Texas Baseball 2025 - Show Me A Schloss

[Valmy77 13,225]

6 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

Well, I wouldn't say NOTHING. Pulling a coach away to an in-state rival the DAY after said rival played for a national title while also one week away from crashing their "100 year decision" party?

hehehehe... hehehehe... hehe... hehahahaHAHAHAHA 🤣🤣

it's a tiny little bit different from most, hahaha

Well...that's a coincidence. We couldn't have possibly known Pierce would melt down and Schloss would take A&M to the title series and A&M's AD and Schloss fall out AND we go to the SEC all at the same time. You just can't plan something like that.

[Tex Long 4,382]

2 hours ago, texastroubadour said:

TMI

You've spelt "GNP" incorrectly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

* Gonna Need Pics

 

 

 

[CTC2 2,791]

9 minutes ago, The Valtay Corporation said:

Or...your AD, the same guy taking a picture at a graveyard at Snook, might not be above making moves that may not portray his professionalism in the best light.  You don't think your AD has a petty bone in his body and that this was handled with all class?

Dude, CDC drug his nuts over y’all’s face. That’s how I would describe it. 

[Balcones 317]

2 minutes ago, hornian said:

 

Yeah, Gavin Kash. Pretty sure he burned bridges here, but then, who is left either on the roster or the staff? I personally don't want him back, but I'm not in a position to say anything about it. I think he's already in the portal (or was, don't know if he's signed anywhere). 

Lot's of people can play 1B and we aren't short people who can hit.  Spending external NIL money on this position seems regarded.

[runthebone 7,967]

Personally, I like the fact that someone gave the Snook cemetery a 5 star rating on Google.

If you get hungry while waiting to steal a corch, you can grab bbq and beer within a four minute drive.

Edited June 26 by runthebone

[BigBenBamboozle 1,952]

11 minutes ago, The Valtay Corporation said:

Or...your AD, the same guy taking a picture at a graveyard at Snook, might not be above making moves that may not portray his professionalism in the best light.  You don't think your AD has a petty bone in his body and that this was handled with all class?

[Darth Tron 1,122]

3 minutes ago, The Valtay Corporation said:

Or...your AD, the same guy taking a picture at a graveyard at Snook, might not be above making moves that may not portray his professionalism in the best light.  You don't think your AD has a petty bone in his body and that this was handled with all class?

Class? An Aggie talking about class?  Aggies call us "sips" as in "tea sippers".  As in "we the Aggies think it is a bad thing that our rival is generally regarded as more metropolitan and sophisticated, so somehow it is an insult for us to accuse them of drinking tea."  Christ.

Also, are business arrangements judged by the class with which they are handled?  Was it classy when Schloss publicly denied going to A&M until he went?  Was it classy to enjoy the fruits of that deal in the form of almost winning a national championship?  Was it classy when the AD pissed off his baseball manager by firing his close working associate unilaterally to save money for a football buyout?  More importantly, did anyone at any point care if it was classy besides Aggies?

[Guadaloopy 10,958]

I'm sorry y'all.  This is not a "home run" hire. 

 

It's a fucking "sparks flying from the busted light tower grand slam hire."  You get one of the two best coaches in the country and his entire staff while pulling out the spine of your little brother "rival"  after they've just had the briefest glimpse of glory before having it snatched away and just before kicking in the door to take over their beloved SECX3.

 

[The Valtay Corporation 39]

1 minute ago, CTC2 said:

Dude, CDC drug his nuts over y’all’s face. That’s how I would describe it. 

We are aligned.  I'm not convinced that the timing of the firing announcement, right before our big game and not right after y'all got bounced from the CWS, was not done intentionally to poke A&M in the eye for the lolz.  

[Hank Kingsley 20,904]

15 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

But it is mostly about wanting to work with CDC. He didn't want to work here when it was Perrin.

Perrin was an interim AD, which is not an ideal situation to hire coaches. Doubt Schloss had an issue with Perrin himself. 

