Frank.
RockChalkinTexas
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Missing bunnies
@Crimsonorblue22 that part chopping meats grosses me out
Lazy.
Keep up the pressure.
@Crimsonorblue22 me neither.
I read some of the cyclones message boards ast night. Just sad.
Come on devonte
At least we have our old unis back.
@Crimsonorblue22 okay today. ;-)
My boyfriend!
Let's go Hawks.
@Crimsonorblue22 The name I've heard the most the last 2 days is Shaka. Marshall came up yesterday after the game by a radio guy who added "'who KU hates' and that's why he may be good for the program." I wanted to puke and immediately went horns down on that while driving home. Remember, Texas has a lot of $$$$$$ and is going to have to build a new facility. What makes it bad is that while the AD is trying to raise the $$$ for the new facility, they've lost the fan base so no one wants to give their $$ until Barnes is gone.
Anybody else's stomach a little uneasy this morning? Leaving shortly to head home.
@Crimsonorblue22 Papers and sports talk not KIND to Barnes this morning.
Bohls: After another late collapse, it’s time for a coaching change
PITTSBURGH, Pa. —
With equal parts mounting frustration and dashed hopes, Steve Patterson intently watched Texas’ loss to Butler from the first row of the Consol Energy Center, and he saw yet another spirited comeback in vain against a better-coached, more fundamentally sound basketball team.
Much like the all-too-predictable Longhorns team he saw the last two months.
He probably also saw Rick Barnes’ last game as Texas’ head coach.
The men’s athletic director was in no mood to discuss Barnes’ precarious future on Thursday after 17 wildly erratic seasons tinged with spectacular success and big-name recruits as well as totally unacceptable mediocrity of late. Barnes’ Longhorns were rudely ushered out of the 68-team NCAA tournament after only one game for the fifth time in his 16 appearances. Texas won’t be playing in the Sweet 16 for the seventh consecutive year.
When I asked him what he plans to do, Patterson waved me off and said, “I don’t have anything.”
Pressed again minutes later about how long a review of Barnes’ program might take, Patterson didn’t change his stance. “I’m not ready to talk.”
And the truth of the matter is this. What’s there to talk about?
Barnes needs to go.
And I write that with much angst because Barnes is one of the best people I know and maybe the most likeable. But it’s time for a change because the 60-year-old Texas coach is no longer getting it done. His program has gotten stale. There’s no reason it should wither away like this when competent replacements like Shaka Smart or Tony Bennett or Gregg Marshall are waiting in the wings. Heck, Patterson, shoot for the moon and go after Bill Self or Sean Miller.
The 56-48 loss to sixth-seeded Butler ended as painful a season as I can remember, although most of Texas’ recent seasons have followed this same humiliating script of pitiful shooting and inexplicable turnovers.
The hope here is Barnes will willingly step down and take his $1.75 million severance package into retirement. He could go kicking and screaming like Mack Brown before him, or he could stay in Austin and be celebrated during his golden years as the coach who re-energized and stabilized the program, who brought T.J. Ford and Kevin Durant to Austin, who kept Texas nationally relevant. But there’s been too much backsliding the last seven years.
When Barnes was asked point-blank if he expected to return, he said, “I have no reason not to think that. I’ve had no conversations about it.”
None of the players blamed Barnes or his staff. In fact, they were defiant in their support.
“I love our coaching staff,” junior guard Demarcus Holland said in a somber locker room. “Every single one of them. We all trust the coaching staff. They’ve done nothing but believe in us.”
Junior center Cam Ridley echoed those sentiments: “It all comes back to us. We’re the ones on the court. I don’t blame anything on the coaches.”
Yet, when Ridley was asked if this team had failed to live up to its potential, going from No. 6 in the nation to an 11th seed and a one-and-done postseason experience, he answered, “We underachieved. As talented as this team is, we shouldn’t be in this situation.”
