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Regarding the SEC. Yeah, they've performed, with 6 teams (not named Florida) in the Supers. But, that's not the point. Put the same number of Pac-12 schools in and see how they'd do. The Oregon schools fell short by an eyelash. As we've learned over the years in the NCAA basketball tournament, first...

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So here's how I've got it: North Carolina St at 1.) Arkansas South Florida at 2.) Texas Oregon or LSU at 3.) Tennessee East Carolina at 4.) Vanderbilt Mississippi at 5.) Arizona Notre Dame at 7.) Mississippi St Stanford or UC Irvine at 8.) Texas Tech Virginia or Old Dominion vs. Dallas Baptist @ TCU...

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prh wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 4:38 pm
UofAlum05 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 4:37 pm I wonder if Ole Miss's baseball team will act like complete asshats like their softball team did.
Are they still an SEC school?

Well, here we go again...

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My fondest dream is that they can find someone who can replicate or exceed Murphy’s success with NCAA sanctions. LOL! I think Brock managed that, too, with Nardil, etc. And Winkles probably pre-dated the NCAA even thinking anybody would cheat in college baseball. I certainly agree about Checketts, ...

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It's interesting. ASU extended Smith, but only by two years, so he'd have been going into next season as a lame duck unless they extended him again. I really think it's possible that if we hadn't won the league and gotten into the "sweet sixteen", they might have put it off, but they felt their hand...

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So, Ole Miss and Southern Miss are in a rain delay, with the winner today coming to Hi Corbett for the Super Regional. Meanwhile, by seeding, it's: 1. Arkansas (vs. Nebraska) 2. Texas 3. Tennessee 4. Vanderbilt 5. Arizona [/b] 6. TCU (Lost) 7. Mississippi St (vs. Campbell) 8. Texas Tech 9. Stanford ...

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Regarding ASU feeling all warm and fuzzy over beating us in football...if owning the kind of 9-20 slop Kevin Sumlin put out on the field is enough to make anybody feel satisfied, that makes my case. I don't particularly care for ASU because their fans are annoying, stupid, and obsessed, and their lo...

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ASU dumped out by Fairfield. Will asu fire Smith? If they do, they should at least give Central Michigan's Jordan Bischel an interview. It's an interesting question. Our having a big year doesn't help Smith's cause. But, Ray Anderson hired him, and Anderson has all of his people in place and probab...

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Yeah, that would be the Stags for the uninitiated. So much for a blowout rematch with Texas. We are apparently supposed to be reminded that this is a young ASU team (in Tracy Smith's seventh year at ASU.) Just like we've been reminded that ASU had the normal injuries everyone always experiences and ...

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So why is it that the SEC network is showing some of these tournament games, and the Pac-12 isn't? I've been streaming them, and the Pac-12 crew of Roxy Bernstein and Wes Clements are doing the games. I'm in LA right now, so I just get regular P12N and P12LA, but that's just old football games. Are ...

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Yes, Irvin’s performance looks even better today. They are killing OSU. That was truly amazing. A complete game 3-hit shutout at a critical time against what is obviously a very good team. After all the stuff on Twitter yesterday about #Gary#Gary#Gary, I was trying to find the clip from Bridge of S...

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Host Florida (from the SEC)...GONE in two. Elsewhere, name/major baseball conference teams with a loss include: Virginia, LSU, Oregon St, UCLA, Alabama, and Oklahoma St. I suspect ASU will pick one up at Texas this afternoon.

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https://www.collegebaseball.info/post/r ... tournament

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It's interesting. The SEC...oops, I mean NCAA...tournament selection committee awards SEVEN home field advantage host slots to SEC teams. The Pac-12 gets 3, the Big XII gets 3 (because we're each less than half as good as the SEC), generic Deep South schools get 2, and Notre Dame gets the other one....

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So the Cats won the conference automatic bid (the de facto championship) last week by winning the series at Oregon State. A couple of days ago, they won it outright when Oregon lost to Cal. Then, they celebrated it last night after winning the last game of the regular season. Lots of chances to put ...

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First off, congratulations to the gals! Great to sweep a Super Regional on an SEC field on an ESPN channel. That said, here's pretty close to a tirade from Oklahoma coach Patty Gasso on the "disgrace" and lack of transparency of the seeding: https://www.si.com/college/oklahoma/other-sooners/patty-ga...

