Portal never closes, all the players are available.

Go ask Earley what exactly?

Well we are up to 8 balls now, need 10 to field a team, and preferably about 16 for some depth.

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I give this troll a B+. Bonus points for 8th ball.

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Well, I thought it was a lovely post and he wrote it so well - with such enthusiasm

I think there's a LOT MORE ENTHUSIASM for Texas A&M basketball than there has been in a long while. It may just be my own subjective projections, but there appears to be a wave of optimism that there is no longer this glass ceiling of one or two wins in the tourney.

Yeah, we're getting a coach who has never won a tourney game, and yet we may be holding a winning lottery ticket. Bucky has a clean slate as a D1 coach- will the progression continue? I say yes. Let's hold our water next year, even if things appear really bad. I mean, he was a dealt a 2, 5, 8, 10, King, non-suited. We literally had JACK as a roster. (the King comes from A&M's deep resources, and somewhat decent pedigree recently should we choose to use them)

This guy is a winner- you see it in his history, and you recognize it in his manner.

Bunk Moreland said:

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Dimond1968 said:

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Hasn't even coached a game. The buzz hate has reached unhinged levels.

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Bucky could be worse than Barone and I'd still be happy that at least we didn't have to keep seeing that brand of basketball here again.

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Well that says it all

sodycracker said:

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Thanks for the optimism Mrs. McMillan

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says the guy whose preferred coach loses in the 1st or 2nd round if even makes the tournament. Lmao

Dimond1968 said:

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Hasn't even coached a game. The buzz hate has reached unhinged levels.

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I just didn't like the dorks who wanted to keep him.

I liked Buzz as a person, but watching his teams throw up brick after brick after brick was inexcusable. Not sorry to see him go

Appreciate much of what Buzz did while he was here. Not sad to see him go either. I'm ready to see what a new coach and philosophy brings.

Lmao!!

Bunk Moreland said:

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Dimond1968 said:

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Hasn't even coached a game. The buzz hate has reached unhinged levels.

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Bucky could be worse than Barone and I'd still be happy that at least we didn't have to keep seeing that brand of basketball here again.

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This can't be a real post

AggieCrew44 said:

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Bunk Moreland said:

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Dimond1968 said:

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Hasn't even coached a game. The buzz hate has reached unhinged levels.

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Bucky could be worse than Barone and I'd still be happy that at least we didn't have to keep seeing that brand of basketball here again.

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This can't be a real post

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Real as can be. We had 6 years of Buzz ball. I don't want to to keep seeing the same brand of boring basketball with bad shooters that will NEVER get to where we hope to go. I'd rather take a chance on someone who can produce an exciting style, and if he ends up losing and sucking oh well, fire him and find someone else.

I wanted nothing to do with another year of Buzz ball. I'm a Steelers fan. There's nothing worse than being elite at finishing just good enough to not be bad.

Bunk Moreland said:

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AggieCrew44 said:

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Bunk Moreland said:

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Dimond1968 said:

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Hasn't even coached a game. The buzz hate has reached unhinged levels.

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Bucky could be worse than Barone and I'd still be happy that at least we didn't have to keep seeing that brand of basketball here again.

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This can't be a real post

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Real as can be. We had 6 years of Buzz ball. I don't want to to keep seeing the same brand of boring basketball with bad shooters that will NEVER get to where we hope to go. I'd rather take a chance on someone who can produce an exciting style, and if he ends up losing and sucking oh well, fire him and find someone else.

I wanted nothing to do with another year of Buzz ball. I'm a Steelers fan. There's nothing worse than being elite at finishing just good enough to not be bad.

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Im also a Steelers fan. And I flat out don't care if we win games with a safety 2-0. A win is a win. I'm not here for exciting. I'm here for winning

Y'all are gonna be wildly shocked when Buzz's offense at Maryland is vastly better than ours. What we ran is nothing like he did at Marquette or VT. He ran that system because it gave the quality of player he could obtain here the best chance at winning

TombstoneTex said:

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AggieCrew44 said:

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Bunk Moreland said:

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AggieCrew44 said:

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Bunk Moreland said:

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Dimond1968 said:

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Hasn't even coached a game. The buzz hate has reached unhinged levels.

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Bucky could be worse than Barone and I'd still be happy that at least we didn't have to keep seeing that brand of basketball here again.

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This can't be a real post

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Real as can be. We had 6 years of Buzz ball. I don't want to to keep seeing the same brand of boring basketball with bad shooters that will NEVER get to where we hope to go. I'd rather take a chance on someone who can produce an exciting style, and if he ends up losing and sucking oh well, fire him and find someone else.

I wanted nothing to do with another year of Buzz ball. I'm a Steelers fan. There's nothing worse than being elite at finishing just good enough to not be bad.

