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2 minutes ago, troph said:

Season long Flores and Gaspy were serious liabilities. Borba clearly improved including on defense. Flores at the SS spot has to be at least great on defense, he was not. His bat a tremendous liability. I think we certainly can expect a Texas SS to be great in the field and at the plate but I get many great SS prospects are gone, but with NIL there's even more honest expectation that Texas fields a SS that can catch and hit. seriously come the fuck on.

pitching was going to be a liability we thought anyway, DP left this team trashed in the bull pen. we really were fortunate to have Spencer and Riojas come in and dominate the first 2/3 of the year. With Grubbs and Volantis and Harrison coming a long we had a ridiculous run of good fortune unlike many years before, then Spencer and Riojas fell off for different reasons and we had to rely on our third starter as an ace. yeah, that shit just will not cut it, especially when the team's championship make up was defined by tops in the SEC in pitching and solid defense with a mid offense. pitching falls apart, offense regressed a bit more to lower mid and defense was whatever, doesn't matter.  no way this team was going to make a run. My natural optimistic self thought CWS was 50/50 at best.

now he has had a whole year to recruit and to get ready for the portal. I suspect he's got more cash available than DP had, so I bet next year will be competitive down the stretch. we will see.

Flores lost us the first game.  If he could’ve just kept two balls I. The I field we likely win handily 

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5 minutes ago, WBT said:

We don't suck at hitting.  It was our strong point under Pierce...if there was one.

Guys have slumps, it's baseball.

Idk if what Flores and Gasparino went through qualifies as a slump or a brain dead/vegetative state. 

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1 minute ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

Flores lost us the first game.  If he could’ve just kept two balls I. The I field we likely win handily 

he and gaspy need to go. draft eligible so go or just transfer. JAGs completely.  no way your CF and SS should suck that bad.

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12 minutes ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

We were predicted to finish 8th.      In the sec

I’m aware.  So the predictors were dipshits?  I’d guess quite often predictions in balanced conferences are all over the board.  I really wouldn’t hold them to a standard however.

People, on this very board, were reasonably hyped about Easton Winfield.  Think he may have been a top 10 transfer guy.  He may well turn into a fine player even.  But anyone could have a taken 5 minutes to review his stat line from last year.  Much of his production was against SWAC teams then a few good games versus mid tier teams.  For one year only.  There were legit questions about his conversion to the next level.  Much of that ignored.

Then you take an Ace Reese.  Small town kid.  The first article I find says he had 1 offer out of high school.  Then 247sports shows 1 transfer offer.  You might could say Texas missed twice.

Expect outcomes all over the map.  Tons of variables in baseball. Lots of volatility.

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5 minutes ago, Had Enough said:

I’m aware.  So the predictors were dipshits?  I’d guess quite often predictions in balanced conferences are all over the board.  I really wouldn’t hold them to a standard however.

People, on this very board, were reasonably hyped about Easton Winfield.  Think he may have been a top 10 transfer guy.  He may well turn into a fine player even.  But anyone could have a taken 5 minutes to review his stat line from last year.  Much of his production was against SWAC teams then a few good games versus mid tier teams.  For one year only.  There were legit questions about his conversion to the next level.  Much of that ignored.

Then you take an Ace Reese.  Small town kid.  The first article I find says he had 1 offer out of high school.  Then 247sports shows 1 transfer offer.  You might could say Texas missed twice.

Expect outcomes all over the map.  Tons of variables in baseball. Lots of volatility.

Or Schloss actually did a good job and we over achieved?  This team actually had middle of the road sec talent after all?

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28 minutes ago, The Longest Horn said:

Idk if what Flores and Gasparino went through qualifies as a slump or a brain dead/vegetative state. 

Those aren't slumps.  They're two guys with terrible swing mechanics & plate approaches who consistently got worse over time.

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11 hours ago, Valmy77 said:

I am not going to disrespect UTSA like that. That's bullshit. They were a #2 for a reason.

If you doubt that look at their season.

In any case anytime you lose in a Regional and you are Texas it is a disappointment. Doesn't matter who it is against.

Let me be angry dammit!

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37 minutes ago, The Longest Horn said:

Idk if what Flores and Gasparino went through qualifies as a slump or a brain dead/vegetative state. 

Their production tanked big time.  Trying to figure out what goes on in a coach’s brain and in particular a baseball coach’s brain is brain draining for fans.  Schloss is not the only one guilty of this as I’ve seen it from good coaches from the high school to pros.  But when does a coach cut bait with a someone who is in a slump?     Flores and Gasp numbers did not lie and the best we could do is move them down in the batting order….  Beam me up!  At the very least in last night’s game, I’d think after at bat number two someone on the bench would’ve been given the bat to try to get on base and/or move over someone who was on base.    Yea Flores hit a rope and the UTSA CF made a highlight grab.  But after that…. 

