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There appears to be something wrong in the athletic department when you can’t make it to a bowl game in football, have to get in the last or next to last position in basketball and miss out in baseball all within 2 years.

I believe Dodd has proven to be a very good business AD, but I believe all the realignment issues and the LHN network has been a bigger distraction than anyone wanted to admit to or could see.

Listen, you're not wrong that the last two years have not been good in the three major sports (although you seem to be ignoring that just last season the baseball team made the College World Series, which was way more than they should have done with the talent, and Baylor crapped out in the Houston regional), but you sound silly and ignorant when you try to somehow extrapolate that to crap on the entire DeLoss Dodds era. You don't redeem yourself by weakly trying to make fun of people that point out the gaping holes in your logic, either.

To get back on track, for the three major programs, I'd put rank my level of worry from least to most football, basketball, baseball. With football, action was taken and the ship is turning around. The offensive talent is still not where it needs to be and I'm not completely sold on Harsin as having a great feel for in-game adjustments, but things have been address. With basketball, I think the jury is certainly still out. We can't have it both ways. We complained about all the 1 and dones, but when we got a class of four year players, we were upset they weren't all world their freshman season. I think basketball will be better, but we'll see. For baseball, the good news is roster turnover from year to year in baseball is huge so the next season is always unknown. The bad news is baseball has not addressed what ails it, yet. Even when making the CWS last season, that team just wasn't very good. What really upsets me about baseball is not the lack of talent, it's the lack of focus. When the team made its run starting in 1999 and through 2003-04, those teams were all about out-executing bigger, stronger teams. Play lights out defense, execute flawlessly on the basepaths, etc. Hell, the symbol of those early teams was Justin Simmons, a guy that didn't touch 90 on the radar gun, but just got it done. From 2005 for the next few seasons, you had teams that were still mentally tough, but were also impressive physical specimens. But you could see the focus starting to go a bit. The team lost the CWS championship series to Cal State Fullerton on bad defense, which had been a problem most of the season. Now, it seems the physical specimens are no longer making it to campus, but worse yet, the fundamentals have just continued to deteriorate.

Guess we'll see Augie at Eddie V's over the new few weekends. Not making the Regionals ... it just doesn't happen. Be on the lookout for a natural disaster.

Not sure you could say they didn't deserve to go or did...unfortunately. It was a down year (for Texas). That said, if a down year is 3rd in conference with quality wins against Rice, Baylor, A&M, and a sweep of Regional 2 seed, OU on the road, I'll take it. Augie took the party line but he knows he got snubbed by this committee and he'll do everything he possibly can to shove it in their face (on the diamond) in a few years - if not next year! There are areas to shore up - infield D being the biggest this year, but this wasn't a terrible baseball club - they were pedestrian when expected to be good to VERY good - committee chose to punish them for not being them! It's fine, they'll be back! Soon!