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<blockquote data-quote="Longfrog" data-source="post: 2823669" data-attributes="member: 26611"><p>The Big 12 is shaping up to be very interesting, and it should be a three-team race. UT is the defending national champion, but I don't think they are regarded as the preseason favorite. They lost all their depth from last season and will have to rely on a bunch of freshmen this year. Their recruiting class was ranked #1 in the country, but only one of their players (Woldeab) has a UTR that is comparable with our incoming guys, and one of our freshmen, Fearnley, beat Woldeab in Austin in November. What UT does have is the best 1/2 punch in the country in Sigsgaard and Ito. It's a formidable task to take even one of those matches, and if you lose the doubles point you can feel defeated before you've even begun. This year we face them in Austin, but it is the last regular season match of the year, so I am counting on our young team to make enough strides by April that they have a good shot.</p><p></p><p>I think the clear favorite in the conference in Baylor. They were very tough last year, and actually won the Big 12 tournament by defeating eventual national champ UT in the finals. They return most of their team and have one very notable addition in Jenson Brooksby. Brooksby is the top-ranked incoming freshman and I would have to think the most decorated freshman to come to college in a long, long time. He qualified for the U.S. Open in September, won his first-round match against a former top-10 player in the world (convincing him to retire immediately afterward), and then had a player currently ranked in the top 20 down a set and in a tiebreaker before eventually losing. He said afterward that had he won the match, he would have turned pro immediately. His loss was Baylor's gain, and I think Brooksby is already probably the best college player right now. </p><p></p><p>If the name sounds familiar, you may recall that Brooksby originally signed with Roditi to play at TCU, but he backed out of that commitment and signed with Baylor. I think there was a lot of speculation about the games that may have been played leading to the change. I know he grew up at a club that sent a player or two to UVA when the current Baylor coach was winning national titles for them. I listened to a podcast with Roditi where he made some vague allusions and still seemed a little upset about how it went down. He declined to get into specifics, saying he didn't want to give too much fodder to our fans for when Baylor plays us in Ft Worth later this year (hint, hint). But if we had signed Brooksby, Roditi indicated we probably would not have gotten the two Czechs. So that may have worked out best for us in the end. Brooksby suprised everyone by honoring his commitment to play at Baylor this year, and I can't imagine he sticks around another year.</p><p></p><p>Oklahoma, Oklahome State, and Tech are always tough, but they shouldn't threaten for the conference title.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Longfrog, post: 2823669, member: 26611"] The Big 12 is shaping up to be very interesting, and it should be a three-team race. UT is the defending national champion, but I don't think they are regarded as the preseason favorite. They lost all their depth from last season and will have to rely on a bunch of freshmen this year. Their recruiting class was ranked #1 in the country, but only one of their players (Woldeab) has a UTR that is comparable with our incoming guys, and one of our freshmen, Fearnley, beat Woldeab in Austin in November. What UT does have is the best 1/2 punch in the country in Sigsgaard and Ito. It's a formidable task to take even one of those matches, and if you lose the doubles point you can feel defeated before you've even begun. This year we face them in Austin, but it is the last regular season match of the year, so I am counting on our young team to make enough strides by April that they have a good shot. I think the clear favorite in the conference in Baylor. They were very tough last year, and actually won the Big 12 tournament by defeating eventual national champ UT in the finals. They return most of their team and have one very notable addition in Jenson Brooksby. Brooksby is the top-ranked incoming freshman and I would have to think the most decorated freshman to come to college in a long, long time. He qualified for the U.S. Open in September, won his first-round match against a former top-10 player in the world (convincing him to retire immediately afterward), and then had a player currently ranked in the top 20 down a set and in a tiebreaker before eventually losing. He said afterward that had he won the match, he would have turned pro immediately. His loss was Baylor's gain, and I think Brooksby is already probably the best college player right now. If the name sounds familiar, you may recall that Brooksby originally signed with Roditi to play at TCU, but he backed out of that commitment and signed with Baylor. I think there was a lot of speculation about the games that may have been played leading to the change. I know he grew up at a club that sent a player or two to UVA when the current Baylor coach was winning national titles for them. I listened to a podcast with Roditi where he made some vague allusions and still seemed a little upset about how it went down. He declined to get into specifics, saying he didn't want to give too much fodder to our fans for when Baylor plays us in Ft Worth later this year (hint, hint). But if we had signed Brooksby, Roditi indicated we probably would not have gotten the two Czechs. So that may have worked out best for us in the end. Brooksby suprised everyone by honoring his commitment to play at Baylor this year, and I can't imagine he sticks around another year. Oklahoma, Oklahome State, and Tech are always tough, but they shouldn't threaten for the conference title. [/QUOTE]
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