Had Enough

That it is.

Aggies kinda missing their injured pitcher.

Has there been a single reference to this Stewart fella and how Pierce screwed that up? Looking like the missing piece. One of ‘em anyway.

Dude, they let Mitchell Daly hit .300.

SEC ain’t all it’s cracked up to be?

Why is UTenn playing a dude that hits in the .220s?

The point was that the Vitello comp was too tall.

It may be win or lose. I mean who leaves on the brink of a title? Then do they pull a Stoops and go with the pitching coach Lincoln Riley.

He probably was driving Tvondre around and left him to take blame.

Get a grip huh? I’m pretty relaxed about it. CDC is pretty good at what he does. I trust him to make a well reasoned choice. Previous head coaching experience is not a must have for me. It’s fine that others feel differently.

I’m not skeert of a bold move. Was Vitello a head guy before Tennessee? How many head guys have multiple titles? How many have single titles then not so much? Theres risk. If the top two guys are off the board, then what?

Yes he would and should. But are you ok if only get his Wiener?

Just think of the joy in this scenario when we win it all next year.

Situational pitching will always be important. I haven’t looked specifically but would guess that all national champions won playoff games that were low scoring. Team ERAs can be misleading but come this time of year I do check out teams pitching distribution. I’ve touted Tennessee and A&M as having better depth than everyone else because they have multiple guys with good chunks of innings and lowish ERAs. And within that you often have 1 guy that looks to be true #1 that can lock you down, like Prager has done twice this post season. It also is a reason A&M was a poor matchup for us. You compare them to ArKsnsas. They won lots of games, but they seemed to have fewer options beyond Smith. And Smith tailed off a bit at the end too. They had less hitting. And boom early elimination. The playoff format is important in playing into pitching staffs and depth. We could be very competitive in a best 2 of 3 scenario but a loser bracket regional was a terrible spot. It changes the dynamic of who we are at our best. UF offensively is a bit like Arkansas pitching. Jac = Hagen. Then you have other capable guys, but they aren’t consistent. They hit tons of homers but outside of Jac they do nothing well offensively. Put them in a bigger park in Omaha and you negate some of that power.

Take away Jac and they bat about .254 on the season.

I’ve put this out there previously. It’s only an isolated example though. OU was 23-7 in conference. In terms of winning percentage that has to rank amongst the very best in conference history. I believe it was only 1 game of all 30 conference games in which the winner scored less than 7 runs. That was the very first conference game. In terms of team ERA, there are 2 at the CWS above 6. There may be 3 more above 5 then 3 below. That’s ERA and not runs scored. You can probably add .25 to .50 additional unearned runs per game. Throughout the season you are probably at a minimum of 6 per game or more to be consistently successful. That probably drops at the CWS because of the early tourney days off.

Come on. Kentucky had 3 dudes today that finished the season with sub .240 batting averages that started today. One of those was in the 3 hole early in the series. Anywhere from 3 to 6 homers. Porter Brown had a better slugging percentage than all 3, better OBP than one of them. NCState. Their 7th and 8th hitters in terms of ABs. One hit .238 with 10 XBHs. 5 fewer ABs than Brown. The other hit .224 with a lower slugging percentage. UF can’t hit for shit. Power yes. Their average is .272 with Jac at about .420. Their 8th guy in terms of ABs bats .230 with a slugging% 50 points lower than Browns and a damn near equivalent OBP. Just off the top of my head from last year, the Wake SS batted sub.230 and not sure he had double digit XBHs. Ty Evans possibly UFs best post season hitter last year finished at .239 with a .302 OBP. After going 9-22 with 5 of 9 Homers in the postseason. Pretty sure every year teams trot out crappy hitters in the CWS. As to your question, there could be several options. If you believe the A&M staff is clearly better, then you have to believe they could get more out of several guys. Galvan, Kennedy, Borba, Gasparino. Not even mentioning the additional maturity. And I’ll use Evans again as the example. His average is 75 points, OBP up over 100 from last year.

Not serious. I’ll pull for Schloss as he’s got the best leg sweep. Would be most surprised with him or Vitello.

Guess we’re ruling out the Kentucky guy as it’s been several hours. It can only be 1 of 4 guys.

Timing is everything. We got CDC at about the right time. We got Sark at the right time in history.

With that hostility in your heart, how you feel about touting runner up finishes? I don’t remember how it played out exactly but from memory, South Carolina was not 2nd best in 2002. Florida was not 2nd best in 2005. Seems like Rice and Stanford fought better opponents before the championship series during that time too. And the Aggie in me says Vandy was not #2 in 2021.

I think Cortez and Ashcenbeck pitched the lions share. I don’t think we blew that game off.

What about SEC versus SEC matchups?

I would expect nothing different.

What are you saying? We threw scrubs in the regional or we should have treated the early season Tuesday game differently?