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Hookem2147

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  1. Seeing Texas Tech this bad (got smacked by Grand Canyon last night) is both shocking and hilarious. They’ve been on the steady decline for about 4 years now. Good thing they gave Tadlock a lifetime contract.
  2. Had a setback in his recovery from surgery for thoracic outlet syndrome. Probably iffy that he throws in games this year.
  3. I was hoping Santa Clara would burn Bayles when the game was close. He has already been stretched out to like 80 pitches so I’m assuming they will burn him early tomorrow or Sunday if need be.
  4. Schuessler has been really damn good at first base. Thomas was so good over there last year I expected a drop off but it hasn’t come yet.
  5. His approach is much improved. On pace for like 3x the number of walks he had last year.
  6. How dare you forget Longhorn Legend Cole Bott
  7. The line between good and good enough to win a title is razor thin, not mention it also requires some plain old good luck and lucky bounces. Pierce’s results at Texas would get him a statue at 98% of schools. But it was correctly identified that the trajectory wasn’t right and the move was made before there was a total collapse. As is the case in most sports, knowing who to hire and retaining them on your staff is half the battle. Pierce couldn’t handle that part. Schloss has proven he can at like 3 different stops and does well at surrounding himself with good cops so he can be the bad cop when needed. Meanwhile, Michael Early is a good cop surrounded by a bunch of good cops and that’s one of the reasons why A&M will have a new coach probably within 2 years.
  8. That decision isn't being based on getting in the tournament or not. We fired Pierce after 3 of 4 years of a super regional or better. Herman was fired after going 7-3 and winning a bowl game. Yes, if we make the tournament and then miraculously go to the Sweet 16, maybe he isn't fired, but this stuff always works itself out in the end.
  9. Maybe that’s why Schloss scheduled this series
  10. Sounds right. All the crappy Shaka years run together.
  11. Wasn’t it 2020 when we beat OU on the last second shot from Coleman to keep our tournament hopes alive and laid the biggest egg of all time a few days later against a crappy OSU team at home in a game that would have likely clinched a tournament berth?
  12. I think he finally removed them from his bracket, but Lunardi had 4-12 Oklahoma in the field has recently as a few days ago so I can’t imagine there are many bubble teams supporting resumes that much better than us.
  13. Santa Clara is going to be a solid test this weekend. They have a couple of really good arms, including one guy who has 28 strikeouts in 14 innings so far out of the bullpen.
  14. This is going to be funny when we don’t score and Howard gets the 9th inning
  15. Navarre, Flores and Volantis is the most talented trio of freshman pitchers we’ve had in a long time.
  16. His control was pretty bad in the fall.
  17. So we have 6 pitchers on the roster who still haven’t thrown and Howard, Moffett, Saunier and McCreery are unusable. 30 SEC games are going to be interesting.
  18. You should have to give up your NIL if you walk the leadoff guy after a 7-run inning.
  19. This score is wrong, right? Should be 11-5?
  20. They should have brought in one of their known quantities to put out that fire (Dre? Mercer?) before giving McCreery and Saunier clean innings.
  21. Catch a routine fly ball and none of this happens.
  22. Looking through the box score of the 2024 game against A&M Corpus and I forgot how frustrating that part of the season was. Had a 10 game homestand against Incarnate Word, Washington (x3), Air Force (x2), Baylor (x3) and A&M Corpus and somehow only went 6-4.
  23. Something I was reminded of today is you can only have 27 active players for a conference series in the SEC and you have to declare those 27 guys before each series. We will definitely have some interesting decisions to make. I’m assuming the 27 man roster will be something like: C (3): Galvan, Chamberlain, Service INF (6): Schuessler, Mendoza, Flores, Rodriguez, Borba, Duplantier OF (5): Winfield, Belyeu, Gasparino, Farmer, Richardson or Scott? RHP (7): Riojas, Burns, Duplantier, Grubbs, Flores, Rerick, McCreery, Saunier? LHP (5): Volantis, Spencer, Mercer, Bing, Harrison That is 27 and wouldn’t include some notable guys like Moffett, Hamilton, Tumis, Navarre, Howard, Stewart, etc.
  24. They received the most favorable SEC schedule in the league. No Arkansas, Tennessee, A&M, Florida or Auburn. Got Vandy, LSU and Texas all at home. Drew the tough road series of Missouri, South Carolina, Kentucky, Alabama and Georgia.
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