Ketch's 10 Thoughts From the Weekend (Shaka is a damn good coach)
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And that amounted to the worst season in school history. Yeah that’s great for Texas! What a great coach I mean all the greats have their name next to “worst record in school history” it’s a thing for a P5 school with all the resources. Why don’t you use that search bar and find a negative post from about smart at any point last season. It hasn’t been an agenda he has just been that terrible and I genuinely thought this would be a good year with or without jones once we signed bamba. Look that up to, I thought coaching would be what it was supposed to be and it hasn’t been.
I answered it and raise you a TCU who didn’t have a better player when they actually did lose their top guy.
Just like there are plenty of posts/points that make points that you're skipping over - Yup
You're arguing with yourself. I've used the word disaster 1,000 times to describe last season.
Probably because it’s hypothetical. I thought we were dealing in facts only?
I haven't skipped over anything. You saying it doesn't make it true,just repetitive.
Here's the list of damn good coaches who are responsible for the worst seasons in their programs' 100+ year history:
Shaka Smart
Quite the list.
You should use it for this season, you should use it for how smart has performed since being hired. You don’t you make excuses. I’m done.
You're so hung up on last season, perhaps fairly so, that you can't have a reasonable discussion about this season.
Again, I pointed that out in the article that it was the case for many.
I have discussed his performance.
OK in year one, terrible in year two and damn good in year three.
It hasn't amounted to anything of substance yet.
Yes, you're arguing with yourself.
He is hung up on a coach that is about to miss the tourney two straight years with top talent. He has won with Barnes’s players and that’s it. I wanted Barnes fired because it wasn’t achieving enough. Now I just have to be happy with gold stars and atta boys. “We are Texas” right?
You forgot Charlie Strong. Worst winning % in Texas history = damn good coach.
A bunch of those are opinions and excuses not facts. To be honest I am not sure how anyone could say Shaka is a great coach based on what we have seen since he has been at Texas. I think he deserves another year but I could also see Texas letting him go. I'd like to see him get another year but saying he is a great coach based on what he has done the last three years is foolish.
Rick Barnes missed the tournament once in 17 seasons and was fired the year he had the same success as Shaka's best season. If Shaka is a damn good coach, has Barnes reached GOAT status?
Probably my least favorite thing about this site is when Ketch posts something that 99 percent of the people on his site disagree with and then acts indignant that it happens. I hate the condescending attitude. It’s a subjective use of facts to build an argument and come to a conclusion that is undoubtedly an opinion. That’s a fact. Your opinion isn’t more worthy in and of itself than anyone else’s.
Shaka gets another year and then he can likely go be a damn good coach somewhere else. That’s my opinion. Still love the site. Just prefer content from other contributors than Ketch.
Everyone is basically arguing over your central theme of him being a damn good coach. Who cares? Like you have agreed. He has underachieved overall at Texas and isn’t performing at a sustainable level. One more year. He will likely be gone after that. I really hope he proves me wrong. I really do.
Shaka gets another year and then he can likely go be a damn good coach somewhere else. That’s my opinion. Still love the site. Just prefer content from other contributors than Ketch.
Everyone is basically arguing over your central theme of him being a damn good coach. Who cares? Like you have agreed. He has underachieved overall at Texas and isn’t performing at a sustainable level. One more year. He will likely be gone after that. I really hope he proves me wrong. I really do.
Wait, can we measure a coaches' success based on what-ifs now?
So Mack wins three national championships if Gideon catches the INT in '08 and Colt doesn't get hurt in '09?
Charlies wins 9 games in his first year if Ash doesn't get hurt?
Tom's team in his first year (eerily similar to this year's MBB team with their close game woes) doesn't lose those close games if a ball bounces the other way, if Connor Williams doesn't get hurt, if Ehlinger doesn't get concussed.
If "maybes" were part of the equation, a lot more coaches would still be employed...
I actually like Shaka, the man, also.I can be impressive. Thank you.
And that means something. I'm afraid the more battered we are as fans, though, the less compelling that becomes.
can you quote the part youspecifically disagree with?
To be fair, the team is among the leaders in the nation in quality wins.
Then be consistent. Call Charlie strong a damn good coach after his 3rd year. The parallels couldn’t be any more similar. Both had one good year before they got to Texas. Both made a post season appearance their first Season at Texas. Both had miserable 2nd and 3rd seasons. Both were basically .500 coaches at Texas. So both are damn good coaches?
This is what happens when you sensationalize an article title. I like Shaka and hope he somehow becomes a great coach at Texas. I’d like to see that. But he’s been damn disappointing. And it’s actually his coaching that has been disappointing.
There's no chance that Texas is letting him go after this season for a million reasons, none of which are "optics" or political reasons IMO. CDC's fresh arrival, KD's unwavering and very important support for Shaka, Andrew Jones' unfortunate situation, etc. He'll be back. I hope to hell I'm eating crow for what has been a disastrous start to his Texas career, but not sure how next year can be better than this one unless Coleman takes a massive leap next year.
"he simply hasn't been a success at Texas."
That's all that matters. Not what he did 5, 6, 7 years ago. You should write your article at the end of the season where we finish at or near the bottom of the B12 standings and fail to make the tournament. We would be thrilled to hear what a great coach we have.
That's all that matters. Not what he did 5, 6, 7 years ago. You should write your article at the end of the season where we finish at or near the bottom of the B12 standings and fail to make the tournament. We would be thrilled to hear what a great coach we have.
Ketch has already said the two situations are not at all comparable. Haha. The delusion is strong with this one.
You compared this season to Charlie's last. That is what is not comparable. Keep up.
