(04-05-2015 08:24 PM)Briskbas Wrote: (04-05-2015 07:05 PM)salukiblue Wrote: (04-05-2015 05:56 PM)Briskbas Wrote: (04-04-2015 10:53 AM)MTigerBlue Wrote: (04-04-2015 09:04 AM)bluebacker Wrote: Well after firing a coach that made 16/17 NCAA tournaments Texas was (gasp!) able to not only hire a coach they hired a damn good one.
Silence.
You don't really expect the shifting sand defense to stagnate over that, do you?
The apologetic shift will now be that the Texas basketball program is somehow better than Memphis' in the current sports economy (P5, more money, etc.)
And the followup question should be, since those things have always been the case (power league, deeper pockets) and since the Memphis program used to be leaps and bounds ahead of Texas, what allowed them to eclipse us?
Texas is a better job than Memphis. It's one of the better jobs out there.
Why. Not being a d!ck but what reasons (outside of Texas having a bunch on booster/BCS money) give credence to that?
Recruiting, resources , and there's not an insane amount of pressure. This isn't exactly an outsider opinion or anything.
No, I know a lot of people say that Texas is one of the great jobs, but I think many just say it because they hear it.
Texas bb recruiting, in terms of talent in state, is good but not some sort of embarrassment of riches.
Plus the history of Texas basketball, as noted earlier, is not great. Before Barnes got there, they had only been to 13 ncaa tournaments in the previous 50 years, 0 final fours and 1 E8. Barnes had a sensational run from 01-08, but had only three NCAA wins in the past seven seasons.
What I'm getting at with that is that Texas basketball isn't something that is ingrained into the collective psyche of kids growing up in Texas. There isn't a history or expectation of Texas kids "staying home" to play for Texas. Also, UT is in Austin, which is not a basketball hotbed. Dallas and Houston aren't super close to Austin and west Texas (Midland, El Paso, Odessa...) might as well be in another country.
Add to that the rise of Baylor, A&M moving to the SEC and traditionally good LSU being close to Houston. Kansas and OU do a lot of their work there historically. These forces all keep young Texas kids from having the expectation that one day they'll be a Longhorn.
I dunno. Just one person's thoughts.