Not surprising given their weak scheduleMost pitching stats favor UT but not by huge margins.
Not surprising given their weak schedule
Interesting point. Globe life is turf though right? Or I guess it’s more of a hybrid. Turf grass with real dirt. Longhorns have all turf right? Even where the dirt is supposed to be.Weak is probably not something I'd call the 25th toughest schedule in the country. Currently the Frogs's sit at the 14th most rigorous schedule and of course that's about to go even higher.
What I do think is interesting (and I'm very likely off by a couple of game because I'm doing this by memory) is that UT is 35-11 and I think they've only played about 10 games on grass fields and are 4-6 in those games. They've only played 15 games on the road. UH for three but I think that's synthetic. At Globe Life and lost all three. At Baylor and went 2-1. At Okie Lite and went 2-1. And isn't Blue Bell grass in Ag land? UT lost that midweek game. I think they also played Texas State a couple of times in San Marcos but pretty sure that's a rubber field.
Yep. I remember being in San Marcos and seeing us get 10 run ruled and thinking the season may not be what we had wanted it to be.Man, we’ve come a long way in the last month.
I hate those fields. They don’t even look right. A football field I get, but a fake grass baseball field just ain’t right.Interesting point. Globe life is turf though right? Or I guess it’s more of a hybrid. Turf grass with real dirt. Longhorns have all turf right? Even where the dirt is supposed to be.
I don’t like but can live with a turf field with dirt where it’s supposed to be. All turf like WV and others? Nah. Bush league.I hate those fields. They don’t even look right. A football field I get, but a fake grass baseball field just ain’t right.
To add to this - it’s flat out unamerican to play a game of baseball and not have your uniform covered in dirt and grass stains. There ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing astroturf.I don’t like but can live with a turf field with dirt where it’s supposed to be. All turf like WV and others? Nah. Bush league.
Real baseball is played on real grass.
Believe it or not, RainX helps with this and with preventing water spots on glass shower doors and panels. It requires fairly frequent applications, though.How do you keep the mirrors from fogging up?
To add to this - it’s flat out unamerican to play a game of baseball and not have your uniform covered in dirt and grass stains.
Evan Skoug managed to get his uniform dirty even when playing on fields with no dirt. A true dirt bag if there ever was one.To add to this - it’s flat out unamerican to play a game of baseball and not have your uniform covered in dirt and grass stains. There ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing astroturf.
This reminds me of when I played in little league. One time the team we were supposed to play didn't have enough players so they had to forfeit.
There were about 5 or 6 of us on the field playing catch, waiting on the coaches to tell us what was going on. As soon as they told us that we won, a bunch of us took off running and sliding where ever we could, infield, outfield, didn't matter. I was somewhere off in centerfield and all I could hear was a bunch of our moms yelling, "what the hell are yall doing", "we have to wash those uniforms" and all that type of stuff.
By the time I got back to the field where our parents were at, I was cracking up. My mom looked at me and said have you lost your mind? Now I have to wash that when we get home, why would you do that?
When I finally stopped laughing, I told her, you can't go home from a game with a clean uniform, you have to be dirty. She just shook her head and walked off lol
Feel confident we will need to play an additional infielder next to Big Russ against ULM after they watch game 1 of WVUFrogs T272nd in sac bunts with 4. And two of those were mistakes IMO including Wolfe’s sac with no outs and a runner at 2nd base in the middle innings. Florida and Ole Miss have 2 on the season. Tech has 5. Arkie has 6 (as does their sister school in Pine Bluff)
Whorns are 7th with 34. We’ll face ULM soon and they are 1st with 47.
How much of that $750K is schollies? How much does that go up if you add 18 schollies to it? In actual costs? Because, as I outlined in my thought experiment earlier, it seems like tuition and lodging would essentially add no real costs to the university if you added 18 more freshmen to the incoming class to keep your revenue stream on budget and cover the 18 schollies. Am I missing something?
How is that different from any other school really?Sorry if this has been previously posted:
The Frog Club pays for 100% of TCU student athletes scholarships.
TCU itself has no out of pocket cost for an athletic scholarship.
Edit: I see separate funding was discussed. Still it's impressive that TCU has taken that burden from the school budget and placed that tab on the table of its athletic booster club.
I'm not worried about TCU funding them. The issue is whether or not everyone else playing college baseball could afford them; does the gap between the haves and have nots of college baseball get closed by fully funding schollies for every baseball roster or does it merely shift the gap to different haves and different have nots? My question wasn't related at all to TCU b/c several different dynamics are at play there than most other schools. It was solely focused on the schools who claim they couldn't fully fund athletics scholarships for the entire baseball roster.Sorry if this has been previously posted:
The Frog Club pays for 100% of TCU student athletes scholarships.
TCU itself has no out of pocket cost for an athletic scholarship.
Edit: I see separate funding was discussed. Still it's impressive that TCU has taken that burden from the school budget and placed that tab on the table of its athletic booster club.
I'm not worried about TCU funding them. The issue is whether or not everyone else playing college baseball could afford them; does the gap between the haves and have nots of college baseball get closed by fully funding schollies for every baseball roster or does it merely shift the gap to different haves and different have nots? My question wasn't related at all to TCU b/c several different dynamics are at play there than most other schools. It was solely focused on the schools who claim they couldn't fully fund athletics scholarships for the entire baseball roster.