 

[NoName 16,350]

1 minute ago, The Valtay Corporation said:

We are aligned.  I'm not convinced that the timing of the firing announcement, right before our big game and not right after y'all got bounced from the CWS, was not done intentionally to poke A&M in the eye for the lolz.  

look man. there is no upside to that. the much, much, much bigger story is him winning the CWS, then Texas hiring him out of literal nowhere the day after the CWS is over.

why go for an eye poke when you can, as you mentioned, rip someone's heart out Temple of Doom style?

 

 

Edited June 26 by NoName

[The Valtay Corporation 39]

Just now, NoName said:

look man. there is no upside to that. the much, much, much bigger story is him winning the CWS, then Texas hiring him out of literal nowhere the day after the CWS is over.

There is no upside to trolling your 'little brother'?  *Gestures broadly at this board*

[TexArcher 37,762]

32 minutes ago, The Valtay Corporation said:

Mostly here to lurk.  Real talk from an A&M fan.  No beating around the bush, this was getting our heart ripped out of our chest.  It sucks.  Looking at the way the press conference was handled and the timing of the Pierce firing and rumor literally as our team is playing for it all, I'm not sure how y'all can spin that as anything other than, at minimum, could have been handled better and more professionally, but hey, at least y'all got to own the aggys and drink our tears.

Looking ahead, the cupboard is probably going to be bare next year.  That said, we have money, we NIL resources, and we GAF about college athletics.  We'll be back in Omaha within the decade if not sooner, given how the new rules will make it easier to quickly buy our own mercenaries.

And zooming out, if your squad next year is 100% of our coaches and 40% of our players wearing burnt orange instead of maroon, I don't see how that's good for the long term health of college sports.  That's much bigger than an A&M/UT issue.  But buying out most of your rivals makes caring about connections that the players have to their universities much more tenuous, and now we're absolutely watching a minor league with no salary cap or rules.  Why watch watch the minor leagues when someone can watch the pros instead?

Real talk: this was about getting the coach we wanted.  "Owning" you guys was just a cherry on top.

What you all seem to not understand is that you are a stepping stone baseball job and we are the best baseball job in the country.  We could have taken Vitello from Tennessee, or any other coach from any other school.

It's only your delusions of grandeur that are making this so painful for you.  

In the immortal words of Marlo Stanfield:

You want it to be one way.  But it's the other way.

[closetohumping 17,434]

Just now, The Valtay Corporation said:

There is no upside to trolling your 'little brother'?  *Gestures broadly at this board*

For us maybe.  For CDC?  Doubt he gives a shit and doubt he would mess with Schloss 

[Fondren & Main 6,700]

Just now, The Valtay Corporation said:

There is no upside to trolling your 'little brother'?  *Gestures broadly at this board*

You're mistaking some faux conspiracy for opportunistic schadenfreude.  We don't care about you.  You're not our rival.  OU is.  Hope that helps.

[NoName 16,350]

3 minutes ago, The Valtay Corporation said:

There is no upside to trolling your 'little brother'?  *Gestures broadly at this board*

why troll them when you can own the entire narrative and news cycle?

again - ripping out a heart >>> an eye poke or troll

also, CDC Is way more professional than we are lol

Edited June 26 by NoName

[zzz 199]

3 minutes ago, The Valtay Corporation said:

We are aligned.  I'm not convinced that the timing of the firing announcement, right before our big game and not right after y'all got bounced from the CWS, was not done intentionally to poke A&M in the eye for the lolz.  

For your logic to hold, CDC would have announced the firing on Sunday, the first opportunity that the ags had at closing it out. Saturday actually would have made the most sense for maximum interference if that was truly the goal. 

[Beau Vine 54,207]

37 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

You got a great coach and got a few great seasons out of it. You have momentum, go get new guys. Surely this is better than NOT having two top four finishes.

They really dropped this shit in split second, didn't they?

