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  1. I’ve harped on the SEC element. Any coach without that backdrop is hindered. It’s dollars. It’s facilities. It’s environment. It’s also perception. Thanks to Burnt Orange & White for highlighting that the tradition built 20 plus years ago has less impact than the aforementioned factors. Pierce has more upside heading to the SEC than exists in the Big 12. We’ve been the best, prob most consistent team since his arrival. Texas in general as well as the next coach have higher upside because you remove one of the bigger restrictions to competing on a level field. A quick glance shows Texas as the #3 recruiting class for 2024, which I believe is much better than previous years. If that’s the case, what’s different? Is it an SEC impact? Is it a 60 year old man changing his philosophy? In either case, it’s a perceived positive. Maybe it’s luck or NIL coming to the forefront. No matter who is coaching next year there really is no excuse to not be competitive.
  2. Supposedly his dad, Morehouses and someone else were difficult to deal with. I’m not sure I’d read that Daly was told to get the hell out because of it.
  3. This is a bit of the behind the scenes stuff that makes me wonder. My assumption was that he could return but had no guarantees of play time. He had a reasonably long leash last year. It’s hard to know how many fans wanted him gone from our program. The vocal ones on this board were amongst those so it seems like a high majority wanted him out. He’s played 3rd and batted 5th much of the year. I believe he’s set personal bests in OBP, slugging, stolen bases, and sacrifices. It worked out for him. I haven’t looked into the UK coach’s background, but they made the CWS in rather easy and quiet fashion. His name has been thrown out here some.
  4. I’d agree with this. People didn’t judge Augie on early season or non-conference success. He’s judged on his national championship efforts. Now you compile a ton of wins on the road to this. As Texas coach, I always felt he was preparing his teams for that final push. If we only dogpile in Omaha, those are not won on the backs of mid week games.
  5. I think age is relevant. I wouldn’t hire someone on the verge of 60 and not overly inclined at 50+. Pierce at the time of his hiring would probably be the oldest you’d want to hire. My points are that you are knocking one guy for actual accomplishments when there’s similar data available for your alternatives. Then picking and choosing when history starts. It has not been discussed here, but it’s a valid question and one people likely have no clue about. But Texas (43) high end talent trails CA (79) and FL (67) and is closer to GA (39) than those two. That was from an article in 2020 from the prior decade about 1st round picks in the draft. I suspect that held since 2020 too. That talent is not going to be drawn to the Big 12. We will acknowledge that in football but ignore it here. I don’t know the answer as to how impactful it is, but that’s one of the most important questions here. How limiting was the Big 12 in getting players here? I’m quite confident in saying LSU wins nothing without Paul Skenes. Hell, LSU got a top talent from the ACC. Why would a guy like Skenes (or White) take less money to play in the Big 12 over the SEC or the ACC? That’s the type of player we should have more access to now. And you were the one introducing facilities and atmosphere.
  6. Stick with the age narrative then. It is irrelevant whatever Pierce was at the time of his hiring.
  7. No. But they should be pissed because historically they are elite. Right? The amount of twisting and turning is quite high on this thread. Take Bakich. Got some great stuff on the resume. But he got swept in the super. He also skated by the mighty High Point by 1 run in the regional. Also beat Coastal Carolina by 1. Go look at their non-conference schedule. I guess Xavier is badass cause other than midweeks versus UGa and KSU, it’s weak. As to his Michigan World Series appearance is that a one time event or spectacular coaching? Johnson. As referenced previously, his best year at Zona was probably year 1. Year 4 was very mediocre. This year at LSU was mediocre for their standards. LSU seems to be the #1 program in terms of NIL. Vitello. Did he lose to Tenn Tech or USF to allow us to walk into the CWS? Is he 0-1 versus Pierce in the CWS? On the surface from a program development standpoint, he’s the best option. I’ve read here that our atmosphere and facilities are not top 10. Our NIL is clearly very good but also clearly not the best. It’s been stated certain transfers have preferred the SEC and presumably the ACC. I’d assume for incoming frosh this is similar. So we should expect a top 5 program because of our history but other programs histories are irrelevant because. There is a leveling of the playing field in joining the SEC that Pierce has not had the privilege of that every SEC coach currently enjoys. And that the ACC does to a lesser extent. History does matter. But it is a very different era than what Gus dealt with. And different from Augie too. Many fans ignore that except when it fits their narrative. There are likely better fits than Pierce, but the resumes will not necessarily reflect that. Game management won’t be markedly different. It’s more the behind the scenes stuff that make the fit better, but it’s also this stuff that the typical fan doesn’t really know.
