Ketch's 10 Thoughts From The Weekend (An Arch commit in the distance?)
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Vic played EBO way to long last night. She was terrible on the block and couldn't run up and down the court effectively at her size. Next year should be a much better team with Freshman and 1 or 2 high level transfers.
Thats fair, maybe what I should have said was I feel like we (Longhorn fans, not the OB staff) put too much emphasis on QB, WR, RB recruiting, and that it may not matter much next year because our best OL players are still young and developing.
I didn't mean for it to sound like a dig on the reporting.
My worry’s about the OL make me worry about the QB position. Ewers will out be the half time of the Bama game. Card is all we have to put on the field after that. We better hope he sticks around and improves from F to S. Malik will be in rehab this year.
Sark hasn’t pissed on Card. If he could have found a transfer QB he liked better, he would have. Too late for that route contributing to 2022.
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Will Smith with an Ike Turner moment…. But doesn’t mind his wife having sex with others. Just don’t talk about her bald head. Jeesh.
I’ve always heard 5 star QBs look the part arm wise from the moment they step on campus. I haven’t heard anyone say this about Ewers. Should we be concerned, or on the flip side, does Card have similar arm talents that mute Ewers talent?
Regarding Arch, you better not be doing this!
“It looked like he was already one of the UT guys. So I have a pretty good feeling about him."
Texas offensive line signee Kelvin Banks about Texas quarterback target Arch Manning to Orangebloods on Sunday.
From my perspective in the immediate aftermath of Arch Manning's unofficial visit to Texas, the thing that stood out the most was that the buzz from every single level of sources that Orangebloods communicated with about the visit seemed to mirror one another.
Arch's visit felt less like a recruiting trip and more like a return home.
On a weekend from which the Austin Chamber of Commerce will likely make postcards, it all just came together for the Longhorns in a serendipitous way. Perfect weather. Good times at every corner. Strengthening relationships.
When it concluded on Sunday, there was clearly less mystery about whether Manning will return to Austin for yet another visit in the coming months than the circumstances that might surround such a visit.
For instance, when Manning next returns, will he do so as a member of the 2023 recruiting class or will there still be an element of needing to close the deal that needs to take place?
Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian can't put any football questions completely to bed in March after a 5-7 season in 2021, but everything else seems to be perfectly in place.
The Mannings love Sark. They love the school. They love the city.
So much of the hard stuff is already taken care of.
All eyes will return to Manning in the coming weeks when he finishes up his spring barnstorming tour. There's growing confidence that a commitment to the Longhorns can be seen looming in the distance, but it's hard to completely know how much pause from the football side of things will remain until a little more proof can be tasted in the pudding.
If a commitment is coming any time soon, it's going to be Texas. If this recruitment extends beyond the middle of May, the reasons why will be obvious.
For now, take extreme solace in the knowledge that in a world where perfection is so often impossible to achieve, the Longhorns might have actually achieved it this weekend with the collective presentation provided by the program, the city of Austin and weather.
No. 2 - Four things to know from the first week of camp ...
Here are the five things that stand out the most from the first three Texas spring football practices:
a. The quarterback battle is still in its infancy stage
Rome wasn't built in a day and neither will be Quinn Ewers' career in Austin. Saturday's turnover-plagued practice was a reminder that the 30+ practices that will take place between now and the first game of the season will represent a process. So, what should everyone make out of Saturday's practice? Not much. It was step two or 30+ that will take place.
b. The offensive line ain't yet right.
There have been more than a few jail breaks. There's just not enough depth. It really is a situation that makes everything we're watching have to be viewed with several grains of salt. For instance, how much of Saturday's turnover issues were related to young quarterbacks being young quarterbacks or young quarterbacks being young quarterbacks running for their life? These heralded freshmen better be ready because this position group is screaming for the cavalry to show up.
c. The offensive has firepower all over the field.
