Big 12 baseball

Season started up. Looking forward to some good baseball.

Looking forward to catching some Baylor games

Wreck Um

It’s wreck em.

How about Guns Up?

TT 10-0 start

Texas looks like tbey did last year, but with less pitching. No bats! Gonna be a long season.

11-0.

Are they playing a double header today?

The basketball team finally broke out of their slump against a very hot Horney Toad team. Snapped a 4 game losing streak.

I didn't submit until the game was over. The Aggies had a 30 minute last 31 seconds.

Game 2. 3-2 good guys last I looked

6th

Sorry 5-2 top of the 9th

13-0

Wow!

And number 3 in the country.

Calm down.....

#3 bro!

Texas vs Stanford, Thurs-sunday series. Should be some good ball being played.

Tech is playing Kentucky this weekend at No. 5 Kentucky, that should be a good series to watch.

First real test.

Kentucky is salty but very untested this year. Should be a really great series. Hope we at least get 2/3.

Kentucky got the first one

We staked our stud to a 3 run lead and he promptly crapped the bed. Yeah, the weather sucked but it was disappointing.

That sucks...

Was in neighborhood bar thursday until a Longhorn fan started screaming at the game. Had the whole place staring like he was insane.

That was a good game. Last night Texas ran into a pitcher they couldn't figure out. They couldn't hit his change up.

TT having issues with Kentucky. What has happened to the pitching? L6-11

Yes, this longhorn was PO"d too. I was with a Longhorn fan we left before one of us told him to STFU. was real obnoxious.

Drove by TCU the other night and they had a game going.

Red Raiders need a good series against Baylor this weekend. Kinda rough road trip out east

Texas needs to pick up the pieces after the [censored] whopping they got from Stanford last week.

We are at the Baylor game about to watch Baylor seeep Tech

One of these days I'll make it out to the ballpark.

What happen to big 12 baseball this year?

What happen to your team?

Texas is completely opposite of years past. No pitching, but some how they have the bats going. Their stud pitcher isn't very impressive this season. Roger Clemens youngest son Kody is killing the ball. Dont think they will make any noise come tournament time.

More important is Texas and Alabama playing each other in 2021 and 2022. Once in Austin and once in Tuscaloosa.
Wish it was in Jerry world or Houston.

Lol, yep saw that this morning!

Should we make the trip to bama?

Uhmmm, might need some help Tech......

"What happen to big 12 baseball this year?"

I pull for TCU and Miami but the big 12 is not relavent compared to other conferences. It gets old but SEC and ACC top to bottom is the envy of college baseball. Hell the pac 10 makes more noise than the big 12 nowadays.

Kody just hit a walk off to beat TCU.

Tech is handling OSU right now. If Texas wins tomorrow they win the big 12. I'll be there!

Kody stikes again. 2-0 Texas

I'll take it!

How can you win your conference and be ranked so low compared to other teams in other conferences? Is the big 12 that bad?

They won the Big 12 Conference. Winning conference has nothing to do with rankings.

but doesn’t winning your conference mean you are the best team in the conference? Shouldn’t that lead to a descent ranking unless your in an extremely weak conference?

Tech is ranked higher then Texas, but Texas has a better conference record. Thus the champs. Rankings don't matter all that much. Any team can catch fire in the tournament. I'll say this, Texas has some momentum going. Just don't think pitching is gonna be there come tournament time. Texas started out 9-9 and ended up 37-18. So they went 28-9 to finish

Texas has been on fire recently. Tech just swept the team that was in first prior to this weekend. OSU is solid. TCU, OU, and Baylor are capable of beating anybody on any given day. Should be a fun Big XII tournament to watch next weekend.

Yep, Baylor is probably the hottest team in big 12.

Just look at softball....SEC has 10 teams ranked in top 20. The 5th best SEC girls softball is better than the best team in other conferences.

But college baseball has an asterisk on it....the best hs players never enter college unlike other sports. TCU to me is the best baseball PROGRAM in the big 12 but this year they took some hits that programs like them cannot afford to take unlike state schools.

I'm gonna have to disagree, about the best program in the big 12. TCU has been good of late, but program wise not even close.

Also don't private schools have slush funds that they award academic scholarships to baseball players? Essentially filling their team with scholarship players.

