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XOVERX

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  1. The supers are just like … right over there. Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t there some arcane rule that says you automatically advance to the supers if you score double digits in your first two games? You hardcore college baseball guys can confirm that rule, right?
  2. It’s baseball and all and you can never look ahead, but this game feels pretty solid.
  3. Thank goodness. Who’s the next victim?
  4. Big 12 Baseball Champs. Been awhile. Good. Now let’s win the B12 tournament and place well. Feels great.
  5. Idk. Blue appears to have such huge upside potential that it’s painful to think that that upside could be missed at Texas. I’ve followed recruiting since 1968 and I don’t *think* I’ve ever heard of a healthy HS player foregoing his senior year to “protect his body”. We’ve seen guys transfer to other schools for a myriad of reasons, some legitimate, some questionable, but sit out your senior season to “protect the body”? When healthy? In high school? Huh? What about trying to win a HS championship? How many of us tried like hell to win a HS championship back in the day? Is that not a big deal anymore? I mean, it sure is a big deal. Somebody mentioned Evans. While no one wants an Evans / Pirrallieu situation, is the evidence there to suggest that is the situation with Blue? What’s this track meet incident about? As others suggest, I also do not envy Sark & Staff right now. Thus develops the odd case of young Mr. Jaydon Blue.
  6. On these days of our collective sorrow, Jake’s tragic and untimely demise reminds us of our own fragility, and inspires us to provide love to our family and community while the pulse of life flows within us.
  7. Living up here in Abilene, let’s take out ACU today. Sweep’um out. I’m starting to get revved over the club this year. i would love it if the men and Pierce get Texas back to baseball dominance because I’ve got way too many TT prks to deal with up here (although Beard doled out a cram down of shock and awe in the psyche my TT colleagues on April 1, lol). Why the big difference in ranking between ESPN and the coach’s poll?
  8. Bears’s a beast. The most important day is today. We’re gonna recruit the best players in the world. Beard’s not messing around. There’s an urgency to win now. We’re going to play to win a NC now. I’ve heard the introductory talks from many a Texas coach over the years. Two of my favorites were Fred Akers and Mack Brown. Chris Beard is by far the most inspiring. The gravamen is to win a NC now. Not when the new stadium’s built. Not some year down the road. Not when coach gets his own guys in here. Dazzling. Oh my, lol. Get it done, Coach Beard. No wonder my TT friends are stricken.
  9. It is interesting that a near universally recognized blueblood football school - Southern Cal - has so publicly disseminated its concerns - and in a way that tends to destabilize the PAC. It might even eclipse Boren's "wallflower" comment from the days of yore, lol.
  10. I think the relevant contract says 75% of the membership must vote to dissolve, so, in a 10-school league (versus the original 12), I think one can safely assume that 8 votes is the requirement today for dissolution. It's been several years since I read the GOR and league contracts, but the information posted above by ButtFumble comports with my recollection, FWIW. I vividly remember strong tampering provisions in the GOR, especially as same apply to member schools. Still, as June 2025 approaches, the tampering provisions will become increasingly irrelevant. Why? Waiver. If the GOR does not become renegotiated in the 2023 to early 2025 timeframe, then there will be significant discussion about "what's the holdup?". If the B12 renegotiates early, then Texas and Oklahoma almost certainly will have elected to stay in the B12 and try to make it reasonably financially competitive with the B1G and the SEC. If B12 GOR negotiations drag into 2024, then into 2025, I feel reasonably certain that waiver will arise. The tampering provisions will eventually become moot because it will be the bottom 8 schools - not necessarily Texas or Oklahoma - that will waive the tampering clause. If there's no GOR renegotiation, it will be the TCUs, the ISUs, and this group of school admins that will be sweating it, publicly speculating about it, and thereby waiving the tampering clause, not Texas or Oklahoma. We will know what's going on, no doubt, one way or another, in the next few years. We will also have the advantage of analyzing the B1G contract in 2023 and the PAC contract in 2024, which may contain interesting provisions about escalators, in the case of the B1G, and escape clauses, in the case of the PAC. So, there will external contextual information, too.
