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2023 Big 12 Baseball Thread


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On 5/14/2023 at 9:10 PM, Valmy77 said:

But even in the unlikely scenario we sweep WV and OU gets one win,

I find your lack of faith in Texas baseball disturbing. 

 

On 5/14/2023 at 8:24 PM, StassneyHorn said:

Stop fucking calling for sweeps. Goddamn it. None of you fucking learn.

Maybe you have this wrong, and we manifested the sweep. 

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1 hour ago, BachelorTrek said:

No faith in the Big12 as a conference without Mobilehoma and Texas?  Lulz.

Who cares about that.  It’s what you make and where you live as well as the latitude to do your job like you want.  Seems like a downgrade on all counts.  

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Will be interesting to see if he does leave.

It's interesting... when Holiday first took over and Walton joined from ORU, it seemed we were winning mostly with pitching, but that's definitely changed the past several years.

We finished 1st and 2nd in Team ERA in the Big 12 in 2015 and 2016 (and made the trip to Omaha in '16) but since then, we've been 4th in the league in team ERA on average. We finished 5th this year.

Meanwhile, our team hitting has progressively improved. in those two years we had great pitching we were 7th and 6th in the league in hitting, but in the last 3 full seasons we've finished 2nd, 2nd and 4th in team hitting.

Not sure if Walton has lost his "touch" or if it's a recruiting thing, but it's been interesting that our hitting has been steadily improving over the past few years while pitching has been kind of meh. 

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Definitely been a drop off in pitching the last several years. I wouldn’t say him leaving is a good thing but I think we’d do well finding the next coach. It does seem like a strange move if true. I wonder if there’s an understanding there that Holliday wants to go another direction?

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6 hours ago, BachelorTrek said:

Since the SEC move doesn't happen until July 1, 2024, what will the 2024 Big 12 baseball schedule look like with 4 new teams in the conference?

If you can't play a round-robin schedule, how many conference series will there be per team?

How does the SECSECSEC do it now?

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1 hour ago, BluTechsan said:

How does the SECSECSEC do it now?

Each team had 10 conference series (30 games) in SECSECSEC in 2023.

When Texas and Mobilehoma join the SECSECSEC, they will also have 10 conference series (30 games) which will consist of 2 permanent opponents and 8 rotating opponents, and divisions will be eliminated.  (Source: https://www.secsports.com/article/35857432/seven-sec-sports-future-scheduling-formats-approved)

"Baseball

  • Regular season: Each season a team will play a three-game series against two permanent opponents and eight rotating opponents, for a total of 30 conference games. Standings will be kept in a single-division format.
  • SEC Baseball Tournament:  Format to be determined."
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Pitching and defense from OU this year compared to last year is night and day. Not sure why they had one of their normal starters throwing out of the pen this game in the late innings then just hung him out to dry as things were falling apart. Weird decision.

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5 hours ago, BachelorTrek said:

Each team had 10 conference series (30 games) in SECSECSEC in 2023.

When Texas and Mobilehoma join the SECSECSEC, they will also have 10 conference series (30 games) which will consist of 2 permanent opponents and 8 rotating opponents, and divisions will be eliminated.  (Source: https://www.secsports.com/article/35857432/seven-sec-sports-future-scheduling-formats-approved)

"Baseball

  • Regular season: Each season a team will play a three-game series against two permanent opponents and eight rotating opponents, for a total of 30 conference games. Standings will be kept in a single-division format.
  • SEC Baseball Tournament:  Format to be determined."

Wasn’t really wanting that answered but thanks for finding it nonetheless.

- Current SECSECSEC  is 14 teams

- NewBig12 will be 14 teams (next year)

- I would assume, then, that NewBig12 will be similar to SECSESEC

 

Having said that...

How ‘bout that Red Raider walk off win!!!

Go Tech!! Wreck ‘Em!!!

 

Since Tech will be on the road for the NCAA regionals, learning how to stay, and play in the winners’ bracket might be huge for this young team

 

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40 minutes ago, BluTechsan said:

Wasn’t really wanting that answered but thanks for finding it nonetheless.

- Current SECSECSEC  is 14 teams

- NewBig12 will be 14 teams (next year)

- I would assume, then, that NewBig12 will be similar to SECSESEC

 

Having said that...

How ‘bout that Red Raider walk off win!!!

Go Tech!! Wreck ‘Em!!!

 

Since Tech will be on the road for the NCAA regionals, learning how to stay, and play in the winners’ bracket might be huge for this young team

 

EXCEPT, since this is a baseball thread:

Iowa State dropped baseball in 2001 over snowed-out games with Texas (Texas was adamant about moving the games to other venues, but IA state rather would drop baseball instead? -- really strange reaction), and somehow Silo Tech escaped any punishment from the Big 12 conference, if even just awarding 3 forfeit wins for Texas (which Texas didn't receive, by the way), for doing so.

So it will be 13 teams playing baseball in the Big 12 in 2024 -- I can't find anywhere how they plan to handle the schedule or the Big 12 baseball tournament.

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8 hours ago, BachelorTrek said:

The Big 12 used to have another team that had dropped baseball before they ever joined the Big 12 conference, too -- Colorado, who dropped baseball way back in 1980 when they were still in the Big 8.

Always heard that Title 9 killed off baseball and wrestling.

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Tech scores three runs in the 9th to beat Oklahoma, 10-9. An absolutely crushing loss. Hard to get past the two Jackson Nicklaus errors in the fourth that allowed four runs to score.  

We led the whole game and pitched well, but some horific defense ended up costing the game. Niw have to play Pokes tonight for elimination (our 6th game vs them this year) 

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1 hour ago, 66BUFF said:

Always heard that Title 9 killed off baseball and wrestling.

I wonder how all that goes with what sports come back now that Title IX has been effectively gutted. But the Big 8 teams seemed to have kept wrestling. Texas never fielded a wrestling team, though.

Now that Texas will be in the SEC, the SEC has gymnastics -- will Texas field men's & women's gymnastics teams?  (Time to look in "Other Sports" Lulz.)

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May prove to be an excellent hire in prep for the SEC.   Replaces Clay Overcash who resigned and was on initial staff.     Butler also was an asst for Van Horn at Arkansas and word was was offered the hitting coach job at Texas in 2013-2014 but received the offer for Wichita St.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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