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I really think that this team greatly overachieved during the first three months of the season, and that the team that showed up in May is more indicative of their true talent.  I think the pundits who predicted an 8th-place finish in the SEC were closer to the mark than we want to believe.  I should have known better than that this timeline would allow me some joy in the baseball postseason.

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6 minutes ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

Or Schloss actually did a good job and we over achieved?  This team actually had middle of the road sec talent after all?

One could not have asked for a better regular SEC season.  
 

The point is that many, maybe damn near all, don’t know the actual talent.

I’m not sure we overachieved.  Regular season better than thought.  Disappointing post season.  Offensively, Rodriguez was probably better than expected but not really anyone else.  We got less out of our big 3 than expected.  Pitching-wise Volantis was huge, but he was pretty highly rated.  The hit rate on other pitchers improving was pretty high, but it’s not like they were building from nothing.  I guess Walker and his 10 innings were a surprise.

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22 minutes ago, Had Enough said:

One could not have asked for a better regular SEC season.  
 

The point is that many, maybe damn near all, don’t know the actual talent.

I’m not sure we overachieved.  Regular season better than thought.  Disappointing post season.  Offensively, Rodriguez was probably better than expected but not really anyone else.  We got less out of our big 3 than expected.  Pitching-wise Volantis was huge, but he was pretty highly rated.  The hit rate on other pitchers improving was pretty high, but it’s not like they were building from nothing.  I guess Walker and his 10 innings were a surprise.

I don't disagree.  I won't let the coaches off the hook, they have to own a lot of this for sure.  But players gotta play and again if Flores was able to keep two balls in the infield we likely run away with game 1.

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8 minutes ago, Ghost of NMAS said:

I really think that this team greatly overachieved during the first three months of the season, and that the team that showed up in May is more indicative of their true talent.  I think the pundits who predicted an 8th-place finish in the SEC were closer to the mark than we want to believe.  I should have known better than that this timeline would allow me some joy in the baseball postseason.

Then elaborate on the talent of other teams.

Why was Vandy, the #1 overall seed, so talented yet they beat Wright State (who?) by 1 then lost by 1.  They lost to a 15-15 regular season ACC team.

UF.  Lost by a combined 22-10 to East Carolina.  East Carolina finished 10 games behind UTSA.  ECU was 5 games closer to last place than first.  I guess they were “hot” though.

Kentucky, Georgia.  Eliminated by “shit-ass” Big 12 teams.

LSU.  How the hell did they get such a pathetic regional?  I guess Little Rock is a good loss.  You know with their losing record on the season including a split with Arkansas Pine Bluff.

Nothing inspiring about MSUs run.  Ended about where you’d expect.

Alabama 0-2 including a loss to a mediocre Miami.

OU, Ole Miss and Tennessee possibly advancing today.

Auburn and Pig advance pretty easily.

 

It is reasonable to say that no other SEC team has beaten a team as good as UTSA except OU over UNC.  Creighton maybe.   DBU. NCstate.

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12 minutes ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

I don't disagree.  I won't let the coaches off the hook, they have to own a lot of this for sure.  But players gotta play and again if Flores was able to keep two balls in the infield we likely run away with game 1.

I understand.  Flores and Will were not good.  Flores was pretty solid defensively until the last few weeks.  I don’t know exactly the reasons for their struggles.  I do believe they have far better upsides.  Flores is running out of time show it.  Total speculation on my part, but I’d guess neither are here next year.

My original point was that our guys natural abilities are downplayed and particularly in relation to other teams and really historically.

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Posted
2 minutes ago, Had Enough said:

I understand.  Flores and Will were not good.  Flores was pretty solid defensively until the last few weeks.  I don’t know exactly the reasons for their struggles.  I do believe they have far better upsides.  Flores is running out of time show it.  Total speculation on my part, but I’d guess neither are here next year.

My original point was that our guys natural abilities are downplayed and particularly in relation to other teams and really historically.

I feel like, we pressed against UTSA.  We were in our heads.  When it was 6-4 in game 1, Ithe players likely said "crap here we go again."  It was cruise control before then.  I'm still not over it

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Posted
2 hours ago, Cajun said:

Those aren't slumps.  They're two guys with terrible swing mechanics & plate approaches who consistently got worse over time.

Gasparino has a longer swing than the Conquistador at Six Flags.  

I was actually relieved to see Farmer PH for him yesterday.

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Posted
29 minutes ago, T’Boo Ted Marshall said:

I thought at one point during this season Flores lead the team in RBI with RISP by a large margin.    

He went from Mister Clutch to Mister Suck

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2 hours ago, Had Enough said:

Then elaborate on the talent of other teams.

