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HankHill said:
Guys....regular season doesn’t matter. Stay in the top 20... gear up for the tourneys. This team is good. Rick just needs to take the handcuffs off and let this team run and out athlete teams like that. We played into ole miss gameplan. They wanted it to be slow and sloppy
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I really think after years of watching him coach in games like this..That RB does it on purpose, I think he uses games like this to make a point with his team.

And you are right, BB ain't football and a lot if our fans don't get that. Anybody that really understands BB knew this team was very talented, but knew that it had a couple of very big weaknesses.

Those weaknesses will always get exposed a few times over a 30+ game schedule...especially on nights like tonight when you aren't playing five on five.

I love this team because they play their heart out on defense. They will struggle on offense from time to time, but the effort will always be there.

Once again I will say..I wish Rick would get a couple of pure shooters.
 
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johnfnkelly said:
This graph does a solid job of showing you just how much talent we've wasted since 2000. We arguably had a top 5 roster in the country every year from 2000-2010.

5 star recruits by team, 2000-2020
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12 of those guys were on the 2001 team. UT ended the decade with 14 total. It looks to me like UT completely dropped off after 2001-2002.
 
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JH better hurry up and hire a homerun staff on D or this is all for nothing....

Initially didn't like the hire, learned more about him as a person, coach, and his offense philosophy... Watched some games and thought about the talent we have currently on the offensive side of the roster... good fit and exciting, points scored almost every possession with the right athletes...Really wants to be here and will give his all for this program.

BUT---- defense was Meh and playing against Meh competition most of the time. This is the SEC. Every weekend. No defense, no W......

Recruiting--- jury is still out, not confident, but maybe his offense draws talent... Must have recruiters and experience on the defensive side of the ball period.
 
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BruinVol said:
Well well well just 24 hours this board did their best to convince me this 3-3-5 defense wasn’t rare and was a successful new age popular concept. Heck even @Ulysees E. McGill called me stupid for being skeptical of the scheme.

well we finally found a big program using the 3-3-5 in Texas and we found a fail. Texas fired Todd Orlando after 2 bad years where his defense ranked 58th and 65th.

@Sleegro i am betting Texas folks still had a poor taste in their mouths for the 3-3-5 and let Sark know it when Arnett was involved in that DC search
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That todd Orlando defense was a big reason they had such a good first year. It caused them to have to give him a raise because Notre dame and LSU tried to steal him. I think he was the highest paid dc for a year. It didn't fail because of the system. It failed because everything started to deteriorate under Herman's poor leadership. Orlando went to USC and improved their total team defense by 40 yards per game and .3 TDs per game. The year before he got to Texas they gave up 449 yards per game. He improved that to 367 in his first year which is incredibly low in the big 12. Second year was still pretty good at 394. 3rd year was his only bad year and he went to USC and improved their defense. So there's another major program running it. So in his 4 years in major programs, 3 were really good. Nice try though.
 
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