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Bodacious Bevo

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  1. Etheridge didn’t say this in the blurb, but if we finished 19-11, I could understand that a 3-9 post-Spencer record would hold more weight for seeding than it does in the standings. Also I want to self-correct a post I made a couple weeks ago that Farmer was batting .300 in conference play. I misread the stat. I think the correct number was .255 then and the current number is .240. That was part of the discussion about whether Jonah would stay in the lineup when Belyeu returns. I’ve changed my mind on that - I think he does stay now. The part of that discussion that has (unfortunately) gotten more interesting is whether it’s strictly Farmer that would be replaced or if there are other guys like Borba that find themselves in that conversation.
  2. He reiterated that in his OB interview on Monday. They want to be patient and work pitch counts, but guys like Root aren’t going to give you walks, so you need to swing more to give yourself chances for hits.
  3. If we’re going to be literal, high school and NFL don’t matter. At those levels, they’re all boys amongst boys and men amongst men. That said, idgaf about the definition. The term is supposed to be a fun way to talk about physically advanced/dominant players. You don’t have to come legislate that away with an arbitrary definition. I don’t have a great Texas nomination that hasn’t already been mentioned (maybe Sweat is an honorable mention?), but a definite non-UT guy is Calvin Johnson.
  4. I saw that shirt at one of the baseball games I wonder if they carry the analogy to one of the men selling out Jesus for silver and the other eleven denying knowing him
  5. Is there a website with complete college baseball stats? Like the left vs. right splits and game by game stats mentioned above. Something like CollegeFootballData.com
  6. Affidavit says 2:11. Bunch of bars one block up close 11 minutes before that. It’s a Saturday night. The hell is the problem? Man, I feel like I’m not surly enough for surly anymore
  7. Hard disagree. The cop is there to protect pedestrians on a busy street at peak hours, not a football player that decided to get mega blazed driving between strip clubs
  8. They were referring to the Fasusi/Rogers/Haywood triumvirate (and apparently there was a guy named Dramodd Odoms that was a 5* OT and signed with SMU), but it’s always an interesting choice when the services chastise a staff with Sark/Flood’s history for their evaluations
  9. Could Burns get in the mix for the last starting spot? He started all six appearances at ASU last year before his injury. He threw as many as 118 pitches and 7.0 innings. Genuine question as I don’t have the baseball knowledge to say it’s a good idea lol
  10. My understanding of the reasoning for the return of bags is that they would avoid the new independent clearing house and fair market value requirements. The settlement basically sets up two pathways for payments to players: revenue sharing and NIL (which can come from the school or third parties). Revenue sharing is capped (~$20M) and can be doled out as a school sees fit. NIL is not capped, but all deals worth more than $600 dollars will have to go through an independent clearing house where they will be reviewed to ensure that they are fair market value for a valid business purpose. The clearing house will have the power to reject a deal that is pay-for-play. So, if Starting DT X’s NIL has a fair market value of $Y, then bags theoretically offer a competitive advantage if they are going to be greater than $Y because theoretically the only other option would be to add more and more NIL obligations for Starting DT X, and he only has so many hours he can spend signing autographs and copy/pasting tweets. Personally, I think it’s too early to know how the settlement will impact things. The clearing house thing seems like it will either work very well or terribly - probably terribly. Texas should be well-equipped to navigate the new landscape, whatever it may be.
  11. Are they comparing the player or the recruitment to Moore?
  12. If Nagy realized it was fucked up, why did Stone have to enter the portal to get it corrected? That seems like something that could be straightened out privately
  13. Here are his posts on OB from today. Don’t see anything about TJ but he seems to thinks he’s probably done for the year
  14. I also get the sense some of Schloss’s complaints were with the people themselves (e.g., putting newspapers up to avoid seeing the cheerleaders) That said, we need to fix the issue with empty seats behind home plate
  15. I have no idea what you’re talking about with the recruiting stuff. The only high schooler’s stats I’ve looked at in the last five years is Arch, which I hope is understandable. Maybe you’re confusing me with another Bevo-inspired handle. As to the baseball convo, there’s three parts: A) I think Farmer is actually good (.309 in SEC play with a hit in all but one game), B) Jonah has a small sample against some pretty poor pitching, and C) coaches generally opt for experience in the case of ties. That said, the things that have impressed me the most about Jonah so far are his eyes and discipline at the plate, even in his pinch hitting appearances when he was probably desperate to swing. He’s already in the top half of the lineup in that regard which is pretty crazy. That might be enough to win him the spot as his numbers come back to Earth. He should absolutely be ahead of Duplantier and Winfield, fwiw.
  16. Not to be a party pooper, but it’s probably the guy with 9 ABs that’s going back to the bench when Belyeu returns
  17. So we’ve qualified for the post season before Easter?
  18. Nothing in the fifth, but it’s ok. We just need Kimble and Borba to get us to the Farmer/Williams/Duplantier trio
  19. OTF was consistent in their reporting yesterday and this morning that we hadn’t offered. Guess that changed
  20. If you make that statement you need to name the 2-4 NIL earners that you’d cut to make it happen
  21. First of the 2022 OL to portal. That’s pretty incredible
  22. At some point the 2022 class deserves a retrospective. It’s kind of weird - the OL haul played a major role in our return to prominence, but the rest of the class busted pretty hard and has left us young and inexperienced. The only non-OL/ST that contributed as juniors or remain on the roster for their senior years are Jaydon Blue, Jaylon Guilbeau, and Ethan Burke. Hitting on 3 of 19 non-OL/ST is pretty poor. A lot of coaches wouldn’t have been able to survive such a high bust rate in their first class. Just a weird class with a lot of interesting dynamics. Sark’s first full class, last class before the full SEC and NIL effects, highly ranked but immediately followed by a class that could go down as an all-time great, etc. Something more relevant to current transfer discussions is high school WR recruiting under Sark. It’s probably the second worst position haul in his tenure. I think it’s fair to say it’s disappointed compared to initial expectations given the reputation of Sark’s offense and the accolades his WRs have won. 2021 (transition): Xavier Worthy, Jaden Alexis, Keithron Lee, Casey Cain 2022: Brenen Thompson, Savion Red 2023: Johntay Cook, Ryan Niblett, DeAndre Moore 2024: Ryan Wingo, Aaron Butler, Freddie Dubose, Parker Livingstone 2025: Kaliq Lockett, Jaime Ffrench, Michael Terry III, Daylan McCutcheon The ‘21 class can be entirely excused imo. The only guy that was really his was an all-time great for us. ‘22 was horrific. Only 1 of the 3 in ‘23 is still playing the position for us. ‘24 looks like it could be really good, with one guy looking primed for a huge year and Ryan Wingo looking good too. Early returns on the ‘25 class seem better than the ‘21 - ‘23 classes, at least. There are some mitigating factors, of course. WR coaching issues the first two years, NIL allocation decisions across positions, the portal, etc. These just aren’t the results we were expecting when we hired Sark.
  23. Logan Parr and Jamier Johnson are the most successful expats that I’m aware of, but neither were guys that we minded losing. Parr had a couple All-ACC years for SMU and made the playoffs last year Johnson started last year for Indiana and made the playoffs. It’s now a weird situation because they recruited a couple CBs in the winter portal window despite returning both starters and Johnson is now not with the program I haven’t seen Niblack’s name mentioned yet. I’d have liked to keep him another year, but it’s probably not a big deal. Hopefully that works out like Terrance Brooks
  24. It does say top available WR. Guys that have already signed elsewhere aren’t available
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