Forward Jon Holmes, the lone senior, finished his career with a gutsy, 15-point performance on a roster that had no other offensive option other than point guard Isaiah Taylor’s second-half drives to the bucket. But he, too, remains firmly behind his coach, who has been too offensively challenged his entire career.
“People want to run their mouth and try to fire him when you’ll have a hard time trying to find a better coach,” Holmes said. “That’s not realistic.”
The sentiments of Holmes and his teammates are warm, but this isn’t a business about hugs and attaboys. Patterson must risk keeping a good man but flawed coach and alienating nearly the entire fan base that’s eager for a fresh face, especially after a losing football season.
When I asked Barnes about his team’s poor March showings and his job security, he said, “We’ll never take getting in this tourney for granted. We’ll never be satisfied being in it. We want to win it all.”
Everyone at Texas wants that. Someone else should get the chance.
@drgnslayr re: Having a Chip. See these quotes?
“Wayne is always talking about, ‘We can’t be like last year. We have to take every game one game at a time and not take anything for granted,’’’ Oubre said of sophomore Wayne Selden Jr., who has mentored Oubre this season.
“I feel they (returning Jayhawk players) have a chip on their shoulder from last year. I’m just here trying to help my teammates and our team have the best chance to win,” Oubre added.
Selden concedes it has been important for him to learn lessons from the early exit his freshman campaign.
“I felt like last year went by way too fast, and just like that we were done,” Selden said. “This year (I’m) trying to take a different approach and focusing in on the little details.”
“I’ve got to make sure everybody’s mind is right. We’ve got to be turned up this game,” Traylor said. “It’s an early game. I feel everybody has to be a lot more into it and focused. I’ve been talking to the guys. We’ll be ready for it.”
@KUSTEVE Showing ISU as Big 12 Champs.
@KUSTEVE ESPN says the same thing, Rubbish.
@hawkmoon2020 Hopefully it will ignite them to go out there and represent.
@REHawk We play a 15. Notre Dame barely beat their 14. We better NOT be looking past them.
Unbelievable.
@Kip_McSmithers They beat it at WV????????????????
UT went on a run to end the half only down 2. Down by as many as 11. I picked Butler to win.
Dana O'Neil @ESPNDanaOneil · 47m47 minutes ago
Jameel McKay and Monte Morris clearly messed w mojo coloring hair.
@Crimsonorblue22 The ordeal is there because of Cliff.
@JayHawkFanToo Kimmel has been here in Austin this week doing his shows along with 100,000 extra music fans here for SXSW. It is nuts.
@Crimsonorblue22 OPERATIVE WORDS - IF this is true.
How can you believe what someone under an alias wrote?
No different than the fact or fiction article I posted about Cal that everyone debunked that I labeled "fact or fiction."
His coming back in Omaha is not going to happen. He's become too much of a distraction.
Cliff did NOT travel with the team to Omaha. It's a distraction for the coaching staff and I believe it would affect the chemistry of the team. Go get the W FOR him not WITH him.
The Cleveland Cavaliers have Sasha Kaun in their radars for next season.
The big man will likely leave CSKA Moscow in July and may land in the NBA where he was selected by the Sonics with the 56th pick of the 2008 Draft (He was the final draft pick in Sonics history, before the franchise moved to Oklahoma City).
The Cavaliers acquired Kaun’s NBA rights for cash consideration and they are thinking to bring him overseas. Kaun, born in 1985, is a product of Kansas and is averaging 9.6 points and 4.7 rebounds per game in Euroleague this season.
Kaun has been coached by Blatt with Russian National Team and won the bronze medal at Olympic Games in London.
The center would team up with another Russian big, Timofey Mozgov. According to sources, Kaun already informed CSKA Moscow he will leave after the season.
From Sportando.com
PAUL PIERCE bracket. THE TRUTH!
@JRyman I am positive as one can be but unlike in years past, I don't have blinders on when it comes to seeing how inconsistent we have been all year. I hope they and you prove me wrong.
