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Texas Baseball 2025 - The Schwining tradition starts here...
Had Enough replied to petscii's topic in Baseball
In 2021, we had Pete Hansen, Madden and Stevens as starters. Witt was a full time reliever with Cole then Nixon. There were several guys with good numbers like Southard and Gordon. In the end if the offense shows up, we beat MSU 2 of 3 instead of losing 2 of 3. If we win game 1, we shift that stress to MSU. In that final loss to MSU, we were one pitcher short. Stevens did not go deep in the UTenn game so Witt had to extend. That was Witts longest outing by 2.1 innings. Unfortunately, two games later he wasn’t as good. The final game was Cole’s longest of the year. The two games prior were Nixons most innings on back-to-back days all season. In the end, we extended our 3 bullpen guys beyond what they had done. If we had trusted 1 more guy, it may have made a difference. -
You can ‘yeah, but’ this to death. The truth is that any player will rarely reach top speed. They’ll also never start in a sprinter stance and run 40 yards straight. It’s interesting, to me anyway, that about 40 WRs ran the 40 at the combine but only a dozen did the shuttle and 3-cone drill. I’d say the combo of those 3 is more meaningful than a 40 alone yet few want to put that comparative data out there.
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2025 Texas Football - Road Trips to Away Games
Had Enough replied to Uncle Boobs's topic in Football
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Just to play along. Walkon versus scholarship. Offense versus defense. Tall versus short. Fast versus slow. The first two play a large part of factoring in Taaffe’s play. But defensively it is too easy to blame the nearest man on a defensive failure rather than one who is likely to be at fault which then evolves into he should never play, he’s too slow, too physically limited.
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Ewers got Golden career highs in catches, yards, TDs, and yards per catch. Oh, and helped him to College Football Playoff semi-final appearance.
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Pretty certain Bond had the second fastest top end speed. Thought Bond was 2nd behind the DB. I never said Bond was quicker to 40. Pretty sure dudes beat Usain Bolt to 30-40 yards too. Were they faster than him too?
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Coming in to this season, Golden had 76 catches and 13 TDs. Bond had 65 and 5. Golden now has 134 catches and 22 TDs and a season best 17.4 per catch. Bond is at 99, 9 and 15.9. Looking at numbers last year regarding Mitchell, there weren’t many high WR draft picks that didn’t compile over 100 catches. Golden was open quite a bit here from the getgo. There’s a good chance he was always better than Bond. People just didn’t identify because of their biases. Combine numbers reflect Bond is faster. That was assumed from the outset and hasn’t changed. Im not sure I’d take Golden in the 1st round, but there’s a lot to like about his game. And you can support it with production and individual highlights.
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I’ll do my best to not repeat this sin but no guarantees. Also to clarify, winning 2 of 3 in a series or a season against an SEC team doesn’t provide you a similar hosting privilege.
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I’m not disagreeing with the cumulative impact. The SEC is pretty damn insulated however. You only have to go back to 2023 and Auburn as an example. They lost 3 midweek games. The final 2 were cancelled. They also lost 2 of 3 to Southeastern Louisiana. They were 17-13 in conference. Throw in the tourney they were 18-15. Prior to the post season they won 8 straight then finished it off going 0-2 while hosting the regional. As a point of comparison, our midweek win % last year was 69% versus Auburns at 70%. And quick glance shows we played 2 back-to-back midweek games to their 1. Every year is different so certainly there are no absolutes. If you win 2/3rds of your SEC conference games, you’ll really have to shit yourself in non-conference to not host a regional. That win percentage probably puts you top 4 in the conference.
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From what I recall WSU had their #1 pitch in that game too.
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Texas Baseball 2025 - The Schwining tradition starts here...
Had Enough replied to petscii's topic in Baseball
I have not paid much attention to rankings much historically but was a bit curious this weekend. Perfect Game rankings on a per player basis had us 3rd in 2024. From what I could tell this was post draft. We lost was it 3 to the draft? In 2023 we were 8th on a per player basis. We were 15th in 2022. For 2022, Tennessee, Florida State, Alabama and Kentucky recruited a lower quality player. We were in the ballpark. As of now, we’re at the top for 2025 and 2026. There’s no doubt NIL and the SEC matter. Using that top 15, there were around 8 non-ACC/SEC teams over the past 3 years. Maybe there’s a correlation with Allen. There is plenty of talent here. And quite a bit of it is experienced and mature. Sounds like lots of weird stuff behind the scenes but a lot of issues last year were injury related - Witt, Mercer, Shaw, Harrison, Santos (I’d like to know this guys story). -
Houston Christian is tied for 2nd in the Southland. The #5 RPI conference.
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If you’re referencing my post as one, I never said otherwise. But Shores missed all of last year and pitched very little the year prior. He gave up 3 in 3.2 innings versus Mizzou. Otherwise, he’s pitched against shitty teams. He’s likely not in prime form. Eyanson has an almost 9.00 ERA versus Nebraska and Mizzou. Came from UC-San Diego. Beck from UIW had a 14+ ERA at KSU in 23. It was 8.64 last year at UIW. Six appearances in two years. He’s not really a pitcher. Mayers at Nicholls regressed from year 1 to year 2. 76 walks in 70 last year against Nicholls level comp. Primeaux has 11 career innings. Benge had a 5.70 ERA at DBU. Walked 22 in 33 innings. 2 runs in 0.2 innings versus Mizzou. Rizy. Freshman from Mass. Struggled versus KSU. Ware. 2 years Juco. Era near 7. Schmidt. Freshman. 15 career innings. Evans looks different than all these others. Dad’s a coach. His stuff is top flight. Even his production this year has been better. Only 1 poor performance. They clearly trust him for at least 4 innings. Theyll rely on freshmen arms, guys with control issues or simply guys that haven’t done it at this level. They no doubt have many, talented options. Offensively, there’s not a ton of high level achievement at this level of competition. This weekend they were more disciplined than powerful. Outside of Jones, they’re looking at the Utah Valley and Indiana State transfers for some pop. Theyve clearly got lots of ability, but they may run into some issues with lack of clarity on who is the choice that day. It may take them awhile to lock down that starting rotation.
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The broadcast talked quite a bit today about getting the lead to your best arms. That’s how LSU failed yesterday. Those guys had live arms but have spent quite a bit of time against low level competition. A little Zane Morehouse-like before he learned to pitch. I am curious how their season plays out. Outside of buying Skenes they have not done much in the past 8 years or so. They finished sub-500 conference last year and lost in the regional. This year they have too much talent to tank, but their non-conference strength of schedule is in the 260s. That’s one level above SWAC level competition.
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This was curious and a great observation. Is he their closer? That’s a live arm and a good grasp of how to pitch for not playing a huge role this weekend.
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