SB Nation User Blog: SwimTexas

Texas # 3 in BCS

SwimTexas — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:29:36 -0000

Oklahoma dominates Duo list

SwimTexas — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:56:01 -0000

Weird (and meaningless) post by Rivals. Just a gimmick because they have column inches to fill, however I did find it odd that Oklahoma dominated the Big 12 list.... particularly the offensive Tackle duo. I thought OU's O-line was supposed to be their biggest weakness this year?

Now this is a longhorn interview

SwimTexas — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:20:55 -0000

Now this is a longhorn interview

I love this kid Connor Wood. High Goals. Smart. Unselfish. Ready to wear burnt orange. This kid is awesome.

Darius White is waiting

SwimTexas — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:35:30 -0000

Darius White is waiting

Bumped. Anyone know anything about UT's architectural engineering program? --PB--

Has this been posted in anything? I think him waiting is good news for Texas. We have time to make a last impression. We also have a large group of recievers on their way out of the program. Not to mention GG and about 7 5star OL's.

Any new news/thoughts on this kid?

Rivals new Team Rankings

SwimTexas — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:19:58 -0000

http://texas.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=969044

With all but 5 of the top 20 in the country still deciding, and apparently no inclusion of JuCo or Prep kids, Texas and its depth of talent is currently raked #1 in the first Rivals Team Recruiting Rankings. I think the destination of the kids we always talk about here at BON, the likes of White, Seastrunk, Jeffcoat, Hicks, and a few others will greatly determine our fate on this list.

Personally, I think as the top of the list decides closer to the deadline, we eventually slip to the 4th-6th area, which is OK by me. It is hard to imagine us falling much further than that. I also think that both OU and A&M get passed over by some of these teams as the process goes on, unless that is, they add any of that top 20 mentioned above.

It will also be fun to watch, as their senior season progresses, the player rankings change and those chages flow through. Any pre-season thoughts on who climbs the ranks enough to affect these?

Anyway, It appears that I have become one of those geeks who cares about this stuff (even 6 months away from its conclusion) so if you are like me, please feel free to share your thoughts.

Conference Titles

SwimTexas — Mon, 11 May 2009 02:19:42 -0000

OK, so I read about our Baseball team's Conference Championship a few minutes ago, and in the write-up it said this was the 75th conference title of the program's history. 75!! Really!? That number just jumped out at me as ridiculous. So I decided to check.......

The first place (and last place, cause I didn't need to look any further) I looked was here http://www.texassports.com/trads/conference-championships.html

If you haven't checked this out, you should. It blew me away. No wonder we are so hated. I think the only thing that can maybe compete with baseball's impressive run might be the 29 consecutive conference championship string that Eddie Reese hascompiled since his arrival. Of course, I am a little biased there.

Anyway, just some off-season thoughts and reflection. Congrats to the Baseball Team. The tower will be orange tonight.

Hook'em

Swimming Recruiting?

SwimTexas — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 02:59:16 -0000

That is right, a small but stellar class for the Men's Swim Team.... but the surprise is the women's recruiting class this year. No out of State problems here! I have seen several of these kids swim and they are awesome. It is great to see the women's team get in the game on some of the top recruits like this.

I apologize for the formatting mistakes. I couldn't fix them.

As for the current team, Nationals is in a few weeks. It is in College Station this year. The men are favored, although I am still skeptical. But we will see. I will write something up as the event gets closer.

Hookem

University of Texas Women

2009 – 2010 Recruiting Class

6 - STAR Swimmers with short course yard times that would have placed in an A Final and/or multiple B Finals at last year’s NCAA Division I Championships. This means they can already score at Nationals next year. There are 14 swimmers in the country at this level this year.

Spindrift Beck

High school: The Hockaday School;

Club: Dallas Mustangs;

Location: Dallas, TX

A Final - 100y breast 1:00.66; 200y breast 2:10.51.

Jessica Guro

High school: Liberty;

Club: Atlantis Aquatic Club;

Location: Bethlehem, PA

B Final - 100y back 0:53.60; 200y back 1:55.74.

Laura Sogar

High school: n/a;

Club: Bluefish;

Location: Providence, RI

A Final - 100y breast 1:00.70; 200y breast 2:11.09.

