This overall is a great thing. The pressure at Texas is much greater than Tech, and hopefully this knocks Tech back down a few pegs.
Beard to Texas
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Right, Texas always has an extremely high ceiling, which they rarely attain. But the floor is usually much higher as well. Tech with Beard also had a high ceiling high floor, but assuming they don't bring in a new coach with nearly the talent of Beard, they will have much lower floors and ceilings and can be lumped in with K-State and TCU, possibly even OU now, as teams ISU can overtake quickly to climb back to relevance.
It's his alma mater, and I'm assuming he'll be paid at the minimum the same (Tech was paying him 6+mil). He might be a little slimy, but I don't see this particular move as such. Lubbock was a nice place for him to prove himself as a P6 coach and he knocked it out of the park and now has what is potentially a dream job for him.
No, this would be like Campbell leaving ISU go to EIU, not only did TT lose their coach, they lost him to their instate rival.
Things like that shake a fan base to its core, and make them question why they are supporting the school. When Gable left ISU for EIU, ISU was one of the big dogs in the sport, no one knew Gable would turn their program around and become a legend.
Beard is a well known commodity, and he didn't leave for the NBA like the mayor but to your hated rival.
I'm marking the Chris Beard saga for the next time a coach complains about transfers. One year at Arkansas Little Rock, 19 days at UNLV, 4 years at Texas Tech and now leaving them to go to a rival school. Good luck ever preaching loyalty.
Honestly player retention was always kind of an issue for Beard. Thing is, he was always able to reload just fine after departures.
Yeah I was talking about the current players for Tech. Likely going to see most of them transfer out.
2? We were lucky to get 1 win the last 6-8 years. If I remember right Hoiberg would always lose on some random Wednesday night down there in front of 2,000 fans them come back and blowout Kansas in Ames.
I get what you're writing in principle, but did Beard specifically ever complain about the transfer issue? If not, it seems unfair to me to use it against him.
Not as far as I know. I guess it's just a larger complaint about how kids often get criticized for bouncing around schools while coaches come and go as they please.
Maybe the mythical Clarence Nadolny will finally end up in Ames.
I would sacrifice any one of you for Mac Mcclung to come to ISU. And I mean like painful Aztec style sacrifice.
I don't remember that personally, unless it was an interim coach. But I thought Tubby left in the off season.
I see it as more like Campbell going to Ohio State. Not his alma mater, but back to a familiar state where there has always been murmurs of him waiting for an opening. Or even the Cleveland Browns who recycle through coaches quickly. That's his pro team and he has been rumored for NFL jobs as well. I don't see Campbell ever coaching in Texas or somewhere in Iowa besides Ames.
