OTF Premium Texas basketball 2026-27 season thread

[Gerry Hamilton]

ESPN: 100 Days to College Basketball Season 

Texas listed as  one of 10 NC contenders

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/49410986/100-days-2026-2027-mens-college-basketball-season-stories-players-games

[LonghornFan4Ever]

 

[Gerry Hamilton]

2 hours ago, LonghornFan4Ever said:

 

Quad 1 games in 2025-26 season:
Michigan 24
Duke 22
Arizona 22
Purdue 22
Louisville 20 
Illinois, Texas, Kentucky, Florida and Tennessee 19
Vanderbilt 18 
Michigan State, Nebraska, Houston 17

 

[Hornio]

On 7/24/2026 at 11:21 AM, Gerry Hamilton said:

What is your definition of major contributors? Then I can answer 

Spears will be a major contributor for sure though 

 

> 20 minutes per game average for season

[Gerry Hamilton]

Sean Miller from yesterday

https://watch.longhornnetwork.com/video/986478

[Gerry Hamilton]

15 minutes ago, Hornio said:

> 20 minutes per game average for season

He will be a major contributor, but likely averages 16-18 mins per game 

[Gerry Hamilton]

 

[harveycmd]

The Norlander interview was pretty disrespectful. Never seen Norlander treat another coach like that. What's your payroll? Why can't you schedule tougher? Can I make you look bad? Miller should give him the cold shoulder.

[Gerry Hamilton]

7 hours ago, harveycmd said:

The Norlander interview was pretty disrespectful. Never seen Norlander treat another coach like that. What's your payroll? Why can't you schedule tougher? Can I make you look bad? Miller should give him the cold shoulder.

Agree 100% … I wonder if he’s asked Jon Scheyer, Todd Golden, Dusty May last year … what’s your payroll 

[harveycmd]

9 minutes ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

Agree 100% … I wonder if he’s asked Jon Scheyer, Todd Golden, Dusty May last year … what’s your payroll 

I've watched Norlander for a few years, and I've never seen him ask another coach questions like that. He just interviewed Hurley a few days ago. Didn't ask him to disclose his payroll. Didn't ask him to explain why he likes to cuss out refs and threaten them by yelling, "I'm the best basketball coach in the world! You better watch what you're doing!" For some reason, Norlander thought he needed to play "gotcha" with Miller. 

[Gerry Hamilton]

2 minutes ago, harveycmd said:

I've watched Norlander for a few years, and I've never seen him ask another coach questions like that. He just interviewed Hurley a few days ago. Didn't ask him to disclose his payroll. Didn't ask him to explain why he likes to cuss out refs and threaten them by yelling, "I'm the best basketball coach in the world! You better watch what you're doing!" For some reason, Norlander thought he needed to play "gotcha" with Miller. 

Yep. I haven’t watched him much, but never seen him have an interview like that 

Glad someone else noticed 

[harveycmd]

8 minutes ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

Yep. I haven’t watched him much, but never seen him have an interview like that 

Glad someone else noticed 

I'm glad Miller came back at him at the end and told him he was wrong on the scheduling. Miller said he'd done a deep dive on the analytics and would be happy to talk to him next March and see what he had to say. 

[Horn79]

I kinda enjoyed the interview honestly. Speculation, but it seems that Norlander and Miller are pretty comfortable around each other, so maybe Norlander felt empowered to ask some more direct questions. I enjoyed seeing Sean respond, push back, and show some personality that he doesn’t typically show in these public appearances. I thought he crushed it. The non-conference schedule criticism isn’t really warranted IMO, but it was great to hear Sean’s responses. 

[harveycmd]

1 hour ago, Horn79 said:

I kinda enjoyed the interview honestly. Speculation, but it seems that Norlander and Miller are pretty comfortable around each other, so maybe Norlander felt empowered to ask some more direct questions. I enjoyed seeing Sean respond, push back, and show some personality that he doesn’t typically show in these public appearances. I thought he crushed it. The non-conference schedule criticism isn’t really warranted IMO, but it was great to hear Sean’s responses. 

Norlander wouldn't have asked if they were good if they were buds or something like that. Norlander talked about going to Japan with Hurley. That's his love bud, not Miller. Sean told him he was wrong three times. 

