Dallas Regional: Notes & Quotes

[Matt Cotcher]

 
submitted Today, 06:43 PM in Texas Longhorns Baseball By Matt Cotcher   

 @mlcotcher
 
- When it comes to the 2015 team's improbable run to the conference tournament championship, plenty of folks are drawing parallels to the the performance the 2014 team turned in last year (CWS semifinals). With that in mind, here’s an interesting quirk: The team ERA from last weekend’s four-game winning streak was 1.75. During the 15-game postseason span in 2014, the team ERA was 1.72.

- This weekend will be the 57th time the Longhorns have played in an NCAA Regional tournament (57 appearances is a Division I NCAA record.)

- In his 19 years at Texas, Augie Garrido led the team to an NCAA Regional 15 times.

• Garrido and the Horns have won 9 of those 14 Regionals, including four straight championships (2009, 2010, 2011, 2014).
• In those nine Regional wins, Garrido and Texas have gone on to win eight Super Regionals and advance to the College World Series.

- In his career, Garrido is 81-43 in 33 NCAA Regional tournaments.

- With one more win, Garrido will reach the 800-win plateau in his career at Texas.

- The Longhorns are 55-8 all-time against the three teams in the Dallas Regional.

• Texas is 46-7 all-time against Dallas Baptist.
• Texas is 1-0 all-time against Oregon State.
• Texas is 8-1 all-time against VCU.

Dallas Regional Preview Press Conference

Augie Garrido: "Our players decided to play their best baseball at exactly the right time."

Parker French: "10 days ago or so, if you would’ve said we’d be in this situation, I would’ve taken it in a heartbeat and been a little bit surprised, honestly."

 

[streettopeschel]

Why start a separate thread?

 

[joeywa]

Matt is really a color guy at heart.

 

[java]

street, I told you!  Matt decided to have his beer before he wrote up the 'Notes and Quotes'.  Couldn't have Bear running up and down those steps, could he?  Sheesh!

Hook 'em!

 

[Matt Cotcher]

Why start a separate thread?

I hadn't been on the board to see the thread Aaron started that had my stuff from earlier. Normally a front page article gets a separate thread....so I did that without looking.

 

[streettopeschel]

I hadn't been on the board to see the thread Aaron started that had my stuff from earlier. Normally a front page article gets a separate thread....so I did that without looking.

so...it was beer. That's cool.

 

[Matt Cotcher]

Here in Grand Prairie: Thunder & lightning currently, but no rain yet. It's supposed to be done storming by daybreak, so it should be fine by 1:30 for Game 1 (UT v OSU). The late game between DBU & VCU looks iffy on the forecast.

If tomorrow evening's game is delayed or cancelled, then the loser's bracket game at 11am on Saturday morning probably gets pushed back....as if beating Oregon State and avoiding the loser's bracket wasn't already a priority for Texas.

 

[Matt Cotcher]

Remember when I said it wasn't raining yet?

Scratch that.

 

[joeywa]

Remember when I said it wasn't raining yet?

Scratch that.

Dude.  Mix in a beer.  Relax. 

 

[Juan]

Its live now ...

— Twitter API (@twitterapi) November 7, 2011

 

[North Texas Golfer]

Have often wondered why stadiums didn't put a tarp over the entire field and not just the infield. Can someone enlighten me?

Too costly, too hard, too much trouble, or something else? 

 

[Juan]

— Twitter API (@twitterapi) November 7, 2011

 

[North Texas Golfer]

— Twitter API (@twitterapi) November 7, 2011

At the Byron Nelson Golf Tournament in Irving they found carp in one of the sand traps that was full of water. On another hole water was flowing across one of the fairways and a case of beer was floating along in it.