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  1. We won without Tucker, Meyers batting clean up, starter going 3 innings, Pressly closing keep winning series
  2. So how we feeling going into this thing? KP or not, the fact that they will have 5 shooters on the floor at all times gives me some pause. This isn't like OKC or MIN where you could just not cover a guy like Giddey or Kyle Anderson. I have a feeling there are going to be some real stinkers where Boston just blows us out due to a 3-point variance. I feel pretty confident we're going to win the paint and rebound battle if we can keep our bigs on the floor. Very interesting matchup.
  3. I understand the appeal of LSU to an unsophisticated person. And I mean "unsophisticated" in the technical sense, not calling them stupid or anything. They lack expertise or experience, and can be convinced by a pitch that seems strong on a superficial level. While at Texas, Bo Davis helped put four different DL in the NFL, including a first-rounder. Credit where its due, Davis was the coach most responsible for developing Murphy. If they have a strong NIL pitch - regardless of the veracity of the pitch - to go with Davis' reputation, I can understand it. I also understand that people in CFB coaching circles are high on Kenny Baker's potential, but he has nothing to sell at the moment. So I don't necessarily fault him for not winning head-to-head with Davis, although it is disconcerting. But where the fuck was this version of Bo Davis at Texas? Why did Davis struggle to recruit quality DL here? There's no way that our NIL and sales pitch are worse than LSU (with or without Davis). Was he focused on development and there's only so many hours in the day? Did he think his 2022 class was enough to coast on (despite not being as good as it seemed on paper)? I don't get it. I hope that Zion and Brown sit down with the staff and they can explain why LSU's pitch is bullshit. I hope we get that chance. Because I'm pretty fucking sick and tired of losing recruits to a school that I frankly view as being worse than A&M.
  4. Risky but glad it worked out. Mike did the opposite of Patty and threw TK, going for the win in the circle instead of knowing you have an elimination game in your back pocket. But I thought we weren't aggressive enough at the plate with the lack of small ball until late. Could have come back to bite us in the butt. Anyone who watched the rest of the WCWS after Thursday knew the Canady we saw on Thursday night wasn't the same one that pitched Friday and Sunday. She's been so money in elimination games and last night was no exception.
  5. ...I really don’t know how the media marketers measure the financial standing of different programs’ viewers/fans. I suspect this factor explains why the B1G media payout is better than the SEC’s. That is an interesting and odd graph, quite a few teams have over a third of their total weeks in the top five, including UCF. Clearly some of these teams benefit just from caring about football for longer or longer ago than others. But I think it is pathway kind of thing: Win games Sell more seats invest in more seats See #1 To your point, the teams who won the most over time should have the biggest stadiums that are filled to capacity. And I still think that paid attendance, at the school level, is a great indicator of fan support. Total stadium size kind of caps your total market size and percent of capacity shows how well you're capturing your market. In the above, you have UCLA, kind of right in the middle of the "Look at how awesome I am" in the AP results, playing in a stadium that is clearly not on campus and too big for their needs, only filling around 40k or around 40% of the Rose Bowl, in any given year. To either wise is Tennessee and Clemson, whose stadiums are always rocking. From a what can we learn, I'd say the ones with low capacity and losing (e.g. empty stadiums and bad records), kind of makes sense, likely will bounce back. Hopefully...maybe....they better. The ones losing and have high capacity, look out, they're going to be on fire if they start winning. Everyone else you're kind of where you expect to be. Win for long enough while being at capacity and you can either raise prices or increase seating. Once you reach a certain threshold between 80-100k your prices just tend to go up as your seating market caps. All this being said, secondary market ticket prices are BS for the most part and are typically a dumb way to judge interest. Not only does it not benefit the school, but it could fluctuate with weather or time of year or how well the season played out. In the example above, single game secondary market jumps rarely occur because the host school cares more, but because the host school fans realize they can cash in on the visiting fans. Supply, meet demand. If a fan can pay for a third of their season in one game, because someone is going to overspend for it, why not sell? Everyone has a price. It doesn't mean interest in that game, overall, is higher, it just means there is more interest in cashing out of that game. Especially if it is easier to see a game in that town. When talking about realignment though, it is nearly all, to the second point, about broadcast viewership and marketing to those demographics, namely 18-34 males. And most of that is viewership over time, they don't care about attendance they're marketing to who is watching. The B1G is top draw with some pretty solid demographics, and they are top draw in the biggest DMAs. They also get a bonus if the company owns the local TV stations in the markets around the games, e.g. Chicago, LA, NYC, Philly, DC. Indiana and Northwestern are as craptastic as Mississippi State and Vandy, but Michigan/Ohio State in the regular season out drew the SEC championship game and every other game last year except Michigan's games against Washington and Alabama. That's how the B1G tops the SEC. Their brands are bigger in bigger markets and their media contract allows them to high light them in different broadcasters in different windows all day so they have three companies marketing them non-stop. Its smart, and its going to be annoying to have to listen to.
  6. Yeah, the "well, we can't approach anybody during the post-season" excuse is bullshit. The only kind of coach you want coming here is a deep-into-the-postseason kind of guy. Unless it's an internal hire. But Bill Little used to tell this story about him recommending one name, and one name only, to DeLoss when Cliff was on his way out. Augie. But he had to remind DeLoss what many people forget, post-season college baseball is by far the longest in duration. It's technically just three rounds, but it lasts to almost 1 July. You can't wait that long in most cases. Plus now you've got the draft moved and the portal. We can't hold our dicks for another month because some guy we like is headed for Omaha. It's not like football, where boom, bowl games are done, let's make an offer---and interim coaches reign frequently. And enough with the "up-and-comer" mentality. It's fucking tiring. We were blessed with a string of legendary coaches in baseball. But a guy who had "some" success at Sam Houston State and Tulane? Same with Shaka at VCU, Herman at Houston, Strong at Louisville. We're picking these "rising stars" who don't win shit. Sark is finally getting it done. Terry is just in a weird position but has some more upside. But this is Texas Baseball. It's actually more of a prominent blue blood than our football program. You don't go waiting until the end of the post-season to make an offer to the coach of So. Mississippi out of respect for his tourney run. /rant
  7. 100%. DFW big game ticket market is such a winners town and massively impacted by momentum. Best example of this was game 5 of the ALCS last year after we had lost 2 straight. Still 2-2 and a huge game and I took a massive loss selling my extras. In 2011, I recall having like $900 in cash for game 3 of the finals (after winning game 2 in Miami) and my wife and I couldn't sniff even terrible seats so watched at a bar. Then, for game 4 (after losing game 3) we bought center court uppers in the 2nd row for like $350 each. I had already gotten lucky with a great lower single from the presale for game 5 (which was before the Mavs figured out they should be charging "market" and not "face" value. Where this ticket market lands is 100% dependent on how prior games go. I think market dips a bit regardless for first 2 home games. The only sure thing for an absolutely insane ticket market would be Mavs having a chance to clinch at home.
  8. I think Texas baseball will be no different but the talent level is abysmal and I'm not sure one year will get it fully done. I could be wrong. I also think the facilities and the fan support will put us in the middle of the pack. The thing about SEC money is athletic departments with no chance in hell in football still get paid and can be powerhouses with that football money in baseball - think Arkansas, Miss State and S. Carolina. I do think our baseball program is in for a bit of a shock. I think the rest is fine, I think the SEC as a whole is going to be like wtf Texas, winning all this shit. But I'm afraid we are 3 years out and some serious investments away for baseball. I could be dead ass wrong though, maybe Texas baseball wins despite the facilities and middling (relatively speaking) fan support.
  9. I am not arguing the issue is "getting them to leave" what I am saying is if you look at a lot of the guys listed it took them a LONG time to get their program where it is today and they are not going to get that length of time at Texas.....and in the current environment I am not sure I fully buy into the "it is easier to win at Texas than those places" especially when Texas gives you 4 or 5 seasons to get your shit together before your ass starts to feel like it is on fire I think across all college sports we are seeing coaches hesitant to make a move to a place where "should be easier to win" and your ass will be on fire by year 3 to 5 vs. staying where they are and having a lot longer career......go through the same exercise with Texas Basketball.....same fucking thing....."this guy is a can't miss".....oh wait they just turned Texas down....oh wait this guy did too.....oh fuck this guy sucks balls.....oh fuck this guy is a drunk with a crazy ass bitch GF
  10. We've got some experts on this war on this whole board, so they can correct me if I'm wrong. But a working theory from AEI is that Russia re-upped (again) infantry and armor. It has been a rough month for Ukraine and even with the new aid packages from Germany & United States, it will take through summer to make a significant impact. After that, they go back on the defensive/losing side. They don't deploy tactical battlefield nukes, but do in fact invade or at least aerially attack a Balkan or Baltic member of NATO. Article 5 is invoked. U.S. Military boots/assets hit the ground and air in the Autumn and Biden gets blamed for starting us off into another bloody war. Trump wins, Russia withdraws from whichever NATO country because he can't maintain two theaters. And then refocus on Ukraine which gets no further assistance from the United States, which results in its demise. But I know Russia would never do anything to sway one of our elections. Since the Kennedy administration, they've shown they have no interest in how we preserve our Democratic system of elections.
  11. Gator beats Nebraska 17 to 11 to go on to get humiliated by Okie Light again We finally have the bats - and our pitching sucks so bad we can’t win against anybody with decent hitting. <sigh>
  12. And if DBU guy requires a Bible study I’ll be his huckleberry and lead it. Only two rules - first no coaches allowed at the Bible study and second rule is really the first rule of Bible study for the players - we don’t talk about Bible study. PTL. now let’s go win
  13. He’s young and a disciple of Casey, winning a national championship as player for him. Before Oregon st, he was a manager in the minors so you can assume he can develop. At Oregon st, Canham has coached pretty well in the limited time he’s been there. I still think there are better names we should go after but if attainability is a high priority then Canham is going to get a call.
