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  1. 8 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

    Jordan hits a poor hybrid into small penalty area on #11.  Really a bad miss from the fairway... messing up an easy par 5.

    2 birdies and missed 4ft putt on #10 for his 1 bogey...

    -1 on today's Rd so far.

    Saves par with 4ft putt on #11.

  2. Jordan hits a poor hybrid into small penalty area on #11.  Really a bad miss from the fairway... messing up an easy par 5.

    2 birdies and missed 4ft putt on #10 for his 1 bogey...

    -1 on today's Rd so far.

  3. 37 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    They had a very couth interaction. I'd take a golf ball to the lip to get a bro hug from Rory. 

    Yeah... they hugged it out. 😬  

    Tiger looks better.... probably rounding into form for US Open...

  4. 6 minutes ago, LTtxfan said:

    Dang.... tough week for sports spectators.  Rory just nailed a guy with his Driver!!

     

    Apparently it hit the guy in the mouth, but appears ok.  Spectator spoke with Rory about it and was getting medical attention... his mouth was bleeding a little bit.

  5. 6 minutes ago, golfclap said:

    Fuck that. I understand the idea but that is no way to build championship culture. Trust is a two way street. Guys like Duane Akina, Robbie Caldwell -- hell, even Terry Price and Herb Hand's of the world are different than the Drew Mehringer's. Jason Washington is deserving of far more than a constant 1 year contract renewal. He's not fucking Maurice Linguist FFS. Same with Craig Naivar. 

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  6. 🤘🤘 Great Hire CDC... buddy of mine, a huge Michigan fan, is pissed!!

    https://247sports.com/college/texas/Article/Texas-Longhorns-Basketball-Shaka-Smart-hires-Michigans-Luke-Yaklich-to-coaching-staff-132464640/

    Shaka Smart, Texas officially add Luke Yaklich to coaching staff

    ByJEFF HOWE 3 hours ago

    Shaka Smart has filled the opening on his Texas coaching staff. The Longhorns made the hiring of former Michigan assistant coach Luke Yaklich official on Friday, giving the 43-year-old defensive wizard the title of associate head coach.  Horns247’s Chip Brown first reported Yaklich (considered one of the top defensive coaches in the country) and his wife had a dinner meeting in Austin with Smart and Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte on Friday, May 17. According to what Brown reported in the May 23 edition of The Eyes of Texas, Yaklich’s deal is reportedly a two-year guaranteed contract with a value of $350,000 per year.

    “I’m extremely excited about Luke joining our staff,” Smart said in a statement. “He has tremendous passion for teaching the game and helping student-athletes move forward as people and players.  “His background as a head coach at the high school level for many years gives him a unique perspective in terms of the way he interacts with players,” he added. “Luke is a true teacher. That word gets thrown around a lot, but he literally was in the classroom for nearly 15 years and still thinks of himself that way.  “Luke has a phenomenal work ethic and a consistent drive to help his teams be successful,” he said. “He’s a good fit for our staff because he brings a passion and commitment to all the little things and the details that go into making a program successful. He is not in any way afraid to roll up his sleeves and do whatever is needed.”

    Yaklich was always the frontrunner for the staff opening created by the departure of Darrin Horn. A member of Smart’s original staff assembled after he was hired in April 2015, Horn accepted the head coaching position at Northern Kentucky on April 24.  Yaklich rounds out the three-man group of assistant coaches with Neill Berry and Jai Lucas. 

    Yaklich’s joined Smart’s staff on the Forty Acres over returning to Michigan underJuwan Howard. A member of the Fab Five who helped lead the Wolverines to a pair of Final Four appearances in 1992 and 1993, Howard was hired away from the NBA’s Miami Heat (where he’s served as an assistant coach since his retirement following the 2013 season) on May 22 to replace John Beilein (named head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers on May 13).  Yaklich was the de facto defensive coordinator for Beilein for two seasons. A former high school coach, Yaklich spent four seasons as an assistant coach at Illinois State before he arrived in Ann Arbor and made an immediate impact for the Wolverines.  In helping Michigan get to the national championship game, Yaklich’s coached the best scoring defense in the Big Ten as Michigan’s 63.3 points per game allowed were good for a No. 8 finish nationally. The Wolverines were the third-best team in the country in defensive efficiency according to KenPom.com in 2017-18 and improved this past season by boasting the nation’s second-best scoring defense (57.7 points per game allowed) while finishing the season No. 2 in KenPom’s defensive efficiency rankings.

