So I know this sounds crazy.....

[molly jabali]

...this team could conceivably 18-9, with smarter play at end of games...NOW....the Shocks could easily be 6-21....but there ARE moments where I could what they MIGHT have been a team that could be pretty good....

I'm just bored and thinking out loud...

so...fool's gold?

[SubGod22]

[BostonWu]

...this team could conceivably 18-9, with smarter play at end of games...NOW....the Shocks could easily be 6-21....but there ARE moments where I could what they MIGHT have been a team that could be pretty good....

I'm just bored and thinking out loud...

so...fool's gold?

Sure, we could be winning if we weren't so dumb.

[AZ Shocker]

I would think 18-9 would've been a possibility. If only...

- Bell learned how to pass.
- Beverly didn't have the absolute worst 3 point form in the D-1 biz and made some here and there.
- Reginald didn't have a bad back.
- Cortez took the game more seriously.
- and Pohto didn't remind me of a Toyota Prius.

[Stickboy46]

If we weren't bad .. we could be good!

[shoxlax]

We are dumb because fatigue and muscle failure affect you mentally.

[Dan]

If Jaykwon Walton wasn't such a headcase and stuck around to be our starting 3 instead of Beverly.

[WuDrWu]

...this team could conceivably 18-9, with smarter play at end of games...NOW....the Shocks could easily be 6-21....but there ARE moments where I could what they MIGHT have been a team that could be pretty good....

I'm just bored and thinking out loud...

so...fool's gold?

18-9 is outside standard deviation. BUT, certainly this team's record could and should be better. Just beat SDSU, @Temple, ECU & @TU and I don't think there's nearly the angst. We'd be 15-12, 6-8 with a legit chance to be .500 in conference and out of the Wednesday game and potentially out of the Thursday game too. Very few people would be really mad.

And all four of those are games we should have won, regardless of the variables.

Now that I dig deeper...18-9 may be inside standard deviation. The above (should have happened) plus @Missouri (hardly a stretch), @ECU (again, hardly a stretch) and hold on vs Memphis where we led for 39 minutes?

[pinstripers]

When you lose those games, looking at it from the outside, you'd say it's coaching.

[forevershockerfan]

As soon that we lost. Abmas, I wondered if that would define HCPM first Season in a negative way. Then we didn't sign a bona-fide starting QB/ PG even though we were recruiting some. Even then, I thought we would do better than this.

The top loaded AAC schedule got us in a losing mode, losing all 4 games against FAU and Memphis. Compound that with multiple 3 point shots fired up by many Shockers in most games, but a very poor amount of makes.

Our strength seemed to be in the inside. However, our foes usually could easily prevent that and invite us with open arms to jack up as many wide open 3s as our heart desired. We seemed to settle for that bait, and the rest is history.

[Atxshoxfan]

I don't mean to PO you folks who hate my longhorn football team. But I can't resist pointing out the parallels to Shocker hoops.

Great coach appears to be losing his magic touch.

Hire new coach and team gets worse.

Hire another coach and team gets a little better, but not to standard.

Hire another coach and endure 1st loosing season in over a decade. Coaches 1st season at school.

2nd season, get back on winning path but loose several games by squandering 1st half leads, some big.

3rd season, made the playoffs.

My point is, building a foundation is important and takes time. Longhorn fans had Sark on the hot seat after year 1 as we didn't see anything resembling improvement.
But thing started to turn in year 2, when fans began saying, well they are getting better, but the team just doesn't know how to close.

We will see if HCPM is building that foundation in the next year or two. But right now it appears as if the hole is still being dug.

It does give me hope for the shockers future, but I also realize the path is tougher with lack of funds.My candle is still flickering and hope those flickers can grow to a full flame in the next year or two.

PS- sorry about the longhorn references.

[SHOCKvalue]

I don't mean to PO you folks who hate my longhorn football team. But I can't resist pointing out the parallels to Shocker hoops.

Great coach appears to be losing his magic touch.

Hire new coach and team gets worse.

Hire another coach and team gets a little better, but not to standard.

Hire another coach and endure 1st loosing season in over a decade. Coaches 1st season at school.

2nd season, get back on winning path but loose several games by squandering 1st half leads, some big.

3rd season, made the playoffs.

My point is, building a foundation is important and takes time. Longhorn fans had Sark on the hot seat after year 1 as we didn't see anything resembling improvement.
But thing started to turn in year 2, when fans began saying, well they are getting better, but the team just doesn't know how to close.

We will see if HCPM is building that foundation in the next year or two. But right now it appears as if the hole is still being dug.

It does give me hope for the shockers future, but I also realize the path is tougher with lack of funds.My candle is still flickering and hope those flickers can grow to a full flame in the next year or two.

PS- sorry about the longhorn references.

I noticed you didn't mention the NIL funding for UT that likely exceeds the annual GDP for any number of small third world nations.

[Atxshoxfan]

I noticed you didn't mention the NIL funding for UT that likely exceeds the annual GDP for any number of small third world nations.

Last paragraph.But I was trying to be optimistic.

[BostonWu]

I noticed you didn't mention the NIL funding for UT that likely exceeds the annual GDP for any number of small third world nations.

Don't they have some backup QB who's being paid millions not to play? Yeah we have so much in common.

[Atxshoxfan]

Don't they have some backup QB who's being paid millions not to play? Yeah we have so much in common.

Negative Nancy huh? Actually, no. He isn't taking any nil until he gets to play. His valuation is in the millions though. He did do some kind of player card or something to the benefits of dell children's hospital.