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Js1

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  1. This is actually all Cat’s fault for not marrying rich
  2. But softball is a niche sport. Usually has a niche donor attached to it. A former player married to a rich guy. Who knows why the Love widow was so into softball, maybe she had a horse growing up and likes that Gasso looks like Secretariat’s understudy. It’s one player on a roster, albeit one of the top 3 players in the nation, getting paid to win a title
  3. I know the Love family also donated to football, but they seem to be huge softball fans. I don’t see why them paying a million for Canady would ruin football for OU. Did a former player’s rich husband paying for Canady mean Tech football is suffering? What about whoever paid for Chavez to go to Ou?
  4. We won’t know until lineups come out but I’d put it at 60/40. It worked once already
  5. And TK getting a pay day, if we win
  6. You don't think Gasso couldn't sell Canady to one of the megadonors (Love family) for another title? Softball and gymnastics is all they have. If Patty wants it, Patty gets it. She didn't do it last year because she doesn't like having that kind of financial imbalance in the locker room between players. But they got close to 5-peating this year, she easily wants another ring.
  7. Also if Mike REALLY wanted to roll the dice: Travel Ball While playing club softball exclusively for Iowa Premier Fastpitch, Kavan earned a No. 5 national listing as part of Perfect Game's Top 50 Class of 2023 and a No. 11 (tie) ranking according to the most recent release of Extra Inning Softball's 2023 Extra Elite 100 ... the 6-0 right-handed pitcher posted remarkable club career pitching totals of 1,444 strikeouts over 772.2 innings pitched to go along with 45 shutouts and six no-hitters ... was named to the 2022 Alliance Super Cup All-Tournament Team, to the 2021 Colorado Sparkler Future All-Star Game and was the most valuable player of both the 2020 16U Top Club Invitational and the 2020 Worlds Fastpitch Championship ... during the 2022 spring/summer club season, she struck out 251 batters over 128 innings with a 1.40 ERA, 14 shutouts and two no-hitters ... also proven to be prolific offensively, registering over 100 combined hits with 127 career runs batted in (RBI) ...
  8. Texas has to replace both corner infielders and/or an OF spot if Stewie moves to one of those spots + finding an actual DP who can hit the ball at an elite level. $1m+ goes a long way to luring those players to come play alongside TK, Reese, Vivi, Goode, Stewie, Maloney and Henry and make another run. IIRC, Mac was only a $100,000 investment (+ snacks). Arguably had 2 of bigger postseason starts this year (Clemson game 3, Tenn semifinals)
  9. TK has proven she is up to the task to be the ace you ride in the postseason. With the WCWS format, it truly isn't that difficult to ride one person. Win with ace, day off, win with ace, day off, win with ace. Day off and then you need to win 2 games in 3 days with your ace. She had one bad game last year against a 4-peat team. Move on. You can assemble a "staff" to handle the regular season - aka, who is pitching the middle game of your conference series and your preseason tournament games against G5 and lower P4 teams, so your ace can handle the top dawg non-conf matchups. Mac, Cit, Cam backing up TK is how we got here. Programs weren't champing at the bit to steal away any of those 3. They did their jobs to not force TK to throw 200+ innings before June. Cam, Cit and Hannah Wells can do that next year as well.
  10. I don't think he does; they didn't even bother to make a true counteroffer for Mike, who had all but 1 of their WCWS appearances when he left. They let someone with an .800 winning percentage just leave. 5 Pac 12 titles in a 6 year span is no joke - the old Pac 12 had some legit coaching when he left (KIP, Heather Tarr, Mike Candrea, John Rittman)
  11. Seriously OU is, yet again, graduating an ace. Don't tell me the Love family can't find $1.25 million in their couch cushions and make her an offer. Gasso will get over the "unfairness" to the rest of her roster. All it takes is one former player, married to someone rich, to want to do what Tech did and make NC a better offer.
  12. No doubt, but Brister, Wallace and Hunter haven't done *much* of *anything* is the problem. Brister can allegedly play in the infield, but what we saw was not pretty. Wallace is perfectly fine if she wants to stay as a pinch runner. Hunter can't really hit good P4 pitching - she's a fine pinch hitter in spots, but your DP cannot be hitting sub-.250 The fact any regular starter on our roster hits below .300 is pretty abysmal. Goode is just shy of .300, but she has power (9 HR) and has saved our bacon at SS many times. Bennett is going back to the bench when Goode moves back to 2B - not even sure she warrants being a defensive sub. Hunter can come in as a pinch hitter, if she wants to stay. Wallace, as a pinch runner. Neither Hunter nor Wallace has a defensive position to play.
  13. He doesn't want anyone upstaging him. This is Donald Trump Show and Musk has spent way too much time in the spotlight.
  14. Coach Flo, go earn your pay check.
  15. Wow, no one could have seen this slap fight coming Narrator: everyone, indeed, saw this coming
  16. I am all for telling Wallace and Brister to go somewhere else; same for Hunter, and use their scholarship money for some big heifer who can mash the ball. Speaking of fully funded scholarships, have you heard anything about what schools are going to struggle with this? We won't. OU will make sure they have the money, this is their gold standard program. I assume most of the major SEC programs (Texas, OU, Bama, LSU, Tenn, Florida) will be fine. Idk about aggy, their financials are a mess. LSU always finds the money; there's always money in a children's hospital being closed. I sure as hell wouldn't commit to fully funding scholarships for Courtney Deifel, she ain't going to get to OKC with or without them.
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  18. AW is Reese's pinch runner late in games. That's it. She should not be getting plate appearances, she doesn't do anything but run fast. If she's at the plate, it should be nothing but bunts.
  19. She don't care about camping and we live 90 min from RMNP. Pretty easy for us
  20. All I know is they didn’t want to burn her this year. She will have 2 full seasons after this year
  21. Spring games don’t count!
  22. I know there’s not. I believe he was asked and said they didn’t want to burn her medical RS just for the postseason And I think the question was specifically about her bat and not defense
  23. Does softball not have a similar rule to football about burning redshirts? Bc it should, so I could just throw Vivi out there as DP.
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