The problem with a Hanks list is that only five movies can squeeze into the top 5.
Agreed. He's made so many good movies, some even slipped my mind when thinking about it. Charlie Wilson's War is a great movie I've probably seen 4 or 5 times.
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Agreed. He's made so many good movies, some even slipped my mind when thinking about it. Charlie Wilson's War is a great movie I've probably seen 4 or 5 times.
Come on not even during Covid? Last Chance U is definitely worth the binge on a slow weekend
Shaka is a 2 time NIT powerhouse coach with nba lottery picks on his roster being paid as if he is Rick Pitino ...
This post season will define his coaching legacy at Texas. I hope he has a great run. But it has been meh so far.
This post season will define his coaching legacy at Texas. I hope he has a great run. But it has been meh so far.
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood succeeds because Tom Hanks is Mr. Rogers. It's in the top 10.
report back & let me know if I'm just caught up in the moment.
agree completely...Perdition & Miller's Crossing make a great double feature
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Gotta disagree a little with your assessment of Golf as the Longhorn's number 1 pro sport. Yes, there may not be a top 5 player like Durant, but the shear numbers are pretty strong:
1) Five major champions (Crenshaw, Kite, Leonard, Spieth, Mark Brooks)
2) Numerous PGA Tour Winners, no small feat (Those 5 above plus Phil Blackmar, Johnny Vegas, Bob Estes, Wes Ellis, Harrison Frazar, Cody Gribble, Rik Massengale, Wes Short, Brandel Chamblee)
3) Current tour players .... 7 competed in the Players Championship, 5 made the cut (Grim, Spieth, Vegas, Fratelli, Hickok) Scheffler & Hossler missed cut.
4) Yes, we sent a number of basketball players to the pros, some decent players, but mostly journeymen, besides Duran and I'll give you Slater Martin if you want to go back that far, although I would rate Crenshaw, Kite & Spieth well ahead of him in terms of impact on the sport.
1) Five major champions (Crenshaw, Kite, Leonard, Spieth, Mark Brooks)
2) Numerous PGA Tour Winners, no small feat (Those 5 above plus Phil Blackmar, Johnny Vegas, Bob Estes, Wes Ellis, Harrison Frazar, Cody Gribble, Rik Massengale, Wes Short, Brandel Chamblee)
3) Current tour players .... 7 competed in the Players Championship, 5 made the cut (Grim, Spieth, Vegas, Fratelli, Hickok) Scheffler & Hossler missed cut.
4) Yes, we sent a number of basketball players to the pros, some decent players, but mostly journeymen, besides Duran and I'll give you Slater Martin if you want to go back that far, although I would rate Crenshaw, Kite & Spieth well ahead of him in terms of impact on the sport.
It was simply watching us build a 34-16 lead against Michigan State, then watching us go 8-40 from the field the rest of the way, being completely outclassed in every way imaginable. That was the breaking point in which I decided it was better for me to just not watch anymore. I tried again this year against Tech in Austin, and an eerily similar thing happened: we blew another lead while being inept and completely out-coached. It's ironic that Shaka has created the exact apathy that is the reason he wasn't fired... nobody really cares anymore.
Regarding @ellie44’s question about UT golf, I imagine @Ketchum literally has zero clue that Texas is the only school to have a grand slam pieced together by 4 different golfers. Texas has more golfers in the Hall of Fame than basketball does and that doesn’t include Spieth who literally has already met requirements for entry. For @Ketchum to argue basketball over and add a “not even close” is pretty ignorant.
Didn't seem that way reading the columns from Dustin, or hearing you guys on the podcast joking about "we don't really need to get into the Shaka/basketball discussion, do we?" Blowing big leads, mental mistakes, bad basketball, team leaders having near fist fights on the sidelines. Just because the ending was fun doesn't change the fact that in the middle of it nobody was enjoying it.
I didn't say the numbers weren't strong.
But, it's not even worth comparing to football IMO.
Tom Hanks deserve more than top 10. You left out Philadelphia which he won Best Actor. Hard to leave off Sully and Charlie Wilson’s War,
Probably so. Shaka killed it for me. Maybe one day we'll have a program worth watching again.
Or I just didn't think it was one of his top 10 movies in 2021.
It's no You've Got Mail.
You knew the anti-Shaka crowd would come out for you. Like most of us, I had been disappointed in the results coming into this year and was questioning whether he could get it done. At the same time, I realized we had everything other than the locust plague happen during some of these years. So many critical injuries and illnesses at the exact wrong time.
Count me in the crowd that thinks Shaka has done a good job this year. I believe he out coached the opposition in several games. Switching to the best defensive group at the Tech game was gutsy and the right move. Going with a big man screen game against the OSU zone. They have been very fun to watch. Finally seeing Simms realize he can make offensive moves is a cherry on the top of the sundae. Now, if they can keep it together for the big tournament. Maybe Shaka needs to keep the hairdo as his lucky rabbits foot.
