MarkInAustin

AND TEXAS WINS!

Nothing like a 6-6 pitcher whose breaking ball moves a foot and a half.

Bottom fell out of that one. Strike three.

To your continued good health, Gerry Hamilton.

If Niblett's hands check out he should be the primary KR. Jonah as PR is too sensible. Judges fly balls now. As mentioned, keeps a safety on the field.

Off topic, didn't Winston also play basketball in HS? I remember an SBN article - I think - that said he averaged something like 13 rebounds per game in HS at 6-1. BTW, Winston's listed height and weight scream "fullback" a la Ahmard Hall. He ran some in HS, so I wonder if he is an option running or blocking as a FB near the goal line, who could leak out for a pass, as well. Forgive the digression - it was prompted by the footballer on the hardwood post.

Has TT's dollar-aggressiveness spooked ISU?

This would be an interesting topic for a civics discussion. We all agree that everyone has a right to the soapbox as long as everyone gets a turn and once on the soapbox one does not incite violence or criminal behavior. So let's say I disagree with the celebrity Ted Nugent or the celebrity Lebron James. Do I resent the celebrity for having a bigger soapbox than I have? Or do I resent him or her because I disagree? I expect politicians to have bigger soapboxes about politics and scientists to have bigger soapboxes about science, but maybe I have succumbed to thinking people should stay in their lane. But here is a fact of American political history. Everybody gets to use the politics lane and the religion lane. Everybody. It has been one of the exceptional features of the USA. So I might lament the whole social network as People Magazine on steroids [and at 81, I do] but I think the alternative is much worse - see Russia. See China.

At first glance I am also critical of the hire. However, looking around the NBA, I think there are only two really good coaches, Kerr and Spoelstra. All the others seem to make bone headed decisions on rotations, on defenses, or on handling their spoiled rich rosters. So I will withhold judgment, hope he fills out his coaching staff [which was very short handed] with really good assistants, and gets the job done. If he does not, Steve Kerr's contract expires at the end of next season. That might provide a chance to hire the best.

In order to make the most of his final season in college, Arch joins Sean Miller's then loaded team in time to help it to the natty, after winning a natty on the gridiron.🤣

CJV was a terrific addition to OTF, Blake knows baseball like no one else on the local scene, and the video site gains from having the irrepressible Rod and his guests. TFB is not a true competitor to OTF or IT but its limited content is very professional - as it is run by an actual practicing football coach who knows the Texas high school scene from inside. CJV came here from there. Jeff Howe, the most recent addition, is insightful and measured. I thank Bobby for putting all of this together. I came to OTF because Gerry is the only real basketball voice around on these sites - and he has attracted Bierce and a few other knowledgeable commenters to make the hoops columns easily the best available. I still follow BitterWhiteGuy's intermittent critiques, btw, but there was a time when BWG and Fred Haley were at SBN and I miss that. Gerry and the gang here fill that place well.

Great!

Pop up. Aggies leave the runners.

I love watching Volantis - hope this is another great outing.

What is Jonah's status?

An example of negative, without trying?

About Hayden Conner - I think he may stick but not at OG. C or RT. Pass pro, and smarts, but not a road grader. What do y'all think?

An Aggie walks up to the library reference desk and orders a cheeseburger, fries, and sweet tea. The librarian whispers "This is a library!" The Aggie whispers back: "I want a cheeseburger, fries, and sweet tea."

TO add to CJV's question about OU whether anyone aside from Burks can get open, will OU's OL give him a full three seconds to throw, against at least half the schedule? They get Michigan on 9-6, so we should have an early take. I am one who generally wants OU to take care of their other business so that Dallas is a big deal when Texas wins. A rivalry game can lose its luster when one of the teams regularly is barely a .500 performer on its season. But I understand the alternative view, because, paradoxically, I want Aggie to lose every single game they ever play in every sport and if that means we never have to play them again I am OK with that. I came of age in an era when UT vs. OU was the featured midseason intersectional game on national TV, seemingly always pitting two top 5 teams. Also, my oldest daughter took a full five year ride including a year in Europe as a National Merit Scholar at OU, which was a godsend for me after the S&L and real estate bust of the late 80s. She never became an OU fan, however, and neither, of course, did I. Outside Texas, the Aggies were just another game on TV. If I had grown up in Texas before college I would have probably viewed Aggie with more respect mixed with the disdain. But I just don't care about them and their "traditions". I understand that it is a good academic university and one of my granddaughters might have to go to engineering school there if she is only in the top 6% of her class rather than top 5%. But she says she will go to Purdue or Arizona if that happens. So it has affected my family in that way even though the two generations after me are Texas born and raised.

I wouldn't sell Aguilar short. He can pass and run and I think is more stable than Nico. It will be interesting to see how he fares at TN.

Vermont making the big move. Thanks, Joe.

My personal recollection is that pitching sidearm to 3/4 was way easier on my arm than pitching straight overhand. In high school I sensed that it was easier on my shoulder as my whole body pivoted in the nearly exact plane as the arm motion. But I have read that the overhand thrown slider is the toughest pitch on the elbow. I don't have a muscle memory to go with that, but I accept it - science! We did not have actual medical knowledge of any of this in 1960, btw.

Is he also going in the high jump?

In the 2024 Spring Game, IIRC, on 4th down and five, he made a TD catch, flying horizontal for the ball. I thought our scholarship guys must be truly great if the team has a buried PWO who is that good. Gets his degree and a chance to sign as a grad student and shine as a ballplayer somewhere? I wish him well in grad school, in football, and in life. Hook 'em!

Would you rather see him at ASU or GA? That is the question, CJ.