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  1. 4 hours ago, Ricky's one-hitter said:

    It's not that complicated.

    Lacey is committed, so it's fair to say the staff like him a lot compared with other options. He's also a QB prospect from a region where talent rarely leaves. If you honestly think he could be your QB of the future when given the chance to take his commitment, you take it, and with it, the opportunity to influence his visits.

    Russell is an ascending, in-state QB prospect with a prototype build and big arm. While he's very familiar to Sark and Milwee (from recruiting Simmons and Dakorien Moore), we already chose Lacey over Russell when the staff offered Lacey.

    With that context, choosing to recruit Russell now shows they've watched his development and can more confidently project his growth into something they want to work with. He's not nearly as polished of a thrower, but Russell's ceiling is significantly higher than Lacey's, even in Sark's offense. Also, Dakorien Moore. 

    Imo, we sign both. If anything, the portal gives more reason to join a 2 QB class, not less. Out of high school, you can choose where you think gives you the best opportunity to be developed. When you fail to win the starting job, you find an ideal offense with an opening at QB. Literally the best of both worlds. 

    Even if we don't sign both, what do we lose if Lacey bounces? A generational prospect? No. The chance to land Ryan Williams? No. We lose a good QB prospect, but that's it. Choosing not to recruit Russell creates more downside risk than losing Lacey. Imagine impacting your relationships at Duncanville, Dakorien Moore, THSCA, etc over trying to keep KJ Lacey committed. Malpractice. 

     

     

    Interestingly, OTF discussed that this morning. 

    OTF reported Russell "pretty much told CJ Vogel" that he wasn't interested in being part of a 2-man QB class, and Gerry Hamilton agreed with him.

    Found where they discussed it:

     

     

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  2. 22 hours ago, Thiefery said:

    His old handle was Casual Encounter, and yes you were gone.. but Sydney shared the pic to ensure us you were ok..

    I still remember when you took a previous hiatus.. you left the board with Sydney and Carl as our insiders.. You returned and scolded us for giving both Sydney and Carl so many rep points... like you were the boards version of Moses who damn us for celebrating our golden calves while you were gone and threw the tablet on us..

     

    Terrific times..

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  3. On 3/6/2024 at 6:45 PM, ChickenNuggets said:

    Damn, i was hoping for at least a massive explosion with I35 cars dodging hurled bricks and maybe winging 1 or 2 of the more modern high rises with some steel beams... 

    Stripping her down like that seems cheap and tawdry. 

    My Dad didn't know Frank Erwin, but what he heard about his personality was that if he was still alive and active, he'd have the heads of anyone on a platter for demolishing anything with his name on it, much less in that open-wound fashion.

    Such was the gravitas of one Frank Erwin in Austin during his time.

  4. 18 hours ago, YGIFS said:

    csb/ As a kid at Wrigley or watching at home on WGN, I used to wonder why Harry would 'disappear' for the middle 3 innings of each game and usually Dwayne Staats or somebody else would come on with Stoney.  I figured it was because Harry was old.  But he was just in his late 60's which isn't that old for a baseball broadcaster.  One game, my dad says I'm old enough to go get my own hot dog and soda by myself.  So I'm walking up the ramp and in the mezz level during the bottom of the 6th, this door to this little windowless room opens.  And it's Harry coming out, and there's about 6-8 empty Budweiser beer cups at this little table with a folding chair and TV.  That was his green room.  That's what he did during those innings.  

    In 2008, can't remember our opponent in Regionals at Disch-Falk (to tie it back to Texas baseball).  I'm sitting under a tree with a guy who used to post on HF & Shaggy.  And I'm telling him about growing up listening to Harry and how it's been 10 years since he died.  And out of the corner of my eye, one of my favorite Cubs and Longhorns is walking towards us.  Keith Moreland (I think he was doing 1300 at the time, maybe LHN color, dunno).  Anyway, turns out my buddy used to date his daughter in college or after college (he was married to another woman at the time).  But Keith walks up and says, "You guys talking about Harry?"  And he knew my friend obviously from when he was banging his daughter.  But I tell him I musta seen him play at Wrigley 50 times as a kid.  I was actually headed back to Chicago a few weeks later for a guy I grew up with there and Keith gives me his info and says he'll hook us up with tickets.  And he tells me a great story about some fundraiser in the mid 80's he did with Harry.  And then they go out afterwards with Bob Dernier and got cut-off at a bar on the North Side, which is not easy to do in Chicago.  He had a couple of other doozies about Harry that I can't remember, but Keith was so genuinely happy to reminisce about Harry.  Usually players find the broadcasters annoying or just somebody to deal with to get on to the next thing, but all the Cubs players I ever met loved Harry.  I bet many Longhorn players feel the same way about Moreland and Craig Way.  A few times a year, I pull up that Budweiser video "For You, Harry" when the Cubs finally won the Series a few years back.  Gives me the chills the way Craig Way called the winning moments in Omaha for us over the years.  There are some guys who love the team.  There are some guys who love the game.  And then there are the select few that love both and actually know what they're talking about and you can hear it in their voice.  May we hear that again one day soon in Craig's in a little place called Omaha.  

     

    I'm not surprised, given how many times I heard Harry slobber, "It'sht time for athnother Budth!" and even these nuggets about Harry as well.  Lulz.

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  5. 6 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

    Miller was Pierce’s right hand guy. He was one of the few in the circle of trust and has been with him for over a decade.

    Was more a culture guy than anything specifically with hitting or fielding or whatever.

    He's still listed on TexasSports as on the coaching staff.

  6. 7 minutes ago, hobbes2702 said:

    These dudes are bad. How many errors is that?

    Their live stats say only 1 little-red-riding-hood error, which is Bullshit because there's at least 2 errors from the dropped keystone-cops left-center fly ball in the 1st, followed by a throwing error on the blown-blind-ump out call at 3B, that was reversed on review, because it wasn't even close.

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