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Gut Wagon

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  1. The gruntling continues! Welcome aboard!
  2. How do Pannell and Johnson compare? The former certainly has had a lot of relief experience, which could be useful. Johnson had big K numbers the past two seasons, but I'm not sure how good her opponents were. Anyway, either lefty would seem well worth pursuing.
  3. Reggie Bush's lateral...David Freese's dramatics...Craig Curry's muffed return. There's a reason so many sports fans end up in AA.
  4. Found them! Just took much deeper digging. Aggy and the swine were vying for that top spot until the real season began. https://www.on3.com/softball/news/softball-america-top-25-rankings-final-2025/
  5. Texas just made a joke of the old adage, "Defense wins championships." Although along the way there were some epic defensive plays made in clutch situations, we'd all agree it was far from a strong season in that regard. In terms of our 2025 roster, I love that it was assembled as it was. A largely homegrown team despite having another of the best homegrown players in the land not even playing an inning all season. Texas fans should be proud of how this squad was constructed and developed. Credit to White and his staff for that. Going forward will be interesting. We know future major college champions in every team sport are likely to be a strategic mix of talent from various sources. Toward the end, not even master recruiter and developer Nick Saban was doing it all with his own HS recruits. I don't think Sark, Schloss, Miller or Schaefer will ever try to prove they can. And no matter how well White recruits from the HS ranks, he'd be crazy not to keep adding transfers strategically. I look forward to seeing who comes aboard over the next few weeks to bolster a strong freshmen class. The idea is to keep adding better talent than you already have. I do hope adding transfers remains the exception and not the rule in Austin, in all sports and in all cases not involving transition classes. I'd even love it if the vast majority of our players in all sports continue to be from within Texas, but that's an increasingly tough stance to maintain in such a competitive athletic landscape.
  6. Yep. To be around the upper end of nearly every team sport you have to keep trying to make your existing roster obsolete. Hard job for the coaches to make it all work, but bringing in better talent is the only way to become great and stay that way. Gasso continues to teach a masterclass in that.
  7. Isn't her daughter (Mia Williams) now portaling out of Florida?
  8. Should we 'shop goat horns onto the Elk or elk antlers onto the goat?
  9. They're 10 feet tall...and Mia's bulletproof.
  10. We'll see what it all means.
  11. That's when I quit thinking of a title and went to just hoping for a win that would let us still be alive the next day. Can't cut it much closer than that.
  12. There was much speculation Brown would go to ND after decommitting from USC, due to coaxing by Javian Osborne. Does Brown now coming to Texas in any way affect the Finley recruitment by us or ND? I can't imagine it lessens our interest in him. He's a stud.
  13. At least now Bobby might be forced to learned how Waxahachie really is pronounced.
  14. Plenty fast enough
  15. Hard for me to get a feel for his speed at that level of competition. And he's certainly not too highly rated. But as always, my default is to say Sark and Jackson might know a bit more about WR talent, development and fit than I do. So...welcome to Texas, son!
  16. Four rockets launched that inning, zero runs scored. Suboptimal.
  17. I know how to turn him into a .230 hitter: trade for him.
  18. That solidifies it being a mistake pitching to Kwan.
  19. That WHIP's not staying at .56. Edit: Big K could help for the moment.
  20. Nice. I live 50 miles from Ringgold but know nada about the kid. Still, I highly doubt Texas went that far for another Bert Auburn.
  21. Opposing pitchers can be tricky to assess for one obvious reason: They don't face the same lineups. As phenomenally as TK pitched this week, how would Canady have fared against her own teammates instead of the firepower we threw out there? Would our lineup have hit TK better than Tech's did? Was Cat better than either of them? Such questions make for long and inconclusive historical debates, but in the end it doesn't matter. Just glad we came out on the happy end of this epic duel.
  22. Welcome to Texas. It's a great day to join the party.
  23. One huge tech step beyond waiting for DCTF to hit the local newsstand. Ah, memories.
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