The Big XII has four of their nine teams in the Top 25:
TCU at #21
Texas Tech at #17
Oklahoma State at #6
and UT at the #1 spot in the nation.
If Baylor keeps playing well, I think they’ll be the fifth ranked Big XII team in the next couple of weeks.
Moving Big XII to SEC for baseball is basically frying pan to the fire.
Thoughts and prayers the dickwads from tempe/asu aren’t in the Top 25.
Go BatCats.
Could be, also could open up the SE for recruiting.
I don’t think anyone knows how UT sports will fare, I’m hopeful.
I’m not worried about the move in baseball. I’m saying both conferences are intensely competitive.
Texas survives in San Marcos, 9-8. Nixon walks em full, but Ks the last batter to close it out.
That’s pretty cool for SWT.
When you think you’ve seen it all.
Well, the Horns lost the second game to Texas State in Austin last night, and this morning, news broke that they lost Tanner Witt for the season. TJ surgery. That’s a big blow.
Austin Todd lost to shoulder separation Tuesday.
Man, that guy is snake-bit.
Damn, those are huge losses.
Witt much more than Todd. The latter was hurt all last year.
LBJ’s alma mater looks legit after splitting with the Horns and taking two of three from the BatCats last weekend.
Horrible news about Tanner Witt and Austin Todd, though.
TSU scored 5 in the 3rd. The reliever who came in with no runs in yet must have thought he was under bombardment in the Ukraine. He got pounded hard and often, and it reminded me of this:
Coach to catcher in the midst of a shelling: “What kind of stuff does he have?”
Catcher to Coach: “I don’t know. I have not caught one yet.”
Somehow I read right past the news about Witt. That’s bad news indeed.
When Pierce scratched Witt from his Sunday start, he said it was a muscle issue near his elbow and “just a precaution.”
Coachspeak for “His fucking arm fell off!”
Coach, as a former letterman, did you ever meet or remember a guy named Artie Johnson? Played baseball for the Horns in the late 90’s, although, I don’t think he actually played in too many games.
Anyway, he’s a friend of mine and fellow winemaker out here in Napa. We had an interesting chat last week about the ‘99 season when Texas was ranked #1 and the toll it took on that team trying to stay #1.
(ETA: I think it was the ‘99 team. I don’t know, there were more than a few magnums of Champagne being consumed.)
No, but I have a book about UT baseball. I do not know if it gets to 1999, but I also can look up his name.
ETA: the last season the book covered is 1982. I looked at an all-time lettermen list online, and he is not listed.
I think you have the wrong year. The ‘99 team was 36-26.