thunderbird1100

Guidry is just throwing BP to these guys

College baseball is in many ways similar to minor leagues, its a lot of development, so coaches will let pitchers pitch through control issues more so than you would ever see in MLB. These are teenagers to early 20 somethings, they are not developed yet and are always trying to add pitches to their arsenal.

MLB is a finished polished product after years of players spending in college/minors getting there ultimately. College baseball especially in a higher conference like SEC/ACC you will find a ton of talented arms (mid 90s and up) but a lot of them are still trying to figure out how to pitch, how to locate and how to throw secondary pitches for competitive strikes consistently.

Whenever you have a true ace pitcher though in college, it is very fun to watch. College World series almost always has some true pitching gems every year. 1 it's a big park, but 2 some of the best arms always get there

An HOA cant operate with HOA dues, imagine trying to collect whatever HOA fee it is from people in a low income neighborhood

You would literally need full time door to door collections reps.

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Can live easily off 50k a year.

Possible?

250k stocks
250 M Funds
250k in Iras and 401k

15k cash on hand.

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Assuming you can access all that $750k penalty free, which you cant until 59.5, $750k should only produce you about $30k-$40k/yr without going down and thats typically at a much later age for that kind of withdrawal rate.

I would say no, way too risky they early in life beyond just the healthcare stuff others talked about. If you need $50k to live on, that portfolio isnt setup to produce that comfortably for 30+ years.

With the inevitable windfall from dad dying sure it might work (not knowing the exact numbers) but would hate to bank on that in the first 5 years and he lives to be 90 instead of 81-85 and then you find yourself in a really bad spot in your early 60s.

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@Indiana [16-0]
vs Oregon [13-2]
@ Texas [10-3]
vs Illinois [9-4]
@ Iowa [9-4]
@USC [9-4]
vs Michigan [9-4]

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Trying to understand why some might be confused about OSU being #4 on the OP list. It's basing heavily off last season and they are playing an undefeated team on the road, a 13 win Oregon team, a 10 win Texas team on the road and 4 9 win B10 teams, 2 on the road

Yeha I buy that as a top 5 schedule headed into the season absolutely

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They don't offer $0 deductible plans? Been over a decade since I was not on an employer sponsored plan, but I loved my $0 deductible plan

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You'll be very hard pressed to find any employer offering $0 deductible plans these days, unless they want to charge you a good lot in premiums.

Back in 2013 I had a $0 deductible plan paid for by company in full

Today my free plan is a $4000 deductible plan; it also cost the company way more for that than the $0 plan did way back then

Healthcare costs have just gotten insane

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For saying the floor has been bad?

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When you've won a title every other year at a school, the "floor" being miss the tourney or a regional exit is pretty acceptable outside of that :lol:

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A solid .300 hitter on a loaded SEC team was definitely going to be playing for this team this year. If I recall, he was hitting over .350 a few weeks ago. I wouldn't trade places with any program in the country, but, hindsight and all, I wish like hell we had done whatever it was necessary to keep him.

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Larson got benched a bit in SEC play, again he started playing OF at texas and got replaced there. He sees time as a 1B/DH but not on a regular basis.

He only has 27 AB in SEC play so far compared to more than double for the other Texas starters in SEC play. He doesnt have an XBH in SEC play either. Does a great job getting on base but not enough to be an everyday player there with zero power.

Larson is a solid hitter but with no power and not even being an every day player we really arent missing him much.

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It’s almost like SEC pitching is on a whole different level than any other conference expect maybe the ACC. So it would probably be a good idea to just try to pickup guys from the portal that is experienced at hitting that level of pitching. Tommy White is your perfect example.

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Again, plenty of mid-major transfers with great success in the SEC. You are way too severely limiting yourself if you only want to look at transfers from SEC and ACC teams

Imagine not looking at Paul Skenes because he played a t a service academy

Or Anthony Eyanson
Or Devin Sheerin
Or Daniel Dickinson

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14-16 probably would imo but I don’t think we finish even close to that. We will probably finish with 10-12 SEC wins and will literally have to win the SECT to make it in the field.

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14-16 has always gotten an SEC team but our RPI is in a different universe right now from where all those teams were

Yes our RPI would improve obviously from 65 if we went 8-4 from here on out, the question is exactly how much. Because if it got to 45, we'd probably be left out, if it got to 35, we'd probably be in

But really my point is we would be a pretty unique case probably to any SEC team in the past that finished with 14 conference wins and always got in. Losing 5 Quad 4 games so far is a huge drag down on our RPI. Our RPI only improved from 75 to 65 playing 2 Top 10 RPI teams the last 2 weekends (despite losing all 6 games). South Carolina wont be much of an RPI help.