Quick Big 12 Hoops Notes

Never understood what made Drew a douche, even though I had heard the rumors. That would be a good example of a definite douche bag.

Stay classy Baylor!

Scott Drew is a prick of the highest order. In an industry filled will back-stabbing, two-faced hypocrites who practice the fine art of negative recruiting – he is considered A-1 on the list.

When he signed Tweety Carter, he sent out a flier to other recruits that showed of him standing between Texas Tech coach Bobby Knight and Texas A&M coach Billy Gillispie. Both had the big red circle with a line through it over their photos, with the caption,

“Which of these Big 12 coaches has signed a McDonald’s All-American?”

Drew has a history of hiring assistants with shady backgrounds or personal pipelines to recruits. He hired Jerome Tang, who headed a basketball team at Heritage Christian, a small private school in Cleveland, Texas, near Houston. He had a rep for recruiting top Houston public school players to his school and then farming them out to colleges.

Of course he also hired Dwon Clifton as director of player development, a newly created position. Clifton happened to be the AAU coach superstar John Wall – who ended up at Kentucky (that is a program that will never be outbid).

That pissed off a bunch of Big 12 coaches, including Barnes, who gave this interesting quote last year to the New York Times.

“There’s a line that he knows that he can’t cross with me,” Barnes said. Asked whether he had anything else to say about Drew’s recruiting practices, Barnes said, “I wish I could.”

Given the chance, there isn’t a coach in the Big 12 who wouldn’t do what Self did last night - which was to keep the margin nice and large — especially in Baylor’s arena.

The Wildcats’ inability to score is bringing back painful memories of Texas’s offense of last season.

I think Frank Martin has lost his team just as Barnes did last year. His wild-eyed axe-murderer act on the sidelines is wearing thin on his players.

If hating Scott Drew is wrong, I don’t wanna be right.

jc25,

Fortunately for you, it will never be wrong.

Bad mix for Baylor. Entitled upperclassmen vs. entitled one n dones. And a coach that doesn’t have control over his players.

Just not enough balls to go around.

Alot like us last year.

I think Frank Martin has lost his team just as Barnes did last year. His wild-eyed axe-murderer act on the sidelines is wearing thin on his players.

You’re absolutely right. You can get away with all the yelling and screaming and everyone is ok with it as long as you’re winning. Now, it just looks like the players are bored with it and everyone else watching say it’s just Frank being Frank.

It all starts at the lead guard position. Tweety Carter and Denis Clemente were volume scorers and at times frustrating, but they were also team leaders con juevos grandes.

This year, they’ve got LaceDarius Dunn Chris Rainey-ing his girlfriend and Jacob Pullen playing friends with benefits at a local Dillard’s and calling out fans. Some leadership.

The video was a video done by Raising Cane’s. They did it for football as well. Didn’t hear KU complaining about it then. Heck, haven’t heard any of our home opponents complaining about it. I think Kansas fans are little too obsessed and sensitive about video boards and how they are perceived. Why UT fans all of a sudden care about it is bizarre other than some of them are pathetically obsessed with what the small private school up north on 35 is doing. Don’t you guys have your own issues to worry about than to fret over a promo video from a business sponsor about friggin Kansas?

By the way, as a Baylor fan, the very last thing I would want is for us to be respected by UT and any of her coaches. Least of all Barnes whose reputation isn’t exactly a shining beacon in the coaching world. Go as the ACC. The more hate, the happier we are. Just make sure you understand what you’re hating on, rather than just shooting off at the mouth.

Texas is obsessed with Baylor. I have now heard it all.

Brad:

It would not have been an issue with KU fans either, had Drew not acted like a baby last year. It’s not an issue with me except that I found it interesting that something approved by Baylor subsequently made much fun at KU’s expense. That, and Self found a reason to pound BU as hard as he could.

Barnes has a bad reputation? You been talking to UNC fans or something?

“The more hate, the happier we are.”

I’m having trouble placing this one…. is that in First or Second Corinthians? Or is it Ephesians? I’m always getting that group there confused.

I think Kansas fans are little too obsessed and sensitive about video boards and how they are perceived.

As a Kansas fan, I have no problem with your video. I just thought it was a pretty dumb idea. KU had been sleepwalking through games for two weeks. Why would you want to wake the sleeping giant?

