Who do you take? Steve Patterson you can’t answer this.
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Barnes last 4 years at UT were pretty mediocre and Shaka’s has been pretty much the same. It seemed like Barnes got a fresh start going to Tennessee. I heard some talking heads say he has some good upper classmen and that could be a difference because they had a few one and done guys at UT and never really made a good run in the tourney after TJ Ford left UT.
since it’s Coog forum I go with Kelvin Sampson. 
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UT lost on the road to Georgia today by 10 points,. Neither teams was anything special and UT has a one and done guy, Jaxson Hayes, a Tulane hand me down, Dylan Osetkowski (who is actually a pretty good player), Kerwin Roach, an over-hyped senior from Houston, and not much else.
UT is now 11-9, but they did beat North Carolina earlier this season. Shaka Smart was never the right fit there and it shows. His seat is starting to come to a boil.
And yet, … and yet the ESPN announcers who do the longhorns’ games, including the one that they just lost to Georgia, keep mentioning how they are going to be in the NCAA tournament. I know they are trying to pump sunshine and paint happy faces, but other than UT’s overblown reputation there is no particular visible evidence that supports the horns doing anything other than hosting an NIT game.
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Thanks for the thorough UT update. Psssshh
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I had a great time at the game when we beat UT in Hofheinz last time for whatever tournament that was.
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Don’t hate on the CBI Tournament!!!
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I wasn’t, just couldn’t remember the name.
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I was kidding. I was there too. It’s an easy name to forget.
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Went to the UT/TTU game a few weeks back because my dad had an extra ticket. First of all Erwin Center is absolutely horrible, it’s cavernous, the crowd is pathetic (it was a very Tech heavy crowd), and the seats are awful. After that both teams were really “Meh,” seemed like no one was really playing competent defense and yet no one was hitting shots either, Tech eventually pulled away because UT has only one offensive move, lob it up for a Hayes dunk, while they completed a good 7 or 8 of those they don’t do anything else. Tech had me feeling like they were over rated and that was before they lost a handful. I can’t see this Texas team making the tourney, they just don’t have it
Barnes clearly better choice this year. Watched. Special on coach K and the difference with having so many one and done’s. They get them on campus early to meet team and get chemistry knowing in 6 months they will be in NBA draft. Bizarre.
Shaka Khan coach better than Shaka Smart right now!! 
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And, Mrs. Khan look much better…no disrespect to you Mr. Smart…
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Who cares??
Boom shaka lake shaka!!
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