Jody quieted this board...

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To see her say there are not outstanding players Coach A inherited speaks volumes if that was indeed what she said. I don't disagree with the entitlement claim - this elitist attitude must be squashed otherwise Texas will remain mired in mediocrity in WBB and other sports.

The truth hurts and the silence on this board is truly telling. Let's see the doomsday bellringers respond... if they do. lmao.
 
Coach G really didn't inherit too good of a set of players either. Also by the time Coach G got to Texas, Baylor and A&M were cherry picking the players they wanted.
 
She inherited 3 players that throughout their careers will make the all conference team (imani, neka, chas) and at least one if not multiple could be all Americans at some point. So I can't say that I agree with JC on that one. I can say that the previous coach left the program in better shape than she found it.
 
Frankly, I am appalled that Jody would say those things in public, if she actually said them. Imagine what the returning/freshmen players must feel reading/hearing that. Of course I didn't see or read Conradts actual words so maybe the context makes them more reasonable. As the AAS game day story pointed out today, this team is sorely lacking a leader. Inexperience, immaturity, and lack of leadership are surely problems this year.
 
The words "a lot" makes a difference. Either way, the point was well taken. I do think there are internal issues and like Coach Conradt says, Coach A is a professional. Conradt's statements sheds some light into the unexplainable 1 game suspensions done awhile back.
 
An honest opinion given in private as opposed to giving such an opinion on TV is what appeals me. I still think it harsh to say that about the current players.
 
That's an excellent point, GG took what she was left and got them to the second round of the NCAA's in year one and the tourney every year after, (following a two year absence). What as has KA done with what she was left? Exactly. Not saying that it won't work, I'm just hoping that the X's and O's necessary as a coach will improve along with the players in years to come.
 
I thin Conradt's loyalty to her former assistant is commendable, but the problems we see on the floor every game are not the result of a talent gap alone.

The problems on offense were visible on day 1, and they have remained. TX had 19 turnovers in the first game of the season, 24 turnovers today. Guard play has gotten no better over the course of the season. With inexperienced guards, one might expect some set plays on offense. Nada. There are one and a half schemes in the half-court offense: force feed the post, and hope for some ball reversal if the post cannot make a shot. Except for Fussell, TX does not have the shooters to make the ball reversal effective. Can you honestly say you have seen anything else on offense? Every coach in the Big 12 can gameplan very easily against this. A disciplined 2-3 zone shuts this down even when TX has a massive height and talent advantage in the paint.

All season, I have seen Aston make one effective adjustment in a game: pulling the bigs out to guard the 3 point shot against KSU in Austin, never one one on offense. This defensive adjustment effectively turned around the game in the second half. But in round 2 in Manhattan, Deb Patterson packed the paint, run multiple screens to get her 3 point shooters free and beat the TX team (who had beaten KSU in Austin by 19) by 21. Where were Aston's adjustments? What did she learn from the first game?

As far as I can see, Aston is a good coach of rebounding, and maybe of post development - Stafford is a transcendent talent but Enemkpali has clearly improved under her tutelage. I can see why she was a successful assistant coach, but in every other aspect of the game she looks somewhere between bad and clueless. Her substitution patterns are whimsical tending to bizarre. Why did Stafford only play 17 minutes in the loss to KSU when playing against a team with no player over six foot, and had effectively won the first game against KSU?

I agree that there are currently only 3 OUTSTANDING players on this TX team. Besides Baylor who has more than 3? OSU has the formidable trio of Donohoe, Young and Bias. While many of the Big 12 teams who have been beating TX easily have a little more experience, many of them have been much more devastated by injuries than TX, and there is no real talent gap. The difference is that they have coaches who prepare them for each game, gameplan for each game and actually make in-game adjustments.

Sure TX has a youth problem, though this late in the season, we should be able to see improvement. If Aston had better shooters at guard, her predicatble offense would be more successful. Why does she not coach to the team's strengths more effectively instead of just allowing other coaches to expose and re-expose the same problems over and over again. There is enough talent on this team not to have endured the longest losing streak in program history, not to be 2 and 11 in conference play. I don't see why this coaching staff should get a free pass, when many of the problems I see on the floor are directly the fault of players being set up to fail, by a coaching staff that cannot or won't adequately prepare them to execute against the zone we all know is coming, coaches everyone to run to their spot to wait for the ball - movement without the c=ball on this offense is minimal tending to non-existent. Look at Baylor's interior passing - double Griner and she passes to a cutting Pope or Williams. I hope Aston is as good a recruiter as advertised because TX is going to need a HUGE talent advantage to overcome the stubborn, low basketball IQ coaching that has been apparent on the floor EVERY game, with the exception of the second half against KSU in Austin, this season.
 
No way Texas would have been 2-11 in conference play without the coaching turnover. Texas was mediocre under Coach G but they're terrible this year. Last spring, did anyone dream Texas would have a chance to finish last in the conference? Have we finished last in the conference in any major sport, ever? I'm sure someone will find a team that did but certainly it's rare (thankfully).

The only thing that has "quieted this board" is the worst season in Texas women's basketball history. Fans have just quit paying attention. Thank goodness we now have baseball and softball.

Perhaps you have to tear it down before you start to rebuild. I'm not sure how else you spin a season like this one, although I'm sure some will continue to try.
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I don't believe Coach A had a lot to do w/ Nneka developing. I believe Nneka always had it and capitalized on it this year. We saw glimpses of this last year as a freshman.

GG was finally getting the team she wanted - Peoples at the point, Nneka and Davenport slashing to the basket, sharp shooter Chassidy shooting 3's and Imani down low taking care of the paint.

We'll never know what GG would have done with this team but I think it would have been better than the record to date.
 
I've never seen a quitter lauded by a bunch of dimwits as much as what goes on here. Seriously, why don't you just move on and go support the Silver Stars in San Antonio or high school ball. Leave us in peace as the rebuilding finally starts ....5 years too late.
 
You're right. I missed your point. But I miss all of your points. We all do but at least, like a science project gone awry, it's eerily entertaining.

Tempesthorn let me get this straight -- anyone who is critical of the "rebuilding" project is a dimwit, correct? However if you obsessively blame The Evil One that is Coach Goestenkors for all that ails Texas and believe the worst season in UT history is a step in the right direction, you are an astute Texas women's basketball fan and worthy of posting. Got it. Thanks for helping us understand.
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oooooh a witty comeback. As impressive as fail goestenkor's only trophy to the Texas program. You're in denial about the truth under your messiah's accoladed accomplishments that cost UT $5.6 million dollars. The joke is not on me but rather you and your kind. Yeah, you find my statements entertaining only because you know it is true.
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You will see that Coach A will have Texas a perennial contender year in and year out and will be the second coming for Texas WBB. If you feel so insecure about my comments, we'd see you focus on the facts, but you're incapable as shown many times by your posts.

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Goestenkors is gone. She did not live up to expectations. The comparisons are moot and tedious IMO. She briefly got a sinking ship afloat, and now her successor has Texas WCBB circling the drain.

The program obviously needs to look forward which is proving difficult to do, since the basketball we have had had to watch this season is so terrible. Aston may be the answer but she will need to learn on the job and so far very few, if any, signs of that. A 9 - 15 overall record against a weaker than usual non-conference schedule and in a down a Big 12 year (with the exception of Baylor) does not inspire confidence. Nor does the lameness of excuses for this abysmal record by Aston's supporters. There is easily enough talent on this team to have a respectable record in the big 12.
 
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