Bijan is Bijan. Roschon is Roschon. Jordan Whittington is healthy. Isaiah Neyor is what everyone hoped he would be. And Xavier Worthy? Enjoy him every minute while you can for the next 21 months.
d. Alfred Collins has his hands on the light switch.
There's no reason to go overboard with excitement right now because the path that still needs to be traveled with Collins is long, but the single most talented player on the Texas defense with the single highest-amount of raw upside is showing flashes early in camp that he might just realize his potential yet.
No. 3 - What if...
One of the lasting images of the early Mack Brown years occurred in 2003 when a young Texas defensive back named Cedric Griffin had a moment that threatened to define his career when he seemed to give a lack of effort on a play alongside the sideline in a 65-13 loss.
Eventually, he re-defined his career during back-to-back Rose Bowl winning seasons, but there was a time when every time his name was mentioned on the Internet, it was mentioned with negative overtones from fans who were just unwilling to see him as anything other than the guy who became the poster-child for a 52-point loss.
All these years later, you can't even find that play on Youtube. It's an afterthought of a memory for most for a player that went on to have a pretty storybook career when you consider some of the circumstances of his personal story.
He's always the reminder for me that you can't completely judge young players when they do young player things. Sometimes you have to give them room to spread their wings and when you do, they often will take flight.
When Kelvin Banks shows up in the fall, no one is going to give up on a five-star lineman if he struggles against Will Anderson in week two.
If Quinn Ewers throws four interceptions in the same game (potentially his second career start), it won't be an indictment on what he might just become by the end of the 2023 season.
All of these truths make me a bit befuddled by the judgment that has been rendered on Hudson Card following the Arkansas game last year. I would offer that dozens of Texas players that night were tossed aside like rag dolls by an Arkansas team that spanked UT's bottom with a paddle, but only one player truly wears a scarlet letter over what happened that night in such a way that nothing he does for the next five months will matter at all for fans of the program.
Deep down, he must wonder how in the world he's ended up in a place that no other player in the program resides in following a season that was so historically poor that the Arkansas game wasn't remotely the worst aspect of it.
He's been the better quarterback through three practices, which shouldn't be completely unexpected, but the overwhelming majority of the overwhelming majority of Texas fans don't even want to remotely hear that he's performed well in a practice.
Why?
Because of 40 minutes of the first road game he ever played as a collegiate player.
Fair or not, this is the world we live in and this is the hand that Card is suddenly playing with.
No. 4 - Close, but no cigar ...
Vic Schaefer's team knocked on the door on Sunday night, but they weren't quite ready to kick the door down.
But, it's coming.
That's the overriding message from Sunday night in a close loss in the Elite 8 against the defending national championships.
Rori Harmon will be back. THis team will be back. It's only a matter of time.
No. 5 - Trips to Lubbock can often suck ...
I'm almost at a loss for words over what happened in Lubbock this weekend in a series that defied reason and logic.
On one hand, Texas outhit the Red Raiders 49-22 over three games.
On the other hand, it lost two of the three games in some of the cruelest possible fashions, including a walk-off steal of home in game one and a grand slam in extra innings of game two after the Longhorns had rallied from being down 7-2 to take an 11-7 lead.
Baseball, man ...
It's a long season and after all of the brutal body blows were taken, the Longhorns came out and run-ruled Tech on Sunday and are a mere two games back in the loss department in the Big 12 standings. Not ideal, but not the end of the world, either.
Surviving this weekend took guts and we know this team has plenty of that. It's the pitching that we suddenly don't know if they have enough of.
No. 6 - Is Texas a golf school?
Ho-hum, just another Texas-ex taking over the No. 1 in the world ranking, the second in the last six years.
No. 7 – BUY or SELL …
(Buy) I don't think either player is an issue for the other in the slightest. Ewers' plan is to be out of Austin by the time Manning will be ready to compete for the starting job. Meanwhile, the presence of Ewers means that Manning can show up on campus in his first year without the weight of the world being on his shoulders. That pressure only belongs to one for now.
