Gunga Din
| Favorite team: | Oklahoma  |
| Location: | Oklahoma |
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| Number of Posts: | 3365 |
| Registered on: | 7/6/2020 |
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re: OU softball on pace for 200 Home Runs
Posted by Gunga Din on 3/25/26 at 8:16 am to Victor R Franko
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Oklahoma is now one of several big fish in the SEC pond.
The days of being anointed as the odds on favorite are over.
He was not wrong...
As an OU fan... in the Big XII... we had to deal with Texas and OSU...(Texas Tech hadn't started buying superstars yet)....
In the SEC... Good grief... Texas, Alabama, Tennessee, Florida are all pretty close or at OU's level. A&M, Arkansas, LSU, Miss. State, Georgia, Auburn and Kentucky are all really good. Ole Miss made it to OKC last year. Missouri and South Carolina have solid programs.
Top to bottom... Softball may be the SEC's best sport. And that is saying something because the SEC as a league is good at everything.
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re: NIT Second-rate Eight
Posted by Gunga Din on 3/24/26 at 5:06 pm to captdalton
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The nit began with 32 teams, each one battling for 65th place. Now we are down to the Second-rate Eight.
Some of the NIT teams would beat the living crap out of some of the small conference auto qualifiers...
I think the NIT and this new Crown thing are still a good deal for bubble type teams who didn't get in and want to keep playing... and although nobody watches.... the fan bases of the teams in the tournaments do.
The way OU finished the season... I'm glad I get to watch them play three more times...As long as THAT team shows up and not the putrid mid season one that ultimately kept them out of the big dance.
And ironically... OU fans still have those games to look forward to. If we had been in the NCAA tournament... we'd likely be out already.
I think it is important to note that Houston had a basketball dynasty before they were ever admitted into the SWC. From about 1965 to their SWC admittance in the mid 1970s... they were one of the best teams in the country. .
While McAfee always acting like a kid who has OD'd on Cap'n Crunch is probably number one for me....
A guy who deserves mention on here is Petros Papadakis. Nothing against him as a person or as an analyst... but he has a voice truly made for mime.
The only other guy in media that has a voice that horrible is that Dan Dakich guy who does basketball.
Heather Dinich? It is her fivehead that makes her a hard watch.
Sort of like Clay Travis... who's head looks like somebody put it in a compound vice shortly after his birth.
A guy who deserves mention on here is Petros Papadakis. Nothing against him as a person or as an analyst... but he has a voice truly made for mime.
The only other guy in media that has a voice that horrible is that Dan Dakich guy who does basketball.
Heather Dinich? It is her fivehead that makes her a hard watch.
Sort of like Clay Travis... who's head looks like somebody put it in a compound vice shortly after his birth.
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Me and the wife (no pics) watch a lot of college basketball. We listened to my cousin tell us how much better the women's game is, and that we should really start watching it. More techinacally sound, better defense, blah blah blah.... my cousin is a 20+ year girls basketball coach.
After watching a men's game one night, I flipped the channel and came across two of the best women's teams playing it. So we indulged. A few minutes in, my wife asked "what other SEC games are on?" Meaning dudes. Softball comes to mind as about the only girl sport I can get into. I totally understand the perspective of someone who is invested, but if we are talking about viewing something possibly spectacular, the odds are that the players with twigs and berries are going to put on a better show.
I watch women's basketball because OU has a pretty competitive team... and I believe you can get to where you can appreciate a below the rim game.
But that is where softball has an advantage.... The adaptations softball has made away from baseball has made the game way more exciting than it would be if women played baseball.
Smaller diamond, smaller field dimensions, closer pitchers mound, a ball that carries slower through the air... all make for a dynamic game.
In basketball, the girls do play with a slightly smaller ball... but to make it more the equivalent to softball... they'd probably have to have girls play basketball with a nine foot goal.
re: Saturday SEC Baseball
Posted by Gunga Din on 3/21/26 at 5:35 pm to Terrific Tales
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LSU got out of that 8th inning like 3 times
I remember the first baseball game I ever watched as well.
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You can't call a timeout in that scenario once the Kentucky player has grabbed it. They should have fouled before Kentucky was able to get a shot up. End of story.
It isn't that easy with this new continuation stuff. All Oweh would have done in that case would be to throw the ball halfway to the goal after they fouled him and claim it was a shot....
re: Top 10 Scariest Football Stadiums to play in at night
Posted by Gunga Din on 3/21/26 at 10:04 am to EasternShoreTider
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Iowa? Wtf?
You do realize that Iowa's stadium is full of a bunch of old people... dressed up like bumble bees.
Ain't nothing scarier than that.
re: NCAA changes the penalties for Targeting
Posted by Gunga Din on 3/19/26 at 6:50 pm to GoCrazyAuburn
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They also need to figure out how to call it with any semblance of consistency. Instead of one game something meeting the requirement and the next game the very same hit can not be targeting.
