On Friday, September 28, the Texas men had their annual Orange and White intrasquad meet, with the competition coming down to the last relay and the Orange team securing the victory. The whole team threw on suits, and it showed. There was some serious speed thrown down at the Lee and Joe Jamail Swimming Center, highlighted by John Shebat‘s double victory in the 100 back (46.3) and 200 IM (1:44.3).
For the UT Freshman, who were SwimSwam’s #1 recruiting class in the nation, this marked their first meet as longhorns. You can watch many of the race videos from the meet here.
I am blinded by the awesomeness!
where else can you find a full list of the results?
Twitter@texasmsd there’s results of top 3
When is Wyatt’s first taper meet? That beard must go!
Looks like that bulkhead was set to ~24.5 yards….
Cal is going to give Texas a serious run for their money this year…
How do you figure that lol they only brought in two recruits this year while Texas brought in over 10 and only one of Cals two recruits in a scorer not to mention they had some key losses and Texas returns much more point scorers cal will be lucky to get second this year with Indiana on the rise and Florida’s recruiting class being so deep and talented as well
Here’s the breakdown. By one measure, Texas returns more points than Cal; by another, Cal returns more than Texas. Both teams return a LOT of points.
https://swimswam.com/who-returns-the-most-points-for-2019-mens-ncaas/
Also, freshmen and sophomores score less than half as many points as a group as juniors and seniors. The men’s meet is different than the women’s meet. Florida’s class isn’t going to get them close to 2nd this year after all that they graduated. Maybe in a couple of years, but not this year. The Florida class would need to score at least half of ALL points scored by freshmen to even get them in the same neighborhood as 2nd place.
In your re-score analysis without seniors, which is a worthwhile and good analysis, is it possible that there are events that re-shuffle more on a yearly basis? Perhaps 50 free has more yearly changeover and that re-score without senior doesn’t provide much reliability for future scoring. It seems (not that I have looked in detail) that Cal may have more talent in these events. But, really I have no idea.
That’s an interesting question. I’ll ask Andrew and Kevin (#teamswimulator) to look into it.
How do you figure that lol cal only brought in two recruits this year and only one is a scorer while Texas brought in over 10 recruits multiple scorers cal also graduated a lot more points than Texas did Texas will be stronger this year then last and cal will be weaker I don’t even think cal will get second with Indiana on the rise and Florida having such a good class and cal has no diving whatsoever vs Indiana and Texas
Cal does not have 2 recruits coming in…?
@go bears They absolutely should! On paper Cal is unbelievably stacked with scoring threats. The real question is the Freshmen. Will they come through… not just for Texas, but also for Cal…
Last year’s Texas was the easiest Texas is going to be to beat for at least another two years. They’d just lost the class of 17 (GOAT class, btw, 4 individual event winners, 3 multiple event winners, 6 A finalists) and Schooling underperformed (yes yes he went a 41.1 hundred fly in practice the day before the meet). But between this monster class that’s featured above and the Foster brothers next year, Texas is gonna be good for a long time. #7Peat