Why was Vandy, the #1 overall seed, so talented yet they beat Wright State (who?) by 1 then lost by 1.  They lost to a 15-15 regular season ACC team.

UF.  Lost by a combined 22-10 to East Carolina.  East Carolina finished 10 games behind UTSA.  ECU was 5 games closer to last place than first.  I guess they were “hot” though.

Kentucky, Georgia.  Eliminated by “shit-ass” Big 12 teams.

LSU.  How the hell did they get such a pathetic regional?  I guess Little Rock is a good loss.  You know with their losing record on the season including a split with Arkansas Pine Bluff.

Nothing inspiring about MSUs run.  Ended about where you’d expect.

Alabama 0-2 including a loss to a mediocre Miami.

OU, Ole Miss and Tennessee possibly advancing today.

Auburn and Pig advance pretty easily.

 

It is reasonable to say that no other SEC team has beaten a team as good as UTSA except OU over UNC.  Creighton maybe.   DBU. NCstate.

that just really points to the fact that this is a pretty so-so field of teams. had Spencer stayed healthy and Riojas not had the yips who knows what happens. no where near a top Texas club, yet good enough to win it all in 2025. I think that points more to the fact that this year is a down year for NCAA mens baseball.

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47 minutes ago, T’Boo Ted Marshall said:

I thought at one point during this season Flores lead the team in RBI with RISP by a large margin.    

for a period of time he was shit at the plate, unless he was not shit, and those shitless times often involved a double with 1-2 RBIs. it was weird.

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14 minutes ago, troph said:

that just really points to the fact that this is a pretty so-so field of teams. had Spencer stayed healthy and Riojas not had the yips who knows what happens. no where near a top Texas club, yet good enough to win it all in 2025. I think that points more to the fact that this year is a down year for NCAA mens baseball.

zero depth at all, pitching and hitting. 

we were playing with injured guys everywhere(williams, galvan, Arod) and couldn't sub for a SS making errors/not hitting even .150 and a CF that was a strike out/ground out machine.  Then when spencer went down that was it. 

we ran on adrenaline v aggy to get 1 run wins even though they sucked and everything since then was a big ball of medi-okra.

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Schlossnagle said in post game that Texas hasn't played in a league as deep as the SEC before.  I doubt that.  Besides the fact that you don't play all the teams so depth doesn't matter as much, some of those Big 12 schedules before Nebraska left were pretty deep.  Some recency bias at work.  I'm in the camp that the SEC this year was not very deep and, at the top, not as good as past years.

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13 hours ago, utxmike05 said:

Made a Sunday day trip to ATX for that KState game. Excellent seats behind the plate, but F the team for losing Sat night so I had to sit in 489° degree heat at 2pm.  I had all weekend passes but couldn't stay for the night game. I thought we were back on track after kstate bc the bats were alive, but turns out they are just scared of UTSA or something.  It was laughable seeing the first 2 pitchers just bean and walk batters...then give up a big hit after hit.  

This team has been unraveling since the aggy series. They really haven't done anything since then. Joke of an end to the good season. 

I blame the snide on Indiana State’s obvious lack of shoulder mobility and strength/conditioning. 

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26 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

zero depth at all, pitching and hitting. 

we were playing with injured guys everywhere(williams, galvan, Arod) and couldn't sub for a SS making errors/not hitting even .150 and a CF that was a strike out/ground out machine.  Then when spencer went down that was it. 

we ran on adrenaline v aggy to get 1 run wins even though they sucked and everything since then was a big ball of medi-okra.

yeah aggy series was a canary in the coal mine for sure. loved having the sweep, it did make me think the team had the grit to go farther than they did, but after Spencer went down and that weekend played out as it did, I revised expectations from this team can win it all, to no way they win the title, and making omaha 50/50.

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20 minutes ago, ClubWhatever said:

Schlossnagle said in post game that Texas hasn't played in a league as deep as the SEC before.  I doubt that.  Besides the fact that you don't play all the teams so depth doesn't matter as much, some of those Big 12 schedules before Nebraska left were pretty deep.  Some recency bias at work.  I'm in the camp that the SEC this year was not very deep and, at the top, not as good as past years.

big 12 plus texas non-conf was pretty legit most years until very recently. the only thing I think the SEC truly has on other primary leagues are the stadiums and crowd sizes.  sure, some years the SEC is stupid legit other years not so much. but as we have always said, it's a self fulfilling prophecy for those knuckle draggers. you never know with the SEC until post season because they play shit non conf games.  I'm gonna fucking hate that about Schloss.

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28 minutes ago, ClubWhatever said:

Schlossnagle said in post game that Texas hasn't played in a league as deep as the SEC before.  I doubt that.  Besides the fact that you don't play all the teams so depth doesn't matter as much, some of those Big 12 schedules before Nebraska left were pretty deep.  Some recency bias at work.  I'm in the camp that the SEC this year was not very deep and, at the top, not as good as past years.

