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  1. Hookem2147
    Baseball doesn't pay the bills on those sites so the info shared is often sporadic, especially during the season. I'm sure there will be a few nuggets this week.
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    Which goes back to my original question of how long do you get the guy twist in the wind. The CWS doesn't wrap up until June 24th. What if the guy you want plays all the way til the end or close to the end? Or he strings you along and then says nevermind I'm staying at my current spot? The portal is going to explode starting tomorrow and the worst thing you can do is just let Pierce sit there as a lame duck. It would potentially set the new guy back even further. If the job comes open this week, then maybe that will give some pause to players and coaches as they wait around to see what might happen with Texas. But it could also cause some of the circus we saw in 2016 (although many other factors were obviously involved including the interim AD stuff). At some point in the next 14-22 days the question will need to be answered and CDC can't just play coy and be silent for the entire time.
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    Silence will tell us everything we need to know. My guess is if pressed, CDC would give some neutral answer about being in OKC with the softball team and meeting with Pierce once he gets back to Austin or something of the sort. The hammer could also be dropped tomorrow.
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    They had to bring the fences in at the Disch. It was starting to hurt in recruiting. We hit 22 home runs as a team in 2014 lol. The NCAA also changed the seams on the baseball in 2015, and offense started to take off ever since. Even with the moved-in fences, the park still plays pretty pitcher-friendly when the wind isn't howling out (which has seemed to happen more and more in the last few years for whatever reason).
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    Van Horn ain't going anywhere unless he decides to retire, which I guess is possible. He's about to be 64.
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    So we are going to allow him to do exit meetings with current players, some of which may not go well, start recruiting the portal/juco ranks, and do other roster management staff all with the plan of axing him in a few weeks? Doesn't seem ideal. It's why I think a decision might come down sooner than we think, even if it means the job sits "open" for a bit with some attractive candidates still playing.
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    Going to be an interesting few weeks. All the ideal candidates will likely be playing for the next week or two. What do you do in the meantime? Just let Pierce twist in the wind until a hire can be finalized? The portal fully opens tomorrow, and just sitting idle for several weeks doesn't seem like the best plan. But dropping the ax tomorrow without a clear path forward of filling the position soon also doesn't seem like the best plan.
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    Yep. His dad was a pain in the ass all of last year and this year. There were 3 dads who constantly caused problems last year to the point two of the players basically weren’t welcomed back: Daly, Morehouse and Hurley. Daly’s was the worst. Way he acted towards players, parents of players, coaches, administrators. It was awful.
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    Fitting that the final nail in the coffin was with Hurley on the mound after his dad tried to yell at Pierce at the Big 12 tournament for pulling him against Cincy.
  10. Hookem2147
    The lack of right handed hitters in this lineup who scare you outside of Flores is frustrating. Part of the reason lefties are so successful against us.
  11. Hookem2147
    Because they are losing? I somewhat understand why people try to say stuff like this but have you ever seen a team hollering and laughing with 100 people in the stands in the middle of the afternoon when trailing 2-1?
  12. Hookem2147
    I sure hope Gasparino becomes a monster next year. Tools are there. They need to let him run more.
  13. Hookem2147
    That is low af
  14. Hookem2147
    Schuessler behind the plate. Borba at 1B. Sure, why not
  15. Hookem2147
    Rodriguez recruited and signed him to Baylor. There wasn’t any bad blood based on my understanding.
  16. Hookem2147
    Getting a guy who hit .323 last year with 12 homers and 59 RBI’s to bypass professional opportunities and come back was seen as a very good get at the time. Obviously hindsight is 20/20. I don’t think anyone could have predicted the year he had.
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    The SEC bump will help a little. It hasn’t been a major hindrance overall but it has popped up from time to time. We lost out on a few portal guys over the years because they wanted to play in the SEC and not the Big 12. One last year was transferring from another Big 12 program and said he liked Texas but didn’t want to stay in the conference.
  18. Hookem2147
    This season changed when Galvan went to the not-burnt orange colored hockey mask behind the plate
  19. Hookem2147
    When I say intentionally lose games? I said if we were going to drop one it would have been more beneficial to have it be the first one considering who our 4 seed is.
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    I almost made the comment before the regional started. If we were going to lose a game it needed to be the first one. We could have used yesterday as basically a rest day for all our quality arms against Grambling and headed into today with Boehm, Dre, Whitehead and maybe even LBJ still available. Losing the second game burned more trusted arms and left us in a worst spot.
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    The best part about the Porter Brown thing is pinch hitting not only improves your offense but also upgrades you defensively. He had a good game 1 so I get starting him even against a tough lefty but he should have never been allowed to face Aschenbeck.
  22. Hookem2147
    You say that now. Wait until we are gifted a David Shaw appearance if we are fortunate to advance to the night game.
  23. Hookem2147
    That’s the spirit
  24. Hookem2147
    Hurley is going to have to come out of the bullpen in game 1. We have no other options. I just can’t see a path to winning 2 games today. Last night was the chance to get in the driver’s seat and steal this regional.
  25. Hookem2147
    This isn’t just depressed fan talking but I don’t think we are even winning the first one tomorrow. That game was so emotionally draining, Louisiana didn’t even break a sweat against Grambling today and have their 2nd best starter fully rested going against Ace Whitehead. We went all in tonight and it didn’t happen.

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