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Im also a Steelers fan. And I flat out don't care if we win games with a safety 2-0. A win is a win. I'm not here for exciting. I'm here for winning

Y'all are gonna be wildly shocked when Buzz's offense at Maryland is vastly better than ours. What we ran is nothing like he did at Marquette or VT. He ran that system because it gave the quality of player he could obtain here the best chance at winning

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He's gone. You can stop moving the goalposts for him.

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It's a thread literally about him. His name is in the title twice

AggieCrew44 said:

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Bunk Moreland said:

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AggieCrew44 said:

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Bunk Moreland said:

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Dimond1968 said:

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Hasn't even coached a game. The buzz hate has reached unhinged levels.

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Bucky could be worse than Barone and I'd still be happy that at least we didn't have to keep seeing that brand of basketball here again.

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This can't be a real post

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Real as can be. We had 6 years of Buzz ball. I don't want to to keep seeing the same brand of boring basketball with bad shooters that will NEVER get to where we hope to go. I'd rather take a chance on someone who can produce an exciting style, and if he ends up losing and sucking oh well, fire him and find someone else.

I wanted nothing to do with another year of Buzz ball. I'm a Steelers fan. There's nothing worse than being elite at finishing just good enough to not be bad.

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Im also a Steelers fan. And I flat out don't care if we win games with a safety 2-0. A win is a win. I'm not here for exciting. I'm here for winning

Y'all are gonna be wildly shocked when Buzz's offense at Maryland is vastly better than ours. What we ran is nothing like he did at Marquette or VT. He ran that system because it gave the quality of player he could obtain here the best chance at winning

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I agree with this, but a lot of that is on Buzz, not on A&M. Yeah, we aren't the upper tier of NIL in the conference, but I guarantee you with a similar record, Bucky will have (and would have had) better NIL resources at his disposal.

It's been echoed here by many, and I have a very small avenue of knowledge into it as well, that Buzz had zero desire to play the NIL game. He didn't want to campaign for it, didn't want to glad hand for it and didn't build any relationships to try to increase the funds. His attitude toward NIL mirrored his attitude toward recruiting (while at A&M). So he basically had the bare minimum NIL available to him for the level of success the program had.

If he's got more base level NIL at Maryland, things will be different. And maybe he will have a different attitude about it to, being at a school where basketball isn't well behind football in popularity.

And if he does have a lot of success, I hope our bigger donors see that and hate it and it causes them to pump more $$$ into the program. But Bucky's approach so far will yield much better support across the board, IMO if we have the same level of on-court success.

Winning will be the most important thing though. Bucky has got to figure out a way to have at least some success in year 1 so that he can have a good/better roster in year 2 and take that into year 3. If he is having to completely reload in year 2, the program is going to be in trouble.

TjgtAg08 said:

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AggieCrew44 said:

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Bunk Moreland said:

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AggieCrew44 said:

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Bunk Moreland said:

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Dimond1968 said:

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Hasn't even coached a game. The buzz hate has reached unhinged levels.

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Bucky could be worse than Barone and I'd still be happy that at least we didn't have to keep seeing that brand of basketball here again.

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This can't be a real post

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Real as can be. We had 6 years of Buzz ball. I don't want to to keep seeing the same brand of boring basketball with bad shooters that will NEVER get to where we hope to go. I'd rather take a chance on someone who can produce an exciting style, and if he ends up losing and sucking oh well, fire him and find someone else.

I wanted nothing to do with another year of Buzz ball. I'm a Steelers fan. There's nothing worse than being elite at finishing just good enough to not be bad.

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Im also a Steelers fan. And I flat out don't care if we win games with a safety 2-0. A win is a win. I'm not here for exciting. I'm here for winning

Y'all are gonna be wildly shocked when Buzz's offense at Maryland is vastly better than ours. What we ran is nothing like he did at Marquette or VT. He ran that system because it gave the quality of player he could obtain here the best chance at winning

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I agree with this, but a lot of that is on Buzz, not on A&M. Yeah, we aren't the upper tier of NIL in the conference, but I guarantee you with a similar record, Bucky will have (and would have had) better NIL resources at his disposal.

It's been echoed here by many, and I have a very small avenue of knowledge into it as well, that Buzz had zero desire to play the NIL game. He didn't want to campaign for it, didn't want to glad hand for it and didn't build any relationships to try to increase the funds. His attitude toward NIL mirrored his attitude toward recruiting (while at A&M). So he basically had the bare minimum NIL available to him for the level of success the program had.

If he's got more base level NIL at Maryland, things will be different. And maybe he will have a different attitude about it to, being at a school where basketball isn't well behind football in popularity.

And if he does have a lot of success, I hope our bigger donors see that and hate it and it causes them to pump more $$$ into the program. But Bucky's approach so far will yield much better support across the board, IMO if we have the same level of on-court success.

Winning will be the most important thing though. Bucky has got to figure out a way to have at least some success in year 1 so that he can have a good/better roster in year 2 and take that into year 3. If he is having to completely reload in year 2, the program is going to be in trouble.

