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    I think people greatly underestimate Diaz's ceiling. He appears to have a well above average arm, sets up and blocks reasonably well, and calls a good game. If his bat can prove out along with those skills and he has All Star and beyond potential.
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    How many college coaches sucked for years at multiple jobs only to be successful a couple of years down the line when a new job landed in their lap? Has that happened ever? Good coaches generally make themselves known. It's just a shitty fucking deal. Beard really fucked Texas by doing what he did.
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    Imagine if instead of hiring Chris Beard, UT would have hired Terry initially instead. How would that have gone over here? Terry did a great job holding things together but his 10 year run as a HC is much more informative of how things are gonna go now than his work with Beard's players for half a season.
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    On a minor note, Blair Henley pitched today with the minor leaguers for the first time in a game setting since his TJ. He looked promising before that injury.
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    He grades out at least average defensively (and will be above average defensively once an electronic K zone is implemented), and profiles as an above average bat who will either be in the 110-120 wRC+ range or the 130-150 range depending on how his power and patience continues to develop. If you pair an above average bat with average receiving skills that gets you a lot more than 2 WAR even platooning at C due to the massive positional adjustment that position receives. Shit, Maldy managed to accrue positive value last season in spite of being God awful on paper both with his bat and his skills behind the plate. IMO, you stick Diaz at catcher over 700+ innings in a given season and I don't see how he doesn't hit at least 3 WAR even in 2023. At this point in his development, I would have 1-2 WAR over a full season be about his floor with his ceiling easily in the 5+ WAR range.
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    I don’t see how Yainer Diaz isn’t a top 25 prospect. The guy is legit talented behind the plate in a way that he often doesn’t credit for and is simply a damn good hitter. Maybe not the most disciplined hitter, but he can hit some pretty tough shit and hit it hard. If he simply commits himself to developing as a primary catcher I could see him putting up 5+ WAR seasons. He has that kind of ceiling.
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    My expectations for this hire are not very high, so hopefully Terry cashes in before the wheels fall off or he proves people wrong. He seems nice enough.
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    The refs fucked us but that game still could have been won with more adequate coaching in the second half.
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    You can by getting more possessions than them, which is what Texas did. They had more FGs in this game than Miami.
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    Terry fell asleep at the wheel in the second half.
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    They shot 60% but Texas made more FGs than Miami. FTs we’re obviously the difference, but hardto draw them when you take dumb ass shots while the coach twiddles his thumbs.
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    It’s an infuriating sport.
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    I think it’s highly unlikely that he’s the best CBB coach Texas can obtain but he’s getting the job anyway.
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    Refs fucked us but letting an injured Carr attempt to hero ball our way to the win was what lost the game.
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    Whitley touched 99 during this outing per someone there.
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    Imagine if the roles were reversed and Texas hired Beard following his arrest? The media shitstorm would be exponentially larger than it has been for Ole Miss. I don’t know how or why the decision to fire Beard was made. I think from the perspective of maximizing the basketball program’s chances for success and fuck everything else it did not make much sense to let him go when they did. Maybe they knew it was likely that several of the allegations were true and they weren’t comfortable maintaining a relationship with him any longer irrespective of the irrationality of such a move.
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    I think part of this is that Texas is held to a different standard than schools like Ole Miss, but maybe the bigger part is that the media is that media has such a short memory that Beard’s incident has already been memory holed.
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    With the way Barkley is talking, it sounds like UT will be dragged through the mud if they don’t hire Rodney lol. I still cant fucking believe we’re in this situation and to add insult to injury we have to play against the guy when we move to the SEC.
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    This season might be even more boring than 2022 unless Merc can figure their shit out.
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    The plan better not be to roll with Terry until shit blows up in a year or two. This fucking sucks.
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    Which honestly is probably doing okay considering his resume coming into this job. Things could certainly be worse. I am still however baffled by the decision to hire him.
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    Herman would have crashed hard last year though. To his credit Texas was a tough, physical team during his tenure but I think he's dependent on having a physical QB who can play hero ball and he wouldn't have had that last year.
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    Not going to be easy with what they lose on defense after this season. Offense is going to have to take a big step forward next year in spite of losing it's best player to make 10 wins happen.
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    He was pretty good at winning with what he had available (also didn't hurt to have a talented, big game QB), but was horrible at roster management and ultimately left the program in a worse place than Strong. I guess with CFB your head coach needs to be both a good GM and a good game day coach. Herman was good at the latter but not the former and Sark may be the reverse.
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    Everyone on this board was fully bought in and sucking off Herman during and following the Sugar Bowl season. I can buy Sark improving the roster after Herman cratered it, but there's still a lot of red flags regarding Sark's ability to maximize and deploy his currently available resources in a manner that translates to wins. I could see his tenure having a similar trajectory to Strong's where things may be improving under the surface but he just can't get out of his own way enough to win at the level required to keep from being fired.

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