He ended up being good, yes.themissinglink said:I'm a little late to the party, but we started Hill against tu. He was pretty good for us last year.Aggies2009 said:I don't remember making the claim that SHSU, UH, or Rice threw their best against us last year. I only mentioned that tu threw their weekend guy against us. If he was already getting a bullpen session in that day (likely), it makes sense. We did the same with Stilson against Fullerton in 2011. If you're talking about the guy I quoted, respond to him. Rice HAS done it in the past, even if they didn't last year.Aggie said:Aggies2009 said:Hate that they get the RPI boost when they beat us in said situation. Throw their best guy when we play them in one-off games.TMartin said:
~A&M usually plays state rivals mid week and always draws the other team's ace while A&M pitches somebody not counted on for the weekend conference games. Rice is notorious for pitching their best guy against A&M for RPI because they play in such a weak conference and can afford to do this.
Heck, even tu trotted out their best pitcher when we played them this past season. At least Barash ended him first thing out of the gate.
Do some of you actually start to believe what you say even though it's completely false??
Rice started Bryan high product Willy Amador against A&M last year.. He was far from their " best guy"
Texas started Morgan cooper who was coming off Tommy John and missed the entire 2015 season. He threw 3 straight Tuesday games including the Ags and didn't make any weekend appearances untill conference play . That was their plan with him all along and they didn't change anything because they were facing us.
UH - none of their weekend guys threw against us last year
Even Sam houston state didn't throw a weekend guy against us
I know many on here believe that all the other texas schools throw their ace against the Ags while we throw our midweek guys buy it's simply not the case.
To that point he had started a midweek game (which he did vs tu) and had a couple of relief appearances on weekends. To insinuate that he was part of the weekend rotation at the time is wrong, if that's what you were trying to do. He ended up being a big part of the weekend rotation, but that happened afterward. Wasn't some coordinated plan to use one of our ace pitchers against tu.
Same thing with Stripling in 2011 vs Fullerton. He had 0 weekend starts to that point and was only used in relief. Against Fullerton, it was his first start on the year to see if he'd be able to start a game. He was, and was made the Sunday starter AFTER that. It just happened to work out for us.... Unless you think that Coach Childress had some mastermind plan in place to feign him as a non-important pitcher for the first few weeks only to spring him on a tough midweek opponent. In that case, I don't know what to tell you.