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I definitely agree he didn't do enough to gather off-court support in terms of playing the relationships game. That's kinda the point though. It shouldn't take him doing that. Elko could never say a word to a booster and our NIL would be at a top 5 level

I hope Bucky has success next season, because we are basically starting over

AggieCrew44 said:

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TjgtAg08 said:

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AggieCrew44 said:

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Bunk Moreland said:

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AggieCrew44 said:

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Bunk Moreland said:

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Dimond1968 said:

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Hasn't even coached a game. The buzz hate has reached unhinged levels.

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Bucky could be worse than Barone and I'd still be happy that at least we didn't have to keep seeing that brand of basketball here again.

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This can't be a real post

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Real as can be. We had 6 years of Buzz ball. I don't want to to keep seeing the same brand of boring basketball with bad shooters that will NEVER get to where we hope to go. I'd rather take a chance on someone who can produce an exciting style, and if he ends up losing and sucking oh well, fire him and find someone else.

I wanted nothing to do with another year of Buzz ball. I'm a Steelers fan. There's nothing worse than being elite at finishing just good enough to not be bad.

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Im also a Steelers fan. And I flat out don't care if we win games with a safety 2-0. A win is a win. I'm not here for exciting. I'm here for winning

Y'all are gonna be wildly shocked when Buzz's offense at Maryland is vastly better than ours. What we ran is nothing like he did at Marquette or VT. He ran that system because it gave the quality of player he could obtain here the best chance at winning

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I agree with this, but a lot of that is on Buzz, not on A&M. Yeah, we aren't the upper tier of NIL in the conference, but I guarantee you with a similar record, Bucky will have (and would have had) better NIL resources at his disposal.

It's been echoed here by many, and I have a very small avenue of knowledge into it as well, that Buzz had zero desire to play the NIL game. He didn't want to campaign for it, didn't want to glad hand for it and didn't build any relationships to try to increase the funds. His attitude toward NIL mirrored his attitude toward recruiting (while at A&M). So he basically had the bare minimum NIL available to him for the level of success the program had.

If he's got more base level NIL at Maryland, things will be different. And maybe he will have a different attitude about it to, being at a school where basketball isn't well behind football in popularity.

And if he does have a lot of success, I hope our bigger donors see that and hate it and it causes them to pump more $$$ into the program. But Bucky's approach so far will yield much better support across the board, IMO if we have the same level of on-court success.

Winning will be the most important thing though. Bucky has got to figure out a way to have at least some success in year 1 so that he can have a good/better roster in year 2 and take that into year 3. If he is having to completely reload in year 2, the program is going to be in trouble.

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I definitely agree he didn't do enough to gather off-court support in terms of playing the relationships game. That's kinda the point though. It shouldn't take him doing that. Elko could never say a word to a booster and our NIL would be at a top 5 level

I hope Bucky has success next season, because we are basically starting over

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If we cared about hoops like duke, Kansas, Kentucky, unc, etc…do then we'd have that level
Of Nil for hoops also.

Bucky is here to hopefully build basketball support to higher levels and thus more nil and better players which means more wins.

If he can do that then I damn sure hope we do whatever it takes to keep him.

AggieCrew44 said:

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Bunk Moreland said:

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AggieCrew44 said:

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Bunk Moreland said:

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Dimond1968 said:

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Hasn't even coached a game. The buzz hate has reached unhinged levels.

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Bucky could be worse than Barone and I'd still be happy that at least we didn't have to keep seeing that brand of basketball here again.

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This can't be a real post

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Real as can be. We had 6 years of Buzz ball. I don't want to to keep seeing the same brand of boring basketball with bad shooters that will NEVER get to where we hope to go. I'd rather take a chance on someone who can produce an exciting style, and if he ends up losing and sucking oh well, fire him and find someone else.

I wanted nothing to do with another year of Buzz ball. I'm a Steelers fan. There's nothing worse than being elite at finishing just good enough to not be bad.

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Im also a Steelers fan. And I flat out don't care if we win games with a safety 2-0. A win is a win. I'm not here for exciting. I'm here for winning

Y'all are gonna be wildly shocked when Buzz's offense at Maryland is vastly better than ours. What we ran is nothing like he did at Marquette or VT. He ran that system because it gave the quality of player he could obtain here the best chance at winning

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The problem with this is winning 2-0 in football or winning with an offense based on being so bad at shooting that you chuck a ton just to get offensive rebounds is it will never get you close to a title.

Goodbye Buzz Ball. I'd roll the dice with Bucky ball and a possibly higher ceiling with a lower floor than Buzz all day. This program needs juice. Buzz is the opposite of that and the past couple years added in the need to lecture everyone about it along the way.

2 ncaa wins is some sort of badge of honor?

Not once did I say 2 NCAA wins is some "Badge of honor"