5 - STAR Swimmers with short course yard times that would have placed in a B Final and/or multiple Qualifying Marks (last year's slowest qualifying time per event at DI NCAAs). Also, swimmers with long course meter times that would give them multiple U.S. Olympic Trials Cuts. There are 27 5-Star girls in the country this year.

Leah Reinhardt

High school: duPont Manual;

Club: Lakeside Aquatics;

Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Olympic Trials - 100m fly 1:01.34; 200m fly 2:14.42

4 - STAR Swimmers with short course yard times that would have given them a Qualifying Mark (last year's slowest qualifying time per event at DI NCAAs) and/or multiple B Cuts at last year’s NCAA Division I Championships. Also, swimmers with long course meter times that would give them a U.S. Olympic Trials Cut. There are 29 4-star girls in the country this year.

Lauren Norberg

High school: n/a;

Club: Ithaca Aquatics;

Location: Ithaca, NY
Olympic Trials - 100m breast 1:11.84.

Lindsey Norberg

High school: n/a;

Club: Ithaca Aquatics;

Location: Ithaca, NY
Olympic Trials - 100m breast 1:10.92.

University of Texas Men

2009 – 2010 Recruiting Class

6 - STAR Swimmers with short course yard times that would have placed in an A Final and/or multiple B Finals at last year’s NCAA Division I Championships. This means they can already score at Nationals next year. There are 2 swimmers in the country at this level this year. (Stanford got the other one)

Nick D'Innocenzo

High school: n/a;

Club: n/a;

Location: Andover
A Final - 200y IM 1:44.18; 400y IM 3:43.36.

Cole Cragin

High school: Friendswood;

Club: FLEET;

Location: Friendswood Tx
Olympic Trials - 100m back 0:56.44; 200m back 2:03.03.

Austin Surhoff

High school: St Paul's School for Boys;

Club: North Baltimore Aquatic Club;

Location: Baltimore, MD
Olympic Trials - 100m back 0:56.97; 200m back 2:02.14; 200m IM 2:02.60; 400m IM 4:24.07.

Hunter Bayley

High school: Stratford;

Club: Cypress Fairbanks;

Location: n/a
Olympic Trials - 200m back 2:03.45.

Article about Texas Basketball future

SwimTexas — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:31:56 -0000

I don't know if this has already been posted but I am so excited about the next 2 classes that Texas has coming in. Like just about anyone in Texas, I have always been football first. And truthfully, I think I might be swimming second...... but Watching what Rick Barnes has done with UT Basketball is just really getting me into Hoops.

The last couple of lines of this article talks about them wanting to bring a championship to Ausitin..... I hope so. Barnes deserves one.

http://texas.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=902524

Style Points

SwimTexas — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:44:31 -0000

OK so sour grapes aside, and I have plenty, but I think there is a big picture argument here that no one is talking about. The style points that have been moving Oklahoma up the polls the last several weeks (last week enough to jump Texas in both human polls) therefore setting up basically an even split with Texas in this rankings have been from scoring points - lots of points.

(Now I know that it was the computers that put OU over the top, but for arguments sake, stay with me)

Now Mack, and many other coaches out there have stopped considering running up the score since they took out Margin of Victory from the computers deeming it unimportant. But this year's national championship game could be determined by simply that - running up the score.

Anybody think that we could not have put 50+ or 60+ up against A&M if we keep our foot on the gas the whole time? How about Kansas? When did Colt come out against Colorado or Mizzou? And what about our defenses? How many 4th quarter "Meaningless points" did we give up because our second string was in the game?

All I heard today was "Oklahoma scored 60+ points the last 4 games...." I don't like that this was rewarded. I don't like what that means for college football.

McGee

SwimTexas — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 04:50:40 -0000

I have never been so happy to see someone lose as I was McGee today. Seeing him on the sideline in the 4th quarter wearing a ball cap just made me thankful.

I pride myself on being a UT fan and not a ATM or OU Hater..... in other words, I typically don't root against anyone else, just for my team. But seeing McGee barking at our defense and remembering him and his attitutde and jawing from years past, and knowing how much pride that jawing caused so many ignorant fans to have.... just made me smile to see him standing there on the bad side of 49-9.

Hook'em and Happy Thanksgiving! BCS Bound!