 

[WBT 20,561]

49 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Man, that guy is BUTT HURT.  What a pussy.  I encourage all to watch it at least from the point suggested above -- ~ 1:20:00.  Jilted lover syndrome on steroids.  LMAO

Christ, someone tell Brauny trustworty =/= trusting

[texifornia 56,862]

 

[TexArcher 37,762]

8 minutes ago, zzz said:

For your logic to hold, CDC would have announced the firing on Sunday, the first opportunity that the ags had at closing it out. Saturday actually would have made the most sense for maximum interference if that was truly the goal. 

For his "logic" to hold, public universities would have to be in the habit of negotiating and announcing 8-figure investments in such a way as to maximize hurt feelings on other universities' message boards.

It's fucking asinine.

 

Edited June 26 by TexArcher

[BachelorTrek 2,966]

1 minute ago, Beau Vine said:

They really dropped this shit in split second, didn't they?

 

[Beau Vine 54,207]

39 minutes ago, NoName said:

why people don't understand 1) Pierce decision had been made and he was gone

Because he's only listening to Looch and Brauny, who are too stupid to deduce that, when he could have looked at the 2024 thread while he was lurking here and noticed that everyone but Balcones realized he was fired two weeks ago.

[Tex Long 4,382]

2 hours ago, OU Sucks said:

Everyone stunting on this ho with receipts:

Woulda beeb better if she followed her Life Script and jumped in with

"That motherfucker is not real!"

[Wilcox Cummingtonite 2,937]

fatwa?

[Beau Vine 54,207]

33 minutes ago, The Valtay Corporation said:

We're not above self-reflection. 

No, you actually are, and that's one of your university's biggest problems.

[jimmyjazz 45,887]

34 minutes ago, The Valtay Corporation said:

We're not above self-reflection.

Holy shit, that's the funniest thing I've read in a week.

[closetojumping 62,552]

1 hour ago, Cairn Horn88 said:

What is the history of whistling past the graveyard?

It might go back to an 1843 poem by a Scottish poet Robert Blair in which a schoolboy whistles to hide his fear of ghosts or evil spirits as he walks past a church graveyard. Nowadays, it means trying to remain optimistic in a difficult situation while you hope for a positive outcome.

@RGBIII this has to be a relative, right?

5 minutes ago, Wilcox Cummingtonite said:

fatwa?

I think the guy is fine. He’s going to have his own POV but he’s fine defending it, even we’re all laughing. He’s not just on here flaming and trolling, as of now. 

[Teamdirtyleg 1,060]

15 minutes ago, The Valtay Corporation said:

We are aligned.  I'm not convinced that the timing of the firing announcement, right before our big game and not right after y'all got bounced from the CWS, was not done intentionally to poke A&M in the eye for the lolz.  

This is because you're an aggie. Yall are always the righteous, longsuffering victims of the evil t.u.'s conspirations with the devil himself to hold down God's chosen people from their more than deserved birthright.

[TrashMaster G 17,543]

1 hour ago, Dennis Taylor said:

Jilted Looch is more full of shit than regular looch

Not cosmically possible. Looch = Max full of shitness 24/7/365 or 366.

 

32 minutes ago, The Valtay Corporation said:

Or...your AD, the same guy taking a picture at a graveyard at Snook, might not be above making moves that may not portray his professionalism in the best light.  You don't think your AD has a petty bone in his body and that this was handled with all class?

I want to scream every time I encounter aggy spouting off about class to another fanbase. Because it ALWAYS comes with the implication, if not outright claim, that class is their guiding principle. And history proves this to be full of shit, just like their "aggies don't lie, cheat or steal" trope.

 

 

18 minutes ago, The Valtay Corporation said:

We are aligned.  I'm not convinced that the timing of the firing announcement, right before our big game and not right after y'all got bounced from the CWS, was not done intentionally to poke A&M in the eye for the lolz.  

Of course you don't believe it.  You and all your aggy brethren are doing all the mental gymnastics you can to fit this entire episode into a good vs evil narrative, where CDC is, of course, the Devil himself.

