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This is me. I was cowboys fan my whole life, but kinda apathetic through the Romo years. Now I just actively root against Jerry Jones. It's kinda fun.

I'd like to take some more time to explore Indira.

-Campbell is a meathead aggy dipshit that threw a hissy fit when the refs didn't go along with his stupid substitution trick play that violated the spirit of the eligible receiver rules. -I'm sorry Detroit is a shithole. Don't live there. Their team doesn't deserve to win because their fans live in a terrible place. -Goff is a bitch made pussy. -Shanahan is a longhorn. Go niners.

Agree on Atwood. Mike is building some real talent.

profits over people.

you fuckers are not exactly making me rush to sign up for max for this.

as long as r/trashyboners doesn't shut down, I'm good.

fat chicks only

This is from D1 softball -recap of the fall - a good preview for the spring. SIAP. 2023 Fall Report: Texas FeaturedGraham Hays - November 2, 2023 There’s not much doubt that Texas is assembling a roster capable of contending for titles. It just remains to be seen which conferences those titles come in. A year ago, the Longhorns fielded one of the most statistically impressive freshman classes of all time. Including Ashton Maloney, a redshirt in her first full season on the field, Texas first-years combined for 46 percent of the team’s total bases. In the circle, Citlaly Gutierrez worked more than a quarter of the team’s innings and led all Longhorns in ERA. And this fall, one of the top-ranked recruiting classes in the country joined them on the field. Head coach Mike White could restrict his roster to those two classes and still expect to begin the season ranked (but don’t expect him to give up the likes of Mia Scott, Mac Morgan and the rest of his juniors and seniors). Underscored by the sight of nearly a thousand fans at a fall game against soon-to-be (again) conference rival Texas A&M, it’s reasonable to wonder if the program’s Big 12 farewell is really better described as an SEC prelude. All the more considering that while Patty Gasso’s program will accompany the Longhorns to their new home, at least Jayda Coleman, Kinzie Hansen, Tiare Jennings and Nicole May won’t. “We’re just thinking about being a really good team, a consistent program,” White said. “Truthfully, two years ago, the top three teams in the country were all Big 12, the top three finishers in the World Series. I think our conference has been a little underrated. Obviously, the bottom half have struggled at times, and they haven’t played as well out of conference. But in conference it’s been pretty tough. Obviously, Oklahoma has been head and shoulders above everybody, not only in our conference but also in the country. … They’re the standard right now, and that’s what we’re all trying to match, no matter what conference we play in.” Or what that conference looks like. Big 12 series against the likes of BYU, UCF and Houston will lend this season a betwixt-and-between feel, but saying goodbye to the league with a title would certainly be a heck of a way to arrive in the SEC. “It’s kind of in the back of our minds, but it’s not really something that we’re focusing on right now,” White said of winning a Big 12 title in the farewell season. “It’s just getting better and lifting the standard of our play overall—becoming deeper, becoming a little bit better in big situations. We want to build on what happened at Tennessee last year. I think that we didn’t have our best showing in that big series and a little bit of our youth showed it out. “We’re hoping that those freshmen last year become leaders this year in our sophomore class.” Pitching Texas returns the pitchers responsible for every inning thrown a season ago, a staff that ranked 32nd in the nation in ERA and helped extend the season to a super regional. And yet it’s hard to start this discussion anywhere but with someone who wasn’t a part of that mix. Newcomer Spotlight: Freshman Teagan Kavan faced 29 batters in four fall games. She struck out 15 of them. While that included some non-Division I competition, it also included UTSA and Texas A&M. The 6-foot right-hander from West Des Moines, Iowa, was a consensus top-15 recruit who struck out 1,444 batters in 772.2 club innings, according to the Longhorns. Cat Osterman pitched 304.1 innings and struck out 554 batters as a freshman. Blaire Luna pitched 242.1 innings and struck out 404 batters. Those days are gone. They would be gone even if the Longhorns didn’t return any pitchers this year, but they’re all the more gone with four proven pitchers around. Still, Kavan will have an opportunity to make a Texas-sized impression. “She’s going to be one of the top three pitchers at this point,” White said. “Hopefully it’s a five-person rotation, but realistically, you’re going to probably look at three starters. It’s kind of like a nice number to have, and then you plug the other ones in when you need them. She’s shown the stuff and the goods to be able to come out and throw well at this level. “Is she making some freshman mistakes? Yes, she is. Does she have stuff to learn? Yes, she does. But she has the goods.” White said Kavan continues working to hone her offspeed offering. It’s serviceable now, but the goal is to improve her control of it leading into her first regular season. “She’s got the mindset,” White said. “She’s a learner, and I feel like we work pretty well together.” As any coach would, White played up the emerging camaraderie and competitive collaboration in what will be a crowded bullpen. Moral support and teamwork would be great, but Kavan’s arrival also helps the other pitchers in more tangible ways. Citlaly Gutierrez, last year’s freshman success story, and Mac Morgan, who reestablished herself as a difference after after arriving from Arizona State, were godsends for a team that needed to replace Hailey Dolcini. Morgan ranked 17th in the nation a season ago in shadow percentage, the percentage of pitches seen within the edges of the strike zone. (Data courtesy 6-4-3 Charts and Synergy.) Name Pos. WAR Mac Morgan P 4.2 Mia Scott 3B 4 Leighann Goode 2B 3.7 Citlaly Gutierrez P 3.5 Viviana Martinez SS 3 The new arrivals started 41 games, pitched 63 percent of the team’s innings. But in those 254.2 innings, they combined for 156 strikeouts—fewer than nearly 30 Division I pitchers on their own. Strikeouts aren’t everything, but they never mean more than when defense has been a weak spot in recent years (Texas again made the second-most errors among Big 12 teams a season ago). There will be less pressure on that defense when Kavan pitches, obviously, but Gutierrez, Morgan and the rest of the staff should also benefit from hitters having to recalibrate, whether in the same game or over the course of a series, after facing the freshman. A few more swings and misses, a little less solid contact and suddenly a defense looks better. “Having a strikeout pitcher is huge,” White said. “If you can average eight strikeouts a game, it’s a third of your outs and so there’s less pressure on the defense. One of the things we’ve had in the past is our fielding average hasn’t been the highest, but I think we have more balls in play [creating more opportunity for errors] because we haven’t necessarily had those big strikeout pitchers.” Most Division I teams would love to have Estelle Czech and Sophia Simpson as regular starters, to say nothing of having the luxury to mix and match Czech’s lefty stuff and Simpson’s strikeout potential out of the bullpen—if that’s the route Texas ultimately goes. Gutierrez, of course, also proved adept at coming out of the bullpen as a freshman, with more relief appearances than starts, but White didn’t sound quite ready to go full revolutionary and deploy a full-time stopper. Czech tied UCLA’s Megan Faraimo for 25th in the nation in chase percentage, hitters swinging