HJS {l Wrote}:Chris Beard taking over Texas
Big mistake by Beard. Texas will certainly pay him more money, but it is an objectively harder job then winning in Lubbock. Texas is a coach killing job and it isn’t a coincidence that Barnes, who is a Hall of Fame coach as witnessed by his above average performances at Providence, Clemson and Tennessee (and Texas) got run out of Austin on a rail despite taking them to their only Final Four in the last 70 years and two elite eights (with three of its four previous elite eights occurring over 70 years ago).
Beard could have landed the exact same talent in Lubbock as will be available in Austin, and having taken Tech to a final that they could have won, would have been given an enormous amount of latitude if anything went south. In Texas, even a run like Barnes had from 2003 through 2010 will not help you when you have a few years where you only make the 1st or 2nd round of the tournament. Ridiculous expectations for a program that has been objectively less successful then half the Big 12 since the A bomb got dropped on Nagasaki.