  8. It looks like years 3 and 4 at Arizona were substantially worse than years 1 and 2. Year 1 was the best while year 4 was the worst. ”Johnson's fourth season in 2019 produced one of the highest-scoring offenses in the nation, a fourth-straight winning season, and a winning conference record. Arizona ended the 2019 campaign with a 32-24 record and a 15-14 mark in Pac-12 play. The club finished the year on a 10-game win streak and came away victorious in 13 of their last 14 games.” Since the offense was high scoring, I assume the pitching was not so good. At LSU he had Crews and bought White and Skenes. This year he didn’t make it out of the regional. In year 1 at LSU, they improved 2.5 games over the prior year. In the 2023 draft in the top 100 picks, there was Skenes, Crews, Floyd, Taylor and Morgan from LSU. As best I can tell, Skenes is the only one Johnson brought in. Looking at the numbers, it’s difficult to say how much Johnson positively influenced them, and you can throw White in there too.
  9. So our environment is lacking, our facilities are not top notch, our NIL may be top 5-ish but is not #1, our conference lagged the top 2 conferences in several ways. So given that we shouldn’t really expect CWS titles.
  10. It was. I’ve watched little softball this season so the games versus the Aggies and OU didn’t come off as a well coached, well disciplined team.
  11. None of those 4 even played to their seed either.
  12. So did those good Big 12 tourney runs help or hinder OU and OSUs regional tourney efforts?
  13. How many conference teams were quad 4 in those years?
  14. i guess we can return to the narrative that the Big 12 sucked even though several have outplayed their seed this weekend. We were a good team that played hard. The pitching was more consistent and likely more effective than the hitting.
  15. I’m sure I was included in this thought. This regional was always going through the Aggies and having to beat them twice in all likelihood. There’s no bonuses for going 2-0 against them.
  16. Yeah, I know. We have a considerably more capable staff than people give us credit for having. Obviously each guy is not on every day. I think KState rallied down big on us, but there was a big assist or two defensively. Lots of guys can and have gotten outs. And we have some decent arms yet to go. DP will choose based on matchups
  17. Absolutely. I thought using Andre for 2+ innings was a poor choice in game 1too. Since the first week of the season, how often have we given up 13 runs?
  18. No in the alternate bold strategy offered up, he hasn’t pitched yet.
  19. Except you still have at least 1 more of Grubbs and LBJ. Maybe both. So when I say we’re in the same place, that’s because we’re down to 3 teams and a maximum of 3 games. But make no mistake about it, our staff is in as bad a condition as it could be at this stage of the tourney. Imagine Grubbs going against ULs #2 tomorrow then we have LBJ going against the Ags #2 or #3. That’s a significant shift in odds of winning those two games. Now you’ve got Hurley or Ace versus the Ags #3 or some dude that’s only started 3 or 4 games. Anyway I’ll be done with it.
  20. The goal is to win the regional. That’s exactly right. We did almost pull off this game, but that still leaves us with limited options for game 3 and game 4, if need be. Gage could come back. Andre could as well, but that’s hope that they’re effective. Grambling being a non-competitive 4 seed changes the dynamics. A top flight, amongst the best in the country lefty is a tough matchup and also changes the dynamics. The Aggies #2 and 3 starters give up 3 and 4 more earned runs a game than Prager. We could go #3 or #4 or #5 against UL and still have a chance to win. But if we lose, it truly was no big damn deal. As it stands now, we’re in an incredibly tight spot because our pitching is taxed. And we’re still in the same position had we lost game 1 and won game 2.
  21. That strategy was offered up on this very board. Save your arms for games 3, 4 and 5 and the winners bracket game eat up arms while the loser gets Grambling. If Ace and Hurley can be on, there’s a chance but not sure what you do in that third game, if it comes to that.
  22. Y’all ever heard of a guy by the name of Paul Skenes? You might look and see which team was the last to rough him up in the postseason.
  23. Guaranteed one of the top 48 teams in the country.
  24. Should never happen to one of the most storied programs of the past 10 years.
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