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If she's not the clear #1, I feel like that would help Texas' chances against Florida. Burnt orange glasses aside, I don't see what Florida could offer that would be better other than being close to the ocean. But Gainesville is a swamp.

I would think that UT's wouldn't be too far away if it was less. Also, the true NIL outside of what Texas pays has much more potential at UT though Florida could come close. I saw someone say that Kavan's Nike deal was worth $1.1m. A&M is an addidas school so they don't have that. Not sure on Florida.

I would agree she could be behind Rothrock at Florida, but would argue she'd be #1 at A&M. Agree, Texas is the best fit.

Will be what she wants more, at AM and Florida she's probably the ace. At Texas she'll be the clear #2. Chances for a championship in order would be Texas first and Florida/AM next tier even with her as the ace.

Think Texas is fine with him leaving based on what's been said.

What would really be funny is that Tech is betting everything on Sorby leading them to the promise land like he's Arch Manning. He turns out to be dog poop and they sold their souls for nothing.

One would think that at some point Big 12 leadership would step and be like this is not good for the conference. But nope, without Texas apparently sand aggy has anointed themselves the new leader of the conference with no contention.

One down, two to go!

She was going to be #3 at best at Tennessee, now she's likely #2 at Bama.

This is absolutely hilarious and awesome. I think the only one I know off the top of my head is Reese’s celebration.

I am not the best versed in the world of social media, I wonder if the athletes following each other on Instagram is a way for them to communicate and ask questions informally - and this would be situations where having a good culture would help players recruit other players vs. a toxic culture where a player would tell others not to come. Separately, anyone else notice in interviews with the Texas softball players this year always keep saying how much they love each other so much? It's something new to me because you usually don't hear that emphasized to that extent. Reinforces what Bobby said about how close the team is to each other. Sounds like they genuinely are good friends and care about each other. That type of culture is hard to copy without bought in leaders.

But her college coach said she was the face of softball (sarcasm)

A&M will throw money at her as they need help badly, hopefully it's not enough to pull her. A 1-2 punch of Kavan and Azua would be stellar.

Word on the softball reddit is that Canady is holding out for more money and hasn't signed to play. The games started yesterday. If she thinks she's going to get Tech money, she's in for a rude awakening. This is laughable and why I say that's she's no where near the face of softball. She's in it for herself, talented yes, but not trying to grow the game. Most of the players in the league probably only make $45k ish and they're the best of the best. It's a similar situation to Caitlin Clark making only $76k as a rookie when her NIL and endorsement deals were in the millions. The smarter move would be to play and get endorsement deals.

I keep refreshing hoping for exciting positive news for Texas lol.