Rodney Terry runs his program as he sees fit, and as a career B-level head coach at Fresno State and UTEP who fell butt-first into one of the deepest-pocketed programs in college basketball at Texas. I am not about to disparage his good fortune nor his fitness for the job. He posted a winning season at UTEP; he’s built for this, and more than proved his mettle during the Chris Beard fallout last season when he piloted the Longhorns to a Big 12 title and all the way to the Elite Eight.
Terry did a tremendous job under the sort of circumstances that would break most people. And under the circumstances, maybe recruiting was a fourth or fifth priority, a theory made more likely considering Texas waited months to remove the interim tag. Despite that, Terry and the Longhorns held together a recruiting class of studs Ron Holland and A.J. Johnson through the season and into the offseason.
Well. About that.