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  1. 3 hours ago, NorthLoop said:

    Hey guys... this is the last time we have to visit Lubbock ever. Like in any sport. Let's shit on their faces. 

    Uhm,   I'll bet we'll be playing baseball in Lubbock within 10 years.    Regional/Super Regional or lazy non-conference scheduling at which point I'll start the Jim SLOSSNAGLE GIVES ME BIG SAD thread...

    For the record I don't want to play ANY of the current big 12 peeps non conference weekends at all  (home or road) when we go to SEC.  Arizona State/Arizona fine, but everyone else is Tuesday here or die.

  2. 1 minute ago, LCHorn said:

    I think that’s a good point but the context is different.  If that coach (the one we’re potentially firing) had taken over from a two time national championship winning coach and the program had lost momentum but it wasn’t a total rebuild, then yes, I think we would entertain it.  Particularly if we could see that we, regardless of the performance overall, appeared to be 4th or worse amongst regional rivals.  

    Mississippi State baseball let Gary Henderson go after he ran well into the playoffs after taking over for an imploding coach.  They then won it all with the new guy. So I hear you on this.

  3. 18 minutes ago, LCHorn said:

    That’s what a five year contract is for and we’d want that anyway.  
     

    Frankly, I’d agree with you if we are talking about Rodney Terry but racial dynamics play a part in that one, too (also the fact he’s known more for his recruiting rather than his coaching acumen-it’s just a bad look if he’s not given the opportunity to fail).  
     

    Pierce is different-he’s in year 7, he’s notoriously prickly and he’s got regional rivals that appear to have greater institutional support-it might just be wrong man, wrong time.  Either way, if CDC can’t sell that version of the story to some agent then he should get fired, too.  

    Backing the race component out, would we fire the generic men's basketball coach after two Elite Eights and one Final Four in 7 years?

    I know we ran off Barnes and Smart decided he'd rather coach anywhere but here.

  4. 21 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

    If you are going to get rid of a coach who has won 3 conference titles and been to Omaha 3 times in a span of 7 seasons, the next guy better be a slam dunk.

    Kirk Saarloos, who I think is a good coach, is not a slam dunk. The sample size is extremely small. Good for him for taking TCU to Omaha last season, but they were picked to win the league and then finished 4th and were on the tournament bubble heading into the season's final weeks.

    Saarloos went out of his way to ink a big contract with TCU and post it on twitter before we even hired Peirce.   I guess he was giving half of it to his wife anyways.. 

    I like DP and would hire him for the position now if I had to do it from available candidates.   At the time of his hiring I wanted  Savage from UCLA.   He'd won it all, and he would have continued the Texas/California trips.  

    On a side note, if we are in Lubbock on a pre-conference weekend in the next ten years, I'll want that coach fired reguardless of how many National Championships they have won.  

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  5. 11 minutes ago, hobbes2702 said:

    Yes. Been hearing it after every loss since he started.

    This has been a specialty forever.  I am also guilty of it.  I wanted Augie fired in 1997.  I was clearly wrong to want this.  Y'all need to chill. 

    It's not peak terrible yet, we won't be at complete despair until we have Cajun Horn commenting on each loss. ;) 

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  6. 1 hour ago, BillyGoatHill said:

    He was talking with a friend of mine during warmups prior to the game.

    Disc injury to his thumb. Can hit but no catching for 4 weeks.

    But Doctor, I couldn't play the piano before the injury....

  7. 23 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    Like a DUI?

    And before Augie there was a scandal involving Gus and money from the camps involving his son.  

    If you follow anyone around you can manufacture anything,  like right now a scandal is Pierce is not winning every game.  When no other coach has done this.  I'd like a consecutive stream of national championships too.   Peirce has made the "Elite 8" how many times?   He made the "Final 4" in 2021.

    I'd hate to work for some of you.

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  8. 22 minutes ago, BERT said:

    and you two goobers will be the ones bitching "man, i really wish we still had LHN". 

    No, I mainly listen to the games via Craig..     All the home games will be on ESPN+ anyways.

  9. 4 minutes ago, Helobious said:

    How hard is it to be a baseball manager beyond high school anyway? Everyone (should) know all the fundamentals beyond that level and works with specific coaches to tweak their game. I mean all you’re doing is putting together lineups and depth charts, I could do that and lead a winning team. I guess the only different animal is recruiting in the college game

    In before the fire Helobious thread. 

  10. 7 minutes ago, VirginiaLonghorn said:

    Haven’t noticed skipping ahead .. but, you’re right about the other content.  What are all those Longhorn Legends gonna do when the lights dim at LHN?  What about the front gate keeper who never has a bad day … or Maren Bennett who hasn’t aged a bit?

    "errbody getting wet today!"

  11. 14 minutes ago, VirginiaLonghorn said:

    Bless LHN.  Nothing like a Cal Poly rerun … when you’ve run out of Preparation H.

    Do they show the whole game or do they still cut it down for "time considerations", since there is some much other wonderful longhorn network content to crowd off the schedule.

  12. 25 minutes ago, B00M said:

    this is a romanticized recollection of Augie. Starting the year after his last championship…

    2006: 41-21, B12 champs, lost in Austin Regional

    2007: 46-17, B12 champs, lost in Austin Regional (at Dell)

    2008: 38-22, 5th in B12, lost in Rice Regional 

    2009: 50-16-1, B12 champs, CWS, National Runner up (LSU)

    2010: 50-13, B12 champs, lost in Austin Supers (TCU)

    2011: 49-19, B12 champs, CWS (0-2)

    2012: 30-22, 3rd in B12, failed to make NCAA Tourney

    2013: 27-24, LAST in B12, failed to make NCAA Tourney

    2014: 46-21, 5th in B12, CWS, finished ~3rd

    2015: 30-27, 5th in B12, lost in Dallas Baptist regional

    2016: 25-32, 7th in B12, failed to make NCAA Tourney

    So in Augie’s final 11 seasons, we missed the tournament 3 times and reached the CWS 3 times. 

    David Pierce’s 7 seasons (6 if you remove the covid year we started 14-3) have produced 3 CWS appearances and he’s missed the tournament once. 

    Claiming DP isn’t meeting our standard is ignorant and arguably fucking regarded. Like, a brief review of our last 20 years of results should probably be required before people post here. 

     

    The stat about Augie and "standard" is that we went over 700 days (non covid related season ending bullshit) without a conference series win.

    Pierce is doing fine.

     

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  13. Just now, SameSame said:

    We baby and cuddle and network and protect our guys.  The day we stop, the day we get rid of the cameras and the LHN and the nice questions is when our first step to getting better starts.

    So all the games won't be on SEC network/ESPN next year?   That is without a doubt the dumbest shit posted here today..  Good job...

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