Ketch's 10 Thoughts From the Weekend (Shaka is a damn good coach)
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I’m all in with @Ketchum after beating down OU!
Love to read his thoughts on UT basketball right before that game.
I’m all Shaka now, seriously
Love to read his thoughts on UT basketball right before that game.
I’m all Shaka now, seriously
I am not ready to make a decision on Shaka yet. And will probably be the most logical comment in this thread. He got dealt a shitty hand this year no doubt.
Bc the facts are we are 6-8 and will likely be 7-10 in conference play. 17 wins at a school like Texas is ridiculous. That’s with a top 5 draft pick in the paint.
Yeah he’s done a good job with the jones situation, but candidate for big 12 coach of the year? Insane
PSA: the Elvis link is a waste of time. Thought it was going to be something cool. It was not.
Cliffs: An extra in the background of a scene in Home Alone looks vaguely like Elvis with a beard. That’s it.
Cliffs: An extra in the background of a scene in Home Alone looks vaguely like Elvis with a beard. That’s it.
Devils advocate. A good coach would have won a conference title in 6 years in the colonial athletic Association and Atlantic 10 conference.
You have a weird habit of labeling your opinion as the truth. You picked a bunch of stats that paint a positive picture. There are plenty that can be picked that paint a very negative picture.
When you take a highly subjective and largely meaningless statement like “is someone a good coach”, you can offer any number of facts on either side. Good compared to what? Our last coach? Reasonable expectations? An objective and results-based analysis? Performance relative to the talent on the roster? Performance relative to preseason expectations?
Your incredibly condescending and frankly bizarre habit of making definitive statements and then acting indignant when anyone disagrees is tiresome. I’m out.
Ketch looking for drama tonight. He has his hot take to stir the pot, and then almost half of the first 30 responses are from him quoting everyone who disagrees.
Those aren't all the facts.
You forgot these facts.
Instead of focusing on what he hasn't done with this team, let's focus on what he has done, which is take one of youngest teams in the country (four in the top seven of the current rotation are freshmen) and put it on the door-step of the NCAA Tournament, despite playing in the toughest conference in the country.
A conference so tough that if the team shows up on any given night and plays like a team full of wide-eyed freshmen, an ass-kicking will commence, no matter the opponent.
Oh, and did I mention that along the way he'd lost his best scorer for the rest of the season because of a battle with cancer?
Texas now has six wins against RPI Group 1 teams, which is among the highest marks in the entire country.
Of its 11 losses this season, seven were to teams that went into this week ranked inside the AP Top 25 - No. 7 Texas Tech, No. 9 Gonzaga, No. 12 Duke, No. 13 Kansas, No. 20 West Virginia and No. 22 Michigan.
Three of those loses went into overtime. Two of the three that finished in regulation were lost by six and two points, respectively.
Do you think Mike Krzyzewski walked off the floor in November and thought, "If only that really young team that dominated my team for much of the game had a good coach?"
Do you think that likely Big 12 Coach of the Year Mike Beard thought to himself, "Yeah, that team was down Andrew Jones and pushed us on our home floor as much as anyone has all year ... if they only had a good coach."
Do you think Lon Krugar is thinking to himself this weekend, "How did we lose twice to a team with shitty coaching?"
If Shaka coached football, he would not get a 4th year. He's just like Charlie, nice guy who is better suited for a mid-major school.
Aren’t you ignoring 47-46? Is that acceptable to you? Didn’t Parcells say you are what your record says you are?
Big 12 coach of the year? Where am I right now?
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It's a hot take to call the head basketball coach at Texas a good coach...
Your take is hotter.
I didn't ignore it in the article.Perhaps you should read before commenting.
candidate. not winner.
He's done a really good job, given the circumstances, some of which are his own doing.
None of that means much when we’re headed towards another NIT first round exit. It doesn’t matter if you lose by 1 point or 25.
Texas football almost beat usc on the road, Oklahoma and Oklahoma state this last year In Herman’s first year. You can’t seriously think Herman should have been a candidate for coach of the year in the big 12.
No bc wins and losses are what matter.
Shaka is a good coach, but he’s done a poor job so far at Texas. Hopefully he can get it figured out and quickly
Is it acceptable to you? Should it be acceptable to Texas?
And do you agree with Parcells?
Read the entire thing. He’s a .500 coach at Texas with one postseason appearance in three years, no tournament wins and owns the worst season in Texas history at 11-22. It was a dumb post. The fact you were silent on his disastrous week last week and then speak up after their win against a team who has lost 8 of 10 is kinda funny. You’re an eternal optimist in regards to Shaka and you’ve let your personal feelings for him cloud your judgment.
The only thing I don't understand is why you go to bat so fiercely for Shaka, yet you're much harder on Tom comparatively?
Why does Shaka get the benefit of the doubt from you, but Tom doesn't. I'm not saying you hate Tom, but you definitely have a "show me" type tone in your columns and podcasts in particular.
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I read the whole column. At the end of the day success is measured by wins and losses for a coach. It doesn't matter what he did before, he's at UT now and needs to be a better coach HERE. So far he's bad, real bad.
Which is ultimately the goal of the OP.
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