at 31.2 percent of her pitches that were outsize the zone. (Data courtesy 6-4-3 Charts and Synergy.) Infield White often says he likes to be two deep at every position, and it’s hard to argue against the entertainment value intra-squad scrimmages could offer with this bunch. In the middle of the infield, Leighann Goode and Viviana Martinez were marvelous offensively as freshmen. Only seven second basemen had a better WAR than Goode a season ago, and Indiana-turned-Stanford standout Taryn Kern was the only freshman in that bunch. At a lot of schools, maybe almost all, you would simply pencil in those two to play alongside each other through the 2026 season. A complication comes in the form of versatile infielder Alyssa Washington. A standout freshman in her own right way back in 2021, Washington is now the rare high-profile senior on a team built around freshmen and sophomores. Although she received the majority of her starts a season ago at third base, it’s worth remembering that she was the starting shortstop in the national title series a year earlier. “One of the leaders in our team right now who is playing a big part, is Alyssa Washington,” White said. “She’s playing phenomenally defensively. She may play second or may play short—could play third. She’s been able to to do different things for us. But with the way Martinez is playing right now, she’s impressed me a lot. She looks really good.” Basically every returning player in the infield played more than one position a season ago, and Goode, for her part, saw some time in the outfield. “She’s so good at second base, that’s great option for us,” White said of Goode. “But let’s say Washington is hitting the ball really well, who’s is the better option in the outfield: Washington or Leighann Goode? Obviously it would be Leighann, she’s played there a little bit before and so that’s a better option for us. That all comes into play, who’s hitting the ball, who’s doing what.” What about third base? After all, Washington started 23 games at the hot corner in 2023. Again, it’s complicated and any lineup is best written on dry-erase board. An All-Big 12 selection in each of her first two seasons, including first-team honors a season ago, Mia Scott is clearly going to play somewhere every day. And while she committed nine errors a season ago, splitting time between the hot corner and outfield, she was also the team leader in defensive runs saved (3.07). By the postseason, with Bella Dayton ticking along in center, Scott was back at third. “We’re still undecided how that’s going to work out because Mia Scott is there as well,” White said. “Who’s going to be the rotation in the outfield? Because Scott can really play a pretty good outfield. She has the speed and the burst on it.” According to 6-4-3 Charts data, Scott ranked 27th-best in the nation against the bunt. Newcomers spotlight: What, you thought there might just be one newcomer pushing Scott for time at third? Try at least three candidates. Apparently not satisfied with the influx of bodies from one of the nation’s top-ranked recruiting classes, Texas also added transfer Joley Mitchell from Notre Dame. A senior with two seasons of eligibility remaining, Mitchell was a first-team All-ACC selection a season ago. She led the Irish with a .382 average and pulled off a triple-double in totaling double digits in doubles (11), home runs (10) and stolen bases (15). “She brings that stoic presence,” White said. “You just have hope that she doesn’t put too much pressure on herself. Obviously, she sees the job in front of her that she’s got to do. She’s just a veteran player that did really well for Notre Dame and also had club-travel ball success. That’s someone that, we’re working with her on some different things offensively. And again another great option. She runs well, she’s the fourth fastest on the team for a good-sized kid.” But two first-team all-conference honorees vying for time at third base isn’t enough. Texas also has a number of highly-touted freshman wth eyes on time at the corners. White said both Katie Stewart and Ryan Brown worked at third base in the fall. “Katie Stewart has a cannon for an arm,” White said. “We feel confident in her playing at the corners and/or catcher. She’ll be in the field somewhere. She’s too valuable to have as a DP, unless we just want to rest her or something like that. She has proven to be like a Swiss Army knife, so to speak. She has the intuition of the game to. She’s a really smart player, is making great adjustments and [Steve Singleton] has done a great job with her.” White said coming out of fall, Stewart and holdover Katie Cimusz are the frontrunners for the bulk of innings at first base. Although yet another top-20 recruit, Victoria Hunter, is also vying for at-bats somewhere, whether it’s at the corners or designated player. That leaves catcher as Reese Atwood’s domain, at least most of the time. The sophomore certainly made a name for herself with clutch hitting in her debut season, but White confirmed she’s one of those catchers who lives and breathes the position. “She’s like a pretzel back there, she’s so nimble and agile,” White said. “For a kid that’s six foot, more or less, she can really get into some small positions. In some cases, almost too agile—gives the umpires too good a look. We’ve talked to her about that, how we can make sure we’re getting strikes and keeping strikes strikes and maybe not over-framing sometimes, which she can do. It’s a learning curve, and we’ve got a lot of stuff to look back on last year. There’s some great catchers out there we can look at and kind of model her after. But I think that she’s proven that when she’s healthy, she can catch with the best of them—and also hit with them.” Outfield So, it sounds as if Scott and Goode might be in line for at least as much time in the outfield as each saw in 2023. Again, there’s a complication. Namely, the outfield already looks pretty full. Alyssa Popelka decamped for the shores of Lake Washington and the Washington Huskies, but there’s no shortage of talent. Ashton Maloney may not provide many souvenirs for the fans in the bleachers, but there was nothing wrong with a .382 average or .415 on-base percentage in her first full season on the field—including a .372 average and .426 OBP in Big 12 games. Anyone who has watched sports for any length of time can identify Bella Dayton as exactly the kind of player who you write out of a depth chart at your own peril. The senior lefty is a gamer. She fought through injuries last season and a serious downturn in production in Big 12 play to emerge as part of the all-tournament team in the Big 12 tournament, then reached base at a nearly 50 percent clip through the NCAA regional and super regional. She won’t surrender playing time without a fight. And if you haven’t been introduced yet to Kayden Henry, settle in to enjoy the next four years. Newcomer spotlight: All Henry did in the fall was going 5-for-6 with a home run, two steals and three walks, leading White to marvel after one game at the power and speed combo in an unassuming 5-foot-5 package. The walks are an especially eye-opening stat for someone who could have been excused for swinging at everything in an effort to make an impression. “I think she’s just ready to hit,” White said. “If she doesn’t see what she likes, she doesn’t swing at it. So she’s got a really good natural eye for the strike zone. And in some respects, she’s just a blank slate right now. I don’t think she reads too much into it and overthinks. I think that’s something you see sometimes from some hitters, is they get too too caught up in what’s happening or what could happen instead of just treating every pitch as independent and getting a pitch to hit.” Fellow freshman Adayah Wallace also possesses a world of talent. She’s listed as an outfielder but White said she also worked at first base in the fall.