Texas lost 11 players to the draft last year. They had to scramble to fill their roster. I've got to give credit to coach for getting this much out of them.

HOOK-EM !!

What? no play by play from the UT game yesterday?

A 2 and Q might knock them out of hosting.

I think they are a lock for hosting...

Didn't understand why coach started a pitcher that's not a starter. Poor guy walked a bunch of guys he couldn't find the strike zone. Coach said he wanted go after the big 12 tournament, but it doesn't look like he does. Will see what he does now.

Does TCU need to win the big 12 to get into the tournament?

Maybe it was a National Seed then they were on the bubble?

Well, that's the game or decisions the coaches play. If you know you are a lock to host or as a National Seed then you start some guys in the tournament to get them some experience with the thought that if they don't play well and you loose 2 in a row you get plenty of rest before the post season.

TCU 100% has to win the Big XII tourney to get in after getting sweep by UT.

Yep, in order to be a national seed they would of need to win big 12 tournament

My goodness.....

What an absolutely disgusting way to loose the Big XII tournament and not make the playoffs. Also, looks like Schloss is seriously considering MSU's head coaching position. About the worst baseball weekend I could ask for.

I see UT got the Regional host and has A&M in their bracket. I imagine that match up will be packed if both win their opening games. Looks like it feeds into the Ole Miss regional for the Supers. Good luck! Love post season college baseball.

Yep, that had to hurt. I was pulling for TCU. Baylor has been on fire lately.

Not to high on Texas, they lack pitching. You cant go very far without it in the tournament, but beating A&M could make their season.

The TCU baseball program doesn’t offer athletic scholarships, so that makes their recent runs more impressive

Tech hosting again.

Dont think thats correct.

I don't believe it is correct either. In fact, I heard it is the opposite, due to TCU qualifying those interested in baseball for merit scholarship money in various fields/schools/degrees, thus freeing up spots in their NCAA maximum of 11.7 scholarships per school. Those merit scholarships don't count against them and allow for them to technically have more baseball players under scholarship than other schools.

You are confusing Vanderbilt and TCU. Vanderbilt has a large enough endowment that they can offer the entire student body the same scholarships they offer the baseball players. That's how Vandy gets around their high cost of tuition and limited scholarships for baseball in order to get the athletes they want. TCU does not do this. They are held to the same 11.7 scholarships as UT, Tech, A&M, etc trying to get the same in state athletes with the higher cost of tuition added on. Schloss has always talked about how difficult this makes recruiting. Not only do you need to find the elite athlete you want that will by pass the draft to come to college, but also one who's family can afford the TCU tuition. That's what makes the 15 years he's been at TCU and what he has done with that handicap impressive. I've always thought the one and only reason for him to leave TCU would be the difficulty in recruiting caused by the admission standards and tuition cost. Looks like MSU might be getting a great hire because of this. I'm still holding out hope he stays.

Yep, college baseball is not a fair playing field. For some reason there's only 11.7 scholarships. Private schools have private endowments that allow academic scholarships to players, feeling their rosters with more scholarship players, and it's perfectly legal. Then you have States that have the lottery. This allows teams to technically have more scholarships then other schools. Because of state-run lotteries to get into school. A bunch of the schools happened to be in the Southeast for some reason, Florida, West Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, and I might have missed one or two.

It makes you look at college baseball a little differently.

Technically correct. Endowment has to be large enough for the school to offer the academic scholarship to all the student body not just the baseball players for it to be legal. Very few private universities can afford to do this. Vandy is one. TCU is not one.

Who knows who's doing it, and who's not. Private schools dont have to disclose that info. Heres a interesting look into college baseball, and how jacked up it is.

I can tell you for a fact about it as we went to TCU meeting about our son. $40+ grand a year and all your going to get from TCU if you are the stud of studs (pitcher) is about $25k tops. If your not a pitcher then your getting less. A whole lot less in some cases. Now if UT and A&M can get you $20 something...do the math. Its a Hell of a road to hoe when your TCU and Miami....when those schools are at the top of college baseball then screw the state schools they aint got chit on those private schools!

Sooooo. Your telling me that those schools don't do any more then 11.7? No creative financing? No money at all for scoring x amount of points on your act, or sat?

Does your boy play ball for TCU?

