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  1. This. I don't know why in the fuck more Texas Democrats don't pull GOP primary ballots to fuck shit up for incumbent fucksticks. I mean I know the NH Primary is a different animal but fucking-A Texas, you could fuck with Ted Cruz so bad if you'd embrace this strategy and 500,000 of you crossed over. Your local D judge in Harris county or whatever the fuck is gonna win anyway, why not make Ted's life miserable. Anyway, for another thread. Trump's gonna win this, but these early indicators are fun. It's gonna make him engage in another series of rants and raves which will of course make his opponents laugh at him, further entrench his base, but in the end---take a physiological toll on his body. And in the end, isn't that our first goal? His death. I guess it probably won't be that painful, that's too much to ask for. But it could be sooner than we thought. I dunno. Let's say he loses the general. What's your preference on his death then? Sooner or more painful? That's a tough one. I want him to suffer but in a weird way, I think he wouldn't even understand pain...like he's so outta touch with his own body already and thinks he's Superman. Or just have him stroke out/heart-attack in early Autumn and just go quietly with Ronny Jackson running in slow motion with his bullshit doctor bag like "Nooooooooooooo!" All that to say, I think tonight only helps accelerate his demise, even though he'll win. Plus he can't lose tonight, because my local library closed and that's the only place I feel comfortable googling "How to smoke heroin on a Tuesday." Though I do have the craigslist guy already lined up.
  2. Exactly what we should ask of such vague notions as "the war on terror." Again, I go to Woody Allen in Love and Death (sadly not nearly as good as I recall it) when he asked of a sergeant saying how Russia must win. "What do we win?"
  3. Great post. They're a developmental program that doesn't realize that, much less want that. It's all right in front of them to see, but they can't and won't. They see their easy access to money and a favorable (usually) media environment looking to soak up their underdog-who-will-be-the-hero sob story. When they see those things at their disposal, and then start hearing the catnip of their "rise" from the media, they magnetize right back to expecting national titles, right now. Their boards are actively convincing themselves as we type and read on here that they're going to the playoffs next year. I have no idea how anyone can go from where they've been and what their roster looks like to that spot, but I see it on 247 and read it here from texags. It's fucking bonkers. If these idiots ever took the KSU approach, and Elko could certainly get them in the range of this (IMO), they'd be in pretty high cotton. The Woodlands, Katy, and Cypress are feeder areas with talent. They're closer to a massive city and recruiting area than any of the KSUs out there. Fill a roster with those types, and you're 7-5 to 10-2 decade after decade. Occasionally, you make the playoffs and try to make noise. Instead, they want to be Georgia, or what Texas can be when it isn't stepping on rakes constantly at the AD level. Not happening. If the rumors of the SEC going to 9 conference games is true, those days are over. Sure, they'll still have their FCS gimme, but they'll face pressure to match-up in the noncon with teams that buoy their resume for being a playoff team. Every SEC and Big 10 team that isn't Vanderbilt or Northwestern/Rutgers will be feeling that pressure. 9-3 teams from those conferences with big noncon wins or close losses will be rewarded over damned near anyone else. Same for a 9-3 ND.
  4. I don't have any particular dislike for Harbaugh or Michigan (and I rather enjoy their recent streak over tOSU). But I want Harbaugh to go to the Chargers (or wherever else in the NFL) simply because that move alone increases our chances at winning in Ann Arbor later this year. We might even be the favorite with Harbaugh, but no shame in wanting every advantage we can get in an environment like Michigan.
  5. Fuck the haters, don't give in to their opinions! Sark has absolutely dropped the ball this offseason! I mean, just look at receiver. How are we supposed to win a conference championship going from this-- To this--
  6. Tomahawks are leased from Raytheon. We don't get billed for it unless we shoot it. Either some admiral got promised a cushy defense contractor job if we shot them or they were going to have go through recertification and Raytheon promised an admirals brother a cushy defense contractor job. Either way Raytheon is winning this war.