No kidding...
And the metrics are ridiculous. Crown of the helmet vs. helmet- helmet contact...launch/no launch... defenseless player/not a defenseless player...
Once you think you have all of it figured out... you don't. :lol:
re: Hogs just need victories over a 13 seed and 12 seed to make the Sweet Sixteen…
Posted by Gunga Din on 3/19/26 at 6:37 pm to ReversePiggie
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Had read that High Point could give Whisky a good run, but just thought it was a homer article.
Wild they outright won.
Arkie better hope High Point doesn't shoot threes like they did today...
I've never seen anything crazier than the threes that High Point was throwing up there. And they went in over and over.
re: Top College Basketball Programs?
Posted by Gunga Din on 3/19/26 at 4:27 pm to Go Go Gata
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UCLA > Duke all-tme
Splitting hairs here.
Duke has been good enough, long enough that they are at the top level with any of the other blue bloods. Their resume holds up with anybody else's after being elite for the better part of 40 years. The only reason UCLA is still with the other top teams is because of what they did 50-60 years ago.
UCLA is a lot like Notre Dame in football.
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Why should I have to pay taxes but an athlete shouldn’t?
I guess for the same reason a coach can hire his son to assist him at a state institution... and take over for him when he retires...
And you can't.
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The charm is its not head to head with NCAA.
The NCAA final is 6 Apr. this one is 5th. They will be in the same timeframe yet won’t go head to head. And all the big weeks like this one and next week will be over
So its not going to get lost in the March Madness, and has a nice niche date wise.
I had no idea that this tournament existed last season...
I didn't watch the NIT... but I ended up watching this tournament because as you said... there wasn't anything else on because the NCAA tournament was down to the Final Four.. and they played this on the off days of the FF.
re: Ole Miss....
Posted by Gunga Din on 3/15/26 at 11:42 am to Tua_2_Smitty
In this day and age they likely won't...
But I'd like to see Ole Miss and OU (if they don't get in the NCAA by surprise) go ahead and do the NIT this season.
It would be fun to see those teams continue to play some games as well as they were playing late.
But I'd like to see Ole Miss and OU (if they don't get in the NCAA by surprise) go ahead and do the NIT this season.
It would be fun to see those teams continue to play some games as well as they were playing late.
re: A&M what is this?
Posted by Gunga Din on 3/14/26 at 7:28 pm to UKWildcats
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That gay shite doesn't fly in the South.
Someone needs to let the voters of South Carolina and Arkansas know this.
re: My friend’s kid is graduating from Alabama in May - took 5 years after changing major
Posted by Gunga Din on 3/14/26 at 6:49 pm to SEC Doctor
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Has not seen the Tide win a title in any sport as a student.
How awful...
Hopefully this poor lad nailed a lot of chicks to ease his pain. :nana:
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Good game! Looking forward to another good one today
While OU baseball crowds pale in comparison to the rest of the SEC... the fact that OU packed the house in March while also having a home softball game is truly amazing.
Gotta credit the SEC in general and A&M in particular for this. :bow:
And of course... gotta give a shout out to the weather. Midweek game was nippy and NOBODY was there to watch. It is nice this weekend.
re: SEC Men's Basketball Tournament - Friday
Posted by Gunga Din on 3/14/26 at 9:37 am to HClassof84
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Tip of the cap to OU. Hard fought game. It basically came down to OU's will vs. Acuff's skill.
The way they have finished the year, I think OU should make the tourney.
Appreciate all the kind words from Arkansas peeps towards the OU team. OU's team could have packed it in...
But when Acuff hit the three at the end of the first half... I figured he would pull that same stuff off in the second half.
And of course he did...the sorry dog.
but he was kind enough to leave his last free throw short...
So I don't think he is all THAT bad of a guy. :lol:
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Overall historical series is practically tied, one source showed OU 38-37. Last time met was Omaha where OU took both games.
Joining the SEC seems to have done wonders for OU baseball attendance. Looks like they are getting a full house despite the softball team also playing at home.
I would... but I'm too checked out to check in.
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On the other hand, the Big 12 tournament is being held in Kansas City,
Your post was excellent on this...
But to add to it...
KC was the home to the Big6/7/8 tourney for a gazillion years before the Big XII.
It is a bid deal in KCMO and always has been. KU and KSU are close (and Missouri was) and this has always been a huge deal for Iowa State fans... they come to KC en masse until ISU gets eliminated... This year ISU is still there... So their fans are still there. And historically... Almost always.. one of Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri or Iowa State was in the finals... So there was always a big crowd all the way through.
Finally... in the old Big 8... Oklahoma State was really the only baseball school... In the Big XII it was them, Texas and A&M...
The Big XII fans don't care about baseball at all. Now that OU and Texas and A&M are gone you have OSU, Arizona, Arizona State, TCU and Texas Tech as your baseball schools. And that is pretty much it.
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