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Nerd alert, sorry - just curious about the chart where Teagan has an ERA of 0.00 on line 3 but three lines down she's shown with 1 ER. (I remember the inning, against OU when our SS made an error which lead to an unearned run and one more scored later that inning on a fielder's choice - that was the earned run). Edit: just saw this on ESPN - "Kavan has been the best pitcher in the WCWS (17 innings, 0.41 ERA, no extra-base hits allowed)"

Us Older Horns might also remember watching him play in the most astounding Super Bowl of all time, the Namath led Jets beating the heavily favored Colts to win Super Bowl III

A recruit has committed but isn't ready to announce it yet.

Thanks for the link. Key quotes (to me) from the article - "The going rate for a star pitcher in the portal was believed to be in the $100,000-$150,000 range. ... (the) Matador Club announced it had signed Canady to an NIL agreement ... The contract is for one year and $1,050,024 ... The $24 is for Canady’s jersey number. The $50,000 is for living expenses. And the $1 million is for Canady." Now THAT'S the way a less than successful program can use NIL to full effect to lure stars, big bucks sure, but personalized like $24 for the jersey number. No to and fro, no 'get back to me with a counter offer', no 'what would it take?' foreplay. Just blow them away by going all in from the jump. I admire their chutzpah, those Tech oilmen aren't fooling around.

Holy Bevo, those computer nerds generating the FPI at ESPN surely do love themselves some Texas football (and SEC in general). The 2025 FPI projections dropped today and it's a Longhorn fan's wet dream. Texas Longhorns are ranked # 1 with a 22.2% chance of winning the championship. Georgia # 2, Bama # 4. Whatever happened to Clemson and Penn State, one might ask? It gets better, believe it or not. Best offense? Texas, followed by Georgia and Bama. Best defense? You know by now - Texas, followed by Georgia and Bama. Somehow I think this might be skewed just slightly towards the SEC. Finally, "Most anticipated games of 2025 based on projected FPI ratings" Texas plays in the top 2 (@Georgia and @Ohio State), 3 of the top 6 (@Florida), 4 of the top 9 (A&M), 5 of the top 13 (Oklahoma), 6 of the top 24 (@Kentucky). This seems just a little crazy to me. But I'm hoping they are right, especially about the championship. Link to article on ESPN Top teams by 2025 FPI National Championship odds Rank Team Conf. FPI Proj. Wins Playoff % Championship % 1. Texas Longhorns SEC 28.5 10.4 83.9% 22.2% 2. Georgia Bulldogs SEC 26.6 10.1 78.6% 17.5% 3. Ohio State Buckeyes Big Ten 23.8 10.4 70.6% 11.6% 4. Alabama Crimson Tide SEC 24.2 9.6 66.2% 10.4%

Doesn't feel quite as bad coming in behind these athletic factories with easy academic standards who will let in ANYBODY who can row a boat.

These two have been mentioned a lot and have OVs set to Texas in June Hezek Kent, TE, Brunswick (Ga.) High OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star++ Note: OTF believes Texas leads Also # 2 or 3 TE on 247 - Jun 20, 2025: O. Visit Kaiden Prothro officially visits Texas Longhorns

Kirby Smart was complaining that certain programs (USC obviously, Oregon, Tennessee, Miami) are getting recruits to commit quickly by offering $$ during their high school senior year. The number tossed around was $20K/month with stipulations that if you didn't stick to the commitment you had to pay the money back. Guessing a player as good as Bowman might warrant even more, right? Especially before the House settlement goes into effect. Just guessing, no insider knowledge ... but makes more sense than "I just want to grow the game of golf" oops, wrong sport - "We are taking over the city! All of the talent that’s here, we gotta bring it to USC". Yeah, OK.

Poona grew up on the South Carolina coast, like I did, and he has the coolest name by far so gotta go with Mr. Ford.

Excellent post Lam. Good ideas with convincing examples - the comparison of Micah Hudson to Emmett Mosley especially. Post more please!

Nope. But we have away games at Ohio State, Florida and Georgia so we need a few easy ones in there too.

