re: So Texas, is this the bush league stuff you’re planning on bringing to the SEC?

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He said it was bush league, which it absolutely was. It was action taken to prevent an imminent L from being recorded when it was obvious Kentucky would win.

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offending his own players by not coaching to win.

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Let's start in the top of the 7th inning. After Kentucky scored their three runs, the Wildcats had a runner on first base with two outs. Mike White went to the circle to have a meeting with pitcher Mac Morgan.

That meeting lasted exactly one minute. After the meeting, White walked back to the dugout, only to emerge twenty seconds later to make a pitching change. The game did not resume for three minutes, as Sophia Simpson replaced Morgan and took her warm-up pitches.

Simpson threw three pitches to the Kentucky hitter, reaching a 2-1 count and with the runner at first base advancing from first to three in the course of those three pitches.

White attempted to go to the circle for another pitcher's conference, but was not allowed to do so by the first base umpire there had already been one coaches conference in the inning, remember. Instead, the entire infield met in the circle for roughly 45 seconds, the better part of a minute.

The time was 3:19 pm.

On the next pitch after the conference, Kentucky's runner at third left the base early and was called out. That was the third out of the inning, meaning there were roughly ten minutes left for the bottom half of the inning if the game were to be an official 8-inning affair.

The bottom of the 8th started at 3:22 pm. The international tiebreaker rule was in effect, meaning Texas started the inning with a runner on second base just as Kentucky had done in the top half of the frame.

The first batter of the inning flew out to center field for the first out. The runner at second base did not advance.

At 3:24, Mia Scott stepped to the plate. She took ball one, then spoke to the umpire. Based on what happened in front of the Texas dugout thereafter, Scott needed to put some contact solution or eyedrops in her eyes.

It was a particularly windy day in Clearwater, with dust flying up from the infield with every strong breeze.

Scott took a four-pitch walk, which brought the game-tying run to the plate. "Game-tying" the honest way, that is. The way that required actually playing the game, not manipulating it.

Rachel Lawson made a quick trip to the circle in what might have been the fastest mound visit in the history of SEC softball.

Then it was Alyssa Washington to the plate. Washington took her time stepping to the plate, but once she did, Stephanie Schoonover threw two pitches right down the middle, then wasted one pitch high and another was fouled away.

White decided it was time for a pinch-runner at second base this was the player who had gone out there before any pitches were thrown in the inning. The runner who starts an inning at second base is designated as the player who made the last out of the previous inning, but can be substituted for as if they had reached the base via a hit.

Washington struck out looking on the next pitch, a pitch on the outside corner.

Katie Cimusz stepped to the plate at 3:29 pm. With two runners on base, she represented both the game-tying run and Texas' last opportunity to avoid taking the loss.

Well, their last opportunity to avoid losing without manipulation, that is.

The first two pitches to Cimusz both went down the heart of the plate, sending the Longhorns down to their final strike.

What was Mike White's response?

Down to their final strike of the game, the Longhorns needed a pinch runner at first base.

The time was 3:30. The game ended, officially a 4-4 tie after seven innings. Everything that happened in the eighth inning actually didn't happen, at least not as far as the official stat book was concerned.

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Rachel Lawson made a quick trip to the circle in what might have been the fastest mound visit in the history of SEC softball.

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After they let Wooden "retire" intact. The offenses occurred on Wooden's watch but the NCAA drug their feet till after and did a punitive slap after he was gone. Same with UNC and Duke. Dean Smith started the academic fraud that carried on for another quarter century and the NCAA ignored it.

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remotely related to Texas

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