By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:26:05 +0000

Why put a bat like that behind the plate? No need to rough up his knees for "average" catching. With an arm like that and a bat like that he should just move to the outfield, keep his legs a little fresher.
Those numbers are truly incredible though. I can't count how many times I said "we'll see when he has to use a wood bat." I guess I see now…

By: JOE KEATHLEY

JOE KEATHLEY — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:36:40 +0000

waiting fro the Owls to jell

By: PhxTitan

PhxTitan — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 01:27:45 +0000

Just got finished reading this week's chat, which is fairly correlated to this week's Three Strikes.

I can't for the life of me figure out why you guys just don't call em like you see em! If you feel Texas is the best team in the nation, put em #1! Howls be damned. Instead, it comes across so PC… not too much movement up or down, just nice easily digestible movements for the CB masses. And most of the time, it comes across as teams ahead have to 'stumble', even if against strong SoS, for meaningful gains to be forthcoming. Meaning UCLA, VA, ASU will have to trip until the courage to name Texas #1 is mustered again.

(Granted, from the peanut gallery, it's easy to say, right? Maybe your pre-season polls would barely move and everyone gets bored and never visits. Thus… ;-) )

On the flip side of that… I'm sure that's what you do with the annually dreadful Pre-Season Rankings w/o peeks at the "SoS-ahead", (which I feel is totally anti-productive to ranking justice and the seeds of ranking problems). Then misjudged teams STAY Falsely PUT, often for WEEKS/MONTHS, often even elevating while teams ahead of them 'stumble", often levitating while playing against some mighty pathetic SoS #'s, aka, the annual ACCSEC non conf schedules… thus the annual 60%, 15 or so of the Top 25 coming from those two, incidentally/coincidentally, weak playing nc scheduling, winning like there is no tomorrow conferences. Just an odd, misfit correlation? I think not: The ACC being 0 for CWS, FL St 0-19 CWS, and the Pac-10/Big 12 winning 57% of CWS hardware tell a different tale of Top Tier consideration. ("57%" source (26/63 Pac-10, 10/63 Big 12): last week's Daily Bruin) AND who has it closer to reality?: the east leaning RPI, or the never mentioned west leaning ISR metric tool? Again, it plays convenient not to ever reference/quote the ISR metric; yet reference the RPI till the cows come home. Yes, we know, it's the selection committee's ranking tool. AGAIN, how convenient. Boyd proving a statistically more worthy metric still gets it "not to be referenced/quoted" status by BA. That just smacks of…

And if a team keeps on winning, despite not truly "earning it" aka, playing against a weak SoS, it doesn't matter with you guys, you keep em levitating, despite widespread doubts (see GT). Scouting and winning appear to far outweigh "truly earning it" against worthy SoS. Even good Tier Three level teams can put football scores up against weak pitching and defense. You often admit you can't really knock a team that keeps winning; which also translate to SoS and "earning it" not carrying that much meaningful weight (again, see GT)

Any chance you guys can take a chance one week and truly rank the best in order as you SEE em and feel? Why #4 Texas isn't Number One, as you revealed with your fairly unequivocal feelings in your chat… is mysterious. WHY NOT? You and John have NO articulation deficiencies, so let the chips fall where they may. ;-)

All this be said, I do think you and John are ABSOLUTELY GREAT for the sport of CB, despite minor rants like this. This is just a minor beef… but it makes the sport great, the debates. And nonetheless… Keep up the GREAT work, writings, chats, podcasts, and coverage. Suggestion: you should have current "This week's Podcast" activation link directly posted to the College front page. Should not be two jump-links to get to it. Too much good stuff not being heard by too many. Better yet, make it VLOG. Food for thought. And more Q&A's with great CB minds/analysts like you had with Boyd Nation last week would be SUPER.

Love your work, nonetheless, regardless… let it be known. Thanks for indulging. ;-)

By: Scout

Scout — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:00:59 +0000

Andy Laroche was bad a grayson cc. He cam out early as well. No one talks about that he dominated at that level. He was suppose to be a senior in hs.

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