giveemhell

Killshot efficiency, wtf? What are your starting pitchers' ERA and WHIP, only stats that really matter...

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Del Conte is a career drunk. He fits well in Austin

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Augie Garrido was a career drunk who won us two national titles. Arguably the best college baseball coach of all time.

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Precursor to the Air Force, what theatre was he in?

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The war ended before he could be sent overseas (thank God). He enlisted when he turned 17 in the fall of '42, but didn't start active duty until turning 18. By the time he finished training, the war was winding down. He later left the service to become a pilot for American Airlines.

My little brother was in the Corps of Cadets in the early nineties (he later became a Navy pilot). He helped build that damn stack of timber when he was there, like all the other guys in the Corps. After the incident our dad, a former pilot in the Army Air Corps during WWII, was furious with A&M for allowing such unsupervised stupidity (I don't think he realized the scale of this annual construction project at the time my brother was there). It was a terrible, senseless tragedy.

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Texas will fall off just like last year

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Texas won the conference last season despite losing our ace to injury midway through conference play. That didn’t stop us from kicking Sooner arse to end the regular season, though.

Mizzou started the whole conference realignment chain of events by flirting with the Big Ten while still in the Big 12. They didn’t want you then, probably don’t want you now.

The guy took us to our first Final Four since the 1940’s. He’s funny and personable, one of my all-time favorite coaches, but for whatever reason he hit a ceiling at Texas. Now that we’re out, I hope he takes Tennessee all the way this year, although the odds are against it.

The OP made the discussion more interesting by making the choice between a natty in one sport and final four in another (which still holds the possibility of a season-ending loss). But even if the original choice had been between baseball natty or basketball natty, I would have chosen baseball. I couldn't care less how much prestige the rest of the country gives to a college basketball natty over one in baseball. I love college baseball and never want the season to end.

Interestingly, Vegas considers all four of us as underdogs in the next round.

HolyGlore is the only aggy here who makes any sense.