[wildcat09 29,345]

23 minutes ago, The Valtay Corporation said:

We are aligned.  I'm not convinced that the timing of the firing announcement, right before our big game and not right after y'all got bounced from the CWS, was not done intentionally to poke A&M in the eye for the lolz.  

Imagine not only thinking some dumb shit like this but actually posting it on this here internet. 

Edited June 26 by wildcat09

[Pato del Muerto 52,485]

2 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

I hear the Alto head coach is interested.

They should look at the sinton head coach. hahahah

[SuckitKevin 920]

Overheard an aggy coworker talking to another on the phone today. “ I hope Schloss trips over a homeless guy, falls in his shit and gets AIDS.” They mad, I was laughing my ass off.

[Teamdirtyleg 1,060]

44 minutes ago, The Valtay Corporation said:

  We're not above self-reflection.

lol, if that were true, you'd see a lot more success in sports and a lot less ridicule in the public square.  I've long argued it's the cornerstone of Aggie's futility in sports

[irishtexan 11,515]

57 minutes ago, The Valtay Corporation said:

Mostly here to lurk.  Real talk from an A&M fan.  No beating around the bush, this was getting our heart ripped out of our chest.  It sucks.  Looking at the way the press conference was handled and the timing of the Pierce firing and rumor literally as our team is playing for it all, I'm not sure how y'all can spin that as anything other than, at minimum, could have been handled better and more professionally, but hey, at least y'all got to own the aggys and drink our tears.

Looking ahead, the cupboard is probably going to be bare next year.  That said, we have money, we NIL resources, and we GAF about college athletics.  We'll be back in Omaha within the decade if not sooner, given how the new rules will make it easier to quickly buy our own mercenaries.

And zooming out, if your squad next year is 100% of our coaches and 40% of our players wearing burnt orange instead of maroon, I don't see how that's good for the long term health of college sports.  That's much bigger than an A&M/UT issue.  But buying out most of your rivals makes caring about connections that the players have to their universities much more tenuous, and now we're absolutely watching a minor league with no salary cap or rules.  Why watch watch the minor leagues when someone can watch the pros instead?

Disagree. Ripping your head off, shitting down your throat, and gutting the only team you've had play for a national championship since before Hitler invaded Poland could not have been handled any better or more professionally from our perspective. CDC did exactly what he wanted to do - get his man and while simultaneously fucking your baseball program. 

It's the SEC. It just means more. Right?

 

 

[JesusSweatDuck 17,781]

1 hour ago, Pimphand said:

I had to google it after Thujone told me he posted the single pane last night because I didn't know WTF.  Then I also found out there is an Edmonton Oilers fan who flashed her boobs in Game 6 too and now she's been hired by Playboy.

the part I don't get is the fish.  

[SuckitKevin 920]

A program that openly bought the #1 recruiting class a few years ago without a real NIL program would like us to have some class guys, c’mon. 

[Teamdirtyleg 1,060]

8 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

I think the guy is fine. He’s going to have his own POV but he’s fine defending it, even we’re all laughing. He’s not just on here flaming and trolling, as of now. 

I agree. I like hearing what he has to say.

[JesusSweatDuck 17,781]

25 minutes ago, The Valtay Corporation said:

There is no upside to trolling your 'little brother'?  *Gestures broadly at this board*

[hornian 5,210]

2 hours ago, jdhorn92 said:

If we lost JT, what are the odds the 1B that transferred from Texas to Tech comes back?  IIRC he bailed for playing time.  Kid rakes from what i recall.

Also, if the outfield is improved, why not move Gasparino to 1B? He has the length (my wife likes to call him "the longest man in baseball" - I think she's talking about his height, right?).

[TejasPedro 1,857]

3 minutes ago, SuckitKevin said:

Overheard an aggy coworker talking to another on the phone today. “ I hope Schloss trips over a homeless guy, falls in his shit and gets AIDS.” They mad, I was laughing my ass off.

Magic has been living with AIDS since the last time the Aggies had bonfires

[BornAndRaised 12,281]

17 minutes ago, Wilcox Cummingtonite said:

fatwa?

The dude just had their one hope for a championship ripped away from them. I think he's fine. I feel like the board is better when we get different perspectives. Let him cry it out and if he just turns into troll we can fatwa him

[Pimphand 5,733]

2 minutes ago, JesusSweatDuck said:

the part I don't get is the fish.  

LOL swimming in the ocean of aggy tears...

[A-Tex Devil 2,446]

Aggies are funny.   If you set aside the rivalry, Elko did Duke much dirtier than Schloss did A&M.  Schloss was super self-aware of that today and I think genuinely contrite.  But aggy gonna aggy.

[Beau Vine 54,207]

31 minutes ago, The Valtay Corporation said:

We are aligned.  I'm not convinced that the timing of the firing announcement, right before our big game and not right after y'all got bounced from the CWS, was not done intentionally to poke A&M in the eye for the lolz.  

You realize that was an "if necessary" game, right?  If y'all hadn't choked Sunday's game, that game never happens, so why didn't we make the firing announcement Sunday?

[Dennis Taylor 18,809]

33 minutes ago, The Valtay Corporation said:

We are aligned.  I'm not convinced that the timing of the firing announcement, right before our big game and not right after y'all got bounced from the CWS, was not done intentionally to poke A&M in the eye for the lolz.  

 

[Dbeasy 15,042]

1 hour ago, The Valtay Corporation said:

That's much bigger than an A&M/UT issue.  But buying out most of your rivals makes caring about connections that the players have to their universities much more tenuous, and now we're absolutely watching a minor league with no salary cap or rules.  Why watch watch the minor leagues when someone can watch the pros instead?

Is the current NIL system concerning? Yes, but hearing A&M fans like you complaining about it is incredibly hypocritical.  Your program joined the Alabamas, Clemsons, Floridas, Georgias, Auburns, and others to develop and implement a sophisticated cheating system with under the table payments to buy players. But now there is a legal system that allows other schools to finally compete, and you’re concerned? Get the fuck outta here with that bullshit.

[TejasPedro 1,857]

And even if Schloss fell in a big ol pile of HIV infected excrement, all he would say is………

[SquishMitten 10,403]

35 minutes ago, The Valtay Corporation said:

We are aligned.  I'm not convinced that the timing of the firing announcement, right before our big game and not right after y'all got bounced from the CWS, was not done intentionally to poke A&M in the eye for the lolz.  

Then you're being willfully obtuse and blinded by your emotions. It's painfully obvious who is to blame for that. And even if it wasn't as obvious as it is, the relationship between CDC and Schloss should make it abundantly clear that CDC had absolutely nothing to do with the story getting out Monday morning. 

[hobbes2702 13,029]

1 hour ago, The Valtay Corporation said:

Mostly here to lurk.  Real talk from an A&M fan.  No beating around the bush, this was getting our heart ripped out of our chest.  It sucks.  Looking at the way the press conference was handled and the timing of the Pierce firing and rumor literally as our team is playing for it all, I'm not sure how y'all can spin that as anything other than, at minimum, could have been handled better and more professionally, but hey, at least y'all got to own the aggys and drink our tears.

Looking ahead, the cupboard is probably going to be bare next year.  That said, we have money, we NIL resources, and we GAF about college athletics.  We'll be back in Omaha within the decade if not sooner, given how the new rules will make it easier to quickly buy our own mercenaries.

And zooming out, if your squad next year is 100% of our coaches and 40% of our players wearing burnt orange instead of maroon, I don't see how that's good for the long term health of college sports.  That's much bigger than an A&M/UT issue.  But buying out most of your rivals makes caring about connections that the players have to their universities much more tenuous, and now we're absolutely watching a minor league with no salary cap or rules.  Why watch watch the minor leagues when someone can watch the pros instead?

What was unprofessional about anything that was done? Texas doesn’t dictate their course of actions around aggy schedules. That doesn’t make any sense.