Yeah Texas baseball is in a good spot. Coach Pierece is legit, and has things on the up swing. Texas football has momentum, and I still beleive Texas basketball will be a top program under Shaka. That team would be different with Andrew Jones, and now the entire department has some long term leadership with Del Conte as AD. Texas athletics may be a force again really soon.
I know how you feel there, but Beau was literally throwing that ball right down the 1B line to Reynolds, and unless you locate the throw perfectly to the 1B's right (towards 2B, and within reach), its pretty much guaranteed to hit the runner, esp. if they're running on the inside of the 1B line as they're coached to do. Personally, I saw that one coming as it was happening.
This more or less mirrrors my own comments above. I feel like this program is still at least a year away, maybe two, from being a perennial CWS contender like we've seen in glory years past, but I really do like the direction that Pierce is taking it from a profiling standpoint. Namely, in what appears to be his heightened emphasis on recruiting the necessary bats (i.e not just singles hitters), and not simply being an Augie-like slave to 'small ball' by fielding a team of under-sized and short-levered slap-and-run batters with middling (lilly-white?) athleticism, conditioned to generate a single run when the leadoff batter of a given inning reaches base and then it's all about bunting, base-stealing and sacrifice-flying a run home in an effort to win a 3-2 or 2-1 game. That's not a bad formula when you can trot out a scholarship-infused, Vanderbilt/Florida-caliber, MLB Top-100 prospect pitching staff. But it hasn't worked here in years, and it's not conducive to recruiting bats at all. That tide needs to turn, and it's beginning to show glimpses that it might be. Still a ways to go, though.
Doubt that anyone with a semi-clear lens would disagree with you there, esp. if this thread is any indication. I'm sure we're all hoping to be wrong on that front. I certainly am, but two close, offsensively-deficient wins at home over ULL hasn't moved the needle for me quite yet.