Not sure if directed at me, but that's exactly what I'm saying about private schools. In order to do "creative financing" for baseball players the same benefit has to be afforded to every student for it to be legal.

Here's another article that sums it up pretty well:
http://www.omaha.com/sports/with-scholar...58c8c37fd1.html

I dont think we are disagreeing. Baseball is screwed up in so many ways. Whether it's private school and they're high tuition, but they get help with academic money. Some State schools wave out of state tuition which helps in recruiting. Some states have a lottery system which can also cover tuition so technically they get help for school even if they're not on a baseball scholarship. Why they only have 11.7 scholarships is baffling.

That video I posted which is technically not a video it's just audio explains even more detail about how baseball is screwed up. NCAA baseball is not a Level Playing Field.

Aggies vs. TU Saturday at 6 pm

Remember this.....
Should be good but nothing compares to football

Looks like the Big XII went 4-1 yesterday.

I remember, I was there. My seats were unfortunately right next to the longhorn band.

Baylor was red hot too.....

OU's arms are gonna be sore today if i saw correctly....did they really put up 20? Looked like a football score.

Lucky dog!

Please tell me you stayed for the eyes of Texas, or better yet Texas fight, "And its goodbye to a&m" had a whole new meaning that night.

Yep, 20-10 I believe.

Since we are sharing football clips....

Speaking of irrelevant teams in Texas football..... when your best moment in your football programs history is beating a team in the end of October.

By the way I'll never forget Blake Gideon dropping that interception.

At least a&m has a championship sure it was in black and white but it's still a championship. I'm not talking about the two they added when joining the SEC.

I was at Tech from 03-07 and lived in Lubbock until 2010. Those were good times. A&M was a middle of the road team in the Big 12 same as they are now in the SEC. At least we were competing back then. I can't argue that Tech's football program these days is definitely lacking. I sometimes wonder what would have been if Leach would have stayed.

As I see it, Tech for the most part gets the most out of there teams. Texas on the other hand usually doesn't even get half of their potential. Bunch of prima donnas that don't want to put in work. I'm hoping the culture changes.

I've always liked Mike Leach. I know he's not the most refined and Polished but he's a damn good coach he knows how to maximize Talent. Sometimes I defend Tech football when Tech fan start banging on them. Tech just doesn't get top recruits. It's hard to compete in a situation like that. Trust me I seen Tech come to Austin too many times and walk away with the win. It's not because Tech has better players. It's because they strategize well and those players play with a chip on your shoulder wanting to prove that they can play. They're probably even pissed that they didn't get recruited from Texas.

Wes Walker comes to mind.

3 run jack for Kody. 3-0 Texas top 1st.

Aggies pick up 1. Going to the top of the forth Texas up 3-1.

Man my Seminoles are out after a 3 run HR in the bottom of the 9th. Oh well.

I saw that highlight.

Texas up 8-1 top of the 6th.

Thats game. Texas wins 8-3

Tech up 6-2 Top 6th
OU up 3-0 3rd
Baylor 11-5 Final
OSU down 2-1 Top 5th

Tech 10-2 8th

Tech wins Lubbock regionals with 11-6 victory over UL.

UT in a tight one right now. Up 3-2 bottom of the 7th.

Tcu coach is staying. Good news for the big 12.

Texas is gonna blow it!

Texas moves on!

Both Texas Tech and Texas are still in the hunt to host a Super Regional. Tech is pulling for Duke and Texas is pulling for Tennessee Tech?

Duke won the first against uga. Up in game two.

Duke pulls It off! Tech hosting the supers!

We still have hope. Ole miss is losing.

Texas is hosting! Texas has a bunch of guys coming in that like to play Gorilla ball. This should be interesting. I think the coach might be second-guessing moving the fences in.

I swear speak to text doesn't do a very good job. Plus I probably should double check before I submit. I corrected it. First thing coach Pierce did when coming in to Texas was to move the fences closer in. Tennessee Tech has a bunch of Mashers. They lead college baseball in home runs. And they averaged 10 and 1/2 runs a game.

Got my tickets I'll be there.

Heading to the Texad game now, what time does the tech game start?

2pm!

Same here. Good luck up there. I think i'll be seeing some home runs today, and there is a good chance it won't be Texas hitting them. Texas will have their hands full.

