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Nigel Tufnel

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  1. 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.
  2. Whitting has pics of someone over there.
  3. I have not been there in a couple of years, but on TV it shows stands with chair backed seats behind home plate. Certainly not a stadium yet.
  4. Couple of things as I can tell we likely will not agree. Royce threw a bullpen. So did Owens. He threw 17 pitches on two days rest. Hardly malpractice. This is Pat’s 6th year, so in just under 5 1/2 years he has 157 wins (including years of 32, 38, and 38). Until this year they had three sets of bleachers you find at a high school. Other facilities are minimal or non-existent. Thankfully, Schloss isn’t afraid to put UTSA back on the schedule so they can help their SOS and RPI. Pierce, who coached with Pat at Rice, took them off the schedule and it was a point of contention.
  5. UTSA’s pitching was lit up this past weekend at Dallas Baptist and they still found a way to win a game. Their starters needed the work because they had short outings previously, so I doubt Pat was worried too much about overwork. Most should get familiar with their coach, Pat Hallmark. He is absolutely one the best in the business. If they can ever get facilities there, they could be a force like DBU.
  6. I know some of the backstory that lead to it, but I don’t know how the personal side of it shook out. Pierce was loyal and put Allen in various positions but he just wasn’t getting it done, especially in recruiting. A very close friend of ours and Li’l Nigel’s teammate since 9 years old was recruited by UT under Pierce/Allen and it was almost comically bad. Pierce was told by more than one major summer program higher up that he needed to make a change.
  7. Saw that on several occasions. What is really happening is the coach is pissed that this team has been “selected” with supposedly great players and the kids just aren’t “turning it on.” My guess is they rarely, if ever, practice and the coach rolls the ball out there on Gameday and expects them to perform. Teams at that age should be practicing at a minimum as much as they play. But VERY few teams have the patience or knowledge to do that.
  8. Wow. This is as good as anything I can recall. Fantastic.
  9. Advice from a 3-time t-ball champion coach/parent. Have the 1st base coach about 5 feet past the bag. Get the kids used to having to high five the coach before they can stop running. Set your lineup relative to who could be on base at any one time. If you know a player is slow, you don’t want him/her on a certain base when you know a kid is likely to ground out a certain way, etc.
  10. How’d you get in here? You’re under age. I came with Captain Renault. I should have known. My husband is with me too. He is? Well, Captain Renault is getting broad minded. Sit down, would you like a drink? Of course not. Do you mind if I do?
  11. I would add to this the answer to a previous question above regarding what is the difference we see between the two. The first thing that leapt out at me was before the team even had one practice in January. Schloss had signed the #1 class in the country (or damn close to it). I pointed out for a couple of years while Lil' Nigel was recruited that Schloss and his crew are relentless recruiters and it wasn't even close as to the effort, coordination, and thought put into the recruiting process.
  12. Diplomatically, of course, because of a shorter life-span, we agreed on taking at around 60 years of age (because he could get from 55 to 60 financially).
  13. Pension can be taken at the earliest at age 55 and is dependent upon earnings. I worked with a former NFL player who if he took the pension at 55 it would have been about $77k/year. If he waited until 65, it would have been around $250k/year.
  14. I think this is key and nice to hear if true. A main difference between Sark as OC at Bama and his offenses here have been the difference in defenses. Saban even said it during the playoffs that Texas would have to play some man at some point. PK has been a "bend but don't break" DC. Saban teams were not and it seemed like the Bama offense got a couple of more bites at the apple than at Texas during a game.
  15. Just too early to see how their offense will be. They have had zero, repeat, zero outdoor practices so far. It is easier to simulate pitching indoors than hitting (backgrounds and such).
  16. You are assuming that the scholarships from the school do not cover athletics. They absolutely do. All of the Ivys have “pay what you can” systems. Average cost at Princeton after aid is something silly like $10,000. This is a major way of getting athletes in.
  17. They don’t have athletic scholarships, but they have more than enough for scholarships that come straight from the schools. $10B+ endowments help with things like that.
  18. Lil’ Nigella was one of the fortunate few that got their acceptance three weeks ago. Nothing more than good luck of being in the batch they actually processed. We have gotten over our shock and have been continuously asking each other “Can you believe that happened?” We are very proud and excited. She is waiting on a few more schools just to see how she feels. She has a spot in SRD so she is set for housing.
  19. Our default was always to swing a bat thats weight is evenly distributed. At a young age they really can’t go wrong with that. They are too young to worry about end weighted, etc. CATs are end weighted (what big power hitters swing). A one or two piece evenly distributed aluminum works for almost every younger kid.
  20. Seems like he should be further along by now. Always at the beginning of the book.
  21. A QTIP Martial Trust solves many of the step parent/step sibling issues. But (big “but”) you have to get the parent to do the planning.
  22. Jay Rogers, current NFL coach and son of the University of Texas Recruiting Coordinator at the time, Randy Rogers was two years ahead of Brees. Westlake was undefeated with Brees as a Jr., then he hurt his knee and they lost their only game of the season without him. His senior year, they won state.
  23. My dog peed the state of Texas in the snow this morning. We are very proud.
  24. DM sent. He is well aware of the track times, etc. It is his first love.
  25. Nyck Harbor is just about in a league of his own. He is a freak athlete among freak athletes. I’ve talked about this a bit in the Recruiting forum but there is definitely a “system” in place and it can be a crap shoot whether or not you are invited in. For just about every player it is a 50/50 prop as to their hit rate in college. We get wrapped up in the 4* and 5* that we forget that they are all pretty much 50/50. That being said, Lil’ Nigel (5’ 11 3/4” 170 lbs) ran 10.4 in high school, owns basically every receiving record at his 50+ year old 6A Houston high school, was 1st team all district for 3 years in football (18 offers), 2 time all district in baseball (5 offers), and district champ in LJ (24’), 100m, and 200m. He was basically ignored by several of the writers people follow on here. He even wrote a couple of them asking if they could actually rate him, but he couldn’t even get that. I had one of these guys joked with me about telling one of his crew not to bother sending him video of defensive ends if they were white. So, yeah, I get tickled when fans give immediate credence to the services like they are the experts. What the schools want more than anything are mature bodies that are ready to play now. We see most of these kids and we joke that they look like they are 30 years old, yep, that is what schools want.
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