(Sell) It's not off the table, but I would definitely expect a top-3 type of class.
(Sell) It feels like the kind of club that owning a national title requires entry into. Obviously, Eddie Reese has his, but Vic's not there yet, while Edrick Floréal just took the Texas men to an indoor national title last week that I wasn't sure any of us would ever see.
(Buy) Sure. That list feels fine.
(Buy) In the last 20 years, here is the list of quarterback prospects that finished No. 1 overall in their recruiting classes:
Vince Young (2002)
Jimmy Claussen (2007)
Terrelle Pryor (2008)
Trevor Lawrence (2018)
Quinn Ewers (2021)
Of the four players that have completed their eligibility, two were top-5 picks in the NFL Draft and the other two were drafted in the second and third rounds, respectively. That's a 50 percent rate of being a player worthy of having a statue when he's done playing and a 100-percent rate of going in the third round at the absolute latest. Five-star quarterbacks typically get drafted at a 75-percent clip. If there's ever been a guy that should be bust-proof, the math says Manning has to be up there on the list.
(Sell) I don't know that it would mean that at all. He could just as easily be starting by week three and leaving at the end of 2023 in that situation as he would be staying three years.
(Sell) I don't think any program in the country ever has 90+ percent buy-in from its players. That doesn't leave a lot of room for unhappiness and in my mind. You can always count on there being a chunk of players that are less than completely bought in. Also, the optimism last off-season was higher than it was this off-season. Hell, Sarkisian was talking about a rematch with Oklahoma in the Big 12 Championship game in the immediate aftermath of the loss in Dallas last October.
(Buy) Texas women's basketball has been in the wilderness enough in the last two decades. Give the man whatever he needs/wants.
(Buy) He's the No. 1 prospect in the country. Trust me, a lot will be written about him, even if he doesn't live on the camp circuit.
(Sell) It's hard to know what Murphy's career is going to look like, but I'm not sure that a Manning commitment automatically translates to Murphy's departure. Murphy has more fight in him than that.
(Sell) I don't expect Hutson to start this season.
(Sell) Being a Manning has never guaranteed that.
(Sell) That's a level of benefit of the doubt that hasn't remotely been earned.
No. 8 - Scattershooting on the sports weekend ...
... Man, the Elite 8 games were hot garbage.
... I can't believe the basketball gods are giving us a Duke/UNC game in the Final Four at the end of the Coach K’s Farewell Tour. No game in the history of the rivalry has ever had higher stakes. Wowzers.
... Nice job, St. Peter's. You balled out all the way to the Elite 8. No one can ever take that away from you.
... Kansas looked unbeatable in the second half on Sunday against Miami.
... Enjoy retirement, Triple H. Here's hoping that you've got decades of life left to enjoy it.
... What a fraud.
... I always find myself rooting for any team that Kevin Durant plays on, but Kyrie Irving makes it so tough.
No. 9 - The List: Top 10 sports movies about women ...
I finally got around to watching King Richard this weekend and I have to say ... I freaking loved it.
It reminded me that the story of the Williams sisters has to be one of the more improbable things we've ever seen in sports. At one point in the movie, Will Smith (playing Richard Williams) is asked if he truly thinks he has a couple of Mozarts in a single household, considering that producing even a single Mozart is more than a million to one shot.
The movie made me laugh and cry, while reminding me that real-life success stories often make the best movies. As soon as it was over, it occurred to me that I might have just finished the single-best sports movie about women that I've ever seen.
It's too far for me to go in the moment, but it's definitely in the discussion and Sunday's Oscars win for Will Smith will ensure that the movie has a long-term historical reservation.
10. Whip It..
9. The Cutting Edge
8. Bend it Like Beckham
7. Battle of the Sexes
6. I, Tonya
5. Million Dollar Baby
4. Love and Basketball
3. King Richard
2. Bring It On
1. A League of Their Own
No. 10 - And Finally...