I don't understand this point by Schloss unless we had finished middle of the pack. 

I don't buy this company line bullshit that the "mental grind" is somehow significantly harder in the SEC than any other conference. 

Baseball is a hard game, the mental grind is tough for anyone playing major college baseball.  

We overachieved, then water found its level. I feel like Schloss got more out of this team and this should just rapidly accelerate the program building. Hats off to UTSA, they looked like and played like the better team. I hope they get a trip to Omaha out of it.

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yeah it's aggy bullshit.  I give him a pass, I think it will wear off in a year or so. besides, CDC is reading what i'm saying and about to call Schloss into his office and say hey look buddy, the pride and tradition of the Longhorns will not be entrusted to that weak ass bullshit. our key board warriors think this SEC SEC SEC shit is inbred nonsense, we're texas fuck em all, just win baby. 

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14 minutes ago, troph said:

yeah it's aggy bullshit.  I give him a pass, I think it will wear off in a year or so. besides, CDC is reading what i'm saying and about to call Schloss into his office and say hey look buddy, the pride and tradition of the Longhorns will not be entrusted to that weak ass bullshit. our key board warriors think this SEC SEC SEC shit is inbred nonsense, we're texas fuck em all, just win baby. 

He better

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23 minutes ago, troph said:

yeah it's aggy bullshit.  I give him a pass, I think it will wear off in a year or so. besides, CDC is reading what i'm saying and about to call Schloss into his office and say hey look buddy, the pride and tradition of the Longhorns will not be entrusted to that weak ass bullshit. our key board warriors think this SEC SEC SEC shit is inbred nonsense, we're texas fuck em all, just win baby. 

I’m not worried about Schloss or his relationship with CDC 

Posted
1 hour ago, ClubWhatever said:

Schlossnagle said in post game that Texas hasn't played in a league as deep as the SEC before.  I doubt that.  Besides the fact that you don't play all the teams so depth doesn't matter as much, some of those Big 12 schedules before Nebraska left were pretty deep.  Some recency bias at work.  I'm in the camp that the SEC this year was not very deep and, at the top, not as good as past years.

No kidding. People forget how strong the big 12 was in baseball back then. Of course, it's been 20 years.

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1 hour ago, Beau Vine said:

Gasparino has a longer swing than the Conquistador at Six Flags.  

I was actually relieved to see Farmer PH for him yesterday.

Yep.  It’s embarrassing to watch and it appears that no one is working on it with him.  
 

Every swing he makes he’s just hoping to make contact.  You can tell he doesn’t expect to.

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5 hours ago, Had Enough said:

Then elaborate on the talent of other teams.

Why was Vandy, the #1 overall seed, so talented yet they beat Wright State (who?) by 1 then lost by 1.  They lost to a 15-15 regular season ACC team.

UF.  Lost by a combined 22-10 to East Carolina.  East Carolina finished 10 games behind UTSA.  ECU was 5 games closer to last place than first.  I guess they were “hot” though.

Kentucky, Georgia.  Eliminated by “shit-ass” Big 12 teams.

LSU.  How the hell did they get such a pathetic regional?  I guess Little Rock is a good loss.  You know with their losing record on the season including a split with Arkansas Pine Bluff.

Nothing inspiring about MSUs run.  Ended about where you’d expect.

Alabama 0-2 including a loss to a mediocre Miami.

OU, Ole Miss and Tennessee possibly advancing today.

Auburn and Pig advance pretty easily.

 

It is reasonable to say that no other SEC team has beaten a team as good as UTSA except OU over UNC.  Creighton maybe.   DBU. NCstate.

This idea that the SEC has so much more talent than everyone else needs to go away. This is baseball. Coaching and execution wins.

Posted
4 hours ago, Steamboat1874 said:

One thing I want to see us do next season is bunt.

Gus and Augie used the bunt all of the time and seem to have done pretty well.

Gus and Augie were successful two decades ago and four decades ago. The game has changed.

There is a place for the occasional bunt but the Augie/Gus small ball is not a good strategy for scoring runs regularly 

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Posted
2 hours ago, jw4381 said:

I blame the snide on Indiana State’s obvious lack of shoulder mobility and strength/conditioning. 

and then there's Larry Bird's back...I mean what the fuck with ISU's SC coach

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Posted
3 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

Gasparino has a longer swing than the Conquistador at Six Flags.  

I was actually relieved to see Farmer PH for him yesterday.

this may sum up our issues in one post

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14 minutes ago, hobbes2702 said:

Gus and Augie were successful two decades ago and four decades ago. The game has changed.

There is a place for the occasional bunt but the Augie/Gus small ball is not a good strategy for scoring runs regularly 

But it may be a good tactic situationally.

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