OKC~Ag said:

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Bobinator you were prescient in saying buzz acting like he was leaving A&M...

I am glad that is over and we can all move on

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Bob fought me on it for what a couple weeks, Bob? Asked if I would stop posting if he wasn't gone, but wouldn't agree to the inverse.

Back to the original topic. What about Dusty May? Seems like a good coach. Assume he is not an option as he has only been an Michigan for a year?

Oats
Beard
Richard Pitino

JJxvi said:

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Why hasn't Chris Beard come out and refuted the speculation, Pawl!?

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Beard would love to come back to Texas.

Beard, Oats, Richard Pitino.

DukeMu said:

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Oats
Beard
Richard Pitino

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2 of them are already off the table.

Charlie Murphy said:

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Fully expect Trev to go for the discount option.

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Yeah...probably will roll the dice with a Niko Medved.

I didn't fight you on it at all. You kept posting that it was already a done deal and I asked if you'd stake your posting on it because it wasn't clear if you were just theorizing or if you actually had info, to which you responded with a very confusing post that made it seem like you were just doing a bit.

I said several weeks ago, almost a month ago now, that it felt like he was leaving, but I never claimed it to be done deal or say I had any sort of inside info.

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theloneranger said:

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The newer source says Trev has already been told by boosters “go get Chris Beard” and that Trev plans to oblige.

Unless A&M refuses to match Ole Miss collective $ or the A&M president or some higher up says either “no Longhorns” or “no woman chokers” we expect this to happen. https://t.co/crFDUjhi5I

— Coaching Changes (@CoachingChanges) April 1, 2025

Inject this straight in my veins. Let's WIN

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3.5 million dollar buyout and he makes $5 million/year.

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Sort of Revenue neutral with Buzz' buyout

bobinator said:

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Yeah I don't love the assistant route unless we get really down the list.

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Hard NO for me.

Snowball12 said:

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zooguy96 said:

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bobinator said:

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zooguy96 said:

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Prepare to be disappointed. Trev is going to cost cut, unless donors give $$.

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I don't know why this would be the case. Yes, we need to be careful about our spending, but it also makes financial sense to invest money into men's basketball. It actually has the potential to make money.

Hiring some no-name and going for multi-year rebuild could actually cost more in loss of tickets, donations, etc. than hiring a guy that can fire up the fan base right away.

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I'm just basing this off of what he's done. Early - no HC experience. Almost hired Stoops - a "C" level coach. We settled for a B-

He's not instilling confidence based on the hires he's made so far.

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Can't really credit the almost Stoops hire to Alberts when Bjork was still the AD.

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THIS

bobinator said:

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No, it's obviously not the same, Arkansas is a much better job. But if it's really a situation where both sides are over it and he's thinking about getting out where the timing could work.

That said, if that were really the case I think we'd have already heard about it, you'd think he'd have been a candidate at Indiana or Maryland.

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Arkansas is a far better job than Texas Tech.

The best day in Lubbock is when it's in your rearview mirror for the last time.

Fleen said:

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Norman Dale...



Too soon?

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Run the picket fence for Jimmy Chitwood.

We need to hire someone soon so they can hire decent assistants before it's too late. We saw with Kennedy that the assistants can be more important than the coach.

DukeMu said:

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The best day in Lubbock is when it's in your rearview mirror for the last time.

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So says one Mac Davis.

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chick79 said:

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I'm tired of us hiring good guys. I want a slimeball like Chris Beard or Bruce Pearl. Auburn and Ole Miss wrote the book on hiring sleazy coaches and it works.

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Imagine Bruce Pearl....that personality, who seems to have fully immersed himself in Auburn....if he came here (which isn't happening), and fully immersed himself with all of Texas A&M....holy smokes, that would be fun

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I wanted Pearl badly when we hired BK.

This is the thing I always talk about with timing though. Pearl wasn't hireable when we had our opening in 2011. He had just been fired from Tennessee and was under an active investigation by the NCAA. There's a reason nobody hired him until three years later.

Even when Auburn hired him he still couldn't contact recruits for like six months.

We're not getting Beard for 5 mil per. We likely would have to pay him something like a top 5 salary. $6.5+

Depends on if we're trying to convince him to come here or if he wants to come here for some reason.

So now youre already thinking he might want to come?

Whoever said Joe Pasternack a few days earlier that would be an incredible hire.

JJxvi said:

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We're mot getting Beard for 5 mil per. We likely would have to pay him something like a top 5 salary. $6.5+

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We just got a new 15 million per media deal and basketball is our only other revenue generating sport besides football.

We made Buzz top five in pay when we came. No reason we can't do that this time for the right coach.

Just saying you never know what motivates people. He is from nearby, who knows. He's also the only coach that Alberts could probably fire people up to donate for by saying it's a swipe at Texas.

Still doubt it, but just saying there's at least some possible external factors.

Assuming youre satisfied with any moral qualms, i have no problem making a coach with Beard's resume a top 5 paid coach

He's even already taken a job Buzz left before!

Beard may be into a CFS rather than shrimp and grits, and want to be back in Texas!

Hiring Beard Would be a massive FU To the sips.

That I know it's probably unlikely.

AtticusMatlock said:

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Trev also had Earley pushed on him by the players and boosters to keep the roster intact. He wasn't able to do an actual coaching search.

That's one problem we have at A&M that no one wants to talk about. The booster pressure to hire specific people is intense. Basketball boosters are undoubtedly in his ear about who he needs to hire and if it doesn't work out he will get blamed and those same boosters will pressure the next hire, too.

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And they lost a big fish once; hire beard and won't get him back.

Yeah if they're satisfied the arrest issue doesn't make him off limits then they can just tell our big donors that this is big slap in the face of the woke agenda or whatever and we'll be able to pay him a billion dollars a year.

Woah now you cant be calling it a "slap in the face"

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ThatGirl said:

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Gonna throw out 2 names I haven't seen mentioned…Bob Huggins
Mike Boynton

Huggy Bear has baggage, but is a great coach and would be a fun hire.
Boynton got a raw deal with NCAA sanctions & penalties at Okie State. He's a great coach (currently an assistant at Michigan, I think) & a great guy. He would show up unannounced for Freshman move in day at the dorms to volunteer for check in or help haul stuff up stairs. Everyone loved him but he wasn't able to dig them out of the NCAA mess.

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Huggins just took the McNeese job.

I can easily see us going off the rails and hiring Crean. Or Fran Frashilla. Or Pat Knight.

Not optimistic at all.

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???

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and so it goes....

You're either committed or you're not

Matt Langel

Suggestion: don't let the university president hire head coaches.

Dawn Staley?

slatermikan said:

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Dawn Staley?

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Becky Hammon?