Haven softball Update: After some practice this week on her swing, 8-year old haven emerged from her game this weekend with the best contact of any batter I've seen in any game in our 8U league, driving a ball off the best pitcher in the league into center field.
Fielding is a work in progress, as it throwing the ball from second to first, but she might have the highest OPS in the league, despite batting last in the line-up.
🤷♂️Regarding Arch, you better not be doing this!
Agreed. Based off what I remember from high school film and in general. Ewers has more arm strength than Card. Ewers can throw the ball 75+ yards in the air. Not sure what Card’s range is. Ewers’ release and velocity on the ball isn’t as quick or fast as Card’s. Card has a quicker release and more velocity. I’m not sure which one wins the accuracy debate, but I’d lean more towards Ewers bc he seems to be more accurate on deep passes. Although Card is way more accurate when he’s on the run and changing arm angles so who knows.
Come on. Landing Ewers isn’t like looking for another backup. When you can get a generational 5 star, you do.
After Thomson left, Sark could have brought in a Jr/Sr QB transfer if he found one he considered to be a better backup option than Card. Sark didn’t.
It is hard for me to not think that Sark’s actions were deliberate.
I think Ewers accuracy edge is the short and intermediate stuff... where he might be more accurate than any young quarterback I've ever seen.
I don't know that I think the deep ball is a strength, even if he can throw the ball over a mountain.
I don't think the Ewers part had anything to do with what I was thinking about with the comment.
He's far less active than the other guys. If his name wasn't Manning, he wouldn't be No.1
What do you think of him? I am sure you have watched film. Does he not hit any of the camps?
a. He does not hit camps.
b. My personal review of Manning:
Terrific pocket passer. Quick release and very good mechanics, but he's not the special arm talent that a guy like Ewers or Card is. Obviously, has a great mind for the game, great anticipation and feel for the position. Very good athlete. I never saw Peyton as a high school player, but I did see Eli and Arch is better than Eli.
That’s my concern. Where’s the write up and the data that explains why he’s number 1? It feels like more of an assumption.
Then I don’t have any idea what you were thinking about with your comment. Enjoy your thoughts!
I never really thought Sark completely did right by Card at any point last year from the start of August until the end of the season.
Stay with me...
1. I thought he completely placated Casey Thompson throughout the summer in a way that wasn't completely fair to Card. There were moments behind the scenes when Thompson tested how much Sark would allow him to get away with and every time Sark emerged with nothing but glowing endorsements of Thompson to the media.
2. That really came to play when Card was announced when Sark spent the overwhelming majority of the discussion about his decision hyping up the back-up in the name of trying to keep him on campus and not one time in the entire press conference that featured his initial remarks about the decision did he really stop and praise Card in a way that would explain why he even came to the decision in the first place.
3. After he benched Card, he never really went out of his way to protect him to the media in the aftermath of him losing his job 7 quarters into it. He didn't mention his own failures inside of what happened or that Card was so inexperienced that everyone should calm down and not overreact. He just kind of left him hanging in the wind.
4. Once he lost the job, he never received the same considerations from Card, especially when talking to the public, that Thompson received in the summer, despite the fact that Thompson showed his ass a couple of times in camp, while Card just kept his head down and didn't cause a scene. People behind the scenes definitely noticed the double-standard.
5. Going back to point No.3, Sark had a chance before the end of the season to give even the smallest compliments to Card when asked about the future of Card and Thompson going into next year, and he punted.
Ketch, You may be right that the fan base doesn't want to hear about Card having a good practice, but I doubt it. I certainly don't feel that way. I want Texas to have the best QB play possible and if Card has grown and is balling, that only helps us and it forces Ewers to be even better to win the job. I am rooting for both of them to crush it.
“It looked like he was already one of the UT guys. So I have a pretty good feeling about him."
Texas offensive line signee Kelvin Banks about Texas quarterback target Arch Manning to Orangebloods on Sunday.
