So far I've seen little team chemistry, teamwork, awareness, and basketball smarts from Smart's teams (ironic on the 'smart' part, I know). I see all of that each time Tech takes the court, plus harder play from tip off to buzzer--especially on defense and away from the ball.
Agree 100% on Allison. Going back maybe 15-18 years DCTF put a special edition on the whatever year it had been published. It featured stories on one player year by year. One of them was Allison and he was quoted as saying "the hardest thing I've ever had to do was sit in my living room and tell Darrell Royal I wasn't coming to Texas". "Saddest tale of tongue or pen..."
Yep. Rodney Allison ran the triple option with a pass threat as well as anyone. Unfortunately, Bill Yeoman had assembled a star-studded team of very good athletes at UH and was stomping nearly everyone at that time. Good Xs and Os coach too (Yeoman) but a dirty cheater at recruiting on the level of Switzer and Sherill.
I'm not trying to be down on our guys, but IMHO our team was not generally characterized by tipoff to buzzer hustle. Smart can use whatever cute name he wants to describe it, but we lacked anything approaching Tech's level of hustle.
I knew lots of Tech and TCU fans who rooted for us to beat USC for the national title. It seemed like practically the whole state (minus the envious aggies and some transplanted OU folks) was rooting for us.
TCU was not in the Big XII in 2005, and the only ones at Tceh who cheered for Texas are the ones who either could not get into Texas or flunked out of Texas. Remember Texas got no support from the Big XII North, ou, Baylor or aggy.
I know lots of Tech fans. Most of them like Tech because they're from West Texas or had other ties to the place. All of them who expressed anything were strongly rooting for us to beat USC. I know a much lower number of Baylor folks. Same with them--favored us over USC. The state pride here is immense. Aggies are a different nut to crack. (in many different ways...). Their intense envy of us trumps any state pride. Sooners aren't really us in the first place, they've been transplanted here. Yeah, the OU folks I knew went for USC.
The relative status of UT-A&M is quite similar to Michigan-Michigan State, Alabama-Auburn, Oklahoma-Oklahoma State, just like everyone on the video but the delusional female was saying. i just don't think MSU, Auburn, and OSU fans are openly arguing (against all facts) that their football history is on par with their in-state rivals. Cheer for your team, enjoy all the pageantry, but don't drink the Kool Aid.
Not sure why she shoots off her mouth about Texas or other teams, but she seems to have mostly shut up in the past 2 years, after she got lots of negative national attention for some insensitive comments about BU's sexual assault problems. Sure that every recruit's parents asked her about their daughter's safety, and she didn't handle it well. But she's a great coach and her players respond; they played some beautiful ball in the tournament. Hard not to appreciate it, even though BU kicked our butts this year.