  14. Are we talking about the same CDC that fired Herman after a winning season and bowl game blowout over Colorado??? and y’all think he won’t let Pierce go?? Amateurs
  15. I did feel like even if we managed to beat A&M last night we probably still weren't going to win the Regional. This team just doesn't have it, but they have enough to get close enough to keep your attention.
  16. No fine for Carter... BULLSHIT!!! 🙄 "WNBA upgrades foul on Cailin Clark by Chennedy Carter, fines Angel Reese" On Sunday, the WNBA upgraded Chicago Sky guard Chennedy Carter's foul against Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark to a flagrant-1 violation after reviewing the play. Carter gave a shoulder shot to Clark that knocked her to the floor before an inbound pass during the third quarter of Saturday's 71-70 win by the Fever. The officials called it an away-from-the-ball foul and didn't review the play. It was deemed a common foul at the time. "I wasn’t expecting it," Clark said after the game. "It is what it is. It’s a physical game. Go make the free throw and execute on offense, and I feel like that’s kind of what we did." Carter didn't answer questions about Clark or the play after the game. The league fined Sky forward Angel Reese $1,000 for failing to make herself available to the media after Saturday’s game. The WNBA also fined Chicago $5,000 for failing to ensure that all players comply with league media policies. The league office may reclassify a flagrant foul or upgrade a foul to a flagrant one that isn’t called during the game. In addition, the league may impose a fine or suspend a player for a flagrant foul. The WNBA didn’t do either to Carter.
  17. This kind of response worries me a little bit because it wasn't an unreasonable question. DeBoer usually seems pretty unflappable. His clap-back at Cowlishaw, a really, really good dude BTW, makes me think DeBoer was not happy with the performance and might be running out of ideas. He just wasn't going to throw his team under the bus. Perhaps I'm way-overthinking things as we stare off into the abyss this afternoon. Getting back to the series, we just look tired. It's been said by several of you but that's what it looks like. This team has fought so hard after falling behind 0-2 to Vegas and maybe it's finally coming to a head. I hope I'm wrong because I can't remember the last time I wanted a team to win a championship as much as this one.
  18. Going back to 2019 with McCann we always seem to lose a key piece that causes us to have to work a lot harder than we should to do basic things like win. Instead of taking an island of misfit toys we should have more depth than this and that is 100% on the ball coach, these games are won and lost in the offseason. Not some Tuesday night game or even last night. He's playing the roster he brought and to expect it to magically improve during the middle of the season, or squeeze more out of them over and over is stupid.
  19. Hurley is going to have to come out of the bullpen in game 1. We have no other options. I just can’t see a path to winning 2 games today. Last night was the chance to get in the driver’s seat and steal this regional.
  20. Except you still have at least 1 more of Grubbs and LBJ. Maybe both. So when I say we’re in the same place, that’s because we’re down to 3 teams and a maximum of 3 games. But make no mistake about it, our staff is in as bad a condition as it could be at this stage of the tourney. Imagine Grubbs going against ULs #2 tomorrow then we have LBJ going against the Ags #2 or #3. That’s a significant shift in odds of winning those two games. Now you’ve got Hurley or Ace versus the Ags #3 or some dude that’s only started 3 or 4 games. Anyway I’ll be done with it.
  21. This isn’t just depressed fan talking but I don’t think we are even winning the first one tomorrow. That game was so emotionally draining, Louisiana didn’t even break a sweat against Grambling today and have their 2nd best starter fully rested going against Ace Whitehead. We went all in tonight and it didn’t happen.
  22. The goal is to win the regional. That’s exactly right. We did almost pull off this game, but that still leaves us with limited options for game 3 and game 4, if need be. Gage could come back. Andre could as well, but that’s hope that they’re effective. Grambling being a non-competitive 4 seed changes the dynamics. A top flight, amongst the best in the country lefty is a tough matchup and also changes the dynamics. The Aggies #2 and 3 starters give up 3 and 4 more earned runs a game than Prager. We could go #3 or #4 or #5 against UL and still have a chance to win. But if we lose, it truly was no big damn deal. As it stands now, we’re in an incredibly tight spot because our pitching is taxed. And we’re still in the same position had we lost game 1 and won game 2.
  23. It definitely does. Flores let them tie the game which sucks but we had opportunities to either go home 2-0 or not give up the winning run. It’s a massive mound of shit with Flores unfortunately at the top.
  24. We have no arms left. We burned them all tonight trying to win. His job security wont be dictated by whether we beat UL or not. Nobody has any expectations for this team going forward.
  25. Flores and Powell will get the heat but my god going 4 1/3 without a hit is awful. This team was hanging on by a thread for the majority of the game and we still had to fuck it up for them to win. If I was LBJ/Gage/Dre/Lummus I would livid right now.
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