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Berry's going to the draft:
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This part bothers me, especially considering we already have a below average left fielder. It could be a bumpy 2010. UZR has him pretty much exactly average in center. For his career, UZR/150 has him at 0.0. Last year he was at -2.8, but the two years before that he was at 10.6 and 10.9. So UZR disagrees with that assesment slightly and there's room for him to be above average.
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Considering this team ended the year with 62 scholarship players, I don't see how any UT fan could consider this season a negative in any fashion. Fulmer deserved what he got from fans. He left the program much worse than he found it, and Kiffin is having to overcome the deficit that Fulmer left him. I see that, and I was actually sad that Fulmer left the way he did. The team has definitely fallen off in the past few years, though I think the harsh criticism Fulmer has received since 2002 is a bit overboard. The program hasn't been what it can be consistently, but people too often gloss over legitimately good years like 2004 and 2007. I don't think Tennessee can be consistently what it was in the 90s barring the exact same circumstances (weak SEC overall, terrific recruiter willing to do the work nationally, etc), but it should have been better consistently than it has the past four years. I wasn't really criticizing UT fans with that statement in my original post, simply pointing out something I've noticed.
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Wait, what? And why was it painful watching DeRosa with the Cardinals? He was not very good last year at all. I have no faith that Gaub, Archer, or Stevens will ever be anything worthwhile at the Major League level, hence the "3 guys who won't amount to much". There are some questions surrounding all three players, but I don't understand the complete lack of faith. All three have been very impressive in the minors and Stevens showed some good signs in the majors this season. What is it that gives you no confidence whatsoever in them?
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They apparently interviewed Jerry Gray for the head coaching job last week.
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Not a good showing by Tennessee today, though the game was much, much closer than the final score would indicate. Va Tech is simply a better team than us. The offense got off to a slow start and never really performed well, but it was good enough to keep us in the game for the most part. The special teams held up better than I expected against Beamer's team. All in all a pretty good season. It's interesting, though, how Tennessee fans (myself included, to an extent) consider this year under Kiffin a mild success, while most would be lambasting the exact same performance were Fulmer still the coach.
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Who can, consistently? I don't know. I can see OU falling from grace (I lived through some rough years when in the pre-stoops era), but I don't see Texas ever falling from its perch at or near the top of the Big 12. They have a great campus, great city, great facilities, great recent history and one of the top 3 recruiting bases in america. The only team that's consistently good enough to challenge them is Oklahoma, and we've thrown up a couple of clunkers this decade, even though we've been at the top of our game. One of the best things that could happen for OU and Texas was Leach leaving TT. That was really the only program I could see challenging them in a significant way in the near-term and now it's very unlikely Tech will be as good as it has. OU and Texas are likely to go back to complete domination of the South for the forseeable future now.
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Rich Brooks is likely to retire from Kentucky and Leach is a former assistant there, but Joker Phillips is the head coach in waiting. Did Central Michigan fill its vacancy when Butch Jones went to Cincy? That'd be a step down, but might work for a year or so. I can't think of any other significant programs with an opening. I could potentially see a swap, of sorts. Texas Tech might hire June Jones (likely too much money), Kevin Sumlin or Art Briles and then whichever coach Tech hires, that school might hire Leach. Otherwise he may need to take on an OC role for a year until bigger programs open next year.
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Mid-round pick due to speed I guess.. Yeah, from the little I've heard on him draft-wise, it appears he's looking at mid-rounds. He can be a productive NFL receiver, but he doesn't have the speed or overall athleticism to be a #1 guy (which you're looking for with a first rounder).
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Rugby? No thanks. :wink: Austrialian Football starts in March. I would love for them to show at least 1 game a week. If they showed them, I'd probably watch them. I still prefer American football though.
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Lubbock might be the most difficult place to play in the Big 12. Curious to see where he goes, guessing he finds a job very fast. I am not going to miss playing him at all. I'd like to see him go to an SEC school. I don't think any jobs will open (save for the weird situation in Florida), but it'd be interesting to see how his teams (high passing, little defense) would do in a defense-oriented SEC.
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Who can, consistently?
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Freddie Barnes? Yeah, he's been fantastic this year.
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Rugby? No thanks. :wink:
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Yeah, I don't like the idea of it being before the Super Bowl. And I have played Madden while watching the Pro Bowl before, so there you go....
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dew1679666265 replied to Tim's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Most reliable has been Lilly, unless you're not considering him because of the injury. -
I generally watch it, but just because it's football. It's not football. It's semi-footballesque-ish. It's generally the closest thing to football we get after the Super Bowl.
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It'll be interesting to see both who hires Leach (they'll be getting a really good coach) and who Texas Tech hires to replace him (heard the possibility of Kevin Sumlin, though he may prefer to stay at Houston).
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Similarly to Davis, only if he came really cheap. Sweeney is very similar to Davis in many ways (avg driven OBP, good to great defender, little power), but he doesn't provide the 77% success rate in stolen bases that Davis does and his IsoD was about 10 points worse last year than Davis', meaning his OBP is slightly more average-driven than Davis' is. I'd have some interest in either, but not enough to give up valuable pieces.
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Yeah, Davis had a solid season last year, but again, would sam Fuld be able to post similar numbers if givn the chance, and if not, would Davis be enough of an upgrade to give up anything of value? Davis is a terrific defender and has a little less average-dependant OBP than a guy like Nyjer Morgan does. He wouldn't be enough of an upgrade over Fuld to give up significant parts for him, though. And, like I said, he's a cheap, fairly productive player for the As, so they likely will want too much for him. Signing Crisp puts Davis in a "fighting for a corner OF position" situation. That would make them more likely to trade him, but they still will want a decent amount for a guy who provides cheap production and could fit well on their team as a 4th outfielder/defensive specialist type guy.
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I generally watch it, but just because it's football.
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Yeah, Davis had a solid season last year, but again, would sam Fuld be able to post similar numbers if givn the chance, and if not, would Davis be enough of an upgrade to give up anything of value? Davis is a terrific defender and has a little less average-dependant OBP than a guy like Nyjer Morgan does. He wouldn't be enough of an upgrade over Fuld to give up significant parts for him, though. And, like I said, he's a cheap, fairly productive player for the As, so they likely will want too much for him.
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Rajai Davis might be kind of interesting, but he'll likely cost more than his value would indicate since he's cheap.
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Berry won't officially announce until after the bowl game, but Lane Kiffin indicated during Chick-fil-a press conferences that Berry will almost certainly turn pro. I know, that's a shocker. :wink:
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I refuse to believe Sunday's Titans/Seahawks game means nothing. CJ is going for 2,000 yards and maybe Dickerson's record, that has to mean something. :D It'll be really easy for the Titans to just go through the motions Saturday and, in the process, get us a slightly better draft pick. With the likelihood of CJ breaking Faulk's record, the possibility of 2,000 yards and the outside shot at Dickerson's mark (he'd need 230+ yards rushing), I think the guys will play. If they do, I don't think this will be particularly competitive. The Titans struggle when teams throw over the top to big, physical receivers. The Seahawks don't do that well. After the 0-6 start, an 8-8 finish will be quite a positive and it may put us in that area where trading up to the top 5-8 (hopefully for Berry) isn't unrealistic. A loss and a 7-9 record would still be fairly impressive, but even if it hurts our draft slot, I'm hoping for this win.