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The east end of campus has changed a lot, as well as the downtown area, and there's a lot of residential sprawl. But, I think the midtown grid (such as it is) seems about the same, and the character and personality of Tucson seems more or less unchanged...at least from my perspective. It's still a b...

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KCP is one of the Lakers' best perimeter defenders, and he supposedly strained a quad, so we'll see whether he can play and how effectively on Sunday. As for Frank the Tank, he's definitely hated in Tucson, but Phoenix is a different animal these days. You've got a certain amount of catering to ASU ...

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The fat ugly guy at the Republic has been flailing away with his hate propaganda for awhile now, so I'm finally getting around to responding. My reaction has been about at the level of an adult walking down a hallway of a middle school and overhearing lower-level pizza-faced kids ragging on each oth...

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Lauren Ware says she's not going to play volleyball next season, but she'll concentrate on hoops. I've actually been concerned about her two-sport status. For one thing, wear and tear on knees from two of the most high-impact sports for that kind of thing is a legitimate issue. And second, her devel...

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Agreed. And with the earlier events, nobody was going to touch him way out there. Here's the schedule:

@ Phx Sun 12:30 ABC
@ Phx Tue 7 TNT
LA Thu 7 TNT
LA Sun 12:30 ABC
(@ Phx Tue TBD)
(LA Thu TBD)
(@ Phx Sat TBD)

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Insane 3 by Lebron People are going a bit nuts about the shot, but I dunno. I was a mediocre high school player, but moving away from the hoop, then turning, squaring, and shooting is something you practice millions of times by yourself. So you get your favorite spots on the floor, and you sometime...

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Adjustments need to be made, throw some 1-3-1 or whatever into the mix when required. Keep the other team on its toes. If one defense isn't working then switch and make them think. My attitude was always that Sean got the players, generally had good regular seasons, was an underdog with all the FBI...

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Basically, we're in a pack of 5 or 6 horses coming around the turn and heading for the home stretch. We're in a pretty good spot, with the fewest remaining conference games on the schedule offering a chance to lose. Except that we have to go to Oregon St. We'll see how it plays out, recognizing that...

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Took a look at our roster. In our current reduced circumstances, it's good that we've made the late additions we have. But it also struck me that, with one not completely unreasonable potential position switch and the addition of just two OLs and a S, you could field an entire offense and defense wi...

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Ding, dong...the bitch is dead. I think we can remove the asterisk now: Fuck Larry Scott. I'm okay with the hire. The most important thing is bringing in money and getting exposure. There are tons of college athletics administrator types out there. He can hire whoever he likes to can help coordinate...

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If anybody noticed that Rich Herrera has been off the air concurrent with the new show on 1490, he tweeted out an explanation. Sadly, his mother passed away, right before Mother's Day, and he's spending some time with his family. We've lost some folks in our family over the last several months, so v...

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I'm basing this purely on a Hansen comment some people might have missed, so anybody can feel free to fact-check away. Apparently Justin Spears of Tucson's Star newspaper will re-start a sports call-in/interview show on 1490 this afternoon from 3 to 6. This has typically consisted of him having segm...

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God. A real commissioner can hire whoever he/she wants as an expert in media deals. But the chain of command still has one person at the top of the org chart. I really hope this is just leverage in negotiations with Luck. I dunno, I guess I'm stupid, but it seems pretty basic to start a search with ...

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Experience and depth would be the two words I'd use to describe the Aztecs. Among the starters, there's one potential slot for someone other than an upper-classman. Brady Hoke doesn't win the swimsuit competition with flashy offense (last season was a composite 25-18 score), but his teams will be ph...

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I don't see Adia going anywhere this cycle. She just had the baby, she at least got rewarded financially at some level, and she's being showered with adulation in Tucson everywhere she goes. Sam Thomas chose to come back to play for her as the face of the team, and she's got "her girls" all in place...

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On offense, BYU loses QB Zach Wilson with his 3,000 passing yards and 33 TDs, along with leading target WR Dax Milne with about 1,200 receiving yards and 8 TDs, and five offensive linemen from their depth chart. On defense, they lose leading tackler LB Isaiah Kaufusi, and their entire starting defen...

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Nice...and very true!