From my perspective in the immediate aftermath of Arch Manning's unofficial visit to Texas, the thing that stood out the most was that the buzz from every single level of sources that Orangebloods communicated with about the visit seemed to mirror one another.
Arch's visit felt less like a recruiting trip and more like a return home.
On a weekend from which the Austin Chamber of Commerce will likely make postcards, it all just came together for the Longhorns in a serendipitous way. Perfect weather. Good times at every corner. Strengthening relationships.
When it concluded on Sunday, there was clearly less mystery about whether Manning will return to Austin for yet another visit in the coming months than the circumstances that might surround such a visit.
For instance, when Manning next returns, will he do so as a member of the 2023 recruiting class or will there still be an element of needing to close the deal that needs to take place?
Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian can't put any football questions completely to bed in March after a 5-7 season in 2021, but everything else seems to be perfectly in place.
The Mannings love Sark. They love the school. They love the city.
So much of the hard stuff is already taken care of.
All eyes will return to Manning in the coming weeks when he finishes up his spring barnstorming tour. There's growing confidence that a commitment to the Longhorns can be seen looming in the distance, but it's hard to completely know how much pause from the football side of things will remain until a little more proof can be tasted in the pudding.
If a commitment is coming any time soon, it's going to be Texas. If this recruitment extends beyond the middle of May, the reasons why will be obvious.
For now, take extreme solace in the knowledge that in a world where perfection is so often impossible to achieve, the Longhorns might have actually achieved it this weekend with the collective presentation provided by the program, the city of Austin and weather.
No. 2 - Four things to know from the first week of camp ...
Here are the five things that stand out the most from the first three Texas spring football practices:
a. The quarterback battle is still in its infancy stage
Rome wasn't built in a day and neither will be Quinn Ewers' career in Austin. Saturday's turnover-plagued practice was a reminder that the 30+ practices that will take place between now and the first game of the season will represent a process. So, what should everyone make out of Saturday's practice? Not much. It was step two or 30+ that will take place.
b. The offensive line ain't yet right.
There have been more than a few jail breaks. There's just not enough depth. It really is a situation that makes everything we're watching have to be viewed with several grains of salt. For instance, how much of Saturday's turnover issues were related to young quarterbacks being young quarterbacks or young quarterbacks being young quarterbacks running for their life? These heralded freshmen better be ready because this position group is screaming for the cavalry to show up.
c. The offensive has firepower all over the field.
Bijan is Bijan. Roschon is Roschon. Jordan Whittington is healthy. Isaiah Neyor is what everyone hoped he would be. And Xavier Worthy? Enjoy him every minute while you can for the next 21 months.
d. Alfred Collins has his hands on the light switch.
There's no reason to go overboard with excitement right now because the path that still needs to be traveled with Collins is long, but the single most talented player on the Texas defense with the single highest-amount of raw upside is showing flashes early in camp that he might just realize his potential yet.
No. 3 - What if...
One of the lasting images of the early Mack Brown years occurred in 2003 when a young Texas defensive back named Cedric Griffin had a moment that threatened to define his career when he seemed to give a lack of effort on a play alongside the sideline in a 65-13 loss.
Eventually, he re-defined his career during back-to-back Rose Bowl winning seasons, but there was a time when every time his name was mentioned on the Internet, it was mentioned with negative overtones from fans who were just unwilling to see him as anything other than the guy who became the poster-child for a 52-point loss.
All these years later, you can't even find that play on Youtube. It's an afterthought of a memory for most for a player that went on to have a pretty storybook career when you consider some of the circumstances of his personal story.
He's always the reminder for me that you can't completely judge young players when they do young player things. Sometimes you have to give them room to spread their wings and when you do, they often will take flight.
When Kelvin Banks shows up in the fall, no one is going to give up on a five-star lineman if he struggles against Will Anderson in week two.
If Quinn Ewers throws four interceptions in the same game (potentially his second career start), it won't be an indictment on what he might just become by the end of the 2023 season.