@BeddieKU23 Like you, I can cheer or jeer in the comfort of my own home.
@Crimsonorblue22 I'm leaving work at 10:00 AM Friday so I can go home to watch the game since it is on regular TV. I normally help out every year with the firm's March Madness luncheon, but I just can't bear to be wearing my KU stuff and being around 150 clients who KNOW I am for KU at the same time the game is on (in case we play like we did the last half of ISU). It would be just too much.
Eyes wide open and not thinking we are going to get into the Sweet 16. !20.jpg ↗
@Crimsonorblue22 Does Cliff get to?
How in hell did Texas get a 11 seed and Dooke a 1 when they didn't win the conference or tourney?
@drgnslayr Sorry but you can't caterogize all of us under what you suppose we are as fans.
@Kip_McSmithers Gottlieb tried to make that case to the chairman of the selection committee at noon on cbs and the chairman simply responded "We tend to look at the whole body of work and what happened in conference play.". Doogie was not happy and wanted to but but they beat us 2 out of 3 times. Neither Seth, Clark or Gumbel let him finish.
@Crimsonorblue22 Get him in foul trouble right off the bat.
Don't you think the clowns have played 2 harder games than us, having to come back in both? I tend to think we haven't had to exert as much energy as they have and fatigue could be a problem for them. Whoever has to guard Monte needs to stay on him like flies on sh#@.
@BeddieKU23 And he sripped that ball away from Rico.
Coach has said Landen's body is beat up. Not counting on him for today but anything he gives is gravy. Yesterday it was Wayne's World. Is today for Mason and his marauders? Now that we have gotten to the championship, Coach is going to go "balls to the walls" and whip out some schemes he has been holding back on.
@Hawk8086 That is what all the radio guys told the callers -- you fans are fair weather fans and don't show up for the games. One said Look at AFH or Hilton Coliseum -- filled every game. Granted football is king here, but really since 2005 when they won Natl Championship they have not had a winning season.
From sunup to 5:00 pm, EVERY sports radio show had nothing but callers saying Barnes has to go. Most favored a younger guy like Shaka or Bennet and just a few calling for a more experienced coach. There reasoning is that they don't want to see UT even get in the tourney as it would be fools gold to then win a few and somehow credit Barnes and keep him, only to have next year be the same as all the others. People know that with a new coach they could have rebuilding year(s), but they would rather have hope that they would become relevant. Right now they know they will never be with Barnes.
I agree. They have the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ and the facilities and can have the whole state for recruiting. They made the change in football forcing Mack out and they want the same for Barnes. NO ONE thinks he is a good or great coach. Fans were more upset that Turner only played 10 mins. and were incredulous that Barnes sat him. He WAS their savior this year and as usual Barnes couldn't coach him. The players do not like him. Something has to give.
Just my take from the Live Music Capital of the World where 100,000 people are descending on us for the next 2 weeks for SXSW film and music festival!!! OMG.
:-(
Wayne's World
I was watching by myself on my Nook with no way to follow chat.
Guess Wayne was saving himself for the big city, big lights.
I'll be the first one to guess - maybe his Mom was there. I saw Frank's Dad several times.
Rock Chalk Jayhawk
Glad Wayne came to play.
Talk to you all tomorrow. Was too nervous to even comment.
@wrwlumpy Made my DAY. (hug) (blush)(h)(dance)(rofl)(f)(music):=p (inlove) (wave) (giggle) (H) (rock) B) :-)
@wrwlumpy NO.
And Frank Martin with SC played without 2 suspended players last night and still won the game (w/only 8 players) vs Ole Miss.
@Crimsonorblue22 Hell yes. I want ISU to go home tonight. We can beat a tired UT team after 2 hard fought games. I do NOT want all the Hoiberg gushing and kissing ass.
UT up on the clowns by 11 at half. The clowns went 9 mins. w/o scoring. Shut their fans up. %-)