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There's a lot of talk about booting him.  Just depends on who's available and interested, you don't want to fire him and then replace him with someone who's the same or worse, which is true for a lot of the names I'm hearing.

But personally, I think he's peaked and while it's possible he could get back to Omaha, I just don't think he will ever win there.  

Not having the horses, is on the team manager.

This was probably the worst pitching staff I've seen at Texas in a couple of decades.  And there was a little bad luck but it's not like we lost half our starters to tommy john surgery before the season.  When that actually happened a few years back, the pitching staff was STILL better than this one...

I think your point has some merit but to totally put the quality of players on the back of the  manager is a bit much

If anything this Manager did a great job of getting the most out of his players


Id give him one more year to see if he can fix the pitching problems

AS you said above its a big deal to start replacing managers

Yup I definitely wouldn't even consider it unless you already knew who your next guy was, and had already had successful preliminary talks with his agents.  You know, the way they fired Tom Herman and already had Sarkisian lined up.

Del Conte has proven to be very good at selecting and hiring head coaches, both at TCU and at Texas.  And David Pierce is one of the few remaining Texas coaches who was NOT hired by CDC.  That's got to be weighing pretty heavily on the scales right now...

Pierce just seemed to arrive with a good situation, didn't do anything with it, then continues to start the season in worse and worse conditions. Bumbling through the Big 12 (the teams aren't milquetoast by any means), then bowing out of the NCAA field seems to be his act. The SEC seems to be much more cutthroat.

I have two points to make on this:



DP has coached at UT 8 years
Throwing out 2019 and 2020 because of covid that leaves 6 years
He has taken the Horns to the WS 3 of those 6 years



The Horns 2024 recruiting class ranks 3rd in the nation

ou sucks.  BTHO schooner!

Thanks CW

Congratulations to the sooners 

The SEC folks ought to be very happy tonight

Did you know that a 70 mph pitch in softball is equivalent to a MLB pitch of 98 mph to the batter

just thought that was interesting that these women batters are facing a pretty good challenge

I'm sure the softball Sooners will take a major step backwards next year. Heck, they took a measurable step back this year. This was the least dominant team of the last four. (Or maybe some other teams, like Texas and oSu, got better.) Losing Jordy Bahl to Nebraska hurt.

I caught something in the ESPN coverage this evening that I did not know.

The last four seasons (I think that's what they meant when they said, "This senior class), the Sooners have not been shut out and have not been run-ruled. They've led the country in win percentage and have won 4 WCWS championships (in OKC, of course!).

Maybe the ESPN ladies meant five (or six) years back, though. Five years back was the abbreviated Covid season.

A great senior class marches off the stage. We'll see what next year brings.