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21 years and 3 national championships at Baylor, and she leaves for LSU. While I don't particularly think I'd like to live in Waco, I don't know how much more I'd prefer Baton Rouge. In any event, apparently LSU also made a run at Adia with the big bucks, so thank God she's got strong Wildcat blood....

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Our current 12 game losing streak with no non-conference teams scheduled keeps getting brought up, so one question is whether we can end it before our third game of 2021 against NAU. COVID-19 and other circumstances in 2020 make it hard to get a handle on other teams, but I'll take a stab at BYU and...

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So BYU has sold out its allotment, likely on a first-come-first served basis. UArizona naturally does what it does for bowl games and squeezes people by doling out tickets based on their donation point total level. So they'll take "reservations", but won't do their allocation until May, and you have...

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Yeah, that was a lot of fun. As expected, Gronk stole the show. Water balloon/squirt gun fights with the Zoo for about half of the game, and raucous times celebrating his team's success (they won.) Lots of trick plays. I told my buddy: "Looks like flanker reverse option passes are now part of our ba...

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I did this for baseball, so I guess I'll do the same for softball. Our resume... Record: 27-8/6-5 Composite Poll Ranking: 9 RPI: 14 Low-ranked Utah and California come to the Rita next. Then, the ladies finish out their season on the road at highly-ranked UCLA and Oregon. Conference standings by los...

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The goal is to host a regional at Hi Corbett. Here's where we stand... Record: 23-11/9-6 Composite Poll Ranking: 17 RPI: 8 The RPI bodes well for us. We have very beatable teams in USC, Utah, and Washington coming in to the Hi-C for 9 of our remaining conference games. The bad news is the two remain...

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Someone posted on Arizona Basketball Chat that Larson used to also teach. Can you imagine taking a class from Lute? Come to think of it my volleyball PE coach at the UA was the women's basketball coach. We used to play at Bear Down gym. I have some fond memories of intramural hoops games at Bear Do...

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So the schmuck at the Republic once again tried his inept hand at trolling all things Arizona yesterday, scouring the internet to cite comments about how poorly UArizona's basketball search was going. Then, the very next day he was forced to write a story with all the positive comments about the hir...

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It's ironic that he died on the day Arizona announced a new head coach. Larson was a player in the 1940s for Fred Enke. He became an assistant coach, and then succeeded Enke for the 1961-62 season and coached the Wildcats for ten years. While he had an overall losing record, he had some competitive ...

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So here's how I've got it. Other than what would appear to be the starters, the rest is just grouped by position, not necessarily depth chart or how likely to get minutes. I will say I tend to have a bias toward established players rather than assuming unproven transfers or freshmen should be plugge...

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He, and a lot of the team, were in my dorm hall for summer school. One afternoon, I left to get in my car, and there was so much pot smoke billowing out a window, I seriously thought somebody would call the fire department.

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https://twitter.com/ArizonaFBall/status/1381026097647644674 Gotta say...for a guy who's about to turn 86, he looks pretty damned good, and he sounds like he's still pretty sharp. Having recently witnessed the physical and mental decline and demise of my in-laws at that age, it's pretty impressive t...

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As was discussed elsewhere, former Citizen writer Steve Rivera took a shot at Miller as he left, with his list of every faux pas and slight over a 12 year period. So you can imagine how badly Hansen wanted to get in on that act. In his case, it's a claim by former Snowden recruiter Jerry Holmes that...

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I took it as Turnkey's search process is asking Robbins who he wants then saying that is who they recommend and presenting a bill for $200K. That was my experience with a well-known consulting company. The highest level of executive management had an unpopular decision to announce, so they brought ...

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I wouldn't even have known about it if the link wasn't posted. "All Sports Tucson"...okay. There are people who exist on the fringes, and it's debatable whether they should get media passes. I appreciate being able to switch over to an alternative afternoon radio sports show on the occasion when the...

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Just past the halfway point (22-5/6-2.) With the unfortunate early cancellations of games in Austin, the non-conference highlight is probably sweeping two from BYU, and in-conference, it's the sweeps of Oregon St and at Stanford. Remaining conference games are as follows: @ ASU Utah California @ Ore...

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So we're basically at the halfway point in the season (19-8/5-4.) Highlights to date are beating Oklahoma twice and Missouri, and the Pac-12 series wins over Oregon and ASU. Here are the remaining conference series:

California
@ WSU
USC
Utah
@ Stanford
Washington
@ Oregon St

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