I also thought Atwood deserved more honors given her big bat - nice to see her get some recognition. I know Maloney has a high average and gets on base, but we desperately need more power in this lineup. I'd like to see Stewart get a look at RF. She has power, good speed for her size, a cannon for an arm and supposedly can play anywhere. Excited about Henry too. White raves about her patience at the plate and her fielding. I want to see her get some looks in MIF.

You mean states with higher populations will have more new cancer cases????

Baylea Brandon not on the spring roster. Probably a numbers game. I think she was/is dating J Brooks per her tik tok.

FIFY

never take V long term

It looked like March 2020 at my local HEB. People need to calm the fuck down. It's just a little cold weather.

lulz - sports fans don't work that way. You're the GOAT or a piece of shit, sometimes in the same season. There's no in between.

can an analyst teach our secondary coaches how to coach?

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Great hire and total flex move by bama. Deboer is legit.

I feel so bad for uDub and their lovely fans and players.

^ Makes total sense. I mean, he has so many skins on the wall, and without HCIW written into his contract, he likely bolts for another HC position, or league commissioner.

Sandwich and gerbil jokes aside, is this not a WTF hire to anyone? Is he just the fall guy destined to fail in replacing a legend and they'll do a real search in a couple of years? "Bill, we're gonna need you to step aside, because we gotta get things rolling for our LB coach, who has never really been in charge of anything, but is waiting in the wings. We think real highly of him."

do you think if they were meeting, they would send an email to UT faculty letting them know, and if so, that email wouldn't be all over the intertrons in 5 seconds?

This is 1000% accurate. I'll be at the meeting too.

Is it possible Bo Davis left (in part) because he knew Saban was done and figured Sark might leave? Someone talk me off the ledge. I've gone from being a Sark doubter to needing him in my life. The vegas odds with him as a relative longshot make no sense to me.