  7. It is not obvious exactly what was hit at the Ust-Luga complex in the Baltic Sea. It appears to be the gas (natural gas, not gasoline)/condensate processing facility/terminal. In addition, there is a crude oil export (large) terminal, and a new LNG Plant/terminal (2 trains) that was set to come on-line in 2024 & 2025. I haven't gone own the black hole, but I'm assuming the LNG is delayed at best. * According to Novatek, the Ust-Luga complex, launched in 2013, processes gas condensate into light and heavy naphtha, jet fuel, ship fuel (fuel oil) and gasoil, and enables the company to ship oil products as well as gas condensate to international markets. Just speculating, but this export terminal looks like it was for European demand, not domestic consumption. More later. In one of the links in a prior post, one of the Russian refineries that was damaged by Ukraine? had difficulty getting western (US) replacement parts and obtained the "Made in China" variety. The new parts didn't work, and that portion of the facility was shut down. In this case, the refinery products probably went towards the war effort ... advantage Ukraine. I addressed this in the Arctic Freeze threads, it is hell on earth. Some places the facilities are put inside buildings, which protects you from the elements. The flip side is taking extremely volatile natural gas, increasing the pressure, and adding heat just to make it more fun, and putting it inside a structure that prevents small leaks from dissipating naturally. The stories that make the news all have common elements; there is a leak, either equipment failure or human error, the actions taken are either correct or not, and the leak continues until it is shut off or finds an ignition source. The outdoor facilities as shown above have their own problems. Process facilities are cooled by aerial coolers, cooling water systems or mechanical refrigeration. Aerial coolers are affected by cold weather mixed with precipitation. eventually, the ice wins. Cooling water system are more efficient and dynamic, and expensive. Water & steam moving through pipes in freezing weather is normal. Water & steam not moving through pipes in freezing weather is a big problem. You can imagine the phone calls these guys get; "Is the fire out yet? Why Not? What's taking so long?" "They should keep hitting Russian oil and gas infrastructure." I expect this is one area where the EU, US & Asia have a direct influence on Ukraines targeting of oil & facilities. Assistance and support for Ukraine is dependent on healthy domestic economies for each contributor. You cannot shut down significant Russian oil production without a catastrophic impact on worldwide economies. There is not enough extra capacity worldwide to replace the Russian capacity. It is a zero sum game. That is the tricky part. You want to hit the parts that only affect internal Russian dynamics without interrupting the portion that feeds worldwide commerce. Some data I saw while mousing around; I did not/cannot verity source of data, so take it with a salt shaker: Russian Crude Oil Tracker "Timely and publicly available data on Russian oil exports is insufficient (the best effort we are aware of comes from CREA who we build upon). Our aim is to help fill in the gap by providing clear and comprehensive information on recent export volumes and routes. We have compiled our data from multiple sources and validated numbers against external sources, and we believe the data allows for sensible interpretation of trends over time." Russia's waterborne crude exports have increased since the invasion of Ukraine. Western consumption of Russian shifted from the EU/Far East to China & India, while crude oil supplies that used to go to China & India have shifted to the EU/Far East. The realities of world economies. It is not so much the impact on the average consumer, but the impact on the businesses that are impacted by the simple facilitating of the changing supply & demand. They don't go where it goes and who uses it, as long as it goes somewhere.
  8. No we should go on a drunken rant where we post 6 I told you so in a row. And then post an apology post after the Baylor win. And then ask the mods to delete all and then get pissed when you get called out on your shit. This board is bad for you. I’m worried about your health you people? Hmm where have I heard that before 😂
  9. I am patiently waiting to see how things are with different receivers. Sometimes things tend to work themselves out, like winning some of those 50/50 balls every now and again. We will see how things go.