All of these truths make me a bit befuddled by the judgment that has been rendered on Hudson Card following the Arkansas game last year. I would offer that dozens of Texas players that night were tossed aside like rag dolls by an Arkansas team that spanked UT's bottom with a paddle, but only one player truly wears a scarlet letter over what happened that night in such a way that nothing he does for the next five months will matter at all for fans of the program.
Deep down, he must wonder how in the world he's ended up in a place that no other player in the program resides in following a season that was so historically poor that the Arkansas game wasn't remotely the worst aspect of it.
He's been the better quarterback through three practices, which shouldn't be completely unexpected, but the overwhelming majority of the overwhelming majority of Texas fans don't even want to remotely hear that he's performed well in a practice.
Why?
Because of 40 minutes of the first road game he ever played as a collegiate player.
Fair or not, this is the world we live in and this is the hand that Card is suddenly playing with.
No. 4 - Close, but no cigar ...
Vic Schaefer's team knocked on the door on Sunday night, but they weren't quite ready to kick the door down.
But, it's coming.
That's the overriding message from Sunday night in a close loss in the Elite 8 against the defending national championships.
Rori Harmon will be back. THis team will be back. It's only a matter of time.
No. 5 - Trips to Lubbock can often suck ...
I'm almost at a loss for words over what happened in Lubbock this weekend in a series that defied reason and logic.
On one hand, Texas outhit the Red Raiders 49-22 over three games.
On the other hand, it lost two of the three games in some of the cruelest possible fashions, including a walk-off steal of home in game one and a grand slam in extra innings of game two after the Longhorns had rallied from being down 7-2 to take an 11-7 lead.
Baseball, man ...
It's a long season and after all of the brutal body blows were taken, the Longhorns came out and run-ruled Tech on Sunday and are a mere two games back in the loss department in the Big 12 standings. Not ideal, but not the end of the world, either.
Surviving this weekend took guts and we know this team has plenty of that. It's the pitching that we suddenly don't know if they have enough of.
No. 6 - Is Texas a golf school?
Ho-hum, just another Texas-ex taking over the No. 1 in the world ranking, the second in the last six years.
No. 7 – BUY or SELL …
(Buy) I don't think either player is an issue for the other in the slightest. Ewers' plan is to be out of Austin by the time Manning will be ready to compete for the starting job. Meanwhile, the presence of Ewers means that Manning can show up on campus in his first year without the weight of the world being on his shoulders. That pressure only belongs to one for now.
(Sell) It's not off the table, but I would definitely expect a top-3 type of class.
(Sell) It feels like the kind of club that owning a national title requires entry into. Obviously, Eddie Reese has his, but Vic's not there yet, while Edrick Floréal just took the Texas men to an indoor national title last week that I wasn't sure any of us would ever see.
(Buy) Sure. That list feels fine.
(Buy) In the last 20 years, here is the list of quarterback prospects that finished No. 1 overall in their recruiting classes:
Vince Young (2002)
Jimmy Claussen (2007)
Terrelle Pryor (2008)
Trevor Lawrence (2018)
Quinn Ewers (2021)
Of the four players that have completed their eligibility, two were top-5 picks in the NFL Draft and the other two were drafted in the second and third rounds, respectively. That's a 50 percent rate of being a player worthy of having a statue when he's done playing and a 100-percent rate of going in the third round at the absolute latest. Five-star quarterbacks typically get drafted at a 75-percent clip. If there's ever been a guy that should be bust-proof, the math says Manning has to be up there on the list.
(Sell) I don't know that it would mean that at all. He could just as easily be starting by week three and leaving at the end of 2023 in that situation as he would be staying three years.
(Sell) I don't think any program in the country ever has 90+ percent buy-in from its players. That doesn't leave a lot of room for unhappiness and in my mind. You can always count on there being a chunk of players that are less than completely bought in. Also, the optimism last off-season was higher than it was this off-season. Hell, Sarkisian was talking about a rematch with Oklahoma in the Big 12 Championship game in the immediate aftermath of the loss in Dallas last October.
