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The 4 team playoff era versus more teams than that is not comparable. Plus a non-conference SEC road win is likely worth more than any other road win - maybe an OSU road win is comparable. Now, if you win the SEC, you’re likely to get the highest SEC spot even if #2 has the better non-conference win. An extra loss is likely as detrimental as a win can be a positive. That extra loss puts you one loss closer to exclusion but also drops you down in priority seeding. When talking a long season, an extra, physical game makes that more difficult. I am in favor of the extra tough game. I am quite certain a number of programs will not favor the additional risk.
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That was about the time when Bill Walsh became known, but the rules you reference were less impactful to his offense than the traditional passing offenses of that time. Obviously there’s been a continual evolution of the rules to make it an offensive oriented game. But Walsh (maybe it was someone else that started, but he was the guy to my knowledge) was the one that made the passing game an extension of the run game, which would have made the head slap and more use of hands less impactful as the ball was out quicker and often shorter. As for Texas high schools, in my experience and knowledge, it was the 90s that passing offenses became prevalent. Prior to that it was pretty limited except for the Detmers and a few others. Not really dual threat QBs yet. Looks like 7 on 7 began in 1994 or so. It’s not coincidental that there were few NFL QBs from Texas in the 70s, 80s and into the 90s.
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It was a bit more than the rule changes. The west coast offenses came around. And at the high school level in Texas, things changed significantly. Pre-1990, there were few NFL QBs from Texas but now it’s a high percentage, maybe more than any other state. It wasn’t because there weren’t athletes at QB in Texas. It was the offensive systems, the coaching, the coaching mentality, limitations on summer programs, 7 on 7, etc. People realized 3 yards and a cloud of dust was asinine.
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That’s fair. Winfield can likely be a contributor given time - just not sure patience is available. I missed watching many early season games, but he didn’t look comfortable on defense so putting in the work on both sides is pretty difficult. You know more than I do about the inner workings of the program, but, I’d be a bit surprised if he’s back too. I don’t know a damn thing about NIL allocations with respect to baseball, but I’d imagine it’s more difficult than other sports particularly given we’ve got draftable high school guys and current players. And none of that is known today.
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From what I recall (certainly may be way off), Winfield was a top 10-ish portal guy last year. If so, it raises questions about those rankings. I do not believe he was highly thought of out of high school. That’s fine and not an end all, be all but then only had 1 season at the college level. Slash lines are posted, but it’s very easy to drill down into the numbers. I wouldn’t expect most fans to do so, but it takes 5 minutes to drill down. His numbers last year were built largely on lesser teams. The same can be questioned for the Butler guy. He has two years of production though and his slash line was higher. Look at his numbers versus Louisville, Notre Dame, Xavier, Creighton, UConn. Those are more indicative of what you might see. He doesn’t walk a ton. He doesn’t steal bases. Their team is horrible. Statistically , you cannot garner much from a 2-3 with a double and a homer performance when you lose 31-5. No, he didn’t have much protection around him but at the same time I’m not sure there was a reason to pitch around him what with a team ERA above 10 and 15 wins. There likely weren’t tons of close games. Around 6-7 losses were 3 runs or less. Obviously he has some skills, but he’ll be far from what has become his comfort zone. He likely needs a good start to boost that confidence.
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Even so, do you think you could tackle him?
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One thing with DBs is that if they play early they get exposed decently often. Jahdae was great as a soph then struggled late as a junior once he got dinged up then was outstanding to cap his career as a senior. He had limited action as a frosh so you didn’t see his lack of maturity exposed that year. He was the most important and likely most impactful player we had on defense this year. He was incredibly versatile.
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Home field advantage decided in a somewhat subjective manner is enough. They could have easily flipped UNC-AZ with UM-UL. It is a small thing but an advantage nonetheless.
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I have a long but distorted memory. Still pisses me off whenever we were playing UC Something Something in game 3 at what was 1 am our time. Bs to have a team travel then give them odd, avoidable start times in complete conflict with when they normally play.
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Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
Had Enough replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
We’ll hang in there kid. Tomorrow is a new day. -
Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
Had Enough replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
At some point, you mentioned two things you know well or do well. Or something along those lines. Perhaps one was your profession. I was attempting to recall what those things were. -
Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
Had Enough replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
What were those two things you said you know/did really well? Partially joking, but also seriously trying to recall. Now being smartass, those two things are not related to football, right? -
So they make Arizona travel east and effectively start at 9am their time?
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Wonder if he bought it while at the state fair.
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Pretty piss poor upping there. Terrible forcing that 3rd strike swing.
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Inside the numbers. Beard improved year over year with ERA dropping from 5.51 to 3.28. His K/9 was basically 1:1 his freshman year. No reason to think he wouldn’t improve again. A little more context to the numbers. 3 appearances versus UTSA. 15.1 innings versus UTSA the past two years. 12 hits, 10 earned runs, 13 Ks, 7 walks, 4 HBP. He did not finish strong this year - 10 earned in 17.2. 17 hits, 5 walks, 16 K, 1 HBP and 4 WPs in his final 3. He did not show up strong in the conference tourney with the season on the line against an average Tulane team. His best outings against better competition were FIU and Charlotte. Quite a few games against Texas Tuesday competition. Not the UTSA kind. A little help from Weiner could go a long way.
