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Hookem2147

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  1. The routine plays to Flores make you hold your breath more than the tough plays.
  2. I see Dartmouth's Friday night guy who left the mound last week pointing to his elbow did not start today. Dartmouth down 9-1 to Virginia this afteroon.
  3. Coupon code TEX25 gets you $10 off at checkout, fyi.
  4. I would be thrilled if that is the case. When it comes time to actually cut the check, we will see how serious they are. $5.8 million to buy out Terry + another $1-2 million to buy out the rest of the staff + $18 million to buy out Oats + $6 million'ish annual salary he would likely command here + $2-3 million for his staff + an increase in NIL budget. If you go down that road, you are probably looking at a $30-35 million (at least?) investment in the short term.
  5. I'll believe we are paying an $18 million buyout in basketball when I see it. 4 years ago, we "waited" 4 days to contact Chris Bearrd so his buyout would drop from $5 million to $4 million.
  6. Am I only one who didn’t know Adrian Rodriguez can throw with both arms? One of the D1baseball guys was interviewing Schloss and he mentioned the story of how they found Rodriguez. He showed up at an A&M camp and Schloss had no idea who he was. Walked by the cage and watched Rodriguez hit 4 balls over 100 MPH exit velo left handed then flipped around and did the same thing right handed. Then trotted out to the field and took ground balls at third base before grabbing a left handed first base glove and going to first base.
  7. IT with 4 position changes they are hearing about
  8. It's a good spot to be in this early. You have teams with a 2-5 record like Omaha and Toledo who are top 20 in RPI right now. Or 0-3 Penn at #47 in RPI. As those teams lose to more crappy teams, they will plummet, and the big boys will rise.
  9. They lost mostly everyone off that team. Similar to last year, I think they have big problems at the plate. Hitting .214 as a team through 9 games. I do see their Friday night guy is off to a good start (1.50 ERA in 12 innings). He is a D3 transfer.
  10. I'm pretty sure we agreed to play in this tournament after Schloss was hired, which was interesting because we already had the Arlington tournament on the schedule and you don't usually see SEC teams have 2 challenging weekends in non-con play. My guess is we will end up with one of the toughest non-con SOS in the league. Winning 2 out of 3 in both tournaments would set us up very nicely heading into league play from a RPI standpoint.
  11. Bill Connelly came out with his initial SP+ rankings for 2025. Texas is 7th. Full list below along with how he calculates the rankings.
  12. I’m sure some will disagree but I don’t get the resistance on logos on the field by CDC. I agree with not wanting them on jerseys. Our field doesn’t need to look like a European basketball jersey but I don’t see how a few corporate logos takes away from the pageantry of the stadium. It would be a huge money maker.
  13. I can’t believe we watched David Pierce try to develop pitchers for years. Max Weiner is that dude.
  14. I really like that lineup
  15. New guys I expect to see tonight: Flores, Bryce Navarre, Connor McCreery, Hudson Hamilton and Ethan Walker. Could also see Moffett and Howard depending on the situation. Also wonder if they may want to get Mercer back out there after his bad outing Saturday.
  16. *6 of our 7 games were against two of the worst teams in the country
  17. Kirk Bohls (I know) says he is hearing a change is likely to be made. AUSTIN — My eyes still hurt. I don’t know if you watched the eyesore that was the Texas men’s basketball game against South Carolina on Saturday night, but I did. And I still have a migraine. A week after knocking off No. 15 Kentucky to snap a three-game losing streak, the Longhorns put out a woeful performance, arguably the worst of the season although there are a lot of candidates, and became the first SEC team to lose to the dreadful Gamecocks. It’s painful to review but Texas trailed by 18 at the half, and it got worse from there before the Longhorns fell 84-69 to drop to 16-11 overall and back on the NCAA Tournament bubble. They are only 7-11 in quad 1 and 2 victories and have no eye-popping non-conference wins to tout. With the road loss, Texas’ chances of making the NCAA tourney slip drastically from 67% to 52%, according to the ESPN Analytics model. The Longhorns are only 3-9 against top-50 teams, Joe Lunardi hasn’t updated his projections since Friday’s field, which included Texas unbelievably as a 9 seed. CBSsports.com, however, dropped Texas from its bracket as Jerry Palm listed it as the very first team out, its 38 NET ranking notwithstanding. Not only that, it ratchets up the scrutiny and pressure on Rodney Terry to deliver in a big way down the stretch to save his job. After talking to some big-time Texas figures, I’d say at the moment Terry is in a must-win situation and probably has to win at least two games in the SEC, get into the NCAA field of 68 and maybe win two games there. That’s how dire it’s looking for RT. Texas squandered its good position with a hideous effort against South Carolina, in which freshman Tre Johnson was the lone standout with 29 points, 20 of them in the second half. No other Longhorns had more than 9 points. Chris Del Conte never weighs in on the future of a Longhorn coach during the season, but he is always super aggressive about getting his ducks in a row to react quickly once the final buzzer has sounded. It won’t be unrealistic if Texas bottoms out and the Texas athletic director fires Terry and hires his replacement all in a weekend’s time. Money will be a huge factor in this decision because Terry has three years left on his contract and would be owed $6 million as a buyout. Obviously, Texas would have to consider high-level candidates whose contracts would also contain a big buyout that it would have to pay off. Throw in the existing staff contracts, and the school might have to pony up $20 million or more to pull this off, which is no small sum. Terry was never Del Conte’s preferred coach, but Chris Beard’s top assistant earned the promotion to head coach by stabilizing the season when Beard was fired at midseason and taking an overachieving Longhorn team to the Elite Eight and the brink of a Final Four. Texas would feel some public backlash for firing an African-American basketball coach — only the second in school history — and making a change after he had had just two full seasons. But Del Conte will have to weigh public opinion, gauge how much slippage the program has undergone and figure out how big he goes in a coaching search. As of the end of February, I’d say the decision is trending toward a new coach for 2025-26.
  18. From an IT article this morning: InsideTexas hears from a DFW source that Terry Joseph reached out to Jalen Lott, the should-be five-star, yesterday to let him know Texas is still the school for him.
  19. Well good news, he ain't going to be coaching the corners at Texas.
  20. I guess with the new coaching rules, if they wanted they could just let Akina coach ball and Orphey could recruit the secondary and get another assistant (Clark?) on the road?
  21. Pete Nakos (On3) on the names he is hearing:
  22. He left a head coaching job at Buffalo (not sure what is expected at Buffalo; he was 14-23 through 3 years and may have been a bad year away from being shown the door) to be the Bama DB coach.
  23. When discussing the Joseph news, Bobby mentioned on YouTube that Flood, Jackson, and Baker had all turned down NFL interest this offseason.
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