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Hookem2147

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  1. Thank goodness because no one wanted to watch another inning of this after we had runner on 3rd with no outs.
  2. The Winfield experiment needs to be over. Maybe next year.
  3. I'm not sure I understand the tradeoff we are making by playing Rodriguez at 3B, which forces us to use a guy like Stewart at DH. Are we really upgrading by taking Borba out and rolling the dice with Rodriguez defensively? Stewart's bat ain't that special, as evidenced by him hitting 9th. I'm assuming this is 'do something or we are just rolling with Farmer in the 9-hole' time for Winfield. He is running out of chances and Farmer has him beat by a mile defensively.
  4. He might see the writing on the wall. 18-36 in conference play in his 3 years there. Probably another bad year away from being fired.
  5. Cross posting from 2025-2026 season thread: Gerry mentioned this morning he’s heard rumblings that Archie Miller may resign from his head coaching position at Rhode Island to join the Texas staff.
  6. Gerry mentioned this morning he’s heard rumblings that Archie Miller may resign from his head coaching position at Rhode Island to join the Texas staff. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_Miller_(basketball)
  7. Gerry OTF has learned that Sean Miller and and at least a couple of current staff members of his have begun the recruiting process. We can say that their have been calls made to the agents of Jordan Pope, Chendall Weaver and Nic Codie. That doesn't mean that's all, to be clear. And that doesn't mean that the three are staying, it just means initial discussions have began. And Miller/staff have spoken with their signees at Xavier, and agents of Ryan Conwell and Dailyn Swain.
  8. Obviously he has/had connections to a lot of these guys on staff, but Gerry seems to be really be hoping Ogden is retained as GM. Said Terry was overruling him on personnel decisions. Gave an example that Ogden had PJ Haggerty lined up last offseason out of the portal and RT said no thanks. (I do think there is value in having someone who knows Texas basketball like he does on staff, although it does seem a little unconventional for a new coach to come in and retain the highest ranking support staff member who was involved with the previous regime)
  9. Well yeah I don’t think any NIL budget we have is going to preclude the oil bros from just dropping random 7 figure bags for ones they want like they’ve shown they will do in multiple sports.
  10. It’s about a 25% over last year so I don’t see how that isn’t a good thing. Of course other teams will probably be increasing too but Gerry has mentioned that some coaches are already nervous about what their share of the house settlement money will be.
  11. Gerry on NIL Was told about 20 minutes ago that Texas is expected to see a basketball all together NIL increase into the 4.8-5 million range for next season. This season's roster was 3.7-3.8 million. That increase would place Texas in the top 15 range nationally based on numbers currently
  12. Volantis must have some insane carry on his fastball because it’s 90 and guys swing like it’s 98.
  13. The first thing he must do in his opening press conference is admit it was not 5 seconds in 2011.
  14. Kansas hasn’t made it out of the first weekend in 6 of the last 7 years.
  15. We played him in the sweet 16 less than 2 years ago.
  16. Considering he hyped up Weaver on two different occasions leading up to the game I’m assuming that is going to be his top retention priority
  17. Gerry made a comment on a video this morning that he expects John Clark (our lone 2025 signee, top 100 recruit) to stick with Texas no matter what. Usually signees always bolt during a coaching change so I thought that was interesting.
  18. There is nothing wrong with the current stadium capacity. Once we start packing the Disch for midweek games against Sam Houston State and our current stadium seating isn’t occupied by 15-20% opposing fans on weekends like this, I’ll entertain the thought of expansion. It’s been mentioned before but I think they want to do a Yeti Yard in RF in that similar space. That could open up some interesting possibilities with student seating for big weekends.
  19. Gerry One thing I was told last night ... RT would rather be fired and get his buyout money than try and get a job now. We shall see if that remains true. UNLV and USF have/are showing interest in RT. UNLV could be heading another direction
  20. Shores is legit but he is also coming off Tommy John so I think he’s in the Sunday role to help ease him back in a bit. He’s been hit around a bit this year against teams not named Purdue Fort Wayne or Omaha. They threw their closer Evans for 44 pitches against Missouri last Saturday so my guess is he could give them up to 3 innings tomorrow if needed. If we can get Shores out of the game by the 5th they could be in that no-mans land where they have to throw a less trustworthy arm to try to bridge the gap.
  21. Going into tomorrow with Flores and Ruger fully rested and Volantis probably available for 1-2 innings. We will have a good chance.
  22. Bring in Ruger for the 9th against the righties or roll the dice?
  23. Starting to wonder if Rodriguez’s best position long term is first base.
  24. Playing Rodriguez in the field is the type of shit we would have crucified Pierce for last year.
  25. Asking Tommy Farmer to face these SEC arms is a crime
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