Shaka to Marquette

Basketball
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I disagree. He has underperformed from the stand point of the talent he has brought there just like their football :football: team. Several of the Houston area talents (Febres, Williams) aren’t heard of after going there. And so are some of the other 4 star players who have transfer and underperformed during his tenure.

He knew he was going to have a hard time duplicating anything close next year with a young and inexperienced ball club. And losing to a 15 seed didn’t help him going forward at UT. I would say it warrant a hot seat type of situation on a school that was paying him handsomely for a mediocre resume. 0 tourney wins is not good either.

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Shaka is better off in the Big East at a 100% hoops focused school. I think he will do well at Marquette. It’s just a better fit. In the mean time, I can see smell the smoke all the way in DC from Austin as they are burning piles upon piles of money again. They are making Kentucky basketball fans/boosters look sane.

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Exactly. As far as resources go Texas is up there.

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But that is the norm at Texas
 not something unique to Shaka

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I forgot about the kid from Aldine, too. Royce Hamm I believe. He did a bit better but nothing to brag about or significant.

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I look at their football program and they burn it down every three years. It’s kinda funny. Honestly, Shaka lasted longer than I thought he would. I wouldn’t be surprised if Sark starts hitting the bottle again after dealing with boosters and the loons in their athletic dept. I give him 2.5 years.

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In addition to Beard, perhaps the Horns coaching shortlist also includes Royal Ivey-Texas Ex with coaching experience in the NBA.

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And Houston

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All I’ve ever heard was how horrible Lubbock is. Then I went. It was worse than I imagined. Tech’s campus has a cohesive feeling with red tiled roof Spanish architecture and there’s a 2-3 block area right off campus with Starbucks, CVS, and a few restaurants but I was surprised how small it was. I guess the bars are still on the county line due to dry laws that used to exist. Downtown was minuscule and the tallest building is abandoned. There’s a huge ugly garage as the tallest edifice near Tech. The place was flat, treeless, brown, windy, and the rumor of cow smell is not a lie.

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This is absolutely correct.

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A good move by Shaka since Marquette is a Jordan brand school and Austin is not.

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It amazes me the money UT throws around just to win a championship in a sport, then when it fails they throw more money at the problem. Sounds a lot like the government.

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LOL. I can hear it now
“We’re from Austin and we’re here to help.” Translation - Take this money and we will wreck your coaching career.

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I need to YouTube it now. Sounds very unpleasant. Thanks for the info!

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Lubbock is so bad HEB didn’t come to town until 2020.

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Is Sims in the transfer portal?

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The cows have a long storied history of doing way less with so much much more. Let it continue.

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I went to Lubbock once, at age 12, with my parents to visit friends who’d moved there. I saw tumbleweeds blowing down their street. Everyone laughed. I never saw a reason to go back.

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I dated a woman back around 2000 who had to do part of her internship in Lubbock and considered it the closest place to hell on Earth.

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I would say it’s Libya from the things I’ve seen but maybe that’s why the names are so similar

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