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Honestly, I just hope Earleywine didn’t tinker with her too much this year. Atwood’s swing looks different - not necessarily better -- and the results show it. Even when she barrels balls up like she did vs Georgia, the overall mechanics still look off.

Yep - if Texas wins tomorrow, it will be Mike White’s first conference tournament championship as a head coach. Oregon never had a Pac‑12 softball tournament during his tenure, so he literally had zero chances to win one there. So this would be his first.

Somehow, Bill Murray needs to get a mention in here somewhere

after watching that Geogia fan on TV, giving the horns-down, i knew we were going to win this game

White is not the problem....Earleywine is

Totally agree - these preseason rankings can’t just be “last year’s postseason poll, but shuffled.” That worked before the portal era, but now rosters flip so hard that last year’s finish barely tells you anything. Analysts actually have to dig into who left, who came in, and how many experienced starters were added through the portal. Some teams lose 20 guys and fall off a cliff. Others lose 20 and replace them with 20 dudes who’ve started 30+ games. If you’re not rebuilding your evaluation from scratch every offseason, you’re basically ranking last year’s teams, not this year’s.

Georgia beating OU 7-5, top of 6th

Goode crushed that one

Where Texas softball ranks in final regular-season NFCA national poll https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/where-texas-softball-ranks-final-153235395.html?utm_source=copilot.com&guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9jb3BpbG90Lm1pY3Jvc29mdC5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAAcfHExFa4Jxqc2YvqcSeD0a6bfbCGItO65DDJI1AnGWv9Hqj1gaOAOLxB5zOFDEosYkJXMu9CdMJcKgsn_YyZ7J38HQVAf3_iwPk22cIqiFOkvGgpn4scW_grNViyHlSQkzUp5uroj3SgZITE3PAApoBD6Dp5A8c1oPu9RD1akP

out at 2nd

The Cup isn’t about who’s good in the big‑ticket sports - it’s about total program depth. Stanford scores well because they’re elite in a ton of sports most schools don’t even sponsor. So, i would say>> That’s the system doing exactly what it was built to reward.

some info on tournament https://www.tuscaloosanews.com/story/sports/college/softball/2026/05/02/sec-softball-tournament-2026-schedule-bracket-info/89882289007/

Texas is a top-four seed ... a major advantage We have the talent to make a run, but the second half of the season showed why we are not the safest pick. The pitching depth behind Kavan hasn’t been consistent, the defense has been shaky, and the offense disappears too often against top‑tier arms. In a league as deep as the SEC, those issues get exposed fast. We can win it, but they’ll need to play cleaner softball than they have in months.

too early for bed 😀

Some people on this board are acting like Texas is the only good program that didn’t live in the portal, and that’s just not true. Plenty of top teams barely touched it - the difference is those teams already had Final Four‑level cores. Texas skipped the portal while losing three rotation players and bringing in five freshmen, so the anxiety is about timing, not roster size. But some of these takes are way over the top. Texas isn’t suddenly behind Vanderbilt or Kentucky, and saying “Sweet 16 would shock me” is just emotion talking. Booker is one of the best players in the country, the recruiting class is elite, and Schaefer wins 25+ games even in imperfect years. The ceiling is still high- the margin for error is just smaller.

https://x.com/TexasSoftball/status/2050042645196468427/photo/1 Sad day yesterday, Hogs win for the first time EVER in Austin

according to Chip, Jada Bediako is on campus now.

WTG ladies

I wouldn't think so based on everything Baker said today, this age‑based eligibility rule wouldn’t affect Seymour at all. The “not retroactive” part only applies to older players who already burned through their eligibility and were hoping to come back under the new system. Seymour isn’t in that category - he still has eligibility left and he’s well under the age threshold the NCAA is targeting. So I would think nothing changes for him coming to Texas this summer. His spot, his timeline, and his eligibility are all the same. The only people who get squeezed by this are the older guys who were hoping for one more year, not incoming transfers like Seymour. Want to thank Joe for posting this....so interesting.

The part that jumps out to me is Baker saying the age‑based eligibility rule won’t be retroactive. That’s exactly the kind of thing that’s going to trigger lawsuits. You can’t create a new eligibility pathway for future players while telling the guys who already exhausted their years, “Sorry, tough luck.” That’s two different classes of athletes overnight. And with NIL in the mix now, players can argue real financial harm from being denied another year. That’s a very different legal landscape than the NCAA is used to. They’ve been getting hammered in court for years, and this is another situation where their logic is going to get tested hard. So yeah - if this rule goes through as “not retroactive,” the amount of legal action coming their way is going to be wild. The NCAA keeps trying to modernize without fully thinking through the consequences, and every time they do that, the courts end up cleaning up the mess.

Found our kickoff return guy

Season not over yet? Despite this loss, Texas A&M is fighting for a top-four seed, which secures a double-bye in the tournament.

LOL, SEC Guy absolutely owned those Portland stadium radio dudes. They tried to debate him straight, and he ran circles around them without ever breaking character. Total domination. That whole exchange is the perfect example of why the bit worked - he wasn’t just trolling, he was performing, and those guys never figured it out. Legendary stuff.

Ewer's welcome to Taaffe

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