  10. I love the whole "tEh sRc Is tOo bIg AnD PhYsIcAl fOr BiG XII!!!111" thing. Have these dipshit not played a Matt Campbell ISU team (they have, got busted up, and blocked it out because of convenient memory). Have they played Bill Snyder or Kileman KSU teams? Again, yes, they have. The typically resulting beatings have, of course, been memory holed. Have they played some of Gundy's nastiest teams? Remind me: how did those go for the Aggies? I guess they just missed Patterson's TCU teams, which would've been high comedy. OU running that weakside power counter on aggy or playing like they wanted to kill us on 10/7? Hysterical. The Aggies would've folded like a cheap tent after Q1. Oh yeah, and then there's a little team called Texas that made it's bones in the power running game for more than a season or 2, backed by a nasty run blocking OL. Even Tech and Baylor and under the Rapist could get dirt under their fingernails while bludgeoning an opponent into submission. UW? Don't even get me started. NEVER MIND that we get treated like the Super Bowl week in and week out in this conference, ESPECIALLY after announcing our leaving. Anyway, we're battle tested and I'm pretty optimistic we can AT LEAST hold our own and win at a solid good clip. Which will if course lead to more delicious "THEM SIPS ALWAYS BE CHEETIN" and "DEM DADGUM REFS!!!" posts and a new level of battered aggy sydrome. In other words, I cannot wait.
  11. Let's not act like Baylor wasn't shooting lights out from beyond the arc early, either. They actually outshot us (50% to 47.4%) from 3 for the game, and at the line (80% to 70.6%). We outshot them overall (51.9% to 47.9%). My point is that we won't necessarily need to go batshit crazy from deep in one half just to win more games. Then again, if we can't defend the other team better, maybe we will. Guess I'll watch.
  12. If someone would have put a gun to my head before we hired RT and asked me to predict whether he would be successful, I would have probably said "No, but he will be more successful than he was at UTEP and Fresno, mainly because of our resources, but we could do better". That said, I thought there was a reasonable chance that he could adopt a Mack Brown type of head coaching style and be a wizard on the recruiting trail and in the portal... and we could hire some amazing assistants to help with the day to day player development. I thought there was a pretty good chance he could have us in the tourney every year, with periodic runs to the Sweet 16 and Elite 8. And I thought there was an outside chance, maybe 20%, that he could have us as a regular top-10 team. After going through Shaka and Herman, both really good hires at the time, I realized that there are no certainties in coaching. And that success at one level doesn't mean you will be great at Texas. I'm not sure I would put any coach at more than 50% likelihood that they would achieve huge success here in hoops. (Note: Chris Beard is the exception. I was 100% sure that he would crush it here. And I felt that way long before we hired him). So ultimately, I felt like RT deserved a shot. I didn't feel like it was a HUGE longshot, but I definitely didn't feel like it was a slam dunk. In my view, the job he did to right the ship last year was astounding. I attribute a huge part of our run to RT - and I think our players did too. The players and ex-players were steadfast in supporting RT for the job, and that means something to me. I also think loyalty is important, and the universe has a way of rewarding it. I still think the odds are low that he rights the ship. If we miss the tourney this year or next, I fully support showing him the door. We have too many resources to ever miss the tourney. And I don't care what we lose from year to year. The portal should have us in the top-64 teams every year. I don't think there were many people last year who were convinced that RT was the next coming of John Wooden. I think most felt like he earned a shot by giving us an Elite Eight... and winning a Big 12 (Tourney) title. But I think almost everyone realized that it was a risk.
  13. I don't know how anyone can be an alumni or fan of a team and root against them. Must be a miserable life. That was an awesome win. I want more awesome wins. We ultimately fired Shaka and he was a 3-seed with one of the better teams in the country. Terry is going to need to be exceptional to keep his job. We don't need the program to bottom out to fire him.
  14. According to Derka's last pre-season kenpom post, we were expected to be 4-1 at this point (wins over TTech, WVU, UCF and Baylor, loss to UCinn). We went the opposite on TTech, WVU, UCF, and UCinn. More recently, kenpom had us splitting with UCF and Baylor, but we flipped the script going L/W instead of W/L. So, Big 12. Keep on keepin' on.
  15. EVERYONE on the board? Every single person? You know you’re fucking lying. Were there people who were saying “just give him the job” after seeing us go to the EE? Yes, of course, and a lot of those were people who don’t really post in this forum or give a shit about basketball. But there were a ton of people saying this would be a mistake hire. To further that point, there were a lot of people here saying we are in a no-win situation because you almost have to hire RT because of what just happened with us going to the EE but we are almost guaranteed to be looking for a new coach in 2-3 years. So no, EVERYONE was not on this board clamoring for RT to get the job. You just made that shit up. Now, was nearly every media member wanting him to get the job? Yes.
