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Spotted a current Texas tennis player requesting in the youtube comments to show Spizzirris match. lol

 

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Spizzirri is done

4-6, 3-6

Harper and Spizzirri into the semifinals 

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Spizzirri ends the season #1 regardless in the final rankings. Second player to do so at Texas (Steve Bryan 1990)

Spizzirri/Harper finish #2

Looking for a new assistant - Brandon Wagner has been named head coach at Clemson

  • 3 weeks later...

Micah Braswell's brother is in the portal 👀

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I feel like Spizzirri won’t be back next season, but that announcement didnt seem like a definitive declaration he’s not coming back next season. Who knows 

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Spizzirri is struggling on the pro circuit so far. He’s 0-3 this month and hasn’t even managed to win a set. Disappointment for him, but perhaps he’ll take a hard look at coming back to UT for one more year.

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After his lackluster pro debut this summer I had a feeling he would be back. It’s the right call I think for him

Spizz preseason #1 in singles, Bailly 16, Micah Braswell 17, Woldeab 28, Jonah Braswell 45

Spiz/Harper #1 in doubles, Woldeab/Bailly #9

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This team will be salty. I'm already looking forward to the season in January.

I imagine the singles lineup will be:

1. Spizzirri 
2. Bailly
3. Woldeab
4. Braswell M.
5. Braswell J. 
6. Harper

Braswell bros could team up in doubles too. We're going to be a tough team to beat. 

 

14 hours ago, Js1 said:

Spizz preseason #1 in singles, Bailly 16, Micah Braswell 17, Woldeab 28, Jonah Braswell 45

Spiz/Harper #1 in doubles, Woldeab/Bailly #9

Tweets

 

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15 hours ago, perfectchaos007 said:

This team will be salty. I'm already looking forward to the season in January.

I imagine the singles lineup will be:

1. Spizzirri 
2. Bailly
3. Woldeab
4. Braswell M.
5. Braswell J. 
6. Harper

Braswell bros could team up in doubles too. We're going to be a tough team to beat. 

 

Show me a loss?

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On 9/5/2023 at 7:19 PM, perfectchaos007 said:

This team will be salty. I'm already looking forward to the season in January.

I imagine the singles lineup will be:

1. Spizzirri 
2. Bailly
3. Woldeab
4. Braswell M.
5. Braswell J. 
6. Harper

Braswell bros could team up in doubles too. We're going to be a tough team to beat. 

 

The team is even more loaded now. 

 

Feels like the volleyball team from 2 years ago. It's a super team and anything other than a national title will be a disappointment. 

 

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I mean we bring back practically everyone from our team last year that finished the regular season ranked #1, and now we just added 2 pieces to make us considerably better. I love that the 2nd match of the season is against the team that upset Texas in the NCAA tournament last season (and went in to win the title). Texas Tennis Center should be packed to watch that match 

19 hours ago, perfectchaos007 said:

I mean we bring back practically everyone from our team last year that finished the regular season ranked #1, and now we just added 2 pieces to make us considerably better. I love that the 2nd match of the season is against the team that upset Texas in the NCAA tournament last season (and went in to win the title). Texas Tennis Center should be packed to watch that match 

Plus, didn't the teams that made the final 4 lose quite a few players? 

This feels like we're heavy favorites to win it all. 

This has to be NIL don't you think? I hope we're doing this across the board. This is how you flex your muscles. Build super-teams and we already saw it work with the volleyball team last year. 

 

11 hours ago, Rickylovesweed said:

This has to be NIL don't you think? I hope we're doing this across the board. This is how you flex your muscles. Build super-teams and we already saw it work with the volleyball team last year. 

 

Here's how things work, and will work for awhile, in the non-revenue sports as it pertains to NIL. There are a few routes for leveraging it.

1) Crowdfunding leads to a competitive floor difficult for other programs to match. In a sport like tennis, assume $10k/player plus any overhanging school expenses, can fend off a great many other programs. That's years with worth of a crowdfunding build, most likely.

2) A single or few major patrons fund a coach's needs, up to ridiculous numbers in order to win bidding wars.

3) Serious corporate NIL either irrelevant to the program (Dunne at LSU) or completely relevant to the program (layers of corporate interest in Austin). 

The men's tennis portion of crowdfunding is not meaningful at this point, at least as far as TOF is involved. There are some benefactors to some extent. There's probably some element of corporate support, especially if that can be parlayed into sponsorships when the player goes to Europe or goes pro. 

I won't pretend to know how heavily involved any of those components are for Texas right now, but it's not nothing, and I haven't heard of any other school getting serious about NIL for men's tennis.

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Timo has signed his paