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Bodacious Bevo

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  1. We're paying $40M for football alone so that seems very reasonable to me /s
  2. Posted this in another thread, but for the purposes of obstruction, a defender is allowed to be in the base path if he’s in the act of fielding, not just if he has possession. The catcher was fine. https://unitedumpires.org/pdf/Feb2018-Interpretation.pdf
  3. Just as a clarification, defender can be there if they are in the act of fielding the ball. They don’t actually need possession https://unitedumpires.org/pdf/Feb2018-Interpretation.pdf
  4. Even better - “they physically annihilated us” https://www.on3.com/teams/texas-longhorns/news/texas-am-head-coach-mike-elko-hats-off-to-them-because-they-physically-annihilated-us/
  5. I’d buy it for double the price if it said Super Easy Conference instead
  6. Some are saying the Ags had nothing left to play for after losing to Mizzou, but that win yesterday was pretty important. It probably keeps them above .500 for the season. They were in danger of a 27-27 finish if they'd been swept by UGA then lost their first game in Hoover.
  7. I agree with your takes on Riojas. Yesterday seemed like a fundamentals day. Throw strikes and let your defense support you (except it didn’t). I’m not a baseball expert or anything but it seemed like one of the things that really helped Roger extend past one time through the order and be a quality starter (and something he has over Grubbs for those wanting to have that discussion) was all the funky stuff like dropping his arm slot and the eephus pitch. I don’t remember seeing much of that yesterday but I would imagine he brings it back in the postseason
  8. Let’s see if Grubbs can keep up his strikeout per 3 pitches pace
  9. Walker was one strike from his longest appearance of the season lol
  10. I wonder if we’ll see Jonah come in for Will once the lefty leaves the game. Borba and Flores are the biggest holes in the lineup but Gasparino seems like the worst OF bat at this point. Might be that Will/Jonah split based on matchups.
  11. Meaningful rest (eg Galvan) is fine but otherwise there’s still work to be done in finding our best lineup so we need guys to play
  12. Of course that camera crew completely missed the pitch
  13. Yeah, made an appearance in the spring game too
  14. I think I remember them rolling out 230lb Jett Bush at edge in a desperate attempt to find someone that would play within their assignment. Luckily we made up for the issues at edge with some athletic linebackers in Demarvion Overshown and Luke Brockermeyer /s
  15. Nice write up. A 30% draft rate is pretty great for a transition class and would traditionally be good for any class, though that may not be the case in the NIL era. Now that we can look back at the program’s ascension (‘21 -> ‘23) with the full benefit of hindsight, the transition class was a pretty key part of the roster building success in that period alongside development of the inherited RB and defensive depth chart, the 2022 OL haul (kudos and thanks to those involved), and a really high hit rate on 5 stars (Sanders, Campbell, Banks, Manning, Hill, Baxter being the 5 stars in the 21-23 classes). Compare those elements to others that were either overrated or just bad. The portal only gave us 3-5 meaningful contributors those years depending on how you want to define that (Keilan Robinson, Watts, Ewers, Sanborn, AD Mitchell). The non-OL in the ‘22 class mostly busted. And the offensive roster that Sark inherited only produced a couple non-OL that were any good for us: Whittington, Majors, and Christian Jones. This thing could have very easily never gotten off the ground if it weren’t for the transition class, the ‘22 OLs, Bijan and Roschon, and the DTs. That also speaks to how good all the non-roster parts of the program were under Sark (culture, continuity, scheme, etc.) Small thing about Jamier Johnson - he apparently left the Indiana program this offseason. There’s no info about him being in the portal or joining another team. Just a news article that he left and now he isn’t listed on the roster
  16. Etheridge didn’t say this in the blurb, but if we finished 19-11, I could understand that a 3-9 post-Spencer record would hold more weight for seeding than it does in the standings. Also I want to self-correct a post I made a couple weeks ago that Farmer was batting .300 in conference play. I misread the stat. I think the correct number was .255 then and the current number is .240. That was part of the discussion about whether Jonah would stay in the lineup when Belyeu returns. I’ve changed my mind on that - I think he does stay now. The part of that discussion that has (unfortunately) gotten more interesting is whether it’s strictly Farmer that would be replaced or if there are other guys like Borba that find themselves in that conversation.
  17. He reiterated that in his OB interview on Monday. They want to be patient and work pitch counts, but guys like Root aren’t going to give you walks, so you need to swing more to give yourself chances for hits.
  18. If we’re going to be literal, high school and NFL don’t matter. At those levels, they’re all boys amongst boys and men amongst men. That said, idgaf about the definition. The term is supposed to be a fun way to talk about physically advanced/dominant players. You don’t have to come legislate that away with an arbitrary definition. I don’t have a great Texas nomination that hasn’t already been mentioned (maybe Sweat is an honorable mention?), but a definite non-UT guy is Calvin Johnson.
  19. I saw that shirt at one of the baseball games I wonder if they carry the analogy to one of the men selling out Jesus for silver and the other eleven denying knowing him
  20. Is there a website with complete college baseball stats? Like the left vs. right splits and game by game stats mentioned above. Something like CollegeFootballData.com
  21. Affidavit says 2:11. Bunch of bars one block up close 11 minutes before that. It’s a Saturday night. The hell is the problem? Man, I feel like I’m not surly enough for surly anymore
  22. Hard disagree. The cop is there to protect pedestrians on a busy street at peak hours, not a football player that decided to get mega blazed driving between strip clubs
  23. They were referring to the Fasusi/Rogers/Haywood triumvirate (and apparently there was a guy named Dramodd Odoms that was a 5* OT and signed with SMU), but it’s always an interesting choice when the services chastise a staff with Sark/Flood’s history for their evaluations
  24. Could Burns get in the mix for the last starting spot? He started all six appearances at ASU last year before his injury. He threw as many as 118 pitches and 7.0 innings. Genuine question as I don’t have the baseball knowledge to say it’s a good idea lol
  25. My understanding of the reasoning for the return of bags is that they would avoid the new independent clearing house and fair market value requirements. The settlement basically sets up two pathways for payments to players: revenue sharing and NIL (which can come from the school or third parties). Revenue sharing is capped (~$20M) and can be doled out as a school sees fit. NIL is not capped, but all deals worth more than $600 dollars will have to go through an independent clearing house where they will be reviewed to ensure that they are fair market value for a valid business purpose. The clearing house will have the power to reject a deal that is pay-for-play. So, if Starting DT X’s NIL has a fair market value of $Y, then bags theoretically offer a competitive advantage if they are going to be greater than $Y because theoretically the only other option would be to add more and more NIL obligations for Starting DT X, and he only has so many hours he can spend signing autographs and copy/pasting tweets. Personally, I think it’s too early to know how the settlement will impact things. The clearing house thing seems like it will either work very well or terribly - probably terribly. Texas should be well-equipped to navigate the new landscape, whatever it may be.
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