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In conference play Grubbs/Volantis have combined for:

45.1 innings - 5 ER - 10 BB - 59 Ks - 0.88 WHIP - 6-0 - 12 Saves

When you have two robots in the back end of your bullpen that can both eat 4-5 innings a weekend and throw up 0s, it allows for “luck” to swing your way like Jalin missing a sign, stealing 3rd, and scoring on a bad throw.

It’s very unusual, especially in college baseball, to have two arms like Volantis and Grubbs in your bullpen and I think a lot of people are having a hard time reasoning with that. The vast majority of programs would have already moved Grubbs and/or Volantis into their rotation.

 

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1 hour ago, UTexasFight said:

What was announced on Spencer’s injury?

I know shoulder surgery, but what exactly?

labrum? Rotator cuff? Something else?

I don't think they detailed the injury, just that he had surgery and was done for the year.

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Arkansas cancelled their Tuesday game @ Missouri St due to weather.   Forecast does show thunderstorms at game time plus 2 hrs.

Though RPI @ 203 and 23-19 record,  Missouri St is not that bad.   Beat Arkansas in March 14-13 in a 10 inning game and also beat Ok St.   Game may have required Arkansas to go deeper into pitching staff than desired.   And the possible affect on RPI.

 

#baseball gods being kind to piggy

https://arkansasrazorbacks.com/sport/m-basebl/

 

 

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56 minutes ago, chase25 said:

In conference play Grubbs/Volantis have combined for:

45.1 innings - 5 ER - 10 BB - 59 Ks - 0.88 WHIP - 6-0 - 12 Saves

When you have two robots in the back end of your bullpen that can both eat 4-5 innings a weekend and throw up 0s, it allows for “luck” to swing your way like Jalin missing a sign, stealing 3rd, and scoring on a bad throw.

It’s very unusual, especially in college baseball, to have two arms like Volantis and Grubbs in your bullpen and I think a lot of people are having a hard time reasoning with that. The vast majority of programs would have already moved Grubbs and/or Volantis into their rotation.

 

It allows you to win a fuckton of 1 run games too

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1 hour ago, torre said:

Arkansas cancelled their Tuesday game @ Missouri St due to weather.   Forecast does show thunderstorms at game time plus 2 hrs.

Though RPI @ 203 and 23-19 record,  Missouri St is not that bad.   Beat Arkansas in March 14-13 in a 10 inning game and also beat Ok St.   Game may have required Arkansas to go deeper into pitching staff than desired.   And the possible affect on RPI.

 

#baseball gods being kind to piggy

https://arkansasrazorbacks.com/sport/m-basebl/

*effect

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3 hours ago, NorthLoop said:

Whatever gets decided with the staff, I have full faith in Schloss and Weiner. It's refreshing to have coaches that actually know how to manage pitching. 

Crazy how many times the moves have worked out. Sunday we went with Flores as long as we could. Then Dre coming on for his longest career outing to eat innings and then Saunier working out of the 8th inning jam after aggy got two cheap hits to lead off. Pushing all the right buttons.

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4 hours ago, Texas Fight said:

Not sure if you saw, but Volantis and Grubbs pitched Fri and Sat this weekend. Grubbs even pitched Sun. 
 

If Burns is Sun starter then Flores is your other mid-relief.

Did you watch the series?

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This is the truth.

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Bogeyman: The Longhorns have trapped Texas A&M in its own worst nightmare

by:RT Young04/28/25
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Jim Schlossnagle Jim Schlossnagle (Sara Diggins/American-Statesman / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

I wrote the below article last June immediately following the Jim Schlossnagle introductory press conference in Austin. I wrote that by hiring Schloss, the Aggies worst nightmare is now complete and who they’ve always claimed Texas is, has now been laid bare for all to see. But, after the last 10 months, it’s even more clear that our neighbors in College Station are straight up living in their own awful labyrinth of worst fears.

Let’s first look at what has befallen our brethren to the East of Austin since I wrote this last year.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-Texas stole the Aggies baseball coach after they lost the national championship in Omaha. Schlossnagle left College Station partly due the athletic department fallout from their bungling of the Jimbo Fisher contract.
 