Texas is in trouble

Tech got the W and UT lost in a close one. Hopefully both can win tomorrow and UT can then win on Monday.

Tech won?

The score board said duke won. Good deal tech.

Guns up! One more win.

Those tech boys are patient, and damn good hitters. Texas pitchers are over matched. Dont see it getting any better. They had 11 hits today.

Bad call in techs favor in the 8th, but I’ll take it. Nail bitter for sure.

Wreck em. 6-4!

I didnt get to go, but the wife and kiddos did. At least they got to see a Texas victory. Tomorrow Texas will have to duct tape pitching together, but their still in the fight.

Vanderbilt, Mississippi st is in top of the 11th. Winner goes to Omaha. Hell of a series.

Much to be learned from these Dogs. Got blasted 20-10 in their tournament opener and later down to their last strike against Florida State. Started the SEC season at 2-7.

Now they're headed to the CWS.

Texas is Up 4 to 1 top 6th, but duct tape is coming undone. They are in trouble.

hook em

I don't expect them to make much noise in Omaha, but these guys sure do play with a lot of grit. I'm amazed that they could do so much with so little. Pitching isn't special and aside from Kody the bats aren't either. But all they do is win.

Kody has to win the golden spikes for best college baseball player. I think he has 11 home runs in the last 15 games when it matters most. He's probably the best of the Clemens that have gone through Texas. Including the rocket.

Omaha bound!
Tech 6-2 over Duke.

Guns UP!

So when does UT play again?

CWS is this coming weekend.

Wreck'em!

Baseball has been going on for a month now, how does your team look?

UT is winning, but they are super sloppy. Hell they lost to UTSA last week........the defense need to step up, and pitching needs to stop handing out free passes. The offensive production has gotten better, and is the only way the stay in games.

Tech looks like it will be strong again this season.

Watched the Aggies play 3 games last weekend, they looked pretty good

Same with TTU. We have tons of offense when they show up. We don't have a quality Friday starter but we have two decent guys, and the first 5 or so bullpen guys are really good. Team ERA nearly a run better than last year. But walks and HBP, and errors! Middle infield in particular having a hard time.

Texas starting SS who its bad as$ defensively, and started to come around offensively last year tore his Achilles tendent riding one of those stupid as$ electric scooters. His replacement is not very good defensively. To be honest I've seen all positions in the infield kick the ball around. I'm not sure what the fielding percentages is, but it has dropped significantly from last year.

My god they are 215th in FP with a .957!

TECH VS UT tonight!

Should be a good series, I suspect y'all will take 2 of 3.

I see the games are on LHN this weekend, 6:30, 2:30, and 1:00.

Walk the bases loaded!

Tim Tadlock is 7-2 in Austin, nice little fun fact for this weekend series.

Updated!

Update 8-3.....

Update 8-4. Horns take the series 2-1.

Horns vs razorbacks tonight and tomorrow night on LHN.

They split the series 1-1.

Texas Vs TCU three game set starting tonight. Fox sports southwest.

I'll be there! Looks like a great night for baseball. Interested to see how the Frogs do against better completion. Lodolo on the mound for TCU. Projected top draft pick. Should be a bunch of scouts at the game.

Texas batters have taken a beating this last month. They have gone through a gauntlet of late LSU, Stanford, Arkansas, Texas Tech, and now TCU........

Awesome night for baseball!!!!

It would be great if Texas could throw strikes.....it gonna bite them in tha [censored]!

Is that your seat?

WOW! what a catch....

Well that was disappointing!

Yes sir!

Good guys win!!!





Actually it's a shame either of those starters had to take a loss as good as they pitched and as deep into the game. Great catch in center and ballzy call by coach to steal home and almost steal the game. I love college baseball!!!

https://mobile.twitter.com/tcu_baseball/status/1109250725559844864

Texas has had trouble with the free passes. It was a good game for sure, Good win for you guys, big disappointment for Texas. We'll do it again tomorrow.

Lodol has been the only bright spot for us on the mound. Actually as good as he pitched tonight it was probably his worst performance of the season. Think this was his first single digit strikeout game of the season so far. Texas hit him well. Bats were better for you guys than they've been given credit for. Weakness looks like their pen just like ours. Kid that came in the 9th you could tell was rattled from word go even with a 2-0 lead.

I'll be there again tomorrow weather permitting.

