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Sure, if you're comfortable hanging around the top 25 every year with no real chance to compete for an NC, he's not truly bad. But unless he changes his philosophy (i.e., slap bunt and steal, eke out a few runs, and try to beat opponents with pitching and defense), we'll never win another NC in this era of college softball.

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Well, yeah. It's a non-revenue sport though. My point is that from a practical standpoint it's a tough call for an AD to fire the coach of a non-revenue sport who fields a competitive team even if it's not very good. I mean it was hard enough for UGA and LSU to fire Richt and Miles and they were in charge of football.

Aside from the FOGiest of FOGs, fans are going to want to compete for championships in everything, so I would certainly like to see a change made sooner than later. ADs just need their non-revenue sports to be better than a source of embarrassment though. I don't think Murphy is safe forever, but he has at least this year and next even if the bottom falls out, which really feels like an inevitability at this point. If you can't hit, you can't win unless you have an All-American ace and very reliable #2 starter to carry you to a bunch of 3-2 and 2-0 wins.

I am something of a Boobie Feaster myself.

LSU gave up a 13-0 run over the final 2 minutes and change against OM and lost by 2. I think that's somehow even worse. You almost have to be trying to give up 13 points in 2-3 minutes when you have a multi-possession lead. Much less a double digit lead.

Then of course there is what Wake did last night. I don't see how the guy who shot that rushed logo 3 with 8 seconds left and only down by 1 can come back to the team today. Just pack your locker up and leave.

The fun part about being good is that you know you're going to bounce back from those kind of kick in the balls losses.

They have poor guard play and only one legitimate scorer, but tend to fight and claw their way to staying in games. You have to have steady guard play to win tight games though. It's not optional.

Yes, if the goal is actually to stop it from happening. If rushing the field meant the win is literally overturned, it would never happen again.

I don't think the conference actually cares though. It just has to look like it doesn't condone it for liability purposes.

Now imagine his reaction when he finds out that all of CBB has a collective .500 record. It's truly anyone's year with that kind of parity.

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35. Georgia


In the midst of a second half meltdown and hanging on by a thread

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Mike White is just premium brand Avery Johnson. He manages to win a couple more OOC games every year to put his team on the right side of the bubble, but the February collapses happen like clockwork.

Don't feed the troll.

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Dyke can't help but to keep pumping up the idea of another college poaching Oats. Sorry, no one wants your Calipari numb nuts.

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It's a bizarre obsession that he talks about as if it's practically an inevitability despite Nate having like a $20 million buyout, the school's demonstrated willingness to pay him in accordance with his success, and him literally turning down more prestigious jobs. I mean yeah he might leave, but I don't think it'll be for another college job or until his kids are done living at home.

O/U 11.5 mentions of our narrow escape against Arkansas?

O/U 11.5 mentions of Texas losing at home to Arkansas?

O/U 4.5 mentions of Arkansas or Arkansas players unrelated to either Texas or Alabama's recent games against them?