-Texas joined their precious conference, the SEC, on July 1st 2024.
 

-Texas beat them in the rivalry renewal in football, the biggest game in Kyle Field’s history. There were no offensive touchdowns by the Aggies in their 17-7 loss to the Longhorns.

-Texas made the CFP semifinals for the second straight year. The Aggies got another 8-4 magnet for their fridge.

-Texas beat the Aggies two out of three times in basketball when Texas A&M had a better coached team. (Said coach Buzz Williams bolted College Station too).

-Texas swept A&M in baseball and is number one in the country after the Aggies faceplanted with a preseason #1 ranking.

 

It is hell for Texas A&M right now.

So, I thought I’d recycle the below article just to bathe in a bit of schadenfreude for a while longer.


Texas A&M has long sounded like the scream queen from the sequel to a slasher flick, attempting to convince anyone who will listen that the bogeyman is real. Many of their claims about Texas—that Texas only looked out for themselves, was a conference killer, the big bad wolf, etc, seemed to perpetuate the notion of the paranoid Aggie. Their sobbing pleas always fell on deaf ears. When you looked over at Texas and saw smiling, glad-handing politicians like DeLoss Dodds and Mack Brown in positions of power in the athletic department, and career academics uninterested in sports running the university, what was there to fear?

The truth is, for years, Texas refused to fully embrace being the villain or leaning into the role of the evil empire, the boogeyman, the big bad wolf, whatever descriptor you want to use. Texas wanted to look out for its own interests, but it also wanted to be liked by everyone too. Take the Longhorn Network, for example: Texas agreed to it, but never weaponized it fully, either because of a lack of creativity or something resembling survivor’s guilt. The university stayed in a conference that put a ceiling over its aspirations and lost sight of building a fully functional Death Star. What Texas seemed to never understand was that they couldn’t have their cake and eat it too; they were never going to be simultaneously feared and liked. But, then came Chris Del Conte, Kevin Eltife, and Jay Hartzell, and as they all rowed in a united direction, then came the slow turning of the Longhorns’ heel.

The past few years have seen Texas quit pretending and finally embrace the fact that they are the villain; they are either going to be loved or hated, and that’s okay. The Longhorn symbol, like the Yankees’ logo or the Cowboys’ star, inspires something in whoever sees it. Under Del Conte, Texas has built an ethos that no sport in the athletic department should be ignored; every single one should be competing for national championships, even if that means bulldozing rivals along the way. The list of villainous acts are numerous: stealing Chris Beard from Texas Tech stabbing their former SWC and Big 12 mates in the heart, and leaving for the SEC with Oklahoma when doing so made A&M’s worst fears come to fruition. Now, Texas is days away from joining the Southeastern Conference, and they’ve completed their most diabolical act yet in hiring Jim Schlossnagle away from the Aggies; the heel turn is complete.

 

Texas’ most historic program had grown stagnant under David Pierce, who seemed to be coaching in an era that preceded NIL and the transfer portal and Texas Baseball was being lapped by Texas A&M in that department. I’ve long wondered why it took so long for the Aggies to embrace baseball being their sport; it seemed to be the game that lines up the best with their propensity for superstitions and weird traditions. But the past didn’t matter over the weekend; the Aggies were seven outs away from winning their first major national championship in 85 years, then they weren’t. Then, intentional or not, it doesn’t matter to me, the report on David Pierce was released Monday morning with the deciding Game 3 against Tennessee that night. Now, in just a 24-hour period, the Aggies’ hearts are not only broken, but their entrails are scattered on the floor in a bloody mess, with Texas smiling over their carcass, holding the bloody knife.

Chris Del Conte convincing his long-time friend from TCU in Schloss, to leave an already built and playing for national championships program to come to Austin is either the ultimate act of big brothering by Texas or a referendum on A&M for the Jimbo Fisher fallout and its cult-like nature, maybe some of both.

Either way, it’s all cold-blooded, and I’ll admit, part of it makes me a little queasy, the devilish nature of it all.