(Buy) Texas women's basketball has been in the wilderness enough in the last two decades. Give the man whatever he needs/wants.
(Buy) He's the No. 1 prospect in the country. Trust me, a lot will be written about him, even if he doesn't live on the camp circuit.
(Sell) It's hard to know what Murphy's career is going to look like, but I'm not sure that a Manning commitment automatically translates to Murphy's departure. Murphy has more fight in him than that.
(Sell) I don't expect Hutson to start this season.
(Sell) Being a Manning has never guaranteed that.
(Sell) That's a level of benefit of the doubt that hasn't remotely been earned.
No. 8 - Scattershooting on the sports weekend ...
... Man, the Elite 8 games were hot garbage.
... I can't believe the basketball gods are giving us a Duke/UNC game in the Final Four at the end of the Coach K’s Farewell Tour. No game in the history of the rivalry has ever had higher stakes. Wowzers.
... Nice job, St. Peter's. You balled out all the way to the Elite 8. No one can ever take that away from you.
... Kansas looked unbeatable in the second half on Sunday against Miami.
... Enjoy retirement, Triple H. Here's hoping that you've got decades of life left to enjoy it.
... What a fraud.
... I always find myself rooting for any team that Kevin Durant plays on, but Kyrie Irving makes it so tough.
No. 9 - The List: Top 10 sports movies about women ...
I finally got around to watching King Richard this weekend and I have to say ... I freaking loved it.
It reminded me that the story of the Williams sisters has to be one of the more improbable things we've ever seen in sports. At one point in the movie, Will Smith (playing Richard Williams) is asked if he truly thinks he has a couple of Mozarts in a single household, considering that producing even a single Mozart is more than a million to one shot.
The movie made me laugh and cry, while reminding me that real-life success stories often make the best movies. As soon as it was over, it occurred to me that I might have just finished the single-best sports movie about women that I've ever seen.
It's too far for me to go in the moment, but it's definitely in the discussion and Sunday's Oscars win for Will Smith will ensure that the movie has a long-term historical reservation.
10. Whip It..
9. The Cutting Edge
8. Bend it Like Beckham
7. Battle of the Sexes
6. I, Tonya
5. Million Dollar Baby
4. Love and Basketball
3. King Richard
2. Bring It On
1. A League of Their Own
No. 10 - And Finally...
Haven softball Update: After some practice this week on her swing, 8-year old haven emerged from her game this weekend with the best contact of any batter I've seen in any game in our 8U league, driving a ball off the best pitcher in the league into center field.
Fielding is a work in progress, as it throwing the ball from second to first, but she might have the highest OPS in the league, despite batting last in the line-up.
I hear you, but we're 18 hours and 205 responses into the reaction from the column and you're really the first one to disagree. 🤷♂️
Thanks, Ketch. Do you think this is a psychology play to toughen Card up or just ugly as it appears?
I think Sark took Card's failure personally and acted like a guy that would never allow himself to be burned by the same guy twice in the same way.
Typically, the stuff lives in the gray area, as one person's ugly is just another person's toughing up.
Ultimately, Sark has to do what he has to do and the feelings of Hudson Card aren't really any more important than the feelings of Billy Don Malone two decades ago.
Who is Malone?
Malone was an early quarterback commitment in the class of 2002, who Texas didn't have the balls to kick to the curb when they new they would get Vince Young. Instead, they just ghosted him. Never returned calls. Never wrote letters. When it got to a month before signing day and he hadn't heard from the coaches since September, he took a visit to Tulane as a just in case. The Texas coaches then revoked his scholarship because he took an official visit and those weren't allowed for committed players.
Mack Brown is generally a good dude, but he did that.
The history books rarely include the stories of those whose feelings get run over on the way to whatever history ends up having in store for the collective rest.
