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College basketball coaching carousel: 2025 edition
Nigel Tufnel replied to Machinator's topic in Basketball
Johnny Bravo for the W. “We need someone to fill the suit, man.” -
Co-sign.
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Thinking about college athletics for my daughter
Nigel Tufnel replied to harpercollins's topic in Can You Help Me With This?
In talking with most people, that seems to be the stereotype. But, I tell those that ask that even at Ivys, first priority is “Can you play?” Then, “can we get you in?” Then, “are you willing to come here vs more traditional schools?” Ivys have much more talent than people think. Sports gets the vast majority of the athletes into Ivys that would not have been able to get in on academics alone. -
Thinking about college athletics for my daughter
Nigel Tufnel replied to harpercollins's topic in Can You Help Me With This?
Ivy League example from a close friend: Harvard about 7-8 years ago, highly touted DL comes in (4* I think). Goes through the motions of the first hour of practice and hangs them up. Got into Harvard and he was done with athletics. According to our friend, the guy was not gifted intellectually (in fact, he was one of the least intelligent kids he had ever met). But, played the game, just not the game of football. -
Thinking about college athletics for my daughter
Nigel Tufnel replied to harpercollins's topic in Can You Help Me With This?
There is obviously a lot to this. There is really only one sport now that is tied to high school, and that is football. All of the other sports are much more oriented to club/summer as that is when the college coaches have time to recruit. High school sports are mostly a step down in competition and organization from high level club. Without being attached to a well known club, it will be very difficult to get noticed and recruited. Our experience was with our son, who is a freshman in college. He plays 2 sports in D1. First, you will know if they really want to play or not. With my son, there was never a doubt he felt differently about it than others. He was truly focused. There is nothing wrong with just playing to have fun, but that gets flushed out very quickly college. Basically, the kid will most likely show you their path. You have to really want to play in college because it is a structured grind. All that said, athletics is one of the greatest ways to get into a school you most likely would not have gotten into. It truly opens up a myriad of opportunities. Happy to share more if it helps. -
Damn. All outs were K’s? Did you have to wake up any of your fielders? That’s awesome.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: They Can't Keep Getting Away With This
Nigel Tufnel replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
I have posted on here previously about the “recruiting experts” and what they do, say, and don’t do. Thankfully, most coaches go deeper than the recruiting sites, as the sites only concentrate on the top tier and most rosters are predominantly not top tier. It’s a good racket if you can get it. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: They Can't Keep Getting Away With This
Nigel Tufnel replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
10.4 100m, 21.6 200m, and 24’4” LJ. These were one year ago as a SR. Redshirting this year in football and track so we will see what he puts up next spring. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: They Can't Keep Getting Away With This
Nigel Tufnel replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
Shhhh….so is Lil’ Nigel (and he can run D1 Track too). And my knock is on the recruiting services, not the kids. -
Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: They Can't Keep Getting Away With This
Nigel Tufnel replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
So, for reference, WR, Mike Brown, is .7 seconds slower in the 100m, 3 seconds slower in the 200m, and jumps 2’ shorter in the LJ than Lil’ Nigel. Same size. Kid is rated a 3-star and is going to A&M. Recruiting cracks me up. Yeah, I’m a little Surly this evening. -
If it makes you feel any better, that was the equipment bus. The team flies.
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I feel the same way as I did with football. Expanding to over 100k worked when we had plenty of empties at 76k. Build it, and the average will most likely increase. Being in the SEC will raise the numbers.
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@hornian was nice enough to provide us with a couple tickets for Friday and Saturday. Our family went back and forth between those seats and our LSU provided seats. Our closest friends in Houston and Lil’ Nigel’s teammate for 10 years, is LSU’s new closer. So, Hornian’s seats provided a safe space for UT fandom. I have seen some speculation on here about pitching tomorrow. Shores does not inspire certain confidence among the LSU faithful yet. Evans, does not know what the plans are for him as of post game last night. His parents and the Tufnel Family think he will pitch, but don’t know what his pitch count would be. I will add, that was my first game in a few years and with LSU there, for the first time, Disch Faulk felt too small. It needs to expand to ~10k.
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Thoughts after going to the game. LSU just looks a little better all the way around. They are about 2-3 years ahead of UT, which makes perfect sense. UT has a stud freshman, LSU has a better stud freshman. UT has a good lefty Friday starter, LSU has a better lefty Friday starter and on and on. But, UT can win if they play well. LSU’s lead off LF, Derek Curiel, is a freshman and man is he good already. He was one of, if not the top player coming out of HS and looks every bit of it. He stands out already.
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