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Hookem2147

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  1. 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.
  2. Washington up 3-0 early on Illinois.
  3. 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.
  4. 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)
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. I would have left Dre out there but let’s see how this goes
  9. Howard shouldn’t be on this roster but the first 2 runners reached on balls that went a total of 90 feet.
  10. Buckle up for Cody Howard time
  11. That was a Las Vegas air homer. That doesn’t reach the warning track at the Disch on a neutral day.
  12. The routine plays to Flores make you hold your breath more than the tough plays.
  13. 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.
  14. Coupon code TEX25 gets you $10 off at checkout, fyi.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. IT with 4 position changes they are hearing about
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. I'm pretty sure we agreed to play in this tournament after Schloss was hired, which was interesting because we already had the Arlington tournament on the schedule and you don't usually see SEC teams have 2 challenging weekends in non-con play. My guess is we will end up with one of the toughest non-con SOS in the league. Winning 2 out of 3 in both tournaments would set us up very nicely heading into league play from a RPI standpoint.
  22. Bill Connelly came out with his initial SP+ rankings for 2025. Texas is 7th. Full list below along with how he calculates the rankings.
  23. I’m sure some will disagree but I don’t get the resistance on logos on the field by CDC. I agree with not wanting them on jerseys. Our field doesn’t need to look like a European basketball jersey but I don’t see how a few corporate logos takes away from the pageantry of the stadium. It would be a huge money maker.
  24. I can’t believe we watched David Pierce try to develop pitchers for years. Max Weiner is that dude.
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