Sean Miller now openly feuding with his team

With an 0-2 start to SEC play and the projected conference record for the Texas Longhorns dropping to 6-12 as the team’s NCAA Tournament odds drop to almost nothing, according to BartTorvik.com, what’s the purpose of the rest of the season for first-year head coach Sean Miller?

Winning a public feud with his players in an effort to set the program’s cultural standards in effort and accountability.

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In another remarkable post-game press conference after Tuesday’s 84-71 loss to No. 21 Tennessee in Knoxville, Miller noted the contrasts between the players who were on the court as Texas went into halftime down by 15 points and the players who were on the court when the Longhorns outscored the Volunteers by a point in the second half.

“I’ll just say this on my end, that tonight was about one thing — we have to be able to put a group of guys on the court who are going to play their very hardest with great effort for the University of Texas. Period. Guys like LaMarcus Aldridge and Kevin Durant, they deserve a team, whether we win or lose, that’s playing the game for each other, playing the game for the great place that we all live at, and playing for the win,” Miller said.

“I just think that sometimes when you get a new opportunity in the pressure of today, you can be clouded a little bit about what’s important. There’s nothing that’s more important than effort and I thought that to some degree that came into play against Mississippi State in our last game. I thought there were times in spite of how good of a team Tennessee has, that guys just really didn’t want to compete.”

In the second half, however, Miller didn’t have any issues with the effort level and togetherness that Texas played with, consistent sources of frustration for the Longhorns head coach over the first 15 games of the season.

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“We’re not very good team. We have a long way to go, but what we have to do is we have to be a team that’s connected and plays…

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