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Their pitching will take a hit if Sdao is out for any length of time. They would have one starting pitcher if that were to happen. Cortes and Aschenbeck can fill in but that leaves a huge hole in the bullpen.

Pretty sure he’s in an off field role. Just looked it up and his official title is “program development”. Sounds like a cushion retirement job.

Gonna be funny when Bakich has to serve his two game suspension in a Texas uniform

This entire situation

Bakich still feels most likely to me and I think he has the highest ceiling outside of the moneywhip candidates (Schloss, Johnson, etc). Only 46, SEC experience as an assistant, good recruiter, CWS experience and success and turned around Clemson in short order (regardless of what happens against Florida).

After 2019 is when he brought in Yeskie from Oregon State. That’s another thing about Johnson that is elite. He assembles very high level staffs. Three of his assistants at LSU are already P5 head coaches. He is far and way one of the best recruiters in the country, even if you remove some of the NIL advantages he has. He is relentless on the recruiting trail. We bitch and moan about the talent level on this roster. Johnson would change that in a hurry. It may not equate to Omaha every year but we won’t have dudes throwing 86 out of the bullpen in high leverage spots.

Taking the head S&C job with the Pistons, per Gerry

Not really. If we are looking for a coach who has never had a down season in his career we are never going to find one.

I'm pretty sure at this point last year we had 3 commitments and they were Trey Owens, Aeryn Hampton and Hunter Moddon.

I think so. Football has two transfer windows, whereas baseball only has one.

The portal is wide open right now for anyone on any team. Closes July 2nd.

Yeah, Johnson feels like a pipedream. We would have to pay out the ass, both in salary and in NIL commitments to compare to what he currently has at LSU. He’s only 3 years in at LSU but maybe he hates it there for some reason and already wants out. That is the only scenario I see that involves him leaving because LSU will pay up.

The one in front of the east campus garage? I read they stopped drop offs an hour or two before first pitch.

Like A&M Corpus Christi and UTRGV

Yeah, and the atmosphere overall around the place isn't helped by the fact it's located next to damn cemetery.

There are multiple factors at play; 1) student seating sucks. It is down the LF line into the corner. The Yeti Yard will help but I don't believe that is student-only. 2) Disch Falk Field is about a mile away from the closest dorm and closer to 2 miles or further for those who live in west campus. If you choose to walk, you are crossing 35. If you happen to have access to a car, you are dealing with trying to park around the field. 3) There are about 8-10 home games a year students will truly care about moving forward depending on when we are hosting A&M/OU/Arkansas. You could probably include the generic non-student fan in that assumption as well. It's why I don't believe expanding capacity is necessary. We aren't selling out 80% of home games regardless of how many "tickets were sold". 4) I've been to plenty of games where it's packed, yet the energy felt like it was at 50% capacity. Yes, any stadium in the country is going to have a great atmosphere in a home regional in June. Texas isn't special in that regard. It's the other 99% of games that should be focused on.

OB update on Pierce from their baseball writer

We are the dumbest athletic department in the country if we plan to bring back our hot seat coach and didn't at least make one half-assed positive public statement by this point supporting his retention to try to help in the most important recruiting month of the entire year.

Doesn't the fact that everyone knows he is about to be fired negate a lot of the advantages of "working in silence" and "trying to get a handshake agreement in place with another person before pulling the trigger"? I'm sure other AD's aren't dumb and know the Texas job is coming open. Now, would the message board and Twitter craziness get amped up once the job is officially "open"? Yeah, I guess. But these AD's don't operate on those things.

I don’t remember the full story, but I know Montgomery is from Mississippi and many thought he was going to end up back there. A member of A&M’s off-field staff was a former high school coach in Mississippi and had some connections to Montgomery. That helped along with all the other stuff.

His personal hitting coach is in the Houston area I believe and his girlfriend actually plays beach volleyball at Texas.

Pierce wrapped up exit interviews with players today. Still interesting to me that no one is in the portal yet.

That is a known fake Twitter account

You should feel more confident that he is being replaced with every day that passes. It would be self-sabotage to just say nothing at this point if, for some crazy reason, they did plan on bringing him back.