Ptins944

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Some nice players but they don't blow my doors off.

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They are filling specific needs (DL, TE, WR), including providing depth.

Sark recruited Mosley (WR) in HS. He will follow AD Mitchell and Matthew Golden's path to the NFL.

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We are definitely getting a kind of player we weren’t getting for years. Part Sark, part NIL. Big part too is it’s just true the SEC draws better caliber players.

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Mack Brown quit on the job, and Charlie Strong & Tom Herman filled their coaches from Louisville, Houston and their G5 contacts.

Sark has coaching contacts from Pete Carroll & Nick Saban, from the NFL, and from So Cal to Washington to Texas and the SEC. Sark was coached by Lavell Edwards and Norm Chow and played at a high level at BYU. He took assistants away from National Champion Alabama & Saban OL, QB, TE, DL, ST, huge!), DL coach from the NFL, DC from Washington, and others from P5 schools.

The biggest thing Sark has done is get the right coaches (not bag men) and develop the players. Listen to Saban's comments during the draft talking about 1st rounders Banks, Barron & Golden.

Sarks reputation and proven record
+ 2x CFP Semi's
+ 22 NFL draft picks in 2 years
+ SEC
+ NIL
+ Austin
+ Texas Longhorn Brand
+ Sark culture, cultivated from the ground up
+ Top tier academics & education
+ Texas Administration from the BOR to President to AD

= a pretty favorable sales pitch to recruits and parents.

Home grown, not transfers.

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Winning national championships is hard…quite difficult.

Even though I’ve SEEN LSU play for 12 football and baseball national championships, and I’ve SEEN LSU win 10 football and baseball national championships, it’s still difficult to do.

Your attitude screams of someone desperate to be taken at his word, but we all know Texas hasn’t proven they have the culture to win the big one.

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I'll Play.

I’ve seen Texas play for 17 football and baseball national championships, and

I’ve seen Texas win 7 football and baseball national championships. (I'm old, but not that old).

I've also seen Texas, playing trough the gauntlet of the vaunted SEC in 2024-25, play as the #1 team in football and as the #1 team in football.

I've SEEN and LIVED in south Louisiana, and I enjoyed the cajun culture.

I've also seen the LSU sports culture. Like Marty McFly's Flux Capacitor, it lies dormant, flashes for a brief moment in time, and disappears.

Is 1935-36 the last time LSU Football won the conference back to back?

that doesn't mean you can't enjoy the ride. I know you guys get kind of hung up on the trophies. I like them too.

My former professor and fighter pilot said there's two kinds of pilots: "The quick and the dead." He was right. But sports are not life and death. Well, not usually.

But the Texas maiden voyage through the SEC has been been special.

"But you didn't win anything!!!"

You're right, but now we are playing better than anyone in the country and it feels pretty damn good. We caught a wave and I'm not jumping off.

We've had the unique pleasure of watching Texas play as the #1 Team in Football and #1 Team in Baseball in the same year. As a representative of the vaunted SEC! SEC! SEC!

Did you have that on your Bingo card? When was the last time you could say the same? Ever?

I've been wanting to go to a game in Michigan since the 60's and never had a reason to go until this year. Best away game experience I've ever had. My 30+ year old kids went to Dallas with me to watch #1 Texas embarrass Oklahoma. Bucket list kinda thing for me because my kids were with me.

The Football team was expected to do well, but not well enough to play for the SEC Championship. Nope, that was never going to happen. We were a missed FG from winning then and 10 yards away from playing for the National Championship. We lost to Georgia & Ohio State. No shame in that. They had better teams.

The Baseball team was expected to be middle of the pack in the SEC; last week we had 2 freshmen and 3 sophomores in the starting lineup. We have won every series we've played, swept 5, and have a 5 game lead in the SEC with 9 games to play.

Reminds of '75 when Texas christened Disch-Falk by starting 23-0 in conference, was top ranked for most of the year, and won the CWS.

As a fan that has gone to Texas games for over 50 years, win or lose, this year is about as good as it gets. We've heard a constant refrain for 3 years that we wouldn't be able to compete, we're entitled and too soft. Have we answered those questions yet?

Don't you think walking up to your seats to see the #1 team in the land play feels different than watching the last game of the year on TV on a Monday or Tuesday night?

Like fishing, I don't need to keep the fish as a trophy, because we both know I caught it. And I got the pictures and a tee shirt.

It may end before we want it to, but I'm sure enjoying the ride.

:cheers: : :dude: :cheers:

Baseball

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Texas just wins.

It really is crazy. The hitting talent in this lineup is not close A&M, LSU, Tennessee but the pitching keeps them in games and they find the hits they need.

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With Belyeu in the line up and Gasparino knocking the cover of the ball, Texas was a different team. Gasp has time to get back in the groove, and getting Jonah Williams and Belyeu back should get us back where we need to be.

Crazy? That is Texas baseball.

Pitching & Defense >> Guys that look like Sunday Softballers w/ beer guts swinging for the fences.

That has been the norm since Disch-Falk opened in 1975. Our Hall of Fame is very pitcher heavy. The flip side of taking pitches gets you to the bull pen quicker, and Texas usually matches up very well with that.

The 3-6-1 Double Play to win the game are the little things that don't show up in the box score. A&M had 2 chances where they didn't turn it. Not sure if it cost them, but those things matter, especially with pitch counts.

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Idk, even when it’s Texas turn to struggle (injuries, low production, etc), we still squeak it out. Not sure if that’s Schloss or what

Oh, it’s Schloss. What he’s doing this year is utterly amazing. Just look at how much your team has improved from last year under Pierce to this year.

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100% Schloss.

Weiner's & Schloss's pitching management is A+. Today is the 1st time I've seen them let a pitcher walk 2 guys in a row (3 actually). I like pulling a starter after he's done his job (~ 4-5 innings) and starts losing his control or velocity, before he walks the bases full.

He has that stone face demeanor of Gustafson & Garrido. Calm & steady. I haven't seen him erupt yet; I'm not sure if he's that guy. He acts like we're going to win, and we win.

Pierce made that sour puss face when ever things weren't going for Texas. Players picked up on that. He never understood the mystique; "We're Texas, we're going to win."

We’re Texas!!!

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Congrats on the series win. You guys are locked and loaded for greatness this year

Nah, history has shown that this won’t continue.. but it’s been a fun season..

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Respectfully, I disagree.

If it happened once, it can happen again.

I was a freshman in '74-75, the year Disch-Falk opened. Texas started 23-0 in conference play, losing the last game of the year on a walk-off HR. The 3 starting pitchers were 17-0 w/ 1.80 ERA, 15-1 w/ 1.95 ERA and 10-1 w/ 1.43 ERA. Texas had a .325 team batting average.

Things are different now.

But Texas pitching the last 2 months is pretty damn stout. Burns throwing 99 MPH gas out of the bull pen in blowing away a hot and good fastball hitting team was sweet, and unexpected. The good hitting teams we've already faced are probably better than anything we'll see in the tournament.

Chicks still did the long ball, but pitching wins games.

Any apprehension we had before the season is gone. Schloss looks very much in control, and it's translating to the field.

It's baseball. Lace 'em up and play 'em one game at a time.

"... we got out mojo working ..."