Don't you think it's going to take at least a couple seasons to figure that out? I mean, if we're under .500 for the season next year, so what? Even a little iota of tournament success talk today is a bit too soon.Quote:
I just think this style is either super going to work or be an absolute disaster. And I don't mean either final four or a KenPom in the 200s, but either we're competitive with the top third of the league or nowhere near the tournament is what I'm thinking. I don't think we're going to be hovering around the bubble every year.
I don't think there is any way we are going to be looked at as a new power program without at least several Sweet 16 finishes in a 3 or 4 year period. The basketball "establishment" is working very hard to keep A&M and really any program from cracking the barrier. I'll say the same about Auburn and Alabama at this point. The "establishment" is so east coast and mid-west invested, all it will take is for a Michigan or Notre Dame or Connecticut or Duke to have a good year to grab all the pub.Quote:
......but what I mean is more that we're either going to be looked at a new power program or we'll be one of the worst in the league.
jrdaustin said:
I would think so. Listening to Self's comments, Bucky's system requires 10 to 12 guys with substantial minutes in order to properly work.
It will take some time to build that roster.
_lefraud_ said:Luke The Drifter said:shalackin said:
Big meh on the hire..... definitely not a splash hire. Would guess we take a big step back and then it's a "we'll see" waiting game. Good ole Aggie sports. We will always suck in everything we do.
There was a 0.0% chance we were going to get a splash hire. It has never happened in the history of A&M basketball and there's no reason to think it was going to happen here. Maybe this new guy will work out...maybe he won't. We have no idea. We are not a destination job for college basketball coaches. Either Bucky will do poorly and he'll get fired...or he'll do well and get hired away by a better program.
Until we change the culture at A&M, it is always going to be that way. Until we care about anything other than a.) football and b.) obsessing over Texas, we will just be a so-so basketball program that won't have the ability to attract splash hire type coaches.
I'm perfectly fine with this hire. Hope he does well and becomes the most legendary head coach in Aggie hoops history. Hopefully this guy isn't just a "grab the money from A&M and get lazy" like some of our football coaches have done.
Buzz was a splash (for A&M) but I completely agree with everything else about your post. Especially, the obsessing over Texas part…our fanbase is pathetic, always worried about what big brother in Austin is doing or thinks.
And then this belief A&M is a football school, but there's no evidence we are that, other than spending like one. Alabama, Auburn and Florida are football schools, and they've somehow figured out how to be successful in basketball.
I like this hire, time to embrace it and potentially change the way we look at basketball.
94chem said:_lefraud_ said:Luke The Drifter said:shalackin said:
Big meh on the hire..... definitely not a splash hire. Would guess we take a big step back and then it's a "we'll see" waiting game. Good ole Aggie sports. We will always suck in everything we do.
There was a 0.0% chance we were going to get a splash hire. It has never happened in the history of A&M basketball and there's no reason to think it was going to happen here. Maybe this new guy will work out...maybe he won't. We have no idea. We are not a destination job for college basketball coaches. Either Bucky will do poorly and he'll get fired...or he'll do well and get hired away by a better program.
Until we change the culture at A&M, it is always going to be that way. Until we care about anything other than a.) football and b.) obsessing over Texas, we will just be a so-so basketball program that won't have the ability to attract splash hire type coaches.
I'm perfectly fine with this hire. Hope he does well and becomes the most legendary head coach in Aggie hoops history. Hopefully this guy isn't just a "grab the money from A&M and get lazy" like some of our football coaches have done.
Buzz was a splash (for A&M) but I completely agree with everything else about your post. Especially, the obsessing over Texas part…our fanbase is pathetic, always worried about what big brother in Austin is doing or thinks.
And then this belief A&M is a football school, but there's no evidence we are that, other than spending like one. Alabama, Auburn and Florida are football schools, and they've somehow figured out how to be successful in basketball.
I like this hire, time to embrace it and potentially change the way we look at basketball.
The Aggie inferiority complex collectively assumes that using its biggest resource, money; and meshing it with our strongest emotion, hatred ot t.u.; is somehow the correct path to fully met expectations and general life fulfillment. Never-mind that this formula has been successful zero times; it just hasn't worked because we don't spend enough and don't hate t.u. enough. Give it time. Just like the next five year plan. A few million more peasants may starve, but the collective WILL prevail.
OasisMan said:
Mannnn Wade Taylor woulda loved BuckyBall,
Letting 3s rain
Not having spent a ton of time on his style, it's rather intriguing. It seems much of the concept of based upon a bunch of journeyman players who are athletic and can shoot, and with maximum pressure would wear out an opposing team's top 5 fairly quickly.superunknown said:jrdaustin said:
I would think so. Listening to Self's comments, Bucky's system requires 10 to 12 guys with substantial minutes in order to properly work.
It will take some time to build that roster.
Looking through Samford stats over the last few seasons, I think he's definitely going to need a lot of players due to the style. Not many guys played more than 26-28 minutes but going 10 deep meant that even guys 9 and 10 were getting 10-15 minutes.
shalackin said:
Big meh on the hire..... definitely not a splash hire. Would guess we take a big step back and then it's a "we'll see" waiting game. Good ole Aggie sports. We will always suck in everything we do.
MaroonRevival said:shalackin said:
Big meh on the hire..... definitely not a splash hire. Would guess we take a big step back and then it's a "we'll see" waiting game. Good ole Aggie sports. We will always suck in everything we do.
I'm not surprised at the troll comment - they're coming out of the woodwork. Somewaht amazed it gets 14 stars. Are there really 14 trolls on here or are there really 14 sad-sack pathetic Aggies out there needing professional help?
jphelmet said:
This is a huge gamble.
bobinator said:
I think Trev got someone to create an algorithm to determine the most un-Buzz-like head coach in the country
Probably because we went from the possibility of getting Chris Beard to acquiring a guy that nobody outside of the most hardcore basketball fans have ever even heard of while having a gazillion dollar athletic budget.JJxvi said:
Why do yall need to have your mind made up before seeing any games?
I starred it and definitely not a troll or a sad-sack pathetic Aggie. Reality bites and the size of your maroon colored glasses must be gigantic.MaroonRevival said:shalackin said:
Big meh on the hire..... definitely not a splash hire. Would guess we take a big step back and then it's a "we'll see" waiting game. Good ole Aggie sports. We will always suck in everything we do.
I'm not surprised at the troll comment - they're coming out of the woodwork. Somewaht amazed it gets 14 stars. Are there really 14 trolls on here or are there really 14 sad-sack pathetic Aggies out there needing professional help?
Bucees need to be front and center in the NIL game.rangerdanger said:
Nice. I'm feeling carbonated.Mega Lops said:
6 pages of a thread called Bucky Ball and no actual Buckyball… til now.
DukeMu said:Bucees need to be front and center in the NIL game.rangerdanger said:
johnnyblaze36 said:I starred it and definitely not a troll or a sad-sack pathetic Aggie. Reality bites and the size of your maroon colored glasses must be gigantic.MaroonRevival said:shalackin said:
Big meh on the hire..... definitely not a splash hire. Would guess we take a big step back and then it's a "we'll see" waiting game. Good ole Aggie sports. We will always suck in everything we do.
I'm not surprised at the troll comment - they're coming out of the woodwork. Somewaht amazed it gets 14 stars. Are there really 14 trolls on here or are there really 14 sad-sack pathetic Aggies out there needing professional help?