    Texas finished the 2018-19 season ranked 52nd nationally in scoring defense (66.4 points per game), which was the best finish in Smart’s four seasons on the job. The Longhorns finished a disappointing 93rd in field goal percentage defense last season and ranked No. 242 in Division I in 3-point percentage defense. Michigan finished the 2018-19 season ranked No. 16 nationally in field goal percentage defense and were the sixth-best team in the country defending the 3-point line.

     

  7. In Bobby Burton's "Friday" post today a small bit on CDC...

    This didn't get much publicity, but the Texas men's golf team narrowly missed out on a national championship, losing 3-2 to Stanford in the finals earlier this week.

    It could have been two national championships in as many weeks for the Longhorns' following the unexpected tennis championship two weeks ago.

    I'm very big on breeding a culture of success among all sports. A rising tide lifts all ships.

    So while some may not feel like secondary sports at a school like Texas are important, I disagree. I'm not saying they are the revenue drivers or especially the fan drivers of the school.

    But if a school is going to hold itself out as a beacon of success, then that should carry over to every sport they endeavor.

    It's why the lack of success for so many years in sports like women's softball, basketball and soccer have been so maddening.

    Based on early returns, I think athletic director Chris Del Conte sees the bigger picture. And he is going to be chasing national success in all sports, not just the big ones that have all of their games televised.

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  8. Here's some 9.95er Bobby Burton entertainment.... eh Cow dung 💩

    "Friday"

    As we all wait for an official announcement from Bru McCoy on whether he intends to stay at Texas or leave and head back to USC, I think it's important to contemplate the following:

    - If McCoy leaves, what would the real consequences be?

    1. From a 2019 season perspective, McCoy would be a real loss from a depth perspective. He wasn't going to beat out Collin Johnson. he might have become more of a go-to option in the latter half of the year when injuries are sure to mount. But he wasn't expected to be a focal piece of the offense.

    Can Marcus Washington, Brennan Eagles or Malcolm Epps play a similar role? Sure. But McCoy was a highly rated prospect for a reason. He runs routes extremely well, has good hands and an understanding of how to create separation downfield despite not being 4.4 fast.

    I think his loss would hurt the explosiveness of the offense. Is it an insurmountable one in year one? No.

    But as a sophomore and junior (in 2020 and 2021), I would have expected him to be one of the two or three best receivers in the Big 12. That's an impact caliber player. That's how good he is and the type of loss he may be.

    2. From a recruiting perspective, if McCoy leaves, I think recruiting in Southern California will take a hit.

    McCoy isn't just a name out there. He was the state's no. 1 or 2 prospect overall. His actions will carry weight beyond his own, even if it means Texas assistants must overcome those objections and concerns on the recruiting trail. What looked like a very fruitful foray into Southern California in December/January could be less so with McCoy's departure and De'Gabriel Floyd's spinal stenosis diagnosis.

    3. Much has been made of the "tough" culture Tom Herman has fostered at Texas so that the Horns would never be seen as soft mentally or physically like they were at times under both Mack Brown (moreso physically) and Charlie Strong (moreso mentally).

    Perhaps that tough culture that Herman desires doesn't allow for a head coach to catch issues like McCoy's from bubbling up to the top.

    Perhaps we see Herman tweak his culture gameplan, if only slightly, to better manage the new realities of college football's transfer portal era.

    If Herman doesn't, McCoy likely won't be the last one we see entering his name so quickly.

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  9. Urban: “I’m not a fan of the new recruiting calendar.”

    By Zach Barnett -

    May 31, 2019

    Health-related concerns, driven largely by an existential fear of failure, pushed Urban Meyer out of football, for the third time, at age 54. It wasn’t as if the man forgot how to coach the game — his last team went 13-1, won the Big Ten and the Rose Bowl, and finished No. 3 in both polls.  And it wasn’t as if he fell out of love with football or coaching. Since leaving the sideline in January, Meyer has worked as something of a mentor for other Ohio State coaches, co-taught a class on leadership and this fall he’ll work on FOX’s beefed up pre-game show. The man is simply addicted to leadership, to young people and to the game of football — his body just wouldn’t allow him to combine all those loves into one roll as Ohio State’s head coach any longer.

    Another thing that pushed him out of the game in his prime? The new recruiting calendar.  Starting last year, the NCAA allowed schools to host recruits on official visits beginning in the spring of their junior year. Paired with the December singing period, it was part of the NCAA’s move to update its recruiting calendar to the times, and it immediately became part of the chicken-and-egg debate inherent to all of recruiting: Should schools push the calendar forward because players are making decisions earlier and earlier, or are players making decisions earlier because schools are pushing them to do so?    You’d be hard pressed to find a coach who publicly celebrated their newfound ability to host spring official visits, and Meyer wasn’t one of them.

