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Everything posted by chase25
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Is there any insight on the fatigue regarding Pierce? Genuine ass hole that’s hard to work for or just a HC heading into season 8 and feeling the pressure to win big?
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I know he has grander aspirations but while he waits for the right opportunity I think it’s worth it even if it is only for a year. Assuming he even wants to do it, would allow him to still spend more time with his family for the time being not having to recruit on the road while still being involved with the game.
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Wonder where Tulo stands on coming back? Promote Chris Gordon and see if Troy wants to come back in a paid player development role on campus.
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Are 4 full time assistants allowed to recruit on the road beginning July 1st or is it still 3?
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Fabian and Prevesk are both Sophmores, Nesbitt is a RS Sophmore
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Well if one thing is for sure with some of the portal decisions today, it’s that NIL is turning the transfer portal into the Wild West. I know Chase Burns is a long shot but we should really think about putting on the full court press for him
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Interesting choice by Miami, pretty telling about what the coaching circle thinks of the Miami job. Good luck to JD though, cool too see guys who are loyal to the players get a shot, similar to Saarloos at TCU
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LSU getting #7 will hopefully nudge everyone involved with baseball from donors on down. If we are going to judge Pierce against his peers, we are going to have to put him on a level playing field. High school recruiting is on the up swing in a big way. Next step is making sure we are in a position with NIL to do what LSU did this year. Maybe not on the same scale, because I doubt Texas will ever have 1 million to throw around in a single season in the near future, but at least at the level where we can go out and get an elite arm when we feel like everything is in place to make a run at a title.
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Not all that surprising if true
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Another coach turning down the Miami job… Difference landscape today and although Miami is a good job, it doesn’t really offer anything you can’t get at most other major universities.
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And the beauty about baseball is that 20 run ass beating doesn’t mean shit tomorrow. No doubt Skenes pitches tomorrow but I would be curious if they start Thatcher Hurd for as long as they can and then turn it over to Skenes.
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Not going to continue to hound the point but you evaluate the upside and what you project someone to be. That’s what I’m saying. Everybody now knows that Skenes is a generational talent, nothing about pitching well in the Mountain West says “sure thing”. If that’s how it worked then Chase Burns would have dominated this year after posting a 2.91 ERA his Freshman year. There isn’t a single program that isn’t calling Burns first if they feel like they have a shot to land him. Skenes had 112.1 IP with 126 strikeouts against average at best competition. Burns had 152.1 IP with 217 strikeouts against the best competition in baseball. The same points you are making for Skenes you could make for Burns had Chase Burns spent the first 2 years of his career in the Mountain West.
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You and everybody thought Skenes was going to add 5 mph to his fastball in one offseason and be able to hit triple digits with it 40+ times in one outing? I don’t think anyone saw that type of improvement coming. He had 96 strikeouts in 85 innings in a 1 bid conference whose best team UNLV finished 111 in the RPI. The two best teams he faced were Texas and Iowa. In those 2 starts he went 7.1 IP, 14 hits, 10 runs (8 earned), 2 walks, and 12 strikeouts. Good for a 9.82 ERA. I know he was playing both ways but to be as dominant as he has been coupled with the jump in competition, no one saw coming. LSU did with Skenes what you do with anybody, which is bet on their upside, he wasn’t a sure thing. Burns had an average Sophomore year that followed him being a 1st team Freshman All American and 3rd team All American in 2022. Just saying people always evaluate with hindsight.
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Skenes wasn’t Skenes until this year. His last year at Air Force he was topping out at 95. Burns had a phenomenal Freshman year, struggled a little bit this year but that was true of pitching across the board for the most part. Biggest thing he struggled with was keeping the ball in the park. Allowed 10 HRs in 72 IP, still coupled that with 114 Ks to just 22 walks. He is the best pitcher in the portal.
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Easy decision this weekend, go Gators. Don’t let those cock suckers get #7
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So to sum up your argument, play good teams = hard, play bad teams = easy. Most teams dominate the easy part of their schedule that is what you are supposed to do. Texas played plenty of bad teams this year as they should. Can’t play a wire to wire meat grinder. You can cherry pick bad losses on any teams schedule. West Virginia lost 2/3 to Georgia Southern (27-29), lost to Richmond (27-28), split with Hofstra. Oklahoma “battled” Stanford splitting a series with their wins being by a combined 8-5 and Stanfords 2 wins being by a combined 39-16. Same Oklahoma team who lost a home series to 28-30 California Baptist. Im not going to trade researched essays back and forth but you can pick apart anyone’s resume. Bottom line is they won 81% of their non conference games as a conference. Not a martyr for the SEC by any means. Auburn hosting was a joke, everybody clowned on that decision. How do they get preferential treatment?
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I’m not trying to rain on your rant parade but what exactly constitutes a tough opponent? In the same page of this thread you belittled A&M beating CSF because they went 3-7 in their final 10 games while giving TCU credit for playing them? TCU had multiple games against sub .500 teams. 3 against 23-31 Florida State, 1 against 21-37 Rice, 3 against 24-25-1 San Diego, 1 against 10-40 Northwestern, 1 against 24-26 Tarleton State. TCU played 10 non conference games against teams with sub .500 records. Florida played 15.
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Yeah anybody trying to argue that the SEC isn’t the best conference in baseball is just delusional. The worst team in the SEC (Ole Miss) went 6-24 in the SEC and 19-5 against the rest of the country. They won 81% percent of their non conference games as a conference. The ACC won 77%, the PAC 12 won 70% and Big 12 won 66%
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There are 2 other schools in the ACC that I can see it being a revenue sport for. Clemson and Wake Forest if they can keep close to their current form will be able to. Texas is going to be sitting in a geographic sweet spot in the SEC being that bridge from west coast to east. USC and UCLA will both take hits moving to the B1G. The other Pac poses Arizona, Arizona State, Stanford, and Oregon State will take hits from the diminished Pac. Have to be ready to take advantage come 2025 in baseball. Glad the Texas One Fund is already being progressive now so hopefully it’s humming for when we make the jump to the SEC
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Not to mention there are so many good players at every level of college baseball, there will be a sweet spot that is reached at some point in terms of return on investment and how much teams are willing to spend. It’s worked for LSU this year up to this point mostly because of Skenes. I think going forward you will definitely start to see bidding wars when talents like Skenes hit the portal. Bats are much easier to find obviously. Would like to see Texas use the majority of the NIL funding to build the pitching staff ever year.
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Glad he is a righty because the prospective lineup next year is looking real heavy with lefties.
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Don’t see that very often
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Projected 1st round pick Hurston Waldrep to Oral Roberts tonight:
