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  1. I don’t think Flores was a late window guy. Rerick flipped from A&M to Texas, which makes his portal entry a bit surprising. But the unknown variables may be deciding factor. Volantis was the unique one that was more last minute. There are 11 pitchers signed/committed for next years team. 7 position players but that includes Jonah and 2 likely high draftees.
  2. Roster limits or not this is the likely outcome for a number of programs. It’s probably more NIL/portal than roster limits. It’s the Saban methodology. Sign and churn the roster with churn being even easier due to the portal. The Texas 2026 commit list shows 21 players. I can’t imagine there’s close to 21 of those guys on the roster come spring 27. There’s 17 for 2025. Yes, I’d expect the freshman numbers to dwindle at some point.
  3. Let’s not play both sides of the fence here. You want to implicate all of them rather just the 4. Who are the players you know? Yes, you’ve said that multiple times about Schloss. Most fans that care about that sort of thing are likely well informed and know that going back to TCU Schloss has found and/or developed talent. You could argue that once he got established at TCU there’s been better talent at TCU than Texas. If you were to use MLB as the measuring stick. If I’m interpreting 64 analytics properly, Tennessee has had 19 guys enter the portal. And I see a recent article from the Knoxville News that kicks it up to 22. LSU and UGa last year were at 14 and 15, respectively. These are amongst the best rosters in the country. I’d presume they are at or near the top of the NIL food chain. All these guys are not leaving due to the lack of natural ability. They also aren’t all leaving because they’re supremely talented. Teams are churning 25 to 33% of their roster. I’d wager even the best have similar guys to those you reference.
  4. Need to highlight it with excessive eye black.
  5. Speaking of QBs, what happened to @WinningIsHard?
  6. For many Heisman level QBs it’s about their surroundings more so than them. Numbers and team wins. Throw in the name Manning and a few splash highlights, and you have an immediate contender. Nevermind that Arch has an additional 8 months of practice reps, film study and maturity over last season. He’s a 3rd guy who should be hitting his prime college QB self. I’ll maintain my stance on Ewers over Manning. Sark thought he could win with both. So he stuck with the experienced guy. I believe even after the season Sark stated Ewers can “make all the throws” so there’s the theoretical prototype QB that he likes. Sark wouldn’t sacrifice the shot at the title just because. He liked Quinn, thought he could win and went with the incumbent.
  7. Probably true but Witt, Harrison and Mercer’s rehab were a little long. And Witt and Mercers were two years of no production.
  8. I’m well aware, but presumably balls that we can’t get to become hits, which may then become earned runs, right?
  9. I am bit curious about injuries. A Longhorn baseball savant sent me a podcast with Schloss. He mentioned Mercer hitting 97. That’s two years running he seemed slated for a big role but pitched very little. Then Spencer. Last year was worse. Curious if we have a higher, more longed injury rate than others.
  10. Damn. I wonder what our staff ERA would have been had our 2B, SS, and 3B been able to wipe their own asses defensively.
  11. In college baseball, there’s pretty much never a team that knows what it has to start the season. Not 1-9. Not the entire pitching staff. Odd that we are supposedly a program that is based on CWS or bust yet lose our shit on a midweek loss. Those games are available to find out what you have for that post season run. Cowan had pitched 3 innings Friday night. Let’s keep in mind he’s a Wofford transfer that throws about 90. You are correct they could have gone Evans and maybe that works out, buts it unlikely he finishes that game. In the end, LSU looks to have trusted about 4 pitchers. Highlighted that Cowan only started twice - both post season. Then Eysnson came in to finish Little Rock. Had they lost their Spencer, they’re likely worse off than us in spite of having all that talent on their team. They didn’t trust those fast ballers to throw strikes. The difference in LSUs final outcome as compared to ours is they got a weak regional. They didn’t lose Anderson or Jones. Then they stayed out of the losers bracket so their lack of trust in that staff didn’t impact the outcomes. Here are some numbers to chew on for Horns versus UTSA. Bing and Howard combined for 7 innings of no hit ball on the early season against them. Ruger gave up 1 run in 4 innings. I believe the discussion then was it very much mattered to UTSA. Now Burns. He gave up 4 hits and 1 earned run on that Tuesday night. He allowed all 3 inherited runs to score. So let’s advance the season a couple of months. You’re up 6-5. One out, 2 runners on. Who you going to out of the pen? Burns it is. He proceeds to give up 3 hits, 1 run of his own and allows both inherited runs to score. The only out recorded was a throw out at home. Teams don’t know what they have in the early season. The situation you highlighted is a bit of contrast with our end to the season. We had some data points for several guys but chose to ignore them. I haven’t heard the rationale for our regional pitching choices, but the choices were odd. And several were not good with signs indicating that potential outcome.
  12. Sounds like some of you need to pull some strings and get us Wisconsin.
  13. Well damn your math is correct. Maybe I was just rounding for ease. All those schools you mentioned would be good on the schedule with a mix of variation, newness and historical opponents. Not exactly sure my reasoning but I’d like a Northwestern. Maybe paired with historical mid-tier P4.
  14. Who are your big time marquee teams? There are two parts to this scheduling equation. There’s a good chance you see some programs willing to risk a loss and some that are not. For many of those teams, they may be better off playing a mid tier SEC team as their win probability goes up. I’m not sure other SEC teams are willing to schedule 50/50 games. Outside of the Ohio States, Bamas, Georgias, Oregons, and Texas, the more realistic goal for most teams is make the playoffs and build from there. And that early season loss accompanied by a championship game loss may leave little wiggle room for all those teams. I don’t think OSU will be afraid to schedule. I don’t think Texas will be afraid. UGa and Bama are SEC so that doesn’t matter. Who else will be willing? A 3 loss team is certainly a possibility to win it. A game 1 loss and a championship game loss only leaves 1 more out of 10. If you consider that a virtual impossibility, why are we expanding? I would mark my calendar today to watch us play at Oregon. Also, don’t care if we get left out with 3 losses. Don’t take my speculation here as me advocating for weaker scheduling. I’m not.
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