Rooting against other softball teams

Am I a bad fan? Am I a jealous fan? Why Yes and Yes.
During the regionals, super-regionals and now WCWS, I've been hoping
for the exit of the teams in the order of preference:

1) Baylor - Mulkey and BU football
2) A&M - Cause little brother shouldn't be better than big brother
3) OU - well, everything

I have a gut feel OU will make it into the finals because all the higher-ranked-than-OU keep
falling to them (Damn you Patty G for recruiting and developing your players! I wonder what that's like? Hmmm).

So I guess I have to do the Gator chomp and root for them to beat OU.

Bitter much? Why yes!

 

racerx,

Take heart, OU has only one or two seniors, so they will have major losses to fill with recruiting. What would happen if their ace had a bad night tonight against the nation's #1 team? OOPS, she had her worst night maybe ever, and OU wins with a freshman (????) from Cali-pune-ya? All this for $500,000 a year?

Doesn't really matter, nothing is changing.

 

Always root against OU. That's my motto.

Although Baylor has been challenging this lately.

 

Let me put on my engineer hat and work this logic backwards:
1) We need better recruiting, better player development, and better game management. Does Connie have that? Used to. Not now. Yes, of course "time for a change".
2) What does it take to make that change? Chris Plonsky, the women's AD.
3) Who has Chris fired in the past? Soccer coach and two women's swimming coaches. Bev Kerney was more of a Patterson decision.
4) What would make Plonsky fire Clark? Fan unrest? Administration unrest? Booster unrest? Plonsky's personal unhappiness with the current product?

Fan Unrest - I don't think she reads this forum. The fact that they schedule 4:00pm games disregarding the fans shows she doesn't care about actual attendance. With LHN, does it matter about having butts on seats? Nope. Does anyone write Chris angry notes about the quality of play? Nope.
Admin Unrest - The team plays above .500 and none of the players get into trouble or embarrasses the school. It, like many sports, is a money loser. So, to them things are peachy.
Booster Unrest - I think Red McCombs wrote them a check a long time ago, got a stadium built, and that's pretty much the last time a booster thought about UT softball.
Plonsky's personal unhappiness - I have no idea how she feels. I'm guessing she thinks that Connie is doing a good job, that it would be great to win the Big 12, but some years it's just not going to happen. Connie will get it right soon.​

So no. Nothing will change. Weep now. Weep tomorrow.

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