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Hookem2147

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  1. Galvan day off and Rodríguez DH. Winfield and Borba in the lineup.
  2. It’s only going to get worse for A&M unless they just plan on overspending out the ass in the portal every year. We kicked their ass for the most part in the 2026 class in-state, including several notable H2H wins. Schloss’ best quality is he knows who to hire. Nolan Cain is maybe the best recruiting coordinator in the country and played 10x the role that Michael Earley played in building those A&M teams. Kirk Saarloos at TCU is another guy he hired who was a recruiting machine. Randy Mazey and Bill Mosiello got P5 HC jobs after working for him at TCU.
  3. They will smoke Rice and it looks like they get Texas southern in the midweek game before hosting New Mexico State and Prairie View A&M. So the rollercoaster is about to creep back up with some false confidence before SEC play.
  4. Schlossnagle has compared Volantis to Prager quite a bit. He looks like a front of the rotation arm maybe as early as next year.
  5. Yes, Oregon put in a reliever named Hody Coward and he gave up the lead.
  6. Washington was up 9-3 in the 6th and just gave up 6 runs. 9-9 bottom 6. Very little chance our game starts on time.
  7. Washington up 3-0 early on Illinois.
  8. Burton this morning. My guess is Neal Brown. While not revealing the name, I am hearing that a former Power 4 head coach from last season will likely be on staff as an offensive analyst and/or special assistant to the head coach beginning this spring. One source told me the deal was done but I can not confirm it with a second source as yet. And former head coaches can be notoriously wishy-washy about such decisions. So we’ll see if it pans out.
  9. The downfall of the Rice baseball program is a shame. I’m assuming Pierce will be coaching there next year but they may be at the point where the issues go a lot deeper than just coaching (no NIL, can rarely take transfers/JUCO kids because of academic requirements, etc)
  10. I expected higher scoring games this weekend with the way the ball carries at that park (I don’t think the 3 oppo homers by both sides all go out at a neutral night at the Disch), but it’s the free passes and errors that kill you. I could somewhat live with a 11-10 loss if they just out-slugged us, but we gave up 5 free passes the last 3 innings of the game.
  11. My guess is we will need outs from new faces tomorrow if we want to beat Tech. Guys like Moffett or Hamilton, who we still haven’t seen yet despite the fact Schloss has been hyping him up quite a bit. Probably don’t want to use Riojas, Burns or Dre til Sunday at the earliest.
  12. Goes back to what I said earlier. The first two batters that reached against him hit the ball a combined 90 feet. Guerrero hits a solo or two run homer and no one remembers his outing and we win 10-4 or some such. When you are up 9-1, usually just throwing strikes is enough but for whatever reason bad stuff just seems to happen to Howard and it snowballs fast.
  13. I would have left Dre out there but let’s see how this goes
  14. Howard shouldn’t be on this roster but the first 2 runners reached on balls that went a total of 90 feet.
  15. Buckle up for Cody Howard time
  16. That was a Las Vegas air homer. That doesn’t reach the warning track at the Disch on a neutral day.
  17. The routine plays to Flores make you hold your breath more than the tough plays.
  18. I see Dartmouth's Friday night guy who left the mound last week pointing to his elbow did not start today. Dartmouth down 9-1 to Virginia this afteroon.
  19. Coupon code TEX25 gets you $10 off at checkout, fyi.
  20. I would be thrilled if that is the case. When it comes time to actually cut the check, we will see how serious they are. $5.8 million to buy out Terry + another $1-2 million to buy out the rest of the staff + $18 million to buy out Oats + $6 million'ish annual salary he would likely command here + $2-3 million for his staff + an increase in NIL budget. If you go down that road, you are probably looking at a $30-35 million (at least?) investment in the short term.
  21. I'll believe we are paying an $18 million buyout in basketball when I see it. 4 years ago, we "waited" 4 days to contact Chris Bearrd so his buyout would drop from $5 million to $4 million.
  22. Am I only one who didn’t know Adrian Rodriguez can throw with both arms? One of the D1baseball guys was interviewing Schloss and he mentioned the story of how they found Rodriguez. He showed up at an A&M camp and Schloss had no idea who he was. Walked by the cage and watched Rodriguez hit 4 balls over 100 MPH exit velo left handed then flipped around and did the same thing right handed. Then trotted out to the field and took ground balls at third base before grabbing a left handed first base glove and going to first base.
  23. IT with 4 position changes they are hearing about
  24. It's a good spot to be in this early. You have teams with a 2-5 record like Omaha and Toledo who are top 20 in RPI right now. Or 0-3 Penn at #47 in RPI. As those teams lose to more crappy teams, they will plummet, and the big boys will rise.
  25. They lost mostly everyone off that team. Similar to last year, I think they have big problems at the plate. Hitting .214 as a team through 9 games. I do see their Friday night guy is off to a good start (1.50 ERA in 12 innings). He is a D3 transfer.
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