Texas Basketball is Dangerous

Barnes is like Iceman to Maverick…

Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Just because you say it doesn’t mean you believe it.

Oh, thanks to random screening, I just wanted say, I was really impressed with Ekpe Udoh this week, and I bet he could leave if he felt like it.

Barnes can go fuck himself for that first quote.

I mean, shit. By the mid-point of the Penders era, a 10 seed was considered a disappointment. So get the fuck out of here with that “oh, I’ve brought this program so far that a 9 or 10 seed is viewed as a disappointment…” bullshit. It’s a disappointment because we’re fucking loaded this year, started out the season 17-0 and #1, and then we had one of the more historic bedshittings in the history of college basketball.

nordberg, I agree with you, but what’s he supposed to tell a guy with a nationally read blog?

That was really funny.

Maybe Barnes will go all Steve Lavin on us.

“At one point, we were the best team in the country.” — Damo

I love Damo, but he’s wrong about that. At one point Texas was ranked #1 in the country but they were never the best team in the country.

“Yep, seeding makes no difference, much like a bout of chlamydia doesn’t matter as long as you get a shot of petercillin”.

Actually azithromycin is the drug of choice for chlamydia now days.

If by “dangerous” he meant dangerously bad I would agree.This a team that basically plays “street ball” on offense no movement no plays and everything is a struggle on offense….when was the last time texas scored in transition? im sure no one remembers.The team plays absolutely no defense and most importantly their coached by Rick Barnes; they will lose in the first round no need to be in denial.They “might” win a first round game but Rick Barnes will get out coached in the second round.

“Barnes said the top goal for the Horns, who are still relatively new to being a regular in the NCAA tournament, is to reach the Big Dance.”

1. Really, Barnes? Your TOP goal this year was to make the the NCAA tournament? Way to aim high.

2. We have been to the tournament 20 of the last 22 years. How exactly does that make us relatively new to being a regular in the tourney? Andy Katz’s BFF relationship with Barnes and the resulting puff pieces were a lot more tolerable back when Barnes wasn’t squandering lottery talent.

I posted on the baylor thread where I think he lost his brain trust. I am fairly certain Ken McDonals was behind alot of Barnes sucess here and at Clemson. Now he has promoted the former film boy: Springman and Chris Ogden as replacement for McDonald and Haith.

Hey its his program but to start to act like its ok to pay a coach 2 mill a year and just "make " the tourney and all us BB fans are suposed to like it. Fuc& that. We are way beyond that. We need to be ttempting to win the fricken conf evrery yr and try and win the fricken conf tourney every year (0-6 there) ,. If not stop paying top ten money for crap.

I was on a flight with Ken McDonald the other day.

Either there are doctors sprinkled in with the engineers and lawyers on this website, or you guys watch as much House as I do.

I agree with Roostrman, not only was it authentic internet gibberish, but it expressed the courage little seen in this board and site.
Seriously to make the tournament is the goal? What if that conflicts with making young dreams come true?

I don’t know if WKU will make the NCAA most likely not since they lost in the conf Tourney to troy. All I knw is that we are really behind the teams I am watching today talent wise and scheme wise. So you were on a plane with K M? Did he speak to you or was he on his way to interview somewhere. His AD just left for Old Dominion.

Nothing soothes the pain of a beach volleyball defeat at the hands of an Oompa Loompa and a man with a waterfowl-derived callsign.

We’re as dangerous as a switchblade comb.

Damn The Ohio State player talking about a CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP AND A CONF tourney championship. Imagine that. We are talking about the NBA and getting in the dance.
The focus of Barnes teams are totally off base. The NCAA"S and the NBA will take care of itself. You have to build a program to take on Kansas, basically its that simple if we pay 2 mill and want to be conf champions we have to compete and be equal or better in all aspects to KU. Its is the equivelant to OU in Football. Will we step up or do we want to?

Real simple take on KU head up or stop pretending what we are.

I didn’t talk to him. i just noticed him beacuse he was decked out in WKU gear.

We’re live blogging the selection show over here if you’re interested.

http://marchtomarch.fantake.com/2010/03/14/ncaa-selection-show-open-thread/comment-page-1/#comment-507

Damn. Newy beat me too it.

The Penders coached teams were just mildly dangerous. You avoided them for precautionary reasons. Like public bathrooms and travel to the Gaza Strip.

Good stuff.

Peter Graves, March 18, 1926 – March 14, 2010, RIP.

“Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison?”

Is it just me or is Damo sounding a lot like Ricky?
Are they just providing some giggles for the rest of the teams? Or do they think this shit will fly even with the blue hairs ?
Will rick ever live down the quotes that will be recorded in Scipio vast mental vaults that can survive a direct nuclear shit bomb?

Who will win Trips vs.Kevy?,
Like Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, representing the two-sided personality of the protagonist battle.

sky, it’s pretty crazy really. Barnes sounds like he’s mailing it in at this point.

I have been thinking that the team quit on Barnes some time during the last 14-15 games.
My brother in Michigan thought the the team fell apart after the 11-12th game of the season I think that it was atm @CC game.
I wonder if Barnes has health issues, he just looks bad on TV and the few times that I saw him at the Drum.
He sent the letter Express Mail I’m thinking.
I do not know how to explain it myself.

We’re as dangerous as a switchblade comb…

Thanks for the laugh, Scipio. That’s the most apt description I’ve heard yet.

“Barnes sounds like he’s mailing it in at this point.”

The Rick Barnes the we all grew to know and love wouldn’t have said shit like that. He was real big on personal accountability, exceeding expectations… you know, shit like that. He would have made fun of someone in his shoes saying shit like “well golly, all we want to do is make the tournament…”

Some one sent this quote from the Dallas Mornong News to me.
“I’ve had teams in the past [at Clemson] that were just where we are right now mentally. And we got it turned around. I had a team in the exact same situation, and we ended up going to the Sweet 16 and ended up losing to a team in triple overtime that ended up going to the Final Four.

“And when we left the ACC Tournament that year, I was as bewildered as I am right now. To be quite honest, the players flipped it. And I hope they flip it now. If I could have clipped it, I would have done it two months ago.”
What does this say to you? At 2 mill we are getting a bargain.

smh, sometimes coaching is overrated….

I don’t buy that we HAVE to win this conference or the conference tourney unless KU is in an awful down year. That would be like someone other than OU or Texas saying that their football season was a failure because they didn’t win the Big 12 title. The owners of the Big 12 in football and basketball are pretty clear cut. We never had any shot of winning the tournament this year with KU being in top form this season. That was a little naive on everyone’s (including mine) part in the preseason.

“We never had any shot of winning the tournament "

I meant regular season.

someday i’s like to see Texas win a conference title in basketball. regular season and or tournament.

I’d also like to see a UFO and a NCAA tournament championship.