Most team videos feature their own team, so I was a little surprised that rather than praise your own team’s 2010 accomplishments, you’d throw a jab at KU’s disappointing end to 2010. Unfortunately, that jab missed and Baylor took a hay-maker square on the chin.

@Brad: Sweet Jesus, are you freaking kidding me? Your team has one great season and you’re mouthing off like Baylor now really matters in the college basketball world? Come back a little closer to the same time zone as reality, dude. Your Bears will be back to the middle-of-the-pack wannabes they’ve always been very very soon.

And Drew is a slimeball of the first order, dare I say Calipariesque. Wouldn’t be the least bit surprised to see BU get slapped with NCAA sanctions and the odds just get bigger the longer Drew is their coach.

The funny thing is, Barnes claims a friendship with Calipari (or at least, he did not too long ago). He normally gets along with everybody. With Drew, not so much.

I was at the game and what has everyone so worked up was not an intro video. It was a quick promo by Raising Canes.

I was in the Kansas section (game already out of hand by this point) and the Kansas fans next to me did not take offense at all like folks on here have. In fact, I myself noted to them the ad was stupid because us having an Elite Eight does not compare to their National Championships.

What was more concerning to me was the lack of defense played by my Bears, but I stayed till the end of the beatdown to support my team. The KU fans noted that most folks were leaving and that they respected my son and I for sticking till the end. At this point, I told them our fans need to get smarter and support till the end no matter what, as recruits notice the support or lack of support.

Anyway, back to the Drew haters, continue to hate if you must, but the article was off base (and should not be ammunition for your hate) and makes it sound like Drew met up with Raising Canes to prepare the promo or something. Please, I think he has more than enough to worry about just getting the Bears to play better or something resembling the play of last year.

Nah, not blaming Drew directly for the video, but just because you buy an ad doesn’t mean you get to run what you want. Baylor (probably not Drew) OK’d it. I can only repeat: This is of note because Drew did something stupid a year ago.

I don’t think ‘offended’ is the right term. I thought it was just embarrassing (and as Triston pointed out just really stupid strategically) for a Big 12 team to play something so junior high.

Baylor basketball really is a remarkable program. Major NCAA violations and probation in the ’80s, ’90s, ’00s, and I predict Drew will have them on probation again. It really is a mystery how a program can willfully cheat time and again without reform.

The video is not really offensive. I think the point is, in the HISTORY of trashtalk/bulletin board material, this strategy takes the cake. First off, it highlights ANOTHER team beating KU, not Baylor beating KU (more understandable if they showed clips from the kenny Gregory game years back). Second off, pissing off a very talented, yet sometimes bored team, like KU is just STUPID. If there is a chance the KU players wanted to sleep walk (only chance BU had) through the game, why not let them? Why in the world would you want to fire up a team with that much talent? Furthermore, why fire them up with a completely below the belt comment? Most of the players played in that game and I’m sure they all are still not completely over N. Iowa.

I suggest that for the next game, Baylor should kidnap all the KU players’ mothers, show a video before the game and tell them they ain’t seeing them unless KU wins by 20. That would be equally as effective.

I’m a little late here, as Neon and Triston seem to have hit the points. But as a KU fan I was in no way offended, nor do I know any other fans that were.

But to think that Drew had nothing to do with this is pretty naive. I’m sure it wasn’t his idea at all, but either he has A WHOLE LOT less influence than most major coaches do, or someone ran this by him to get his OK. To which he apparently gave the nod of approval. And to suggest that Drew is anything but an asshat is just plain irresponsible.

“Please, I think he has more than enough to worry about just getting the Bears to play better or something resembling the play of last year.”

Judging by how prepared the Bears were to slow the Morrii, I’m guessing he edited it himself over the weekend.

I thought the highlight of the KU v. BU game was when Muffburger said that before Scott Drew the Baylor basketball program was in the “dark ages”. Look, just b/c of one teammate-on-teammate murder you don’t have to characterize the whole program as being in the dark ages. Obviously the program was headed in the right direction before Drew got there. It’s no wonder he’s been successful in such a short period of time…

And on a (somewhat) related note, Baylor had by far the easiest road last year out of any team that made it to the EE. Any other road and Baylor is out before the first weekend is over. The fact that Baylor was put in that bracket and aTm was cast off to Spokane is an offense for which I will never forgive the NCAA.

Hope to see a good game tonight — although I think the horns take this one. Gig’em.

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