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  1. Thanks for posting ! Great interview. Lots of insight, no coachspeak.
  2. Will be difficult to sleep tonight, will add my $.02. - Antico did not consistently see this level of pitching at St Johns. Pierce is likely keeping him in the lineup because he leads the team in walks, 3rd with less K's, and 11-14 SB's. And the overall experience factor. I like him, he needs a breakout game to get back on track. - Can't see Witt getting AB's in a game like this when he is pitching. Mental thing especially for a freshman no matter his talent. Petrinsky hurt ? Geib, Melendez ? - Early in the year, someone mentioned team leadership. It wasn't there tonight. We looked tepid. Not football, but need to show more enthusiasm. Need a Kacy, Kody, Tres Barrera, Cameron Rupp. - Someone do a welfare check on @Fletch 🙂
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    2021 NCAA Baseball

    SCar beat Florida last night, 9-8, 14 inn, and won one game last week against Vandy. The more they win it helps our RPI/SOS.
  4. With Covid scheduling, limited travel for teams, etc, suppose there is the risk of "playing down" to the competition and not having focus. These teams are terrible. SDak (4-20) UTSA (5-13) UTA (4-18) Stats: 2nd Hitting, 3rd Pitching, Last in Fielding Gets real on Thurs with Tech coming to town. https://big12sports.com/stats.aspx?path=softball&year=2021
  5. siap, CDC's 40 Acres Insider Read as you will ... With the thrill of victory, we also experienced the agony of defeat last week. Saturday's Men's Basketball game was a heartbreaker as Coach Smart and our No. 9 Longhorns were stunned in the first round of the NCAA Tournament by Abilene Christian. It was a tough night all the way around as our Longhorns just couldn't find a groove, made far too many turnovers, and in the end came up one-point short, 53-52. Watching from Indy, it was just gut-wrenching seeing such a wonderful group of student-athletes experiencing such a disappointing end to a season that included so much success, like the Maui Invitational title (played in Asheville, N.C. due to the pandemic, of course), our first-ever Big 12 Tourney Championship, a No. 9 final ranking in the AP Poll and a 19-8 overall record. It was not how any of us wanted it to end and was so abruptly and truly devastating for us all, but like all competitors and those of us in athletics do, we must pick ourselves up off the mat, dust off and get back to work. https://texassports.com/news/2021/3/24/forty-acres-insider-march-24.aspx
  6. Read that Geib's 3 run HR was his first AB since his injury last year, and on the first pitch. Quite a reintroduction. Always liked him, 1st/3B, difficult to find a spot other than DH.
  7. https://www.surlyhorns.com/board/index.php?/topic/12678-2020-little-league-thread-of-dominance/page/8/&tab=comments#comment-3161866 Check above thread from the Baseball Forum. Most are from the Austin/Houston area but may be able to offer advice.
  8. Followed the Sunday game, but unable to watch. Any opinion if any of the 3WP’s could have been blocked ? Kubichek has 7WP’s and 5HBP in 21.1 innings.
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    2021 NCAA Baseball

    Be nice for SCar to take 1 or 2 from Vandy for our SOS/RPI. They lost to a 6-8 Davidson team Wed.
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    2021 NCAA Baseball

