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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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Looked it like.
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Gotcha. PFF, like it or not, has him highly graded overall including #1 (believe that’s what I read) in accuracy from 5-25 yards. And his 69% is quite a bit down the field too so it’s not built on checkdowns. But he’s also been high play action guy so curious how that relates to more required straight drops. Just checked NFL mock draft database. There were 4 other Ole Miss offensive guys in the top 500. 3 WRs (57, 227, 303) and a TE (at 308). Harris was at 57, and he missed time. He was not teamed up with overwhelming talent. He has a ton of starts and many against high profile defenders. For me, it’s always curious to see these late run up the boards.
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So what would you consider? Or are you just discounting anyone coming out of his system?
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Good thing I’m not his type.
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Mine was a bit more difficult. When trying to activate it on my TV, it said I was logged in to my provider but wouldn’t allow access. Because I was having to activate on my phone I had to get it off wi-fi. Then boom, it was activated on two different TVs.
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Not only have they not won a playoff game in years most of the games have not been terribly competitive. I’m not aware of the behind the scenes with Pickett but terrible OC and poor Oline is not much support for your QB. Two years later and we’re talking Rodgers? They are the masters at doing just enough. The Hayward/Watt combo is difficult to replicate from the way they play to their production to the way they carry themselves. And there’s not much time left.
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QB is a mess. Draft an RB #1 then let him walk after his first contract because you don’t address Oline. You start to address OLine then Moore walks after he puts together an ok year. Wr room may be a bit volatile. Your best defenders are aging. Theres the non-losing season streak. There’s also the playoff losing streak.
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I’ve seen the fan base up close and personal. The overwhelming majority ain’t got that much. In spite of me being old, fat, and anonymous, I’ve got a good 5-10 seconds in me before needing a break.
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Ran up quite a bit against SWAC level teams. I never looked up Messinger but assumed he had more reps against higher level teams and generally just older.
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But we know he gets knocked off his routes so maybe she reasonably didn’t let him get off the line.
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