  16. I almost posted in this very thread yesterday that this was the least excited I’ve been going into an Astros season in 8 years. Well this 180 is real and the thrill is back. Starters only needing to go 5 and having a real chance to win is exciting. This trade probably added 3 wins to Verlander as he chases 300. Leaving a game up 2-1 or 3-2 is no longer a 50/50 at best. Get someone to pitch the 6th or last 2/3 and then hand it off to those 3 on good nights and you will have a win 8-9 out of 10. If Myers hits .265 with a little pop or we get a LH OF I may need to see the ER for an erection lasting more than 4 hours.
  17. I lived in SW Louisiana (LC) for roughly a decade plus, kids were born in SWLA, which my daughter, as a child, told other youngsters that she was Cajun. Had to inform her that it didn’t work that way. Loved the culture, fellowship, sports, fishing/hunting, and the food of SWLA! Did I mention the food? Should’ve been in all caps! My wife and I were there from ‘96 to ‘08 and both of us have degrees from McNeese. We try to go back to a game each year after mid-October. Lake Charles was a great place for my family while we were growing as a family. Yes, they are “different,” but having grown up during my teens in SETX, you really can’t tell a difference. So trying to tie my story to the SEC - I never saw an SEC sticker until aggy! LSU fans/alumni would’ve never been SEC SEC, because if they weren’t the ones winning, then F them! Hook’em!!!
  18. I just got home and got settled. I'm going to watch Nuggets/Celtics until we threaten to win in the 4Q.
  19. This is from D1 softball -recap of the fall - a good preview for the spring. SIAP. 2023 Fall Report: Texas FeaturedGraham Hays - November 2, 2023 There’s not much doubt that Texas is assembling a roster capable of contending for titles. It just remains to be seen which conferences those titles come in. A year ago, the Longhorns fielded one of the most statistically impressive freshman classes of all time. Including Ashton Maloney, a redshirt in her first full season on the field, Texas first-years combined for 46 percent of the team’s total bases. In the circle, Citlaly Gutierrez worked more than a quarter of the team’s innings and led all Longhorns in ERA. And this fall, one of the top-ranked recruiting classes in the country joined them on the field. Head coach Mike White could restrict his roster to those two classes and still expect to begin the season ranked (but don’t expect him to give up the likes of Mia Scott, Mac Morgan and the rest of his juniors and seniors). Underscored by the sight of nearly a thousand fans at a fall game against soon-to-be (again) conference rival Texas A&M, it’s reasonable to wonder if the program’s Big 12 farewell is really better described as an SEC prelude. All the more considering that while Patty Gasso’s program will accompany the Longhorns to their new home, at least Jayda Coleman, Kinzie Hansen, Tiare Jennings and Nicole May won’t. “We’re just thinking about being a really good team, a consistent program,” White said. “Truthfully, two years ago, the top three teams in the country were all Big 12, the top three finishers in the World Series. I think our conference has been a little underrated. Obviously, the bottom half have struggled at times, and they haven’t played as well out of conference. But in conference it’s been pretty tough. Obviously, Oklahoma has been head and shoulders above everybody, not only in our conference but also in the country. … They’re the standard right now, and that’s what we’re all trying to match, no matter what conference we play in.” Or what that conference looks like. Big 12 series against the likes of BYU, UCF and Houston will lend this season a betwixt-and-between feel, but saying goodbye to the league with a title would certainly be a heck of a way to arrive in the SEC. “It’s kind of in the back of our minds, but it’s not really something that we’re focusing on right now,” White said of winning a Big 12 title in the farewell season. “It’s just getting better and lifting the standard of our play overall—becoming deeper, becoming a little bit better in big situations. We want to build on what happened at Tennessee last year. I think that we didn’t have our best showing in that big series and a little bit of our youth showed it out. “We’re hoping that those freshmen last year become leaders this year in our sophomore class.” Pitching Texas returns the pitchers responsible for every inning thrown a season ago, a staff that ranked 32nd in the nation in ERA and helped extend the season to a super regional. And yet it’s hard to start this discussion anywhere but with someone who wasn’t a part of that mix. Newcomer Spotlight: Freshman Teagan Kavan faced 29 batters in four fall games. She struck out 15 of them. While that included some non-Division I competition, it also included UTSA and Texas A&M. The 6-foot right-hander from West Des Moines, Iowa, was a consensus top-15 recruit who struck out 1,444 batters in 772.2 club innings, according to the Longhorns. Cat Osterman pitched 304.1 innings and struck out 554 batters as a freshman. Blaire Luna pitched 242.1 innings and struck out 404 batters. Those days are gone. They would be gone even if the Longhorns didn’t return any pitchers this year, but they’re all the more gone with four proven pitchers around. Still, Kavan will have an opportunity to make a Texas-sized impression. “She’s going to be one of the top three pitchers at this point,” White said. “Hopefully it’s a five-person rotation, but realistically, you’re going to probably look at three starters. It’s kind of like a nice number to have, and then you plug the other ones in when you need them. She’s shown the stuff and the goods to be able to come out and throw well at this level. “Is she making some freshman mistakes? Yes, she is. Does she have stuff to learn? Yes, she does. But she has the goods.” White said Kavan continues working to hone her offspeed offering. It’s serviceable now, but the goal is to improve her control of it leading into her first regular season. “She’s got the mindset,” White said. “She’s a learner, and I feel like we work pretty well together.” As any coach would, White played up the emerging camaraderie and competitive collaboration in what will be a crowded bullpen. Moral support and teamwork would be great, but Kavan’s arrival also helps the other pitchers in more tangible ways. Citlaly Gutierrez, last year’s freshman success story, and Mac Morgan, who reestablished herself as a difference after after arriving from Arizona State, were godsends for a team that needed to replace Hailey Dolcini. Morgan ranked 17th in the nation a season ago in shadow percentage, the percentage of pitches seen within the edges of the strike zone. (Data courtesy 6-4-3 Charts and Synergy.) Name Pos. WAR Mac Morgan P 4.2 Mia Scott 3B 4 Leighann Goode 2B 3.7 Citlaly Gutierrez P 3.5 Viviana Martinez SS 3 The new arrivals started 41 games, pitched 63 percent of the team’s innings. But in those 254.2 innings, they combined for 156 strikeouts—fewer than nearly 30 Division I pitchers on their own. Strikeouts aren’t everything, but they never mean more than when defense has been a weak spot in recent years (Texas again made the second-most errors among Big 12 teams a season ago). There will be less pressure on that defense when Kavan pitches, obviously, but Gutierrez, Morgan and the rest of the staff should also benefit from hitters having to recalibrate, whether in the same game or over the course of a series, after facing the freshman. A few more swings and misses, a little less solid contact and suddenly a defense looks better. “Having a strikeout pitcher is huge,” White said. “If you can average eight strikeouts a game, it’s a third of your outs and so there’s less pressure on the defense. One of the things we’ve had in the past is our fielding average hasn’t been the highest, but I think we have more balls in play [creating more opportunity for errors] because we haven’t necessarily had those big strikeout pitchers.” Most Division I teams would love to have Estelle Czech and Sophia Simpson as regular starters, to say nothing of having the luxury to mix and match Czech’s lefty stuff and Simpson’s strikeout potential out of the bullpen—if that’s the route Texas ultimately goes. Gutierrez, of course, also proved adept at coming out of the bullpen as a freshman, with more relief appearances than starts, but White didn’t sound quite ready to go full revolutionary and deploy a full-time stopper. Czech tied UCLA’s Megan Faraimo for 25th in the nation in chase percentage, hitters swinging at 31.2 percent of her pitches that were outsize the zone. (Data courtesy 6-4-3 Charts and Synergy.) Infield White often says he likes to be two deep at every position, and it’s hard to argue against the entertainment value intra-squad scrimmages could offer with this bunch. In the middle of the infield, Leighann Goode and Viviana Martinez were marvelous offensively as freshmen. Only seven second basemen had a better WAR than Goode a season ago, and Indiana-turned-Stanford standout Taryn Kern was the only freshman in that bunch. At a lot of schools, maybe almost all, you would simply pencil in those two to play alongside each other through the 2026 season. A complication comes in the form of versatile infielder Alyssa Washington. A standout freshman in her own right way back in 2021, Washington is now the rare high-profile senior on a team built around freshmen and sophomores. Although she received the majority of her starts a