In CDC, I trust he'll set the bar high and the Horns will have a top-tier HC for men's basketball in the next 2 months.  Love how all other Longhorn sports are positioned with strong leadership and impressive results from Football, Baseball, Swim/Dive, Golf, Women's Basketball, Volleyball, the list goes on.  It's awesome.  Men's basketball has regressed the past 2 seasons and seems to be the one sport that we're not in top tier of all major sports.  CDC talks about "the standard" set for all sports across the university.  Look forward to seeing the path ahead.  Hook Em!  

9 minutes ago, bierce said:

I'm not keen on adding a 60 year old who has been away from the college game but 20 years, but there are only 20 coaches in NBA history with more wins and a higher winning percentage than Snyder, factoring games as of last night.  Hard to call that nothing special. 

Actually, it seems like it was easy.

28 minutes ago, Hashtag said:

Not really. And he’s still been out of college for nearly 20 years so no thank you on the near 60 year old.  Stevens like Donovan was a superior college coach to Snyder. 

A lot of the coaches they'll be looking at are going to be around 60.

I am not going to automatically eliminate a guy with his NBA record. NBA games are won by finding advantages and pounding on them relentlessly. If a guy can produce at that level, he can X and O.

Will he recruit? That is the question. He crumbled at Mizzou and there were rumors. I assume he's good now.

And I still say the best hires over the last 7 years have proven to be Hurley, Oats, Lloyd, Otzelberger, Scheyer, Golden, and maybe May and McCasland will be soon added to the list.

None of them had P5 coaching experience before taking their current jobs. 

You get the right young guy, give him support, step back, and watch it happen. 

2 minutes ago, bierce said:

And I still say the best hires over the last 7 years have proven to be Hurley, Oats, Lloyd, Otzelberger, Scheyer, Golden, and maybe May and McCasland will be soon added to the list.

None of them had P5 coaching experience before taking their current jobs. 

You get the right young guy, give him support, step back, and watch it happen. 

This is where I’m at. Young right guy so that way program is setup for years. Not a 60 year old who hasn’t coached or recruited in college since 2006. I posted earlier but apparent Otz buyout is only 4 million. 
 

find you a championship pedigree young collegiate coach and go that route. 

5 minutes ago, bierce said:

And I still say the best hires over the last 7 years have proven to be Hurley, Oats, Lloyd, Otzelberger, Scheyer, Golden, and maybe May and McCasland will be soon added to the list.

None of them had P5 coaching experience before taking their current jobs. 

You get the right young guy, give him support, step back, and watch it happen. 

That's the conundrum.

Just asking, has CDC found anyone like that?

2 minutes ago, Hashtag said:

This is where I’m at. Young right guy so that way program is setup for years. Not a 60 year old who hasn’t coached or recruited in college since 2006. I posted earlier but apparent Otz buyout is only 4 million. 
 

find you a championship pedigree young collegiate coach and go that route. 

Yet you keep rejecting the idea of hiring a young guy who doesn't have P5 head coaching on their resumes. 

9 minutes ago, bierce said:

Yet you keep rejecting the idea of hiring a young guy who doesn't have P5 head coaching on their resumes. 

I don’t reject that idea. When I made that list it was criteria CDC has said he looks for in coaches. Frankly I think McCollum is a guy we should risk it for the biscuit on and give him everything he needs to be successful 

3 minutes ago, Hashtag said:

I don’t reject that idea. When I made that list it was criteria CDC has said he looks for in coaches. Frankly I think McCollum is a guy we should risk it for the biscuit on and give him everything he needs to be successful 

Gotcha.  I think Murray would be even better, since he has spent years recruiting for UConn, so he's well-versed in recruiting at this level. 

Have I missed something. You fellas are acting as if RT has been fired . 
 Also I heard CDC say a year or so ago that he keeps a list of replacements in his desk of potential replacements of head coaches in the event a HC left or was replaced. If RT leaves or is fired chances are CDC already has a short list of potential candidates to replace him . 

12 minutes ago, Jarveaux said:

Have I missed something. You fellas are acting as if RT has been fired . 
 Also I heard CDC say a year or so ago that he keeps a list of replacements in his desk of potential replacements of head coaches in the event a HC left or was replaced. If RT leaves or is fired chances are CDC already has a short list of potential candidates to replace him . 

I think we are coming to a consensus that it is a near certainty. 

I hope CDC regularly updates any such list.  That he has one doesn't mean we should restrain our tendencies to conjecture wildly about future events.

Isn't that why sports message boards were invented?