    He didn’t come out and say the new recruiting calendar helped push him to an early retirement in a recent interview with the Columbus Dispatch, but it wasn’t hard to put two and two together.  “I loved recruiting,” he said. ”(But) it was 24/7. I never really went on vacation. I never really left recruiting. The whole new rules … last year was awful. You were having official visits every weekend. We went to Hyde Park steakhouse like four weekends in a row (hosting recruits). We love Hyde Park, but after a while Shelley and I looked at each other like, ‘What are we doing?’ We were missing our son’s baseball games.”  Nate Meyer is a freshman on the University of Cincinnati baseball team.

    “I’m not a fan of the new recruiting calendar,” he said. “I was in on the meetings for 3-4 years. (I asked), ‘Are we sure we want to do this?’ Now everybody’s making their decision before their senior year. High school coaches, that’s not good for them because players kind of start to maybe shut it down at times (once they’ve committed).”  Meyer hasn’t completely closed the door on returning to college football. After all, he is only 54, he clearly loves to coach, and he’s really, really good at it. The entire college football world views his retirement with the skepticism of friends reacting to the breakup of a long-term relationship: These two may drive each other crazy, but they clearly can’t live without each other. Let’s see if this sticks. 

    And who can blame us? Urban quit once before — twice before, actually — and came back both times. What’s different about his third so-called retirement?  Well, the recruiting calendar is different. If Urban popped up again at USC, or Notre Dame, or Toledo, he’d have to deal with the same recruiting calendar that helped drive him out of the game in the first place…. or the third place.

  10. 1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

    There will be heavy pressure on Umainlymainlyman to fish or cut bait this summer. He’s not must-have, apparently and the list of alternatives, starting with Blidi, is attractive.  Maybe I’m just Danny Glover and getting too old for this shit, but the strategy of “you live near us, you need to commit dammit!” feels like a very Mack Brownian maneuver. Given that I like Blidi more, I don’t give that much of a shit, but I do think Oscar Giles isn’t worth the heat of my piss as a recruiter. 

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                              ^^^  ctj   ^^^

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  11. Here's a good summary from @Js1 ..... Thx!!

    Very competitive games yesterday except for Minnesota making their first appearance.  Makes you wonder if the script was flipped, Texas wins 1 in the Big 12 tournament and has that #7 seed.

    (6) Arizona 3
    (3) Washington 1

    (7) Minnesota 2
    (2) UCLA 7

    (13) Oklahoma State 2
    (5) Florida 1

    (8) Alabama 2
    (1) Oklahoma 3

    Winners play today to advance to Sunday bracket championship and have to be beaten twice.  And both are intraconference matchups - OU swept Ok State; Arizona took 2/3 from UCLA in the regular season. 

    (2) UCLA
    (6) Arizona
    6:00pm - ESPN

    (1) OU
    (13) Oklahoma State
    8:30pm - ESPN

  12. 51 minutes ago, victory88 said:

    Yup... had committable offers from Bama, tOSU, UGA, FL, ou and a bunch of others.  Was under armor MVP at the game.  He's very fucking good.  Was a top 50 player until some dumbass analyst dropped him to a 3 star because he ran a slow 40 time a camp.  The same camp he won MVP honors for.  I think he's our future X WR.

    Wasn't MW also coming off of a leg injury which  caused the slower 40 time??

  13. 1 hour ago, Bodacious Bevo said:

    The saint known as Urban Meyer ran a clean program. They'd never cheat!

    Alternatively, now that the scumbag Urban Meyer is gone, Ohio State learned their lesson. They're no longer willing to play dirty games. 

    @Hank Scorpio  more of your shtick getting used 

  14. 11 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    I think Mike wants more seats. Doubt we’ll get a new stadium due to space. 

    McCombs Field currently holds 1,251.  Two questions:

    • How many seats can realistically be added to McCombs??
    • What are the capacities of some of the larger college softball stadiums??

    Found this on blOU stadium:  "The new stadium is expected to increase Oklahoma’s seating capacity from roughly 1,700 to 3,000." 

    https://www.crimsonandcreammachine.com/2018/6/19/17478436/university-oklahoma-board-of-regents-design-phase-of-new-softball-stadium-and-facility-patty-gasso

  15. 5 minutes ago, spystud13 said:

    Yeah, there ain’t a collegiate woman is this country that makes that play. 

    CRAZY GREAT defensive play by blOU 2nd baseman.  Did not know that she had won defensive player of the year in B12.

     

    blOU beats Bama... 3-2

  16. 3 minutes ago, bamachine said:

    Shit. Our OF has cost two runs that should have been outs, Not easy ones but still.

    That triple was hit too well to be caught.  Best the OF could have done was hold batter to a double, but runner still scores easily from 1st base because there were two outs...

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