season ago at third base, it’s worth remembering that she was the starting shortstop in the national title series a year earlier. “One of the leaders in our team right now who is playing a big part, is Alyssa Washington,” White said. “She’s playing phenomenally defensively. She may play second or may play short—could play third. She’s been able to to do different things for us. But with the way Martinez is playing right now, she’s impressed me a lot. She looks really good.” Basically every returning player in the infield played more than one position a season ago, and Goode, for her part, saw some time in the outfield. “She’s so good at second base, that’s great option for us,” White said of Goode. “But let’s say Washington is hitting the ball really well, who’s is the better option in the outfield: Washington or Leighann Goode? Obviously it would be Leighann, she’s played there a little bit before and so that’s a better option for us. That all comes into play, who’s hitting the ball, who’s doing what.” What about third base? After all, Washington started 23 games at the hot corner in 2023. Again, it’s complicated and any lineup is best written on dry-erase board. An All-Big 12 selection in each of her first two seasons, including first-team honors a season ago, Mia Scott is clearly going to play somewhere every day. And while she committed nine errors a season ago, splitting time between the hot corner and outfield, she was also the team leader in defensive runs saved (3.07). By the postseason, with Bella Dayton ticking along in center, Scott was back at third. “We’re still undecided how that’s going to work out because Mia Scott is there as well,” White said. “Who’s going to be the rotation in the outfield? Because Scott can really play a pretty good outfield. She has the speed and the burst on it.” According to 6-4-3 Charts data, Scott ranked 27th-best in the nation against the bunt. Newcomers spotlight: What, you thought there might just be one newcomer pushing Scott for time at third? Try at least three candidates. Apparently not satisfied with the influx of bodies from one of the nation’s top-ranked recruiting classes, Texas also added transfer Joley Mitchell from Notre Dame. A senior with two seasons of eligibility remaining, Mitchell was a first-team All-ACC selection a season ago. She led the Irish with a .382 average and pulled off a triple-double in totaling double digits in doubles (11), home runs (10) and stolen bases (15). “She brings that stoic presence,” White said. “You just have hope that she doesn’t put too much pressure on herself. Obviously, she sees the job in front of her that she’s got to do. She’s just a veteran player that did really well for Notre Dame and also had club-travel ball success. That’s someone that, we’re working with her on some different things offensively. And again another great option. She runs well, she’s the fourth fastest on the team for a good-sized kid.” But two first-team all-conference honorees vying for time at third base isn’t enough. Texas also has a number of highly-touted freshman wth eyes on time at the corners. White said both Katie Stewart and Ryan Brown worked at third base in the fall. “Katie Stewart has a cannon for an arm,” White said. “We feel confident in her playing at the corners and/or catcher. She’ll be in the field somewhere. She’s too valuable to have as a DP, unless we just want to rest her or something like that. She has proven to be like a Swiss Army knife, so to speak. She has the intuition of the game to. She’s a really smart player, is making great adjustments and [Steve Singleton] has done a great job with her.” White said coming out of fall, Stewart and holdover Katie Cimusz are the frontrunners for the bulk of innings at first base. Although yet another top-20 recruit, Victoria Hunter, is also vying for at-bats somewhere, whether it’s at the corners or designated player. That leaves catcher as Reese Atwood’s domain, at least most of the time. The sophomore certainly made a name for herself with clutch hitting in her debut season, but White confirmed she’s one of those catchers who lives and breathes the position. “She’s like a pretzel back there, she’s so nimble and agile,” White said. “For a kid that’s six foot, more or less, she can really get into some small positions. In some cases, almost too agile—gives the umpires too good a look. We’ve talked to her about that, how we can make sure we’re getting strikes and keeping strikes strikes and maybe not over-framing sometimes, which she can do. It’s a learning curve, and we’ve got a lot of stuff to look back on last year. There’s some great catchers out there we can look at and kind of model her after. But I think that she’s proven that when she’s healthy, she can catch with the best of them—and