Texas women's basketball portal thread

[texcoyote15]

5 minutes ago, stephanie said:

Guess you didn’t watch the S Car vs UCLA game?

I watched every game.  Our best player had the worst game of her career. Vic couldn’t do anything about that.  We can go back to Karen Aston if you want too.  But I bet then we wouldn’t win enough. 

[stephanie]

6 minutes ago, texcoyote15 said:

I watched every game.  Our best player had the worst game of her career. Vic couldn’t do anything about that.  We can go back to Karen Aston if you want too.  But I bet then we wouldn’t win enough. 

Agree. If Madi could’ve just had a mediocre night instead of a horrendous night I think we’d of beat UCLA. 

[texcoyote15]

1 minute ago, stephanie said:

Agree. If Madi could’ve just had a mediocre night instead of a horrendous night I think we’d of beat UCLA. 

Absolutely.  People say why didn’t Vic pull her.  She is too good to pull. You hope she gets hot and comes out of it.  Can you imagine Vic sitting her down and losing the game by 2 and the backlash he would have received?  

[UTexas]

Not portal related but this would've been a heckuva an addition to the class:

 

[HookemTexas]

2 hours ago, harveycmd said:

Given that WCBB loses money, how can teams be stupid enough to pay 500k for a player? Who makes these decisions?

This is an important part of the equation that is true for both WBB as well as football and any other sport; each of the programs operates under a budget.  I believe Vic's responsibility is also to sustain a highly competitive team year in and year out and in today's world that includes managing the NIL appropriately.

[HookemTexas]

1 hour ago, texcoyote15 said:

 

I have a friend who coaches tennis, he says he always asks new students - do you want to learn to win or do you want to have fun and look cool?  Because those are two different things, I can teach you to win, but it will be boring and repetitious because you have to master the basics and execution, but you'll win a lot.  I can teach you how to hit a down the line winner past your opponent, but you will most likely error more than you hit winners and lose.  You have to decide what you want.

[GoHorns1]

Vic is definitely “old school “ type coach he may need to adapt a little to the current basketball players. As Nick Saban said “adapt or die”

[NBHorn64]

1 hour ago, stephanie said:

Agree. If Madi could’ve just had a mediocre night instead of a horrendous night I think we’d of beat UCLA. 

I think they should have had Madi post up on the block and do her step back fade away. Maybe she could have gotten something going.  Her shot is hard to block.

[HookedOnTF]

13 minutes ago, GoHorns1 said:

Vic is definitely “old school “ type coach he may need to adapt a little to the current basketball players. As Nick Saban said “adapt or die”

I dont think most of Nick's players or coaches "enjoyed" the process nor did Nick adapt on that - he adapted more on strategy. Trust the process, enjoy the results.

[GoHorns1]

1 hour ago, stephanie said:

Agree. If Madi could’ve just had a mediocre night instead of a horrendous night I think we’d of beat UCLA. 

“If” is an excuse the losing team fans use. UCLA was the better team during the final.

[GoHorns1]

7 minutes ago, HookedOnTF said:

I dont think most of Nick's players or coaches "enjoyed" the process nor did Nick adapt on that - he adapted more on strategy. Trust the process, enjoy the results.

True.
However, Nick retired when players were given the ability to transfer and make NIL money. Vic can adapt or retire. Vic isn’t completely a innocent party on players transfers.

Edited 13 minutes ago by GoHorns1

[HookemTexas]

2 minutes ago, GoHorns1 said:

True, Nick retired when players were given the ability to transfer and make NIL money. Vic can adapt or retire.

Vic takes transfers, he's not like Dabo where he's refusing to use the portal and NIL.  The discussion is on his coaching style.

[GoHorns1]

2 minutes ago, HookemTexas said:

Vic takes transfers, he's not like Dabo where he's refusing to use the portal and NIL.  The discussion is on his coaching style.

Vic may to adapt coaching style or retire like Nick. ( I like Vic, but we all have adapt to current times)

Edited 10 minutes ago by GoHorns1