    Florida vs aggy tonight, 6PM, SECN. Scout aggy for our matchup on 30 Mar and check out Florida's new ballpark O'Sullivan got for declining Texas. (plus a 1.25M annual salary)
  11. https://big12sports.com/stats.aspx?path=baseball&year=2021 B12 stats as conference play begins. Overall, very good. iirc, best in awhile. Luv that Fielding stat.
  12. Never know about Tuesday games, but this could be a competitive game. Vaqueros took 2/3 from Baylor to open the season and just split a 4 games series with Grand Canyon (normally solid club) in Az this past weekend. That said, their stats are not impressive and Rimac hasn't pitched since 26 Feb when he was rocked by UW in Seattle. Head coach is Derek Matlock, former Texas St and WVU assistant, solid baseball guy. https://goutrgv.com/sports/baseball/stats/2021
  13. Not a member of either, but paid subscription is now the "way of the world". Always liked the D1 Baseball Chat on Monday but now requires a subscription. Very little, if any free content on either site. Even The Baseball Cube, premier research site, now requires subscription. D1 is $119 per year, $14.99 per month. Ouch ! They do sometimes offer specials but not much less. D1 started the fully paid trend and the others followed. I've met Kendall and talked to him at the Disch, but just not worth it. Find it helpful to glean info from visiting other team fan forums.
  14. 6 Feb 1939 - 15 Mar 2018 RIP, Great One ! Thanks for the memories. "You want to win everything along the way, because that buys you 24 hours of peace, but the national championship is the goal for this program."
  15. This week's schedule (aggyCorpus, BYU, Texas Southern, Tarleton St) are under .500. BYU has played a fairly strong schedule (Az, AzSt, Wash, Utah) Time to work on defense. https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/softball/d1/usa-today/nfca-coaches Polls: USAToday/NFCA - 10 D1 - 11 ESPN - 11
  16. https://www.iheart.com/live/talk-1073-fm-5602/ LSU radio.
  17. Should have clarified, for those that do not have ESPN+. OU 2/Mizzou 1, 4th inn, , Uverse 1751 FSNOK. Juarez has gained alot of weight.
  18. The finish of game one will not be streamed live or air on a TV network. Live stats will be available to follow at LSUStats.com. https://lsusports.net/news/2021/3/5/softballs-friday-game-with-texas-halted-due-to-rain.aspx. DH to follow will be on SEC+. Q&A about SEC+. Perhaps someone can find/post a stream to simplify. @shadow_operative2.0 @Machinator🙂 https://www.secsports.com/article/23926730/about-sec-network+
  19. Too early to tell. Texas St normally a competitive game. UH took 3/4 from aggy corpus, 2 were 1 run games. SCarolina picked 4th in SEC East behind Florida, Vandy, Tenn (strong division). All teams seem to be playing at least 2 midweek games meaning pitching will be stretched. Texas St and UH games are scheduled for ESPN+. ESPN+ has alot of college baseball games this year. Worth the $5.99 per month. https://www.espn.com/espnplus/schedule/_/type/upcoming/channel/ESPN_PLUS/startDate/20210303
  20. Good call Pato ! Pierce agrees. After the game, Pierce blamed himself for the bullpen's implosion. Pierce said that instead of playing the matchups, he should have immediately gone to Witt. "We've got to make a better choice right there," Pierce said. "It's probably my fault for putting them in that situation." A week ago against Arkansas, Stevens was again solid before running into trouble in the sixth inning. Ahead of this season, none of Stevens' 33 appearances at Texas had lasted more than 2.1 innings. "I don't think it's a concern yet, I truly don't," Pierce said of his starter's sixth-inning shortcomings. "Again, we get to know that maybe his tops is 85, 90 pitches and he can still eat up a lot of innings because he's such a good strike thrower. That's information as well." https://www.hookem.com/story/sports/baseball/2021/02/27/baseball-bullpen-decisions-cost-texas-series-finale-against-byu/6854832002/ Witt has nothing else to prove. Hope he is not overused. Also, no need to DH, too valuable as a pitcher. Seems to be the ideal closer. Besides outstanding "stuff", has that J Brent Cox/Huston Street attitude. Wenzel can handle mid relief.
  21. Only 4 games, very early, but you can see the void left by Elish. Thus far team does not seem to be playing with the intensity and focus that Elish brought to the whole team. Her enthusiasm, focus, and drive to be the best will be missed by the entire team. Results in errors and other mistakes. As they say, a superstar (Elish) makes everyone better. Jefferson, Rhodes, Burke, and Iakopo are stars in their own right, but like many they just don't have that "let's go" leadership personality. That said, Covid protocol affected the team. They are really just getting to know each other.
  22. True. 3 SF, 2 SH, and 5 errors by BYU helps the cause. "It is not about hits, it is about runs".... Augie 🙂
  23. Did Huston opt out as a volunteer asst this year due to Covid ? Not listed on roster. I may have missed the news. Saw Tulo talking to Kennedy before an AB last night. Bio says he works with hitters and infielders.
  24. Pierce's quotes below. jmo, but Pierce seems to favor power hitting, thus the long swings he mentions below. And this is why he moved in the fences at DFF. He seems to recruit for power. May be successful until you face quality pitching. Then adjustments need to be made like shortening the swing to make contact. That was the concerning thing, after 18K's on Sat, the trend continued without adjustments. Note that we were last in the B12 in hitting for '17 (.252) and '19 (.250) and 6th in '18 (.271). We were 8th (.256) last year. https://big12sports.com/news/2008/7/16/1513506.aspx tl:dr: They may be trying to hit a home run every at bat. "Hitting and scoring kind of comes and goes, but approach has to be better," Texas coach David Pierce said. "I think we have some length in our swing that's probably caused by some tension and I think we have faced really good, quality pitching out of the gate. You combine those three things together and it's kind of a nightmare for us right now." https://www.hookem.com/story/sports/baseball/2021/02/21/baseball-strikeouts-issue-texas-arkansas-bests-its-old-foe/4536956001/ "I got a lot of information from this tournament," Texas coach David Pierce said. "I think that's good for us." "Did we play well? No. Was Arlington an incredible field and kicked our butts? Yes," Pierce said. "We just look at it like that. We're not going to feel sorry for ourselves and I can't wait until we play again." https://www.hookem.com/story/sports/baseball/2021/02/22/baseball-beaten-ole-miss-texas-off-worst-start-since-2006/4549308001/
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    2021 NCAA Baseball

    Appreciate your updates !
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