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Hookem2147

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  1. 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.
  2. Bill Connelly came out with his initial SP+ rankings for 2025. Texas is 7th. Full list below along with how he calculates the rankings.
  3. 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.
  4. I can’t believe we watched David Pierce try to develop pitchers for years. Max Weiner is that dude.
  5. I really like that lineup
  6. New guys I expect to see tonight: Flores, Bryce Navarre, Connor McCreery, Hudson Hamilton and Ethan Walker. Could also see Moffett and Howard depending on the situation. Also wonder if they may want to get Mercer back out there after his bad outing Saturday.
  7. *6 of our 7 games were against two of the worst teams in the country
  8. Kirk Bohls (I know) says he is hearing a change is likely to be made. AUSTIN — My eyes still hurt. I don’t know if you watched the eyesore that was the Texas men’s basketball game against South Carolina on Saturday night, but I did. And I still have a migraine. A week after knocking off No. 15 Kentucky to snap a three-game losing streak, the Longhorns put out a woeful performance, arguably the worst of the season although there are a lot of candidates, and became the first SEC team to lose to the dreadful Gamecocks. It’s painful to review but Texas trailed by 18 at the half, and it got worse from there before the Longhorns fell 84-69 to drop to 16-11 overall and back on the NCAA Tournament bubble. They are only 7-11 in quad 1 and 2 victories and have no eye-popping non-conference wins to tout. With the road loss, Texas’ chances of making the NCAA tourney slip drastically from 67% to 52%, according to the ESPN Analytics model. The Longhorns are only 3-9 against top-50 teams, Joe Lunardi hasn’t updated his projections since Friday’s field, which included Texas unbelievably as a 9 seed. CBSsports.com, however, dropped Texas from its bracket as Jerry Palm listed it as the very first team out, its 38 NET ranking notwithstanding. Not only that, it ratchets up the scrutiny and pressure on Rodney Terry to deliver in a big way down the stretch to save his job. After talking to some big-time Texas figures, I’d say at the moment Terry is in a must-win situation and probably has to win at least two games in the SEC, get into the NCAA field of 68 and maybe win two games there. That’s how dire it’s looking for RT. Texas squandered its good position with a hideous effort against South Carolina, in which freshman Tre Johnson was the lone standout with 29 points, 20 of them in the second half. No other Longhorns had more than 9 points. Chris Del Conte never weighs in on the future of a Longhorn coach during the season, but he is always super aggressive about getting his ducks in a row to react quickly once the final buzzer has sounded. It won’t be unrealistic if Texas bottoms out and the Texas athletic director fires Terry and hires his replacement all in a weekend’s time. Money will be a huge factor in this decision because Terry has three years left on his contract and would be owed $6 million as a buyout. Obviously, Texas would have to consider high-level candidates whose contracts would also contain a big buyout that it would have to pay off. Throw in the existing staff contracts, and the school might have to pony up $20 million or more to pull this off, which is no small sum. Terry was never Del Conte’s preferred coach, but Chris Beard’s top assistant earned the promotion to head coach by stabilizing the season when Beard was fired at midseason and taking an overachieving Longhorn team to the Elite Eight and the brink of a Final Four. Texas would feel some public backlash for firing an African-American basketball coach — only the second in school history — and making a change after he had had just two full seasons. But Del Conte will have to weigh public opinion, gauge how much slippage the program has undergone and figure out how big he goes in a coaching search. As of the end of February, I’d say the decision is trending toward a new coach for 2025-26.
  9. From an IT article this morning: InsideTexas hears from a DFW source that Terry Joseph reached out to Jalen Lott, the should-be five-star, yesterday to let him know Texas is still the school for him.
  10. Well good news, he ain't going to be coaching the corners at Texas.
  11. I guess with the new coaching rules, if they wanted they could just let Akina coach ball and Orphey could recruit the secondary and get another assistant (Clark?) on the road?
  12. Pete Nakos (On3) on the names he is hearing:
  13. He left a head coaching job at Buffalo (not sure what is expected at Buffalo; he was 14-23 through 3 years and may have been a bad year away from being shown the door) to be the Bama DB coach.
  14. When discussing the Joseph news, Bobby mentioned on YouTube that Flood, Jackson, and Baker had all turned down NFL interest this offseason.
  15. Good interview with Schloss recapping the weekend. Also mentioned they are trying to raise $10 million to renovate the underneath of Disch Falk.
  16. Who is the pitching coach at UIW so I know to never send my kids to play for him. Their Friday starter (Salinas) threw 87 pitches in the season opener, came out of the bullpen in the first midweek game then made his normal start last Friday, a 7-inning complete game with 95 pitches. 3 appearances and 200 pitches the first 7 days of the season.
  17. Always one of the more interesting offseason articles. Bill Connelly's SP+ returning production percentages (long article): TLDR: Texas returns a good amount on defense but loses a ton on offense. Ohio State, Texas, Miami, Oregon, Ole Miss and Georgia all rank outside the top 100 in returning production.
  18. We will spend the next week talking about Jerry Gray and Duane Akina before Sarkisian finalizes the hire of Alcorn State's DB coach out of nowhere.
  19. One thing we can't really account for is Nansen's input and impact on the backend. Gerry always talks about how the open practices for the media he attended, it was Nansen who was doing a lot of coaching and aligning of the secondary.
  20. I think this will be the easiest departure to replace this offseason. Joseph was okay, but I think there were a lot of other factors that helped turn around the pass defense. I always heard he wasn't anything special as a recruiter. I think his Louisiana ties got overblown a lot.
  21. OU is in Lunardi’s field right now at 4-10 in conference play and #51 in NET. The bubble sucks more than usual (but yes, let’s expand the field!). 7-11 will probably get Texas in assuming our NET stays around 40 (currently #38). Yay.
  22. They have some interesting arms but can’t hit worth a lick. Also have to remember their Friday starter left the game pointing to his elbow. I don’t see how they finish in the top half of any conference and they will likely have a RPI in the 200’s. Dropping one this weekend would have really hurt.
  23. We definitely lead the country in 0-2 counts
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