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Caver60

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  1. If Landon Rink turns out to be analogous to his dad as a football player, he belongs at A&M more so than Texas. His dad wasn’t bad but nothing to write home about while we were being dominated by RC and friends. I’m curious about some of the dynamics at play now. In the past, CTJ has talked about how “flips” aren’t the most desirable players to have on roster. Their hit rates suck. Sark goes about things differently. He’s apparently not about the hard sell. He’s more about the long game. I wonder how this plays with the previous notion that flips aren’t all that desirable. Regardless, this is fun to watch. I continue to feel nothing but remorseless and merciless fuck you to all of our cheating, bag throwing rivals. Most of all A&M and OU, but not limited to them. Fuck yall. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.
  2. OU not being a true road game really narrows the field here.
  3. Maybe. I can’t figure out why AI is so fucking long-winded.
  4. Funny that W, of all people, understood it early on.
  5. Oh yeah. When it comes to high school baseball recruiting, I could write a tome. It's a strange sport to judge. What separates great from good is consistency. And that's hard to judge in high school because good players often end up with the same stats as (eventual) great players. Also, it's a sport where physical size doesn't mean a whole lot, to a point. Relationships are everything. Did your kid get on with Marucci in time to be their premier SS for the next three years? Did you play college baseball? Do you have relationships with college coaches because you played? These are important questions in the baseball recruiting world. Camps are important, but only if the people putting on the camps have their eyes on you when you show up. Otherwise, the camps are mostly money grabs. This is the ultimate networking sport. And if you don't have a network, here's what happens (from experience): Your kid struggles to get D1 offers, even though he is a three year varsity starter (hitting .400+ each year). He runs a 6.36 60, with velos to match. I know this is what happens, because it happened to us. It's not sour grapes. My kid did end up playing D1. I won't be surprised if big schools come after him this year or next. It's such a different game from college football or basketball. Look at rosters across the sport. Players on their third school are the rule, not the exception.
  6. Phrase is trademarked. Gimme my tree fiddy
  7. What happened to that motherfuckers chin?
  8. Back in the 90s we recruited a LB prospect who chose Lubbock over Austin because “the water tasted better” there. Mom’s emotions are one of the least crazy reasons why some of these guys choose where to go. Maybe his mom is fucking ferocious. Who knows?
  9. Since Scaife we've rolled out David Thomas, J-Mike, and Sanders. If Washington is better than those three guys, that would be awesome.
  10. UTRGV would be an interesting coaching job. Any Texas resident student whose household income is $120k or below goes to school for free there. We don’t qualify. Since baseball is a club-driven sport, I’m not sure how many kids would qualify. Club sports to me are the very definition of “necessary evil”. Topic for another day. But imagine if you could recruit position players from one tax bracket and save scholarship money for pitchers, for example. It’s what most schools do anyway, without the <$120k advantage. Fun to consider. Our kid wanted to play for a D1 school, recruiting for baseball was all kinds of messed up through last year because of Covid, and we liked the coaching staff. That was enough for us.
  11. That was a really strange feeling, being at a Texas game and not rooting for the ‘Horns. The boy did his job. He went 0-1 with 2RBI. He was 3 of the HBP and 2 of the BB. I thought that Jalin got him at 2nd early on. Guess the replay wasn’t conclusive. He’s a patient batter and a tough kid. I could have done without the chest beating after one of the walks, but whatever. He was excited to help his team in his first start ever. He is fast, would probably be one of the fastest guys on Texas’ team too. We ended up with his club coaches in the stands along with a lot of friends and family. That has to do it for Pierce. So maybe in the strangest most backward way ever, he will help Texas after all?
  12. That's awesome. Played for Ogletree?
  13. My son plays for UTRGV. He will get his first start tonight. He's been a Texas fan his entire life, and he's giddy about playing at the Disch.
  14. Things that stick with me about the bonfire fiasco: 1) The immediate reaction from every aggy I knew was "No one is going to sue. They were all good ags doing what they loved" 2) Winning the game proves that God is with the aggys (heard this before and after the game) 3) LHB v. FTAB, halftime. They have a unique ability (echoed years later in the 27-25 herp derp halftime performance) to show their ass. Generally I don't care much about halftime shows, but these two encapsulate aggy for me.
  15. Aggy will get him and scream flip. Between him and Rink, they have their argument that the elk trampled Sark in year one. Everyone wins.
  16. No sweat, and good for him. I’m still scarred by Robert Heard proclaiming Shane Rink as the better every down prospect over his teammate, Sam Adams. Whoops
  17. There’s a thousand ways to play recruiting classy, and he chose poorly. So, well, I ain’t gonna mince words. Fuck that kid. Looking forward to embarrassing him for 0-6 years, depending on how long he makes it on campus over there.
  18. That's so accurate. Random awesome Austin shit. I was a poor and frequently worked on my truck in our garage in a north campus condo. One night I took my buddies catfishing and forgot to throw away the extra chicken livers when we got home. The next week I was working on the truck again, and the garage was filled with this awful smell. Obviously I forgot to throw away the chicken livers from the week before. But because I'm sort of a negligent dick, I blamed my girlfriend for farting in the garage. Bye bye girlfriend, but it was all for the best. That's when I remembered the chicken livers. So I walked the ice chest full of rotten chicken livers out of our garage and along an alley next to yards full of future Austin assholes behind our condo. They were tech people who had just moved in from California, no shit. Anyway, I dumped that ice chest out in our dumpster and the smell was honestly horrific. The California folks had been having some wine and cheese deal in their backyard. Obviously I nuked that shit. They literally ran away screaming. I suppose the whole point of this is that if a monkey named Kong had appeared right then, it would not have been an aberration. That was a huge part of what I loved about Austin.
  19. Preach. What’s happening now is proof positive that we were NOT doing the same stuff as the other guys. If we had been, it would have looked like this for all these years. You nailed it: fuck em. Time to pay the piper, bitches.
  20. I got the Pfizer booster at the beginning of December in anticipation of holiday gatherings. I didn’t have any side effects, and I’ve had them from every previous vaccination. So that was nice. There are so many great people out there. There are some shitheads too. There is a lot of overlap in that Venn diagram when it comes to sickness/vaccination behavior. The only part that bothers me is that so many peoples’ default is not “This might help, and it’s not a huge burden, so I’m gonna do it.”
  21. Super excited for this season. April 16 circled on the calendar. My son is a true freshman OF at UTRGV. Right now it's looking like he won't redshirt. He's the fourth or fifth OF on the squad. Recruiting was a rough experience with the Covid years. In a "normal" year I think he would have had chances at some other schools, but we are really proud of him getting on with a D1 baseball program. We like the coaching staff at UTRGV quite a bit. No matter which way the game goes in Austin, we can't lose. Hook 'em
  22. I hope the portal/NIL has changed things significantly for Texas at the wr position. Because for years people have said stuff like, “Receivers are a dime a dozen in this state,” and “Not worried at all about pass catchers”. And then when a real receiver finally shows up it’s like a complete revelation.
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