I think we can all agree that baseball receives nowhere near the coverage that football and basketball do.  One only needs to look at the television coverage of each sport for evidence of this.  But I don't think this excuses what I consider to be a massive overlooking of a serious error.

I feel that as much as Augie was an integral part of the previous two national championships with his gambles paying off immensely, he is just as much a part of this year's early exit with his lack of throwing the dice.  I am referring of course to Chance Ruffin playing six innings. 

When interviewed after the game about this decision, Augie's defense was that he remembered a game during the regular season where an early lead evaporated and was scared that this would happen again.  The Longhorns allowed 13+ runs four times this year: twice allowing 13 runs, once 14 runs and the last being the infamous Missouri game.  Are ya'll ok with a coach that is scared to play ball?  Because I personally find myself in the camp of "It's not even f***ing close to acceptable to say you were scared."  Where's Mike Gundy on this one?  I believe that if we played a 10 game series with Sam Houston State and a 12 run lead in every game, we would win 10.

I called for Chance to be pulled in the gameday thread among others, and I recall Kirk Bohls writing a blog about this very subject the next day.  Let's play a fool's game called what if and say that Augie pulled Chance during the second and the Longhorns go on to win a close game of 13-3.  Chance had only pitched something like 15-20 pitches at that point and so we'll say he's ready to pitch the next day.  This leaves us with Chance or Wood to start against St. Johns, and assuming wins, whoever didn't pitch in the previous game for the first against Rice and Kasparek for the second Rice game.  How can anyone disagree that this looks infinitely more manageable than the shitshow of pitching we showed up with against Rice?  Rice nearly scored the number of runs in one game these other three starters allowed in three games.  But of course this never happened because Augie felt it was necessary to keep our best starter in for 6 innings in 12-0 game against the worst team in the regional.  That's great coaching right there. 

PS.  Henry Melton, Benjamin Wells, and I'm 95% sure Derrick Johnson showed up to a house I was at a few days ago.  A few volleyball players there as well.  :DDD

I apologize for such a short post, as I have very little information from myself, but I know someone who works for the orangebloods staff and here's what he has to say, just passing it on:

"I'm hearing that John Chiles will now be a WR fulltime instead of a QB. He still might get some QB snaps, but he will no longer be part of the QB depth chart."

Not that our possibly former situation looked much better, but if this true this brings about Harris as our #2 QB and probably kills his thoughts of transferring.  I know alot of people were looking for more Colt and Chiles plays, but I'm not sure this is what they envisioned.  Would be sick to watch him out in the open field a little more however.

The conference commissioners today decided to keep the current BCS postseason format and will soon work on negotiating television contracts through 2014.  Only two commissioners, ACC and SEC, had any support for a playoff proposal.

The commissioners said that the BCS is doing better than ever before, which I feel that most fans would agree with, but that still isn't saying much.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3375352

In other news, ESPN put up a poll on this subject matter up on their front page today, and as of right now, the standings currently look like this:

ESPN Poll

What a fucking joke.  Good to know the higher ups are in touch with the sport and don't just care about money or anything of the sort.

On a side note, DKR is nearing structural completion:

http://www.texassports.com/webcam.html