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Interesting. Send me a direct message or email me at ontexasfootball@gmail.com.

I hate doing this publicly and clogging boards, but how do I get any type of account support? I’ve sent in a number of messages in the contact us link and haven’t received a single response over the past month.

We will see this weekend. If they blow a lead again late you have to bring Volantis back to the pen this year. He can be starter next year and hopefully we find a dynamic closer in the portal. Going to be an interesting ride.

That is sad. Tech is a good team, but anybody who is following what is going on this off-season knows Tech is 3rd at best. Next year is the Longhorn's best team in a very long time.

I was at the game. It was ugly.

Understood. Personally I think Volantis to closer is the right move. That’d remove everyone else as part-time closer. We need Grubbs to settle in.

I don’t disagree with what you’re saying, my concern is that there will be “too many roles” and not enough reliable arms.

Wade may be on the move

I’m a big believer in giving guys roles that they can prepare to fulfill. If we don’t know who is the setup guy, the closer, Tuesday guys, are you comfortable the players do? The soft non-conference boosted wins and RPI but has not prepared our non-starters. Confidence and control can be sporadic when your innings are limited and your role is unstable. Sure, we don’t know whether it’ll come together, but it won’t be because we lack capable options. Go look at LSU’s pitching stats from last year. They had several guys that walked quite a few but come playoff time they were able to shrink the staff to guys they trusted or who were pitching well. Judge post season chances based on how those min-tourneys are structured. It can look very different than the regular season. As the season progresses, I do believe we’ll see roles more defined.

The hitting is one thing, but the more concerning issue is the trend that our bullpen keeps blowing games.

And 7 top 25 teams lost tonight. And two others won and gave up 9 runs. Thats college baseball these days.

Oof

Yeah that’s why the move was made.

Some of our top guys we brought back are not living up to the hitting. How our lead up guy isn’t hitting at least .300 is pathetic. Our short stop is still hurt a year later

Bad baseball is bad baseball

This is largely a meaningless game, but Schloss is chasing a win. There are key guys that need to build confidence- Burns, Grubbs for example. With OU looming in two days, it was a poor choice to throw them today. They both got their last out versus Auburn. Nevermind they have to be wondering what their role is. It would reasonable to expect their focus wouldn’t be at its best tonight. There was no need to insert Tinney at that point. This is a Tuesday game. It replicates nothing in the post season. Flores could have gone longer. Bing probably should have gotten second run. Pitchers do need to work through things. Particularly guys with sporadic or spot duty. We absolutely have the arms to make a postseason run. Whether it happens will have to play out. Ruger, Harrison, DV, Grubbs, Crossland, Cozart. Flores, Burns, Leffew, Walker. Now, the past 4 games, the offense had opportunities to put the opponent away and didn’t. They just need to heat up at the right time.

We noted last week this was in the works.

3 hits. 2 errors. 8 pitchers.

2 hits last week. 3 tonight. Starting off 0-1 almost every AB by taking what’s a lot of the time the most hittable pitch. That’s even more frustrating than the Tuesday bullpen

Disappointing hitting and pitching.

What’s that 4 hits combined vs tarleton and Houston? Bullpen will take the headlines but offense is putrid.

Well considering they walked 11 and we walked 5, I guess there is a defense.