I think Pierce is coaching for his job this weekend in all honesty. No I don’t think they will make a move mid season obviously but losing 2/3 to tech will mean losing 6 out of 7. 3 to teams in your conference next year and 3 games to in state rivals. Hard to see how things suddenly just turn around, and it puts making the most season in serious jeopardy
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After reviewing Pierce’s record, it isn’t bad: 0.65 winning percentage and made it to CWS 3 times in 7 years. I think we all get the feeling he will never win a title.
Yep. All great coaches surround themselves with good people. pierecd issue is he won’t do that. He wants to do everything. Being a pitching coach in baseball is a full time job. The head coach doesn’t have time to be an effective pitching coach
Also David Pierce has no background in pitching. He wasn’t pitcher, yes I know he was the pitching coach at Rice, but during that time Rice developed a reputation MLB teams wouldn’t touch their pitchers because they all came to the pros and got injured shortly after.
Dave Duncan is the only non pitcher I’ve ever been aware of that was successful as a pitching coach, and he was a catcher who worked with pitchers and pitching coaches every day as a player.
Every team is going to lose games in baseball. It’s not a sport where you see teams go undefeated. So that’s not the issue. What you have to do though is win series or win 4 out of 6, 7 out of 10 etc and right now Texas has lost 5 out of the last 6. Doesn’t leave much margin for error the rest of the season, and there are some tough games left.
The pitching just isn’t very good, so it’s going to be tough to win games. Last weekend in 3 games Texas averaged 8 runs a game on offense they went 0-3. That’s not great. Last night they gave up 8 runs. They just happened to explode for 26 runs lol. If the offense has to score 8 runs every night just to be in the game. That’s going to be a tall order the rest of the season.
If they don’t win tomorrow I’m not sure they will even make the post season without going on a pretty good hot steak
Yea it’s a long season, but the games stack up pretty quick. Texas has already played about 25% of its games.
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And rally they did, now leading 9-6 in bottom of the 7th. Hopefully Pierce can manage closing it out.
That makes us 3 for 3. It just mattered more against them than the other teams we aren't playing anymore. I wonder Bret Yormans is thinking now.
This team has a ton of potential this year. They can straight up hit the hell out of the baseball. It's just the pitching that is a big question mark.
Of course not. You remember when he was at a Texas Tech banquet last summer? He said he was going to pull for Texas Tech at the Texas game. I'm not sure but didn't he say he was going to eat with them at their Thanksgiving dinner the night before the game? And in answer to your question he wasn't even discreet about cheering against Texas.
What does it matter what Yormark is thinking? Poor Texas. The biggest, baddest, richest kid on the block is the "victim." I guess whatever it takes to give you motivation.
Quite the opposite I think if Yourmark had been comish 3 years ago Texas doesn’t leave.
I agree 100%. Blowsby's only job was to occasionally call Austin and Norman and make sure they were happy. He failed. I get that Yormark took a shot at UT in the pre season, and he deserves to be called out. But I, for one, can't believe that he was able to take a bunch of leftovers, add some decent pieces, create a viable conference and sign a new TV contract. Talk about pulling a rabbit out of a hat.
Oh I agree and adding the AZ, UT, schools plus Colorado will be a plus. But I don't know who will be a football power.
Did we just really lose the first game of the series to Washington! 9-3! They are 4-7-1! Pierce needs to go! Football now baseball!
Yea. I’m sure glad we got rid of Williams. We’d have lost by 10 if he was still handling pitchers. Said NOBODY!!!
Texas loses 5-3 today… I think we can start talking replacements for Pierece
Oh we could of started last year! Very disappointing season for baseball already we are a joke.
