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  1. I think we need to be careful here. The dynamics of college athletics has changed yet baseball still has 11.7 scholarships, right? Money is important. Maybe more so than ever. With respect to Kash, money was the reason or at least a contributing factor that he left per Pierce. If you don’t play, that can impact next years dollars but also pro prospects. If you have legit pro prospects, you simply can’t risk a second unproductive year. Not everyone is a fit everywhere. And there are absolutely situations that are not ideal for a particular players skill set. If a coach doesn’t show confidence in a player, that player likely isn’t going to play with that confidence. There are a number of factors that may cause someone to leave a situation with character being well down the list. I value loyalty probably more than most. But we got lots of transfers. Does that mean they have character issues? Of course not. Take it or not, but I’ve been reflective of the impact of coaching, their decision making and the impact of those decisions in basically an advisory role over a player/athlete and their career. Good people often making terrible decisions with potentially significant consequences. And of course the player/athlete also shoot themselves in the foot quite often. You also can be a good/great coach and fall short of doing your best for all your athletes. Bottom line. Sports/athletics is too emotional to allow opportunities to pass that you simply cannot redo. The player has to own their decisions because they’ll live with it and let’s be honest the coach won’t have that emotional attachment for each player to do everything in their power to help them achieve ultimate success. Just this week I’ve had discussions with two different high school parents about questionable coaching decisions regarding their kids. It happens at likely all levels in spite of coaches success being tied to their athletes. I’ve had a pretty good look into youth and high school athletics here recently and that’s probably made me a bit more pro player in doing what you need to do for yourself.
  2. Whether you like it or not, you always have to make decisions with a consideration to next year. But just because you consider those implications that does not mean you are conceding anything for this season. Injuries can occur. Spot duty can provide the difference in the season. Almost all the roster needs to be engaged for the duration of the season. If the freshmen have talent, they can contribute this season.
  3. That’s the thought exhibited on this board two years ago with Kennedy and to an extent last year with him as well. I believe each of the past two years he finished strong. It’s baseball so you’ve got to balance the ups and downs. Right now, he has more combined sac flies/sac bunts than anyone else. His experience probably helps in that regard. Not sexy but functional. His upside as a hitter is at least .316 as a hitter with .829 OPS. At a minimum. But playing SS may bring that down some. As a veteran, he’s likely bringing stability to the practice field and live games. We are winning and he’s added some positives offensively. Agree that we need to keep guys engaged that we want to return.
  4. ODowd, Flores, Carlson, Duplantier all have similar or lesser numbers than Daly. Average, slugging, OBP. His numbers are slightly better than Thomas’s too. Daly was over .300 two weeks ago. He’s slumping. He’s also hit some deep flies including one that was likely going out if not caught. He’s actually executed some bunt attempts.
  5. Probably. You could possibly find that kinda guy in the Portal. There’s probably no high-end, game ready dual threat willing to come be #3. But a willing blocker maybe.
  6. I wouldn’t think he’s processed cause he’s older and gets down field on special teams because he’s fast but also playing hard there. Being lost often results in poor effort, which he doesn’t exhibit on kick coverage. It’s certainly possible it’s coming together. Not that I’d accept reports as guarantees of that though. And we’re probably not game planning or play calling to take advantage of his weaknesses.
  7. I’m sure it’s his day for bullpen work. Or something like that.
  8. This was a bit of a problem Sunday too. Just hit more homers.
  9. Right. Should have read never not plays. Doesn’t mean he woulda been #1or #2. Malcolm Williams was actually a talented dude too but didn’t work out.
  10. Shipley was great. No doubter as one of the greatest ever to play WR here. I never said otherwise. Quan was great in 2008. Kinda why I initially said they’d be in next years two-deep. I intended to leave that open-ended as to who you could define as starter. But there’s no way Worthy never plays just because those two are here. Also keep in mind, those were slightly older more mature guys. To discount a guy who catches 120 balls for 1,700 yards and 21 TDs in his first two years with inconsistent QB play is a little off base. I hope we have yet to see Worthy’s best. Barring injury next year, he’ll leave top 5 statistically I believe.
  11. Yes. I do. I’ve been talking about Ewers stepping up next year. Someone originally mentioned him making a jump like Colt did to which I stated that those around Ewers were better than what Colt had in 2008/09 so that Ewers wouldn’t have to make that jump to be successful. He has more help and can rely on that help. I’d prefer Limas Sweed to have a great Texas career over whipping ass in the NFL. I’d prefer he do both. He was better at Texas. You’re responding to shit I didn’t say. I did mention some 2005 guys in comparison to 2008/09. Offensively only. 2005 was far and away more talented although the WR corp of 2005 was the weakest on the offense. Talent wise there’s no comparison to the 2008/09 offensive rosters to 2005 or 2023. That doesn’t mean 2008 and 09 didn’t kick a lot of butt. Young drafted Tenn. Selvin at one point starter Broncos. Hall started at Tenn. Roughly decade long career. Jamaal Charles. Chiefs 3rd round. Sendlein. Free agent. Starter Cardinals. 10 years or so. NFL legacy. SupercBowl starter. Blalock. Falcons. 10 years. Scott. One time starter at Lions. Studdard. Started for Texans a bit. NFL legacy. Will Allen. Saints camp. Believe he just gave it up. David Thomas. Saints draftee. Almost 10 years in the league. Limas. 1st round Steeler. Busted. Tony Hills backup. Drafted by Steelers mid round. Last olineman drafted for a decade. Finley redshirt. Quan backup. Ramonce Taylor. All that off the top of my head. Would you like defense too?
  12. For Colt, the thing that I remember is for two years straight every time he left the field his team had the lead. Can’t remember whether Tech in 2008 had 1 second or not, but that’s not pertinent to my point. And a power 5 team with a major conference schedule, the number of draftees from the offense that were on a national title contender is very small. You’re right on Goodwin and Gilbert getting drafted. I down played Goodwin as he was a freshman track guy. Quan, Chris O and David Snow had careers as NFL guys as free agents. But there were no Lyle Sendlein type NFL careers. No Justin Blalocks. No David Thomas’s. No Jamaal. They just weren’t supremely talented. That said those 2008 and 2009 seasons were great and all the dudes on those teams played a part. While I like to have NFL Horns, I prefer they have greater impacts at the college level. Next year we’ll play good to great defense. The offense will have some monster games. We need to avoid spurts of complete incompetence like we’ve seen the last two years. The offense has no excuses. There’s talent and experience. Ewers doesn’t have to be consistently great for this offense to go. He just needs to be consistent with moments of greatness sprinkled in.
  13. 2009 was not a special offense. They scored 16 against an average OU team. They barely scored double digits against Nebraska with it all on the line with the D giving up about 110 yards to NU. For 2008, I gave the appropriate players the credit. The rest played well enough to allow that to happen. Colt is one of the most underappreciated players of all time. If you want to debate who’d make the two deep, then go ahead. My original point was that Ewers would have betters weapons at his disposal than Colt did when he made his leap as a QB. Outside of Colt, there was what 1 offensive guy drafted or maybe two from 2008/09. That’s pretty weak star power for a national champ contender.
  14. Pretty sure I know the one. From what I saw the last 5 minutes, that dude was allowed to play harder than anyone else. It matters.
  15. I’m talking offense. You know defensive guys won’t really impact Ewers performance. At least not directly. With that in mind, who the hell were the TEs in 2008 and 2009? Yeah Sanders is better. Helm probably is too. Banks is a better T than what we had then. And Jones when he does maul is our best mauler in years. And perhaps you forgot Worthy lighting up a 10 win OU team. Whittington has skills and is an ideal complementary player. Mitchell and Neyor have accomplished things - just not here. Keilan isn’t a lead back but damned if he’s not perfect for a 3rd back that can take it to the house, can run you some jet sweeps and create you some mismatch in the pass game. Baxter, Brooks and Blue are taking some snaps from Chris O. If last years team had 2008 and 2009 McCoy, it would have been a sight to behold. The 2009 offense was not great. 2008 ran on McCoy, Shipley and Quan.
  16. No doubt. Did you ever play with a whole new set of guys? Because we had that going too. I can’t provide examples but there have been major leaguers that have been historically slow starters at the bat. Timing is off. It’s cool/cold. It happens. It’s why I’d balk at anyone being written off after 20 ABs. And hitting is always a bit streaky. Thomas and Campbell are two examples this year and really Campbell is whole career.
  17. Lower half is one thing. But using your upper half is shitty basketball. I guess that’s sorta like holding on every play.
  18. Well sure. I didn’t watch all the game, but from what I saw 15 was allowed to play without fear of getting called hence him feeling he could push on the rebound. Brock is a bit over aggressive, but there are points in games when they get out of control. That is often because of counter reactions. The significance of the call as well was not only points but Miami being without their most aggressive presence.
  19. And I realize he left the ground already but that’s far from vertical. The still shot doesn’t tell the story but that’s a foul on Miami right there. The question is did Cunningham earn the foul prior to that.
  20. It’s apparent why the foul was called on Brock, but that first push is a reason for the harder block out. A guy extends his arm to push you under the basket - what is your reaction? To push back harder? Then there absolutely is an argument that the Miami dude earned a foul call before Cunningham kept pushing back.
  21. I am pretty certain this is correct. Notice where Brock ends up. When you play physical, blocking out that physical guy requires more effort. Once he disengages Brock loses his balance. After 15 gave ground he then decides to jump.
  22. Don’t know about Burke but 3 of those dudes are lefties and Tech had lots of lefty hitters. It seems like they preferred the clean up, switch hitter to bat righty too. I think they just liked what they’ve seen out of Howard.
  23. Well except it should be game over if the fielders catch the ball.
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