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Texas Softball 2025 - Sick of Being Second Place


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2 minutes ago, FloridaHorn said:

The conference change killed them. Kids don’t want to travel to play a B1G schedule. 

And the B1G is pretty bad, outside of UCLA, Nebraska and Oregon.

Meylan opting to leave because she "wanted to go somewhere where she could win supers and make OKC" was pretty telling that Tarr is washed.  That led to a total of 8 offseason transfers.

My biggest what-if is that both Texas and UW started off 2020 with a bang, and then COVID happened.  Those two teams could have met in OKC for it all. 

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What happens when you strike out 23 batters over 13 innings of work against a top 10 team, outdueling the reigning NPOY, allowing 1 run and no XBH? 

SEC pitcher of the week for Kavan! 

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1 minute ago, Js1 said:

What happens when you strike out 23 batters over 13 innings of work against a top 10 team, outdueling the reigning NPOY, allowing 1 run and no XBH? 

SEC pitcher of the week for Kavan! 

I’d say cat-like, but we all know cat would have lost 1-0 on Friday. 

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With the unbalanced schedules in the SEC, I think the committee will be a lot less hesitant about SEC-SEC super matchups.  It will almost be inevitable, with how stacked the league is, but will probably see more heavy handed movement in the committee rankings to ensure the inevitable SEC-SEC super pairings are not rematches. 

Nothing definitive, but I think Nebraska-OU and Tech-aggy are going to be very likely to happen as super pairings. I think the committee will try to avoid sending Canady to pick up losses #4 and #5 to Texas.  They know the best chance for Canady to make OKC is to keep Tech out of Austin. 

Texas could end up seeing someone like Duke or UCLA if we don't end up with an SEC team who gets to host as #14-16, like maybe Arkansas.  Because regionally, and regular season matchups, we'll have played Tech twice, OKST, Arizona, Mizzou, OU and LSU. 

Baylor is in a weird situation for the postseason - they will have already played the 3 biggest schools the committee could send them to (aggy, OU x2, Texas) in the regular season.  They also play potentially geographic destination regional opponents Nebraska, Mizzou and Arkansas in Palm Springs.  They're going to end up in Baton Rouge or something, I'm sure, or shipped out west to UCLA. 

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I don't understand what the problem is with the Mizzou coach.  What she says is the truth.  If the roles were reversed, we would be saying the same thing.  They are at a disadvantage.  It's not the only thing that determines a teams performance, but it's a factor.

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10 hours ago, DigDug said:

I don't understand what the problem is with the Mizzou coach.  What she says is the truth.  If the roles were reversed, we would be saying the same thing.  They are at a disadvantage.  It's not the only thing that determines a teams performance, but it's a factor.

The NCAA softball season starts 1 week before the NCAA baseball season. 

WCWS is May 29-June 6. CWS is June 13-June 23.

All NCAA events have to be completed by June 30, because the athletic year reset on July 1. 

There's not really a magical solution - you can move both seasons up a week, but it's currently 3 degrees in Columbia, MO.  There's a big reason there's a lot of non-conf tournaments in California, PV, Florida or hosted by southern schools - Texas, Louisiana, Arizona, UCLA, etc.  Same for baseball being in MLB stadiums - Houston, Arlington, etc. 

And guess what? Even those places get bad weather - Texas lost 8 games in 2021 due to winter weather in Austin, which covered the first 2 weekends of the season.  Sometimes it rains in Clearwater. 

If you wait until March 1, you're basically cutting everyone's non-conf games by 50-75%, or forcing more midweek games in the middle of conference season, which is a big strain on the athletes.  Texas starts conference play on March 15. You'd basically get 2 weeks of non-conf games and then you're immediately into SEC play. 

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And to add to that, spring football at Mizzou starts at the end of February.  The softball team can go into the indoor football facility to practice. 

And if the football program doesn't agree with that, it's an athletics department problem. 

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19 minutes ago, Js1 said:

And to add to that, spring football at Mizzou starts at the end of February.  The softball team can go into the indoor football facility to practice. 

And if the football program doesn't agree with that, it's an athletics department problem. 

I was going to say, if the roles were reversed, Texas wouldn’t whine they would take action. CDC would fundraise an indoor facility for softball to train in for the bad weather days. We don’t have enough of those in austin to warrant that, but if we did I have no doubt we would find a solution. Mizzou wants to be a big boy in the SEC, but they are whining like a mid major. 

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4 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:

I was going to say, if the roles were reversed, Texas wouldn’t whine they would take action. CDC would fundraise an indoor facility for softball to train in for the bad weather days. We don’t have enough of those in austin to warrant that, but if we did I have no doubt we would find a solution. Mizzou wants to be a big boy in the SEC, but they are whining like a mid major. 

I’m 90% sure I’ve seen either baseball or softball practice in the Bubble. It’s not being used until spring football 

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8 minutes ago, Js1 said:

I’m 90% sure I’ve seen either baseball or softball practice in the Bubble. It’s not being used until spring football 

Northern Iowa host a softball tournament on their indoor practice facility first week of season every year.   Its doable. 

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6 hours ago, perfectchaos007 said:

I was going to say, if the roles were reversed, Texas wouldn’t whine they would take action. CDC would fundraise an indoor facility for softball to train in for the bad weather days. We don’t have enough of those in austin to warrant that, but if we did I have no doubt we would find a solution. Mizzou wants to be a big boy in the SEC, but they are whining like a mid major. 

CDC wouldn't need to do that - he'd tell the softball team to practice in the football facility in the morning and the baseball team to practice there in the afternoon, and the football team can suck a lemon because they don't need it for another 2 weeks or so. 

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Some good games today at Mary Nutter -

Nebraska/Baylor
Missouri/UCLA
Nebraska/UCLA
Tennessee/Oregon

And Stanford and Arizona open the tournament in Tucson tonight

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