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Nigel Tufnel

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  1. This year is the first of 4-5 that we (myself as coach and Lil’ Nigel) have a lot of teammates, friends, and players we competed against since age 9 playing D1, several of whom we have been watching in the playoffs the past two weeks (two play for UT). Our closest friends and Lil’ Nigel’s teammate plays for LSU. It hits different when you have kids that age, especially if you are close to them. You have a greater respect for “them man in the arena.” I know first hand watching Lil’ Nigel on national TV this past fall make a mistake for all the world to see. All that being said, I don’t like Arkansas and had a horrible experience there watching UT football back in the day. But my first thought last night was “Oh, no. I feel bad for those two players.” The LSU dad’s first text to me last night was, “Sometimes it goes your way and sometimes not. Man, I feel bad for those players from Arkansas.” Dad vibes.
  2. The ball bounced off his right shoulder.
  3. 2 years of college eligibility, 1 year until draft eligibility.
  4. His dropping will depend on his “number” to sign. If he is dropping it could be that there is word that he will be too expensive. NIL is making this new world a three part negotiation instead of two.
  5. UGA just clinched the women’s team title.
  6. LSU hard to beat in this playoff format. They have a next level ace, a second strong starter, and three really good arms out of the pen.
  7. Curiel is the best freshman hitter I can recall seeing.
  8. Gamble for sure, but thinking is probably not keeping your ace in for high likelihood of dead innings (behind against another ace). Now, he can come back sooner if necessary. Don’t know if I agree with it.
  9. Circle change
  10. Johnson has a tendency to over coach at times. I wonder what the thinking is moving Curiel down to 6th.
  11. Thanks for posting that. I thought about it, but didn’t want to send out the bat signal for a couple of guys.
  12. To be fair, Texas men and women were runners up in ‘22, with the women winning in ‘23. Again, to me it’s the feeling of being just outside the top tier in consistency that is troubling. Regarding facilities, if you are ever able, you need to go to Hayward Field at Oregon. It is the best facility for any sport in college athletics. It is truly fantastic. I have been to A&M’s new facility and have a split view on it. it is really nice, but it’s like they could only finish half because of funding (see: Jimbo). It’s not what it could be, but still really nice. Scattershooting here, if I am Texas, I look really big picture and see about a multi-use facility at the current location that doubles as a premier track facility and hosting HS football games in the fall (like The Star up in Frisco, but mainly for track). 3/4 covered or something to handle the heat for track and potential rain for spectators. Huge financial undertaking, but now is the time when the money is flowing.
  13. T/F can be all over the place. A&M men, 4th at SEC, National Champs. Auburn, 8th SEC, almost National Champs if they have a better 100m. OU, 10th SEC, 6th Nationally. That being said, like any sport teams vary year to year. Florida is a good example. They have the best staff right now and were 3x NC coming into this week, 12th SEC, 8th Nationally, never a player for the NC this year (but top 10 in a really down year). Flo’s teams seem to be a little more inconsistent (results vary more) than most of the top programs. He runs it like a business and it is a tough “produce, internally rank every week” system. He has had better results on the women’s side than the men’s. I have mentioned before on these forums that Lil’ Nigel plays D1 football and runs track (just finished redshirting his freshman year). His training group has had a handful of athletes recruited by UT over the past 5 years. All of them did not like their visits or get a good feeling from Coach Flo (and this is during competing for and winning national championships). I don’t know what that means other than that is what happened. Now, Pat Henry at A&M is track coaching royalty, but he is certainly no walk in the park either, and I can confirm that first hand. But, he has a lot of skins on the wall, including yet another NC last night. Dude recruits. Flo, is not everyone’s cup of tea (no one is, including Henry) and he seems to find enough of his athletes to compete, but his program seems to be just on the outside of the “Top Programs.”
  14. Correct. It doesn’t seem to jibe. Schools can fund up to that but it is up to the individual schools as whether they fully fund. Could UT fund 25 scholarships and allocate NIL for 9?
  15. That’s kinda the issue among schools. It’s up to them. Word is UVA lost their baseball coach because they weren’t looking to be competitive with the number of scholarships for baseball initially.
  16. Feels like it needs to be 7-8 minimum.
  17. That is not my logic. TCU held UTSA to 4 runs. Texas held UTSA to 7, 8, and 9 runs. So, AGAINST UTSA, I would say TCU had better pitching. Against UTSA, UCLA had better pitching than UT. I don’t know how else you can see it or what you are trying to read into this (unless you are an engineer and I will then happily refuse to discuss this any further as it will never end).
  18. Curious, what do you think?
  19. Seriously, is Balcones back?
  20. Personal attack? Seriously?
  21. Again, this Aggy point of view is head scratching. Your premise in trying to be funny is pretty obviously incorrect in and of itself.
  22. This. UCLA > UTSA > UT Again, THG is working from Balcones’ point of view that UT is better, now explain. I think that is a flawed premise. Aggying this place up.
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