By the way, Gerry, went to see The Odyssey with my daughter. Wore our jerseys. Listened to YMCA, Don't Stop Believin', Back in Black and Country Grammar on the way.

[Bevohorns]

1 hour ago, Horn79 said:

I kinda enjoyed the interview honestly. Speculation, but it seems that Norlander and Miller are pretty comfortable around each other, so maybe Norlander felt empowered to ask some more direct questions. I enjoyed seeing Sean respond, push back, and show some personality that he doesn’t typically show in these public appearances. I thought he crushed it. The non-conference schedule criticism isn’t really warranted IMO, but it was great to hear Sean’s responses. 

Ya I didn’t think it’s was that bad I think the payroll question stems from miller saying a lot of teams would have a 20 million pay roll on the field of 68 a few weeks ago. I will say the non conference schedule discourse is odd and I wonder if it wouldn’t be a thing if we didn’t have the roster we have now. It’s like people wanted miller to predict the roster he was going to have a year in advance when he was scheduling the buy in games. I honestly haven’t seen many non conference schedule way harder than us all over the country.  

[harveycmd]

I wore home 8. She wore road 24. It was in Longview, which takes about 45 minutes to get to. Listened to nothing but the man's fav Righteous Brothers on the way home. One of the Righteous Brothers songs we listened to was You've Lost that Lovin' Feelin'. It was a bunch of early 20s women reacting to the song, which they'd never heard. I grew up listening to the Righteous Brothers on the radio when I was a kid in the 80s. My daughter is 21 and she grew up listening to the Righteous Brothers because I played it for her. She couldn't understand why they didn't know that You've Lost that Lovin' Feelin' is the most played song in the history of the world. Of course, she grew up reading The Odyssey and doesn't understand why people don't know that Odysseus is the greatest epic hero in the history of the world.

[harveycmd]

8 minutes ago, Bevohorns said:

Ya I didn’t think it’s was that bad I think the payroll question stems from miller saying a lot of teams would have a 20 million pay roll on the field of 68 a few weeks ago. I will say the non conference schedule discourse is odd and I wonder if it wouldn’t be a thing if we didn’t have the roster we have now. It’s like people wanted miller to predict the roster he was going to have a year in advance when he was scheduling the buy in games. I honestly haven’t seen many non conference schedule way harder than us all over the country.  

Many teams have a tougher non-conference schedule. Most top 15 teams have a tougher non-conference schedule. I'd like for the Longhorns to play Illinois, Michigan, Duke, Saint John's, Houston, Arizona, Kansas. What goober boy Connecticut Norlander doesn't understand is that Mississippi State is twice as good as Rutgers, Seton Hall, Utah, Butler, Cal, Boston College and Washington. That's why Miller told him he doesn't need to schedule more hardcore non-conference games.

[harveycmd]

My daughter's second favorite book is Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, which we read probably five times from the time she was nine to sixteen. Vietnam war movie Apocalypse Now is based on Heart of Darkness. 

Daughter's grandfather (my dad) served three tours in Vietnam (66-67, 69-70, 71-72) as a Navy Chief. They could only make you serve one tour. He volunteered for the last two. His primary job the last two tours was to navigate up river to deliver operators to different locations. 

My dad would watch Apocalypse Now with us while we read Heart of Darkness. He would always squirm during this scene for reasons I won't relay.

 

[Gerry Hamilton]

43 minutes ago, Bevohorns said:

Ya I didn’t think it’s was that bad I think the payroll question stems from miller saying a lot of teams would have a 20 million pay roll on the field of 68 a few weeks ago. I will say the non conference schedule discourse is odd and I wonder if it wouldn’t be a thing if we didn’t have the roster we have now. It’s like people wanted miller to predict the roster he was going to have a year in advance when he was scheduling the buy in games. I honestly haven’t seen many non conference schedule way harder than us all over the country.  

My issue is what @harveycmdsaid in a prior post. 

That question wasn't asked of Dusty May last year. Not Scheyer, Golden, Hurley, etc... in this summer's off season.

That makes it a total BS question IMO. 

I do think Texas stepping up to compete with the big boys of college hoops will cause some of these moments and convos. I love it ... because Texas is going to be talked about in a totally different way nationally in hoops.