also hit with them.” Outfield So, it sounds as if Scott and Goode might be in line for at least as much time in the outfield as each saw in 2023. Again, there’s a complication. Namely, the outfield already looks pretty full. Alyssa Popelka decamped for the shores of Lake Washington and the Washington Huskies, but there’s no shortage of talent. Ashton Maloney may not provide many souvenirs for the fans in the bleachers, but there was nothing wrong with a .382 average or .415 on-base percentage in her first full season on the field—including a .372 average and .426 OBP in Big 12 games. Anyone who has watched sports for any length of time can identify Bella Dayton as exactly the kind of player who you write out of a depth chart at your own peril. The senior lefty is a gamer. She fought through injuries last season and a serious downturn in production in Big 12 play to emerge as part of the all-tournament team in the Big 12 tournament, then reached base at a nearly 50 percent clip through the NCAA regional and super regional. She won’t surrender playing time without a fight. And if you haven’t been introduced yet to Kayden Henry, settle in to enjoy the next four years. Newcomer spotlight: All Henry did in the fall was going 5-for-6 with a home run, two steals and three walks, leading White to marvel after one game at the power and speed combo in an unassuming 5-foot-5 package. The walks are an especially eye-opening stat for someone who could have been excused for swinging at everything in an effort to make an impression. “I think she’s just ready to hit,” White said. “If she doesn’t see what she likes, she doesn’t swing at it. So she’s got a really good natural eye for the strike zone. And in some respects, she’s just a blank slate right now. I don’t think she reads too much into it and overthinks. I think that’s something you see sometimes from some hitters, is they get too too caught up in what’s happening or what could happen instead of just treating every pitch as independent and getting a pitch to hit.” Fellow freshman Adayah Wallace also possesses a world of talent. She’s listed as an outfielder but White said she also worked at first base in the fall.
  20. Just checking the schedule, we could seriously be 1-9 in conference play when WVU comes to Austin on 2/10. And winning that game isn’t a given. If you go by what we’ve witness thus far, you could argue we may not win another conference game on the schedule. I can’t believe I’m typing that. Holy shit.
  21. i can’t stop scrolling twitter. it’s a car wreck happening in slow motion. literally hundreds of thousands of sports fans just crushing our entire school, athletics program, and the entire fan base, all based on RT’s post game bullshit. people are foaming at the mouth to run to social media to talk about how “Texas” (you, me, our players, coaches, athletic department, etc) are the most soft, whiny, entitled people, and how we are going to get crushed in the SEC with this weak ass mentality. it is unreal how many viral posts there are about this. and all we can do is sit here and take it, because there is no defense for RT’s actions, which do not represent the feelings of 99% of us. unfortunately, our HC publicly represents all of us, plus his team and the school, and he has made us an absolute laughing stock overnight. it’s just surreal at this point. one second i’m watching Texas winning 22-6, the next minute, i’m here. wow. just wow.
  22. we went from up 59-46 with 11:59 to go, to down 63-62 with 7:21 left. at one point we were 97.3% favorites to win this game which we ended up losing going away:
  23. Prediction: We go 4-14 in conference play. Then Abmas and Disu go crazy in the Big 12 tourney and we win it. Let me dream.
  24. It took that cheater 5 years to start making a difference at cougar high....get some perspective. Our program has always flirted with being a top10, but more often than not has been average. It is what it is. And fuck that tweet crying about Rodney Terry getting after those UCF players. If they're doing the horns down, punch them in the mouth. Then maybe we'll see some fucking fight in this team. I see 2 good stars on this team, and the rest a bunch of bench warmers & supporting cast. If you had expectations that we were going to win the conference this season, that's on you.
  25. Unless they use the ridiculous rule the Pac 12 created. Here is what he said: Better discussion for another thread, but thought the outcome was fascinating. Winning the SEC title and getting the bye week would be great, but there’s also a solid chance that even without a CCG appearance we could be in line for the #5 seed and a likely G5 opponent coming to DKR. Next season is just going to be absurd. Can’t wait.
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