Coach Bates has these girls believing!

Knew when we hired a national championship winning coach from ucla it wouldn’t take long to get back where Texas truly belongs. Next step is obviously to win the conference consistently and to get to the programs first College Cup

Makes up for that ridiculous penalty

What an impressive run in the SEC tournament.

Ava McDonald out there having a 2011 Kemba Walker-esque run in this SEC Tournament.

I can't wait until she gets even more talent in the next couple years.

That penalty kick was a gift. Really was a horrible call by replay refs.

Our goalie did a great job during the shootout.

Hopefully Texas beats South Carolina in the SEC Tournament Championship Game the way the women’s basketball team beat South Carolina last season in Greenville.

I don’t know much about soccer, but Texas team now as opposed to a couple years ago shows you what kind of Athletic Director CDC is. He been amazing with all sports since he’s been here. He goes out and gets who he feels like the top person in the country is and he brings them in and gives them a huge amount of support to be successful. Let’s just say this definitely needs to be the job he retires from.

40 minutes ago, texcoyote15 said:

I don’t know much about soccer, but Texas team now as opposed to a couple years ago shows you what kind of Athletic Director CDC is. He been amazing with all sports since he’s been here. He goes out and gets who he feels like the top person in the country is and he brings them in and gives them a huge amount of support to be successful. Let’s just say this definitely needs to be the job he retires from.

Under CDC, every sport that he's hired a coach in is ranked and expects to compete late into the post season (championships), which is what the standard is at a school like Texas. There's only a few sports left that aren't consistently highly ranked (T&F) but CDC did not hire those coaches . . . yet. Outside of a few forced moves due to circumstances, his method has been to let the contract run out, not renew, and be ready with a new hire that's basically been in the works and ready to be announced the next day.

He could teach a course on how to handle succession planning.

2 hours ago, HookemTexas said:

Under CDC, every sport that he's hired a coach in is ranked and expects to compete late into the post season (championships), which is what the standard is at a school like Texas. There's only a few sports left that aren't consistently highly ranked (T&F) but CDC did not hire those coaches . . . yet. Outside of a few forced moves due to circumstances, his method has been to let the contract run out, not renew, and be ready with a new hire that's basically been in the works and ready to be announced the next day.

He could teach a course on how to handle succession planning.

Honestly, track and field needs more NIL support. It's not at football/basketball level, but there's enough attention to it, and enough prestige around it, that donors at different schools (Georgia/Oregon) have raised the stakes for what it takes to be ultra competitive.

21 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:

Honestly, track and field needs more NIL support. It's not at football/basketball level, but there's enough attention to it, and enough prestige around it, that donors at different schools (Georgia/Oregon) have raised the stakes for what it takes to be ultra competitive.

Agreed. I think might the biggest reason Indoor and Outdoor T&F and Cross Country are lagging behind some of the bigger sports at UT more than the head coaches of those sports.