Was that UT's ace on the bump tonight? Our next 2 guys are a drastic drop off from what you saw tonight.

Texas is still trying to find out who they have as far as pitching. They have a bunch of young pitchers. I really couldn't tell you who their best pitchers are because they are so inconsistent. Yalls guy tonight may not have had his best outing, but he has some nasty stuff. He throws that big curve at the left handed batters and drops it right in there for strikes. He had Texas buckling there knees. He hit his spots, but that ump was not consistent at all. He should of hand a lot more strikes if you ask me.

Kid tonight for UT was nails!!

Lodol has always had a dynamic fast ball with a nasty slider. The curve was just added this year or should I say learned to throw from a different hold point with more break with it being thrown consistantly for a strike. Scouts have always said his 1st two pitches are major league type stuff, but he needed a 3rd pitch to go with it as well as consistency. He seems to have found that this year. He's projected as the 1st pitcher taken in the draft if this holds the rest of the season. I thought he was being squeezed on the zone, but I do look thru purple glasses and sit at an angle that its though to tell if it's in the zone or not.

Kid tomorrow on the bump for TCU will remind you of Lodol as well. Tall, lefty with electric stuff, but he's young and hasn't learned how to manage a game. When he's on, he's almost unhittable. However if he gets in a jam he generally doesn't recover from it and have a short memory.

Texas has one senior pitcher and one junior pitcher on the roster. Everyone else is a freshman or sophomore, so pitching is all over the place. Texas pitchers for the most part are young, with some electric stuff, but like you said earlier. If they get into jams they have a hard time getting out of them. Like Cam Fields the kid that came in for the save. If he's off he's off. I would of pulled him as soon as he lost the guy with a 0-2 count. I told my wife i hope they have someone else ready to go, but coach stayed with him. Both of those pitchers yesterday were sophomores. Jr pitcher Henley will be the starting pitcher today. He probably should have been the ace of the staff, but hes been getting rocked. He has some great stuff, but it doesn't get the job done for whatever reason. Texas was relying on the bats to get them through the season, but they have fallen flat of late. The D has gotten better as of the last 5 games. The fielding percentage before that was horrible. They were 215 in the country in FP.

I was a little baffled myself why Fields was left in the game and no one was every warming up. I also think the extra infielder pulling CF was a mistake. Why not walk the bases loaded? Make it an easy out at home and possibly a double play on sharp hit ball. Then all you need is an out to keep it tied. UT coach lost the game in the bottom of the 9th in my opinion. He put his kids in a bad situation. Easy to play arm chair coach after the game though.

Well that was one hell of a disaster.

Just haven't gotten into it. May take a peek.

On Saturday or Sunday? That was a straight up butt kicking on Saturday. I hope they can get the other weekend starter lined out for TCU and figure out the bull pen. Baffles me when guys come in and can't find the strike zone. Got to watch all 3 games this weekend and great weather for baseball. Overall I thought Texas hit the ball better than advertised. They barreled the ball up well. I also think they are better at the fundamentals than TCU. They just played better. Could have just as easily been a sweep for UT other than their head coach. He lost the game for them in the 9th of the 1st game and in the 8th in the rubber match. At least he had enough sense this time to walk the bases loaded for the double play to get them out of the inning. The SS just didn't execute and threw one in the dirt the 1st baseman couldn't dig up giving TCU 2 more insurance runs. Will be interesting to see how the season shakes out. Long way to go still.

Tech pulled the brooms out again Michigan this weekend, not much of a shocker since those northern teams spend first part of the season traveling for every series they play.

Texas has been struggling of late, but we are here.

Jesus, Texas fell off a cliff. Hows your team doing? Hows the big 12 looking?

Tech is still playing well, way better than they were at the beginning of Big 12ish play.

Yeah, moving Jung to shortstop seemed to be a big reason why we are playing so well. That freshman SS Baker was killing us. Hopefully we can finish strong and lock down that #8 national seed. Hosting a super regional is a big advantage.

Glad someone out there is playing good ball.

Didn’t know Iowa st does not play baseball
And WOW never thought I would see Texas in last place in baseball
Sicem

Been a very frustrating year watching TCU. Finally have the offense we've always wished for only to see the pitching/fielding we never wanted!! Think their post season shot is over unless they win the Big XII tourney.