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So same?
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I thought he was a TE from around the 1990’s from Plano or some such place.
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Well, yeah, you don’t see me running my mouth on the rowing thread do you?
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Some of us might give a shit about your opinion if we knew how much football you played.
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What is “very talented?” I’ve said we’re likely not upper echelon of the SEC. If we’re top 10 in talent in the SEC, we’re likely top 15 in the country. Based on recruiting rankings and results, any non-SEC school has an uphill recruiting battle. We only have 1 year of that so still working through it. Again, 42 conference wins the past two years. No other major conference team can say that. Is that evidence to the contrary? That includes losing our #1 pitcher each year. Lost our biggest bat for the majority of conference this year. And let’s say one of Ole Miss or Auburn or LSU wins it all. Is that more “a ton of evidence to the contrary” regarding our talent level? We were what 6-1 against those guys? Perhaps that terrible, non competitive game against defending champ and their clear #1. So that leaves Arkansas. That finished two games behind us. Clearly all evidence to say we were inferior. For 2024, Perfect Game says our frosh class was #6. On a per player basis, that’s 3rd highest. Only Georgia Tech is non-SEC above us in the top 6 but it took 8 more commits to get there. In 2023, we were 7th overall. Only UCLA above us that was non-SEC. 7th in average per player rating, which actually traded 3 teams from the overall rankings. Just last year Jalin Flores was prep baseballs #83 draft prospect. That included high school prospects and collegiate guys. Gasparino was top 50 in his high school class per Perfect Game. Galvan was the #1 high school Catcher in Texas his senior year. Borba was reasonably well thought of entering. Mendoza has now two solid years. Rodriguez had a very solid frosh year. As a pure athlete, hard to beat Williams. Add in some good experience and maturity. The hang up on “talent” in the lineup is Flores and Will just falling apart the last month or so. And unfortunately, two of our freshmen signees went top 20 in the draft so missed out on them. But then, I clarified to say pitching regarding the portal. Rerick. Reported up to 98 MPH. A top 60 prospect per Perfect Game. Top 125 MLB prospect per Baseball America. Flores Perfect Game top 75. Volantis roughly top 150. Navarre too. That is 4 top 150-ish pitching prospects in one class. We lost at least 1 to the top 75 picks to the draft. I’ll entertain discussion on the other 5-10 teams with more depth there in one class. So the pitching side, I’d assume you have Volantis, Burns, Flores, Rerick back. Then a likely good chance that you get Riojas, Harrison, Bing, Whitehead, Grubbs, Saunier, Walker, Navarre (no 152 player), Hamilton (no 295), Howard. From a group that has the 7th best team ERA in the country. A good combination of righties and lefties. Hard throwers and pitchers. You know what’s missing there? Incoming freshman. I’d assume our top flight incoming class has some good ones there. Now, your little buddy BO&W says there will be no 34 man roster limit so that definitely opens things up. If that’s accurate, it changes things. I was operating under the assumption that was the case and that the freshman class would mean not a ton of pitching movement. I do appreciate the typical, cordial tone of your post. And let’s not forget the supporting data and analysis that you provided.
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In this instance I was referring to pitching. And based specifically on what we have currently. Presumably there’s a contributing freshman arm or two coming aboard. Given limited roster spots, limited dollars, we should be in position to not need to chase the portal much. Probably more under the radar guys. And I’d think more positional players. Also dependent on guys like Riojas, Harrison.
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We likely don’t need much portal action if you believe we develop. Flores and Rerick, per Perfect Game, are top 100 recruits. I assume Rerick still is here. He has to have a bigger role next year or he’s not developing. The Texas A&M roster from 2022 to 2024 should give you some good guidance on progression. Prager had a 5+ ERA in 2022. K/9 is less than 1/inning. Cortes in 2023 had a 7+ ERA with a 1k/inning. Prager missed 23 then had that ‘24 season. Cortes had his ‘24 breakout season. Aschenbeck had a better ‘24 than ‘23. This tracks Schloss, Weiner too. And PG had Flores/Rerick considerably higher than Prager/Cortes for whatever that’s worth. Maturity/experience matters a great deal for many pitchers. It will be interesting to see where Volantis ends up.
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Perfect Game is pretty easy to find recruiting rankings. But otherwise they seem tough to come by. Any others you’re aware of that don’t have them locked down?
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I understand. Flores and Will were not good. Flores was pretty solid defensively until the last few weeks. I don’t know exactly the reasons for their struggles. I do believe they have far better upsides. Flores is running out of time show it. Total speculation on my part, but I’d guess neither are here next year. My original point was that our guys natural abilities are downplayed and particularly in relation to other teams and really historically.
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