  11. This discussion of USC to the B12 reminds me of the B12 courting ND before ND affiliated with the ACC. My guess is that if USC goes anywhere out of the PAC, USC will go to a stable league, which the B12 certainly is not. If it leaves the PAC, my guess is USC will probably pull other PAC members and go B1G, IMO. To me, this is self-evident. The B1G and the SEC are the only harbors of safety. The B12, not so much.
  12. I have to admit, this old man is pumped after kicking the dog out of Utah. And we did kick their butt, lol. A true, old-fashioned woodshed spanking. Now that the 7-5 funk is lifted, am I correct in assuming that it's Collins and Princely that is our 2020 end-game targets, pretty much? And maybe a couple of possible transfers? An OL and a DL, is it? Anyhow, if someone wouldn't mind refocusing my brain, I'd be much obliged. And no, you can't pork my mother either, lol.
  13. Collins is a big target, probably the biggest.
  14. I think if Oklahoma perceives they can win more NCs in the B12, then that would be the reason they would renew the B12 GOR. But Oklahoma also needs the money the SEC or the B1G would generate for them. Money (leave)? Or playoffs (stay put)? Consider an expanded playoff where coming in second, or even third, in a conference doesn't necessarily preclude the playoffs. Or consider the idea of a larger B1G and/or SEC with both a finals championship game, but also a semi-final championship game. With a semi-final game integrated into a larger playoff scheme, the ability of all conference schools to rate the playoff scheme expands dramatically. A 4-school playoff won't be around forever, IMO. If this thinking is correct, then a school like OU takes the quick money of the B1G or SEC and waits for the expanded playoff scheme, whatever scheme that may be. OU gone.
  15. We are of like mind re OU. The prize if OU wanders is Texas. OU would simply be the excuse for a big dog conference to snare the big dog school - Texas. So, which conference wants Texas the most? The B1G? The SEC? Some other conference? We know the SEC would take OU, no questions asked, right? Would the B1G take OU? Would the B1G take OU if taking OU meant Texas followed? Would Texas stay B12 if OU left? Will OU opt out of the B12 GOR at all come renewal time? Would Texas go SEC if OU went SEC because of B1G dalliance? The answers to these questions arise in the relatively near future. Oklahoma is the catalyst and Texas is the prey, lol.
  16. The PAC is not the answer on so many levels for so many reasons. But the day of reckoning is approaching. We're already seeing recruiting threads for 2022 initiated. While the GOR doesn't expire until 6-2024, I think it is, the GOR would probably be extended, if it's going to be extended, in 2022 or 23. I think our friends North of the Red hold the keys. JMO.
  17. So much promise showing in Robinson. Thanks for the links.
  18. Sure seems like a very good day today. Dorbah, Robinson, Card, lots of promising OLs, other suspiciously good players. Win the bowl, hopefully finish strong.
  19. Incorrect, boys. When I first posted, the thread was already at the top. It was already bumped. Check out the dates and times.
  20. I see I have sicced the surley wolfpack on myself. Look boys, as much as we all would love to see Jaylen Garth make a swift and thorough recovery, Elmer Fudd is most likely correct. To remind the hater wolfpack, Garth tweaked his knee first back in 2018, missing some games. Then, this year, back in August, Garth tweaked it again, and he missed games early this year, too, as I recall. Now ... this. This time we're not talking tweak. Hopefully, Garth's knee is rebuilt and it heals so doggone quickly he starts the opener and for four straight years thereafter. But the probabilities suggest otherwise. The probabilities suggest RR&R, and get him ready for 2021 - which isn't a bad thing. I don't understand why my earlier comment has generated such universal derision and hatred. I've been posting in Texas boards since Al Gore invented the internet, I think I'm okay at it, and I think the naysayers ought to undo their ... imprecise voting, lol.
  21. If Texas wins, I hope you're wrong. If Texas loses, I hope you're right, lol. But you're probably right because it appears coaching changes are coming and those changes will probably dwarf the bowl as talking points. When Herman tinkers with the staff, let's hope the timing is perfect and the hires are good. Carrington has to do his mojo, lol, because, really, we need Collins, too.
  22. Texas has to preserve the linemen, especially the DL (with the OLs pretty dang important, too). This is the turning class, IMO, if Texas can hold it together. 8-5 really ought to hold it together. Fingers crossed.
  23. You guys are hoot, lol. Hell yeah, let Hamm be piggy. Or aggy. Or whatever.
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