1 hour ago, Bevo92 said:

In CDC, I trust he'll set the bar high and the Horns will have a top-tier HC for men's basketball in the next 2 months.  Love how all other Longhorn sports are positioned with strong leadership and impressive results from Football, Baseball, Swim/Dive, Golf, Women's Basketball, Volleyball, the list goes on.  It's awesome.  Men's basketball has regressed the past 2 seasons and seems to be the one sport that we're not in top tier of all major sports.  CDC talks about "the standard" set for all sports across the university.  Look forward to seeing the path ahead.  Hook Em!  

What is the bar?

19 minutes ago, Jarveaux said:

Have I missed something. You fellas are acting as if RT has been fired . 
 Also I heard CDC say a year or so ago that he keeps a list of replacements in his desk of potential replacements of head coaches in the event a HC left or was replaced. If RT leaves or is fired chances are CDC already has a short list of potential candidates to replace him . 

Having a short list doesn’t mean they are coming. 

44 minutes ago, bierce said:

Gotcha.  I think Murray would be even better, since he has spent years recruiting for UConn, so he's well-versed in recruiting at this level. 

Bill’s kid? As a fan I wouldn’t mind seeing Bill around the program. 

40 minutes ago, Jordan91 said:

Having a short list doesn’t mean they are coming. 

What coach do you know that has turned down CDC to be a HC at The University Of Texas . 

1 minute ago, Jarveaux said:

What coach do you know that has turned down CDC to be a HC at The University Of Texas . 

Urban Meyer

1 minute ago, Hashtag said:

Urban Meyer

Hash I never believed that for a minute!

45 minutes ago, Jarveaux said:

What coach do you know that has turned down CDC to be a HC at The University Of Texas . 

You think they hired RT without sending feelers out to Oats? Mussleman? Calapari(CDC has a close relationship with him)?  They reached out to Urban Meyer in football. Urban had a demand list. You don’t remember that?

46 minutes ago, Jarveaux said:

Hash I never believed that for a minute!

Then don’t read my response. I didn’t know we were going off of what you believe. Urban wanted two new practice fields. CDC actually does get told no. If he doesn’t then let’s get the Duke coach. 

4 minutes ago, Jordan91 said:

You think they hired RT without sending feelers out to Oats? Mussleman? Calapari(CDC has a close relationship with him)?  They reached out to Urban Meyer in football. Urban had a demand list. You don’t remember that?

Miller was the guy CDC wanted. Then tourney happened

47 minutes ago, Hashtag said:

Miller was the guy CDC wanted. Then tourney happened

I have heard that before and I have heard others. 

On 2/28/2025 at 7:34 PM, Jordan91 said:

You think they hired RT without sending feelers out to Oats? Mussleman? Calapari? 

Serious inquiries? Nah. But it's more likely that those guys weren't interested while RT was still the coach. Why should they be?

This thread is gonna be lit 

@Gerry Hamilton

Just to steer the conversation a bit. What does a realistic option for Texas look like? Say, you don't improve support and the same deal is given to someone else, with the same NIL level, etc. What 5 names would you have on a short list?

Now the flip side of that would be, if Texas does put the support/investment into Basketball, who are 5 names you could see them having on that short list?

Kind of curious myself, as it does seem (fortunately or unfortunately) that Coach Terry has coached himself out of a job. I'm a complete noob when it comes to Basketball, so I'm happy to hear from some of our more knowledgeable people here. 

When CDC was interviewed by Newy Scruggs a few weeks ago, he talked about the high standard set for all sports and when he’s evaluating who he wants to pursue as next HC in any of UT’s sports, CDC builds 3 lists.

1. The Ultimate Wish List

2. The Guys You know you can get

3. Guys to Avoid (He called it the ‘poop list’)

With all the new resources UT has for basketball, including new state of the art arena, plus the fact that Wonens basketball has turned around quickly over past few years under coach Schaefer and reality that men’s basketball is one of two legit revenue generating sports for the university, betting this time around, CDC will only be looking at 1 list and its who are the Top 3-5 guys on his ultimate Wish List.   Basketball Coaches who have proven they can quickly turn a program around &/or they’ve consistently won at highest level:

Ultimate Wish List:    1a) Nate Oats, 1b) Scott Drew, 2) TJ Otzelberger, 3) Grant McCasland

Other Dark horse options that could be interesting:   4) Pat Kelsey, 5) Royal Ivey

SI COTY candidates includes a few other interesting potential targets

https://www.si.com/college-basketball/mens-college-basketball-coach-of-the-year-candidates