Johnny Boyziel 2 said:

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So looch whiffed on his guesses if true?

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Yesterday at 230p

I've also heard the name Bucky McMillan of Samford more than once in the last couple of days. Again, these are potential candidates and guys who could very well emerge as serious contenders in short order, as I don't expect Trev Alberts to let this thing drag out very long.

Mitch Cole is one of his assistants?

TAMUallen said:

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PJYoung said:

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Johnny Boyziel 2 said:

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So looch whiffed on his guesses if true?

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Yesterday at 230p

I've also heard the name Bucky McMillan of Samford more than once in the last couple of days. Again, these are potential candidates and guys who could very well emerge as serious contenders in short order, as I don't expect Trev Alberts to let this thing drag out very long.

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So he didn't know and heard same rumors as everybody else

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Lol he had been saying it was down to Huss or Bucky but please go on.

linkdude said:

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6-9 forward Jaden Brownell is at least one Samford player Texas A&M fans should know about. He was teammates with Jace Carter at UIC before transferring to Samford and averaging 14 points per game this season. Shot 51.8% from the floor and 39.7% from 3.

— Carter Karels (@CarterKarels) April 5, 2025

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MarcAg said:

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It's a bold hire. Excited for the ride. It's going to be awesome or a disaster.

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I've been around A&M athletics long enough to know how this is going to play out. If those are the 2 choices, it will be a disaster.

cutter said:

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Our game next season vs Bama is going to be a replay of Bama-BYU

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Can we be Bama this time?

Twelfthman99 said:

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Underwhelming. Name another elite program that would make this gamble. We are a joke of an athletic department.

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Just because a few centenarians got lucky drilling holes in the ground doesn't that the old A and M can conjure the reincarnated Dean Smith to spur on its cagers.

Twelfthman99 said:

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Underwhelming. Name another elite program that would make this gamble. We are a joke of an athletic department.

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Well, we're not an elite program, so…

jphelmet said:

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This is a huge gamble.

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Yep. So...we struck out about 8 times.

Buckeyball has a defensive rating in the 250s. We're going to get slaughtered. On paper, this is a far worse deal than BK. Maybe if BK had never developed Parkinson's and the Kennedy - Stansbury had lasted 6+ years instead of 3.

The saving grace is taking lots of 3s and making high 30s against turrible competition. Very high tempo rate. That means rush down court and chuck it. They get blocked a lot, and give up a lot of steals. That tells me the offense is undisciplined. Not going to work against athletic transition D in the SEC.

This year's duke team runs one of the best offenses of the OAD era - they are 269 in tempo.

I did not have McMillan on the bingo card. He's only beaten a top 100 team once - Chattanooga...then lost to them a couple of weeks later.

Trev may have been hit in the head too often. Did he mean to hire the Stanford coach Kyle Smith?

A&M fans historically love defense, especially the kind that Billy G ran. Many at the games don't know the difference between a pick & roll and a picket fence.

I appreciate the enthusiasm.

Bob will post 50x to bury your reality check and force it 2 pages back with nonsense sunshine

94chem said:

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Twelfthman99 said:

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Underwhelming. Name another elite program that would make this gamble. We are a joke of an athletic department.

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Just because a few centenarians got lucky drilling holes in the ground doesn't that the old A and M can conjure the reincarnated Dean Smith to spur on its cagers.

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...and Dean Smith worked for a NC winning coach and one of the better coaches of that era: Frank McGuire who won 549 games against 236 losses at St. John's, UNC, and USCe.

McGuire and UNC beat Wilt Chamberlain and Kansas in 1957.

dkd95 said:

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From the ESPN article... "The energy and style should help engage an A&M fan base that isn't organically a basketball group."

Hilarious and hopefully, true!

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Ouch. That redefines left handed complement.

He's not wrong, though.

I hope the gamble works. I'd like to see something short run in football and basketball besides mediocrity, but that appears unlikely.

Lightning in a bottle - why not.

We're a softball school anyway, right?

Why the **** don't we have gymnastics? - I'm serious here. We'd crush it.

I don't think he has ever had a Q1 win?

Lost by 53 to Purdue in his beast season

94chem said:

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DukeMu said:

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jphelmet said:

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This is a huge gamble.

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Yep. So...we struck out about 8 times.

Buckeyball has a defensive rating in the 250s. We're going to get slaughtered. On paper, this is a far worse deal than BK. Maybe if BK had never developed Parkinson's and the Kennedy - Stansbury had lasted 6+ years instead of 3.

The saving grace is taking lots of 3s and making high 30s against turrible competition. Very high tempo rate. That means rush down court and chuck it. They get blocked a lot, and give up a lot of steals. That tells me the offense is undisciplined. Not going to work against athletic transition D in the SEC.

This year's duke team runs one of the best offenses of the OAD era - they are 269 in tempo.

I did not have McMillan on the bingo card. He's only beaten a top 100 team once - Chattanooga...then lost to them a couple of weeks later.

Trev may have been hit in the head too often. Did he mean to hire the Stanford coach Kyle Smith?

A&M fans historically love defense, especially the kind that Billy G ran. Many at the games don't know the difference between a pick & roll and a picket fence.

I appreciate the enthusiasm.

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Gonna go out on a limb here and say a lot of his success will depend on the players he recruits. Gonna take a wild stab here and also suggest that Duke would be pretty good at any tempo.

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They would make too many TOs at a Samford speed. But yeah, *pretty good,* and Duke's help team defense with a rim protector also makes up for any offensive miscues. No team switches and has ballers guarding 1-5 better...except probably this Houston team.

I think/hope this is a great hire. I hope we can find a way to make free throws.

94chem said:

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DukeMu said:

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jphelmet said:

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This is a huge gamble.

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Yep. So...we struck out about 8 times.

Buckeyball has a defensive rating in the 250s. We're going to get slaughtered. On paper, this is a far worse deal than BK. Maybe if BK had never developed Parkinson's and the Kennedy - Stansbury had lasted 6+ years instead of 3.

The saving grace is taking lots of 3s and making high 30s against turrible competition. Very high tempo rate. That means rush down court and chuck it. They get blocked a lot, and give up a lot of steals. That tells me the offense is undisciplined. Not going to work against athletic transition D in the SEC.

This year's duke team runs one of the best offenses of the OAD era - they are 269 in tempo.

I did not have McMillan on the bingo card. He's only beaten a top 100 team once - Chattanooga...then lost to them a couple of weeks later.

Trev may have been hit in the head too often. Did he mean to hire the Stanford coach Kyle Smith?

A&M fans historically love defense, especially the kind that Billy G ran. Many at the games don't know the difference between a pick & roll and a picket fence.

I appreciate the enthusiasm.

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Gonna go out on a limb here and say a lot of his success will depend on the players he recruits. Gonna take a wild stab here and also suggest that Duke would be pretty good at any tempo.

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I mean Coach K tried to get Michael Jordan in his second year.

Going to need to figure out a way to bring defense into the equation to provide stability when the 3's aren't raining.