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Texas Softball 2025 - Sick of Being Second Place


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RE: Pitcher quality in the Tennessee-Nebraska series

From a softball perspective, sure, it might be a great series.  But the average viewer isn't going to know anything about the pitchers of these teams.  It's not like either of them have a Caitlin Clark-type hyped player. 

For network, you'd need something to catch the casual viewer.  It's hard to grab viewers with a 7-seed vs unseeded matchup.  Every other matchup has conference vs conference rivalry interest or seeded vs seeded quality except for this one and Oregon-Liberty, and even Oregon-Liberty has the giant-killer Cinderella angle.  What's the angle for this game?  That the pitchers from these non-rival and non-top-ranked schools are so good that there might be almost no runs scored?  I don't see how that makes any casual channel flipper stop on this game.  And I could easily see that as a reason it got bumped to ESPN2.

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SIAP but something just occurred to me.  The announcers yesterday couldn't stop talking about Ford's amazing motivational '4 outs' mantra about them almost beating us to go to okc last year.

Liberty came to bat trailing 3-1 in the 6th.  They hit a 2 run homer to tie and then a 3 run homer for the winning margin, both with, you guessed it, 2 outs in the 6th.  4 outs to go.  Seems like a self fulfilling inception.

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5 minutes ago, WBT said:

SIAP but something just occurred to me.  The announcers yesterday couldn't stop talking about Ford's amazing motivational '4 outs' mantra about them almost beating us to go to okc last year.

Liberty came to bat trailing 3-1 in the 6th.  They hit a 2 run homer to tie and then a 3 run homer for the winning margin, both with, you guessed it, 2 outs in the 6th.  4 outs to go.  Seems like a self fulfilling inception.

I remember during the SECT, they said Ford was also harping on them being the underdog regardless of seeding if they got #1, because they saw what happened last year with Texas being #1 and almost losing in the super

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