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  1. 18 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

    Ive watched it twice. Ill go again before it leaves the theater 

    wish part 1 would have included the dinner party scene on arakisis 

    I’m about 30% through Dune right now and I’m loving it so far. The dinner scene and the subplot of Hawat thinking Jessica could be the traitor would have been nice to see play out in the movie. I think it would have given both more depth in Dune part 1, especially when Jessica confronts Hawat about him thinking she could betray Leto. 

  2. 9 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

    Depends on the version you have. F1TV pro ($85 per year) has everything live. F1TV ($30 per year) only has live timing and then replays later.

    I’m a dumbass. I kept clicking on timing and not TV.

  3. Whether we like it or not, results matter even if you find it has been done in a “ugly” way. @ClubWhatever is correct with every coach having a price. But on the flip side is the current situation they find themselves in. A coach is going to up and leave for a program that just fired their coach that had a 50% success rate of making it to the CWS? I’m not saying that it can’t be done because it has in the past. It is just incredibly difficult to pull off and the right things need to happen outside of Texas’ control in order to get the desired upgrade. Schloss is more notorious for being a dick than Pierce, and it’s a big reason why he was open to leaving. The stars happened to align just right for Aggie to come in and give him the right price and a new admin to work for. I don’t think they get Schloss if things were on better standing between him and tcu administration. 

    24 minutes ago, LCHorn said:

    That’s what a five year contract is for and we’d want that anyway.  
     

    Frankly, I’d agree with you if we are talking about Rodney Terry but racial dynamics play a part in that one, too (also the fact he’s known more for his recruiting rather than his coaching acumen-it’s just a bad look if he’s not given the opportunity to fail).  
     

    Pierce is different-he’s in year 7, he’s notoriously prickly and he’s got regional rivals that appear to have greater institutional support-it might just be wrong man, wrong time.  Either way, if CDC can’t sell that version of the story to some agent then he should get fired, too.  

    The non-institutional support would change how things are looked at. Most can get by with a coach being hard to work for with Schloss, Tadlock etc being good examples. But if he’s the same way with the admin and that is trickling down to NIL, then that’s a problem.

  4. 5 minutes ago, TejasPedro said:

    That mentality is going to keep RT and DP comfortable for another three years isn’t it?

    No swinging dick coach gives two shits about what happened to the last loser ass hat. They are tossing the nameplate on the door in the trash or saving it as a souvenir. 

    Not necessarily. I don’t follow basketball much but keeping Terry on after he’s shown no ability to be an elite coach at previous stops other than doing it for half a season with another coaches players is entirely different. 3 CWS, a super and regional is only something Terry could dream of accomplishing in basketball terms. Why there is even a comparison of situations between Terry and Pierce is absolutely laughable. And I didn’t say 3 years of comfortably for Pierce and if the team continues playing like shit then next year his seat will be hot, not comfortable. 

  5. 58 minutes ago, Bevo20 said:

    Things don't get any easier going to Lubbock this weekend with Tech. The way this team is playing, Texas will be fortunate to go 1-2 there. The heat is on Pierce. The SEC's most dominate sport is definitely baseball. In the last several years, Texas has not fared well against SEC teams in baseball. As has been mentioned, Pierce is not CDC's guy, which could influence his decision. Texas needs to fortify the baseball program going into the SEC. This could get even more embarrassing than it already is as this season progresses.

    CDC isn’t going to fire him this year. It’s reasonable to think that firing Pierce this year, after making a super last year and then making the CWS in ‘21-‘22, would turn off any coach worth a damn. The only way it happens is he continues to shit the bed and a) Pierce does something off the field a la beard or b) a top 5-10 coach in the country isn’t happy and has made it known to CDC he wants to leave by seasons end. That’s it. Option B seems like it could happen with what Schloss did to Tcu but that’s rare and shouldn’t be counted on. The quickest and most logical route to Pierce being fired is continuing the downward trajectory this year and carrying it over into next year. 

  6. The injuries really did counter the expectations going into the season to a sizable degree. Having an every day first baseman that can hit for power from both sides of the plate would make our lineup go from good to great. We also wouldn’t have to deal with the ups and downs from O’Dowd. The Duke starting pitcher would have gave us more wiggle room with Hurley and Witt trying to figure it out. Then having a closer throwing 95 from the left side that is reliable, is pretty self-explanatory for what it does to a bullpen. Pierce totally fudged the catcher position, there’s no way around that and it shouldn’t happen at a place like Texas. 

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  7. 8 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

    Fair. Maybe Hurley needs to go back to the pen like he ended last year. I would like to see us stretch out Gage Boehm but removing him from the bullpen right now leaves you with a lonely feeling. 

    I wouldn’t mind swapping roles between the two. 

  8. 8 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:
    1 hour ago, Levi said:
    Side note: through their little incident on the track, I have found that the Yuki fan base is intense. Danny calling him a helmet and then saying his actions on the cool down lap were immature have got them on fire, especially on Twitter. 

    Let them be. Yuki will never sniff the RB seat if he acts like that.

    Probably. Danny’s fan base can be the same way and really most drivers have crazy/dumb fans to a certain extent. 

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