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One of our boys Thatcher aka “Sultan of Swing”. 2025 American National Grand Victor and 2024 Canadian National Grand Victor.

Not sure how many Cam Colemans and Hollywood Smothers have to occur before people stop with the 'Sky is Falling' panic. Here is my weekly reminder to the pant-pissers: We will be fine. Take a lap.

How is that WI OL taking forever feels like more than coleman

We need some DOGS!

No sense to recruit high school OL unless they can start immediately. We lost 2 potential starters for next year and lost our only back up center.

Compare to Seaton as a freshmen

They will be better in '27 when they are expected to be ready.

I'm willing to give the staff the benefit of the doubt, but man they are getting whipped on the OL recruiting. On the flip side, none of these kids want to get developed. It's part of the instant gratification crowd. I need to start now or I'm wasting time. I have a feeling things are going to change soon with this. This current model is not sustainable.

My 3 legged dog Ferdinand.

It’s not just on the OL though right? *if no one else jumped on board* and If everyone were to stay mostly healthy, *knock on all the wood* Then following yr offense, we will be new at QB, RB, probably 2 WRs if not 3, 3 or 4 or whole OL, nick Townsend going to be lonely and on D….new CB, at least 1 safety, at least 2 LBs, DT looks ok, losing Simmons will be huge, but DE in a better spot than most positions

Until one of those misses time

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And that makes you the Jett walker?!

@Bobby Burton @Gerry Hamilton Reports are that Herring is now visiting. Any truth to that?

It’s certainly not done yet, but also not terrifying even if it was. Assuming no more additions, which will not be happening: LT - Goosby (Jr)/ Baker (Jr)/ Turntine (Fr)/ LG - Chatman (Jr) or Baker (So)/ Christian (rFr) C - C.Robertson (Sr)/ Christian (rFr)/ Coleman 2 (rFr) RG - Sikorski (So)/ Coleman 2 (rFr)/ N.Robertson (Fr) RT - Baker (Jr) or Cojoe (Jr)/ Coleman 1 (rFr) The starters would probably be comparable to how our OL finished the year. Goosby, Baker and Robertson will be better. Chatman is probably pretty close to Hutson and certainly better than the other LGs. Sikorski is probably a step back from Campbell, but not too far back. Campbell was solid, but not great, IMO. All that said, we’re getting more guys and hopefully Seaton at RT so we’re gonna be better than good. 🤘🏼

The 2026 Division I season is quickly approaching and the first Softball America Top 25 Rankings of the year are here. The top two spots are occupied by the two teams from last season’s championship series, but Texas Tech, the national runner-up, sits at No. 1, with the defending national champions, the Texas Longhorns, in second place. Rounding out the top five are fellow Women’s College World Series participants Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Oregon. After falling just short of Oklahoma City, Florida State, Arkansas, Clemson, Nebraska, LSU, Texas A&M and Georgia are all inside our Top 15, and primed for another run. Oklahoma State looks to bounce back from its down year in 2025, while Washington is ready to turn some heads with a more talented roster. 2026 Preseason Softball America Top 25 rankings RankingTeamRecordFinal 2025 Rankings 1Texas Tech54-142 2Texas56-121 3Oklahoma52-93 4Tennessee47-174 5Oregon54-106 6Florida State49-1210 7Arkansas44-1411 8UCLA55-135 9Clemson48-149 10Florida48-178 11Nebraska43-1513 12LSU42-1621 13Alabama40-2312 14Texas A&M48-1117 15Georgia35-2316 16South Carolina44-1714 17Arizona48-1318 18Stanford42-1319 19Oklahoma State35-20NR 20Duke41-1824 21Mississippi State39-1922 22Washington35-19NR 23Virginia38-19NR 24Virginia Tech43-1320 25Ole Miss42-217 Received votes: FAU, Ohio State

@Gerry Hamilton would love your take on this Devil's advocate thesis: the portal is dangerous for a lot of programs. But for Texas, with a proven commitment to spending top 5 resources in the market, the portal's radical liquidity (and entailed better information) is the absolute best thing that could have happened to us. Background: Markets are most efficient with the most information and the most ability to change course based on that information. Bad information and low liquidity creates losers out of most... but also, big winners for those who can "divine" the future before others see it and/or can act on it. Example in College Football (proof of concept): Taking advantage of these dynamics is exactly how Cignetti has pulled off the biggest turnaround in coaching history, dominating at a place without the resources of Texas (or Ohio St, or Oregon, or...): (1) he is a preternatural evaluator of talent who sees the "information" before others do, and (2) unlike previous "golden eyes for talent", he happened to exist at the dawn of a new system where he could combine that information advantage with the liquidity of the portal (while the "big fish" like UGA and UT were slow to adapt). Outlook: The coming (present?) reality of a Majors / AAA / AA etc. system — where each year maybe up to half (who knows?) of all college football players are moving up/down levels, or to better fits within their level — provides such better information to the "Majors" programs. Instead of the Majors having to evaluate and project a guy out of HS, they can pass that risk (bad information) on the farm system. This lessens the information gap that used to exist between genius evaluators (Cignetti) and the conventional evaluators at the "big fish" programs. And the portal combined with one-year contracts gives everyone the liquidity to act on that new and better information every. single. year! How this applies to Texas, a "big fish": Ironically, the same system that enabled Cignetti's unprecedented rise is going to just as quickly allow the "big fish" to overtake Indiana (unless the system changes or Mark Cuban ponies up to fund Indiana at the level of the top 5 NIL programs). Texas' information (evaluation) disadvantage against a Cignetti will be greatly decreased, the portal provides the liquidity to act on that ever-changing information on a yearly basis, and our "big fish" bags dominate acquisition in a market for talent that is less mysterious than ever before. Conclusion: This new reality tilts the scales, unequivocally, to the schools who have the biggest NIL funds. Texas should be among the 5 happiest programs for this new era.

Recently adopted. Would have posted a pic of Tre Wisner but he’s been re-homed. 😭