 

But this is who Texas is now, and to the Aggies’ credit, it’s who they’ve been screaming we’ve always been.

 
 

Texas Baseball's SEC magic number sits at five after weekend sweep of Texas A&M

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With the Texas A&M series triumphantly done and dusted for the Texas baseball team, the Longhorns sit five games ahead of the next closest SEC teams in the regular season standings.

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At 19-2, Texas is firmly ahead of Arkansas and LSU, two teams that are 14-7 in SEC play and clinging to title chances. With just nine SEC games left on the schedule, Texas’ magic number equation becomes quite simple.

 

The Longhorns’ last nine games are at Arkansas, versus Florida (No. 12 in the SEC) and at Oklahoma (No. 10 in the SEC), and winning just five of those nine games would lock Texas in for the SEC regular season title.

 

Even if Arkansas were to sweep the Longhorns in Fayetteville this weekend, Texas would still hold a two-game lead, still a steep climb for the Razorbacks given that each team would have six games left.

If Texas were to win this weekend’s series, they’d effectively knock Arkansas out of the race, pushing them anywhere from six to eight games back with six games left to play. LSU would then be Texas’ main competitor, and it’s not a given that they beat Texas A&M in College Station nor Arkansas at home.

Out of those three teams, here is the breakdown of their last three opponents

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While both Texas and LSU play on the road twice, Arkansas easily has the nine hardest games left on their schedule. The Razorbacks have to play each of the other top teams and then play host to fourth place Tennessee. The Razorbacks do control their own destiny in a sense, they could put Texas in an uncomfortable spot with a sweep and could knock LSU out of the race with a series win, but they’d still likely need to sweep all nine games to outpace a red-hot Texas team.

The Longhorns have a simple path: Win five games, become SEC champs. If LSU and Arkansas lose games at the same time, you need to win one fewer game. Thankfully for the Longhorns, they have yet to drop a series and are currently the best team in college baseball.

 

While heading to Arkansas is no easy task, and IT acknowledges it could lead to a lost series, anything other than being swept keeps Texas in firm command of the lead. And it’s hard to expect either of Oklahoma or Florida to take the series over the current No. 1 team.

 

 

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I have a sneaking suspicion that the rest of the SEC may soon start to see that Texas isn't the villain A&M would have us to be.  Their utter weirdness has already been exposed.  But for other conference schools, road trips to Austin have already been seen as worthy getaways where they mingle with more or less level-headed fans who aren't what we're made out to be by the yokels from East Texas.  It is my fervent hope that this makes A&M even more paranoid and despondent, which while hard to imagine in some sort of historical sense is fairly likely in a hysterical sense.  Those fucking weirdos.

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Eh, I don’t think Texas is the villain for hiring schloss, he was the best available, if the best available was elsewhere we’d hired that guy. Plus A&M shit the bed with him and when push comes to shove he probably got tired of fellating the Aggies and their bubble blowing train engine counting traditions.

so aggy can tell the world all about us but meh, whatever. Yes we are loved or hated but to say the Aggies are right about who we are, that’s sillier than the silliest tradition they claim. 

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3 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

I have a sneaking suspicion that the rest of the SEC may soon start to see that Texas isn't the villain A&M would have us to be.  Their utter weirdness has already been exposed.  But for other conference schools, road trips to Austin have already been seen as worthy getaways where they mingle with more or less level-headed fans who aren't what we're made out to be by the yokels from East Texas.  It is my fervent hope that this makes A&M even more paranoid and despondent, which while hard to imagine in some sort of historical sense is fairly likely in a hysterical sense.  Those fucking weirdos.

This is very fair, you can be great hosts and nice to opposing fans on their visits to Austin.

At the same time your athletic department can be ruthless in its pursuit of greatness and most SEC athletic departments do the same if they can.

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30 minutes ago, NBHorn7 said:

This is the truth.

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Bogeyman: The Longhorns have trapped Texas A&M in its own worst nightmare

by:RT Young04/28/25
 
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Jim Schlossnagle Jim Schlossnagle (Sara Diggins/American-Statesman / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

I wrote the below article last June immediately following the Jim Schlossnagle introductory press conference in Austin. I wrote that by hiring Schloss, the Aggies worst nightmare is now complete and who they’ve always claimed Texas is, has now been laid bare for all to see. But, after the last 10 months, it’s even more clear that our neighbors in College Station are straight up living in their own awful labyrinth of worst fears.

Let’s first look at what has befallen our brethren to the East of Austin since I wrote this last year.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-Texas stole the Aggies baseball coach after they lost the national championship in Omaha. Schlossnagle left College Station partly due the athletic department fallout from their bungling of the Jimbo Fisher contract.
 
-Texas joined their precious conference, the SEC, on July 1st 2024.
 

-Texas beat them in the rivalry renewal in football, the biggest game in Kyle Field’s history. There were no offensive touchdowns by the Aggies in their 17-7 loss to the Longhorns.

-Texas made the CFP semifinals for the second straight year. The Aggies got another 8-4 magnet for their fridge.

-Texas beat the Aggies two out of three times in basketball when Texas A&M had a better coached team. (Said coach Buzz Williams bolted College Station too).

-Texas swept A&M in baseball and is number one in the country after the Aggies faceplanted with a preseason #1 ranking.

 

It is hell for Texas A&M right now.

So, I thought I’d recycle the below article just to bathe in a bit of schadenfreude for a while longer.


Texas A&M has long sounded like the scream queen from the sequel to a slasher flick, attempting to convince anyone who will listen that the bogeyman is real. Many of their claims about Texas—that Texas only looked out for themselves, was a conference killer, the big bad wolf, etc, seemed to perpetuate the notion of the paranoid Aggie. Their sobbing pleas always fell on deaf ears. When you looked over at Texas and saw smiling, glad-handing politicians like DeLoss Dodds and Mack Brown in positions of power in the athletic department, and career academics uninterested in sports running the university, what was there to fear?

The truth is, for years, Texas refused to fully embrace being the villain or leaning into the role of the evil empire, the boogeyman, the big bad wolf, whatever descriptor you want to use. Texas wanted to look out for its own interests, but it also wanted to be liked by everyone too. Take the Longhorn Network, for example: Texas agreed to it, but never weaponized it fully, either because of a lack of creativity or something resembling survivor’s guilt. The university stayed in a conference that put a ceiling over its aspirations and lost sight of building a fully functional Death Star. What Texas seemed to never understand was that they couldn’t have their cake and eat it too; they were never going to be simultaneously feared and liked. But, then came Chris Del Conte, Kevin Eltife, and Jay Hartzell, and as they all rowed in a united direction, then came the slow turning of the Longhorns’ heel.

The past few years have seen Texas quit pretending and finally embrace the fact that they are the villain; they are either going to be loved or hated, and that’s okay. The Longhorn symbol, like the Yankees’ logo or the Cowboys’ star, inspires something in whoever sees it. Under Del Conte, Texas has built an ethos that no sport in the athletic department should be ignored; every single one should be competing for national championships, even if that means bulldozing rivals along the way. The list of villainous acts are numerous: stealing Chris Beard from Texas Tech stabbing their former SWC and Big 12 mates in the heart, and leaving for the SEC with Oklahoma when doing so made A&M’s worst fears come to fruition. Now, Texas is days away from joining the Southeastern Conference, and they’ve completed their most diabolical act yet in hiring Jim Schlossnagle away from the Aggies; the heel turn is complete.

 

Texas’ most historic program had grown stagnant under David Pierce, who seemed to be coaching in an era that preceded NIL and the transfer portal and Texas Baseball was being lapped by Texas A&M in that department. I’ve long wondered why it took so long for the Aggies to embrace baseball being their sport; it seemed to be the game that lines up the best with their propensity for superstitions and weird traditions. But the past didn’t matter over the weekend; the Aggies were seven outs away from winning their first major national championship in 85 years, then they weren’t. Then, intentional or not, it doesn’t matter to me, the report on David Pierce was released Monday morning with the deciding Game 3 against Tennessee that night. Now, in just a 24-hour period, the Aggies’ hearts are not only broken, but their entrails are scattered on the floor in a bloody mess, with Texas smiling over their carcass, holding the bloody knife.

