as our bar of success. Hope in another year our bar is raised.
Well then, what are your requirements for being a "damn good coach" ? wins and losses--nope.
Well coordinated offense--nope. Consistent play week in and week out--nope. I just don't see it.
#1 was quite interesting. Comparing anyone to Hitler who is the most hated and racist human being in the history of mankind is in poor taste.
They are honestly still paying you to do this? No wonder you can’t rhink clearly on political topics either.
SJW is going for the most SJWing of all time. Swinging for fhe SJW fences.
OK, so based on a strawman argument with a hypothetical ignoramus of your own devising, you now claim to have irrefutably proven that Shaka is doing a great job. Irrefutable? This is a Rush Limbaugh-esque level of of delusional self-inflation. I love you Ketch, but you're better than that.
Look, I appreciate some of your points:
- Recruiting has been exceptional under Smart, especially considering our record (although I'd argue we put a lot of eggs in the Keldon Johnson basket and got badly burned this year).
- We are a young team (although in year 3 that starts to look like the coach's fault)
- The Big 12 is a really tough conference (although with KU down it's the best opportunity in over a decade for a title)
- We've been competitive with some great teams (although we always seem to lose those down the stretch, and for every Duke game this year we seem to have a KSU letdown to match)
- Smart has done a great job before at VCU (although he did it in a mid-major conference where all that was needed was a good tourney run)
- Texas is a tough place to win. We have always been a football school (although in some ways this helps, as our hoops program isn't burdened with teh expectations that a KU, UK or Duke job carries).
I'm not saying Shaka is terrible in all aspects of coaching, I'm not trying to get the guy fired, and I'm not asking for Final 4. But I do think it's very fair - especially in year 3 - to have serious doubts about whether Shaka is going to get it done here. I'm at an Agent Mulder level "I want to believe" with Smart, but based on the evidence so far I just can't see it happening.
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This. And Ketchum thinking his post is the “truth”.
The arrogance level is becoming obnoxious.
This. And Ketchum thinking his post is the “truth”.
The arrogance level is becoming obnoxious.
The shock jock of recruiting web sites.
Guess it's better to be controversial then accurate.
Skip Bayless is proud
Guess it's better to be controversial then accurate.
Skip Bayless is proud
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... I really hope after 61 years in being a more than a T Shirt Fan that I am wrong and the Social Warior is right, but I just do not view Shaka as a great coach ... He is not in the Metro or Middle Eastern Lower NY Subway League anymore putting up those number of wins!!! It's Kansas, et al, and Aunty Em ain't home!!! My take is that Coach K walked off the court wondering how Texas collapsed or we played UT again and got 33 minutes of Hell !!!!
How many conference championships did he win in that crap conference you keep quoting all the wins from? Let us know. We’ll be waiting.
I report with considerable regret that I read it all, and still don't agree with it.
Struck me as mostly argumentative, but you've staked out your position.
Whatever, I didn't join OB because of your writing, nor do I stay because of it.
Quite apart from my disagreement with the Shaka Con part of it, the whole thing was among the least informative
in recent memory.
Struck me as mostly argumentative, but you've staked out your position.
Whatever, I didn't join OB because of your writing, nor do I stay because of it.
Quite apart from my disagreement with the Shaka Con part of it, the whole thing was among the least informative
in recent memory.
The Coach of the Year comments were made to emphasize just how good of a job he's doing this year.
Because I consider Tim a friend and I'm not trying to put him on blast for the sake of giving you guys red meat.