True, but there were at least three other teams not named Notre Dame in last year's 12 team playoff who didn't play in a conference championship game. I can understand the loser of a conference championship game getting in, but if you're letting in teams ranked 3rd or lower in conference there's no reason to exclude ND. They already are barred from getting a top seed and a home game. (And I really detest ND, just pointing this out ... if you want to limit it to just teams who won or played in a CCG then OK, leave ND out, but otherwise I'd say let them scramble for an at large bid if their record and SOS is good enough.) The "No conference championship game involved" made more sense in a 4 team playoff, I feel.

6'5" and 260 lbs before the 9th grade. Jeez

Not sure it's so much "trying to get out of it" as "trying to renegotiate the scheduling of it", moving off home-and-home in mid-October, which is the middle of USC's conference scheduling. Apparently all the travel east is weighing on the Trojans so they asked to either schedule the Notre Dame game earlier in the year or, on a four year rotation, play 2 in LA, one game in South Bend and one game at a neutral site closer to LA (Vegas maybe?). Something like that. A bit of a dick move since they can afford to give up the game more than Notre Dame can, but you can sorta see their point. Hard to feel sorry for USC since they joined a conference with teams in Maryland and New Jersey, so knew the travel would be brutal. Best guess - still play it but early in the season? Edit: good article on this topic in Sports Illustrated (where I got my ideas) - USC vs. Notre Dame Football Rivalry Must Continue

Article in The Athletic "Ranking the 25 best college football games of the 2000s: Where do Texas-USC, Kick Six rank?" by David Ubben. Probably behind a paywall (link here) but sometimes you get a couple free ones each month. Looking at our two main SEC rivals Oklahoma played in two of those games (both in the Top Five). Shed a tear for our friends on the other side of the Red River because they lost both games, but still they made the list. Texas A&M played in one of those games - as usual, just outside the Top Twenty. Inexplicably they won it. Your Texas Longhorns played in four of the top 16 games, winning 3 of them. I'll admit that one of them was a bit of a surprise to me - recency bias? I won't spoil the ending as to which game was ranked # 1 but it's safe to mention that Vince Young was pretty damn good.

I agree with you on this. He seems pretty even handed about Texas even though I think he was the Colorado QB in the 70-0 beat down, right? The other guy I like is Josh Pate even though I think there are a lot of guys who don't like him. The list of guys I wouldn't listen to is lengthy but these two, to use your term, offer 'value added'.

Maybe Ojo LT, McKeogh RT, Turntine and Roseborough IOL would be the top 4 (if we are lucky) ? Would JT be ok with that? Thinking maybe not. Dunno, just guessing - we seem to have come from a long way back to vault in this kid's top 3. He's been a Penn State fan for a long time so he must really like something in the Texas offer to consider us this highly unless he's just trying to get the other 2 schools to ante up a bit in NIL

I will always remember him as Bam Bam. Mongo came later RIP Steve

Begins at the 13 minute mark, for those who don't have time to watch from the beginning

And how many stars as a hint, perhaps (My guess - worthless as it is - Luke Wafle)

For Caitlin Clark fans there's a David Letterman interview with her on Netflix that was released recently. Season 5 episode 3. Pretty good, I thought.

I was thinking the Mexican navy, but it's probably too soon so I was too classy to say it ...

One more quote from the sporting press about the near-historic run of golf Scottie is on, this from the Athletic. This puts it in perspective (as many PGA wins since the run began as players #2,3,4 and 5 combined? Crazy) ---- Scheffler’s play since 2021 is golf’s most dominant stretch since Brooks Koepka’s four major wins in eight tries from 2017 to 2019. The difference is Koepka didn’t bother winning outside those majors. Scheffler? He has 12 non-major wins since 2022, including two Players Championships. At the risk of belaboring the numbers, and the absurdity, Scheffler’s 15 total individual PGA Tour wins since his first (2022 WM Phoenix Open) are as many as those of Rory McIlroy, Xander Schauffele, Collin Morikawa and Justin Thomas — the official world golf ranking’s Nos. 2, 3, 4 and 5 players — combined. The only other players to win so much, so early? Tiger Woods (1996 to 1999) in 3 years, 32 days, and Jack Nicklaus (1962 to 1965) in 3 years and 45 days. Scheffler has done it in 3 years, 94 days.

Aggies must hate Kyle Umlang with a passion, he's always posting stuff like this. Love the guy.