Chris Del Conte convincing his long-time friend from TCU in Schloss, to leave an already built and playing for national championships program to come to Austin is either the ultimate act of big brothering by Texas or a referendum on A&M for the Jimbo Fisher fallout and its cult-like nature, maybe some of both.

Either way, it’s all cold-blooded, and I’ll admit, part of it makes me a little queasy, the devilish nature of it all.

 

But this is who Texas is now, and to the Aggies’ credit, it’s who they’ve been screaming we’ve always been.

 
 

Texas Baseball's SEC magic number sits at five after weekend sweep of Texas A&M

by:EvanViethabout 7 hours
 
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Tommy Farmer Tommy Farmer (Aaron E. Martinez/American-Statesman / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

With the Texas A&M series triumphantly done and dusted for the Texas baseball team, the Longhorns sit five games ahead of the next closest SEC teams in the regular season standings.

[Sign up for Inside Texas TODAY and get the BEST Longhorns scoop!]

At 19-2, Texas is firmly ahead of Arkansas and LSU, two teams that are 14-7 in SEC play and clinging to title chances. With just nine SEC games left on the schedule, Texas’ magic number equation becomes quite simple.

 

The Longhorns’ last nine games are at Arkansas, versus Florida (No. 12 in the SEC) and at Oklahoma (No. 10 in the SEC), and winning just five of those nine games would lock Texas in for the SEC regular season title.

 

Even if Arkansas were to sweep the Longhorns in Fayetteville this weekend, Texas would still hold a two-game lead, still a steep climb for the Razorbacks given that each team would have six games left.

If Texas were to win this weekend’s series, they’d effectively knock Arkansas out of the race, pushing them anywhere from six to eight games back with six games left to play. LSU would then be Texas’ main competitor, and it’s not a given that they beat Texas A&M in College Station nor Arkansas at home.

Out of those three teams, here is the breakdown of their last three opponents

rpi.jpg

While both Texas and LSU play on the road twice, Arkansas easily has the nine hardest games left on their schedule. The Razorbacks have to play each of the other top teams and then play host to fourth place Tennessee. The Razorbacks do control their own destiny in a sense, they could put Texas in an uncomfortable spot with a sweep and could knock LSU out of the race with a series win, but they’d still likely need to sweep all nine games to outpace a red-hot Texas team.

The Longhorns have a simple path: Win five games, become SEC champs. If LSU and Arkansas lose games at the same time, you need to win one fewer game. Thankfully for the Longhorns, they have yet to drop a series and are currently the best team in college baseball.

 

While heading to Arkansas is no easy task, and IT acknowledges it could lead to a lost series, anything other than being swept keeps Texas in firm command of the lead. And it’s hard to expect either of Oklahoma or Florida to take the series over the current No. 1 team.

 

 

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As soon as CDC became the AD at Texas the countdown was on for Schloss to become the head baseball coach at Texas. They have a special relationship that began at TCU and has remained ever since. Schloss turned Texas down when  Augie left, citing the program he had at TCU. He didn't talk about CDC still being there and then came the unfortunate circumstances that led to him having to leave for Aggy. This has all been well documented too. He never wanted to go to College Station and left to rejoin CDC at Texas as soon as he could.

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7 hours ago, petscii said:

I wonder if A&M would actually bounce to big12 or big10

No. No AD is leaving one of the two mega conferences in the current setup, and when push comes to shove A&M has no interest playing cold away games in Minneapolis and Piscataway.

Although half of their fan bases would probably be more frightened of a trip to California on a cultural level.

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17 hours ago, Cousin Strawberry said:

Has Belyeu been healthy enough to swing a bat?  June is a tough time for a hitter start seeing live pitching.

I'm hoping Max is like a rabid dog at the end of his chain trying for a steak.  Once off the chain, he just straight ape shit and spanks HRs like Oprah gives away cars.

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