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  1. Justice left the Chronicle well over 10 years ago and I believe writes for MLB.com where he can spend more time defending Tony La Russa and the players from the steroid era.
  2. I remember when Yordan signed that deal how there were some in the Houston media who believed the Astros screwed up and didn't sign him for a long enough period of time. Why does it feel like that isn't the issue at this time? Seriously, is this a lack of proper nutrition growing up in Cuba thing or why can a guy that big and strong not stay in the line up?
  3. True, but is exposure or Venables program the biggest issue for the Sooners in recruiting the Metroplex at this time?
  4. Nah....much more interesting using the spaghetti against the wall technique. If you have to guess on that then there is at least two of us not on that list.
  5. Where is the down side to your first sentence?
  6. I am curious which organization named Sanders and academic all-American. Here is a link to the https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.sites/cosidaallamerican.sidearmsports.com/documents/2025/1/27/24AAA_Football_Final.pdf and Travis Hunter is on the first two teams, but not Sanders unless I missed the name. There are all-district lists, but I am too lazy to go through those.
  7. You forgot student body president, and Rhodes Scholar. All nice bullet points on your resume, but not sure if it gets a jersey number retired or any thing like that.
  8. General question on the graduation GPA. If I were to start my academic career two years elsewhere, say UTSA, transfer to UT and then graduate with my degree does the second school count the grades of the first school in the GPA graduation? Really a silly question, but I never really thought about it before and was curious.
  9. Do you really think Manfred knows what any of that means?
  10. PGFrog

    2025 NCAA Baseball

    Unfortunately, even when I "properly" quote and reply I look or at least read like a fucking idoit. .
  11. I like it from a theoretical idea, if a school wants to dump a ton of money into their programs so be it and if someone is just happy to offer sports as part of the college experience great as well. In theory a great way to weed out the programs who are part of the SEC and Big 10 that are along for the ride so to speak, but the biggest issues with any such idea are two fold. First, you have people in the conferences whose existence and compensation are based upon job tied to the current systems and they aren't going to willingly give that up so who is the entity that creates such change? Second, if you are a player why agree to any change from the current system where you have gone from having no control to a system where the only constraints are you are what are set by the courts. Granted, I don't think the current model is sustainable but there are just too many parties currently feeding at the trough and the changes needed are so dramatic I am not sure they can truly be put into place.
  12. Why would the Browns, the organization that gave Watson an enormous guaranteed contract while the stories were starting to come out about his legal issues, worry about the Sanders draft interview video be released when they long ago established they don't know what the fuck they are doing? They only thing it might establish is how many alarms of a dumpster fire, but regardless they are still a dumpster fire of an organization.
  13. I wouldn't have cared if he worked with Ray DeLeon from Banditos baseball if he would have just stopped trying to pull everything and settled on a swing and a stance. He also owes us the final episode of Salsa Fuego to explain why that prized formula taste so bad.
  14. This, anyone who has followed the Astros with any degree of interest the last five years or so has heard the continued flood of news that Alex has spent a winter retooling his swing, Alex changed his body, as well as the continued bits through the season about changing hands, stance, bat, hair cut, whatever...... I never understood how he actually knew what his original stance and swing were because he kept changing them like socks.
  15. They weren't last year. The Rockets have a need that can't be fixed by the draft. You aren't adding another 19 or 20 year old who is going to sit on the bench and find a consistent scorer in the play offs and there are not multiple options to fill that hole with someone who fits what you want concerning their age, fit with the head coach, and not cost you a ton of young players you are hoping to develop.
  16. Except that quality of talent in the NFL has been on the decline in key areas and they don't develop talent anymore with the manner in which they practice. NFL teams struggle to piece together decent offensive lines and if the scouting process has gotten simpler why do we continue to see more and more struggles finding capable quarterbacks. They don't need fewer schools developing talent, they need more and they need more players staying with programs and getting developed instead of hoping to a new team each year. The SEC and Big 10 are going to roll out players who can contribute sooner, but how many of those are maxed in terms of productivity? This is just an extension of the argument of why you shouldn't simply recruit from programs such as Katy, Lake Travis, Southlake, and Aledo. Those programs roll out some very good players, but a number are maxed out as well as been ground out and physically can't carry on much longer. There was always that need for the recruit who was untapped, raw, with the higher ceiling and there is a need for the NFL to be draft from more than 40 teams. Roughly just under 1,100 players from the SEC and Big 10 are in the NFL, but the league has over 2,200 players in it which means there are still a number of players from elsewhere and that math isn't going to change.
  17. https://www.daytondailynews.com/sports/court-filing-pete-rose-accused-sex-with-underage-girl-1970s/TH1s1fHZJuQYoIiUC6SY0J/
  18. I would love to know what the NFL thinks about this gradual move to a super conference which will help a select number of schools, but will make it tougher for those on the outside to compete and fund at their current levels similar to a club being relegated in Europe. The NFL has had the perfect feeder system for decades in which they really spend no money on the development of their prospects unlike baseball.
  19. PGFrog

    2025 NCAA Baseball

    They have played crap in non-conference and I think I read their conference opponents this year at this time are a combined are roughly 120- 140. The only team out of the bottom six in the Big 12 (all the schools with losing conference records) is Baylor. I wouldn't be surprised if they got swept by Kansas, but it won't matter because the conference uses win percentage to decide place.
  20. PGFrog

    2025 NCAA Baseball

    A few years back we heard fan bases bitch and gripe about seeing the same teams in conference play, how one divisions was stronger than the other, how the systems favored teams in multiple conferences and so we get these garbage unbalanced schedules. That only gets compounded by the growth of conferences that are frankly too damn large to manage with divisional splits in some fashion that makes sense. The result has been multiple issues in multiple conferences in multiple sports where schools are playing much easier schedules and there really is not easy way to compare then and as result we get a bigger imbalanced pile of garbage than we did under the old divisional formats. West Virginia is most likely going to win the Big 12 this year with a completely garbage schedule as example.
  21. They also sold out a few games at home before joining the Big 12 as well against Utah and BYU similar to SMU last year. Two big differences is where they were ranked at the time and the athletic department did a much better job drumming up local support in Ft. Worth. Del Conte leaving TCU is understandable, but the big mistake was following his recommendation and hiring Donati. One of the few moves Jeremiah did that was the right thing was the firing/resignation of Patterson. SMU so far seems to have good support in Dallas and needs to build on that so I understand why they want this type of game on campus. As I said before, I am not sure what the attraction is for LSU and I really don't understand OU scheduling the game as they already have the game in the Cotton Bowl each year.
  22. PGFrog

    2025 NCAA Baseball

    Sorry, but there is no fucking way ATM should be in the field for post season play. I don't care if every team above them in the SEC is the modern day equivalent of the '27 Yankees, at some point you have to reward winning and not reward simply being part of a group. Understand, but Florida, the SEC, if what you do in the season doesn't matter then just fucking split off from the rest of the teams, have your own invitational , and crown your own title.
  23. They have no choice on playing at Vandy and the issue isn't the playing in a smaller stadium. The question becomes what do you get from playing the game in Dallas in the first place and that isn't a knock on SMU. TCU wanted the home and home with LSU, but instead the ESPN/ABC presented to them a one game "event" in Arlington. Same with the home and home with Ohio State. I have no idea what or if there was a termination clause in either contract and I do know part of the pitch used by Del Conte and others to raise the funds for the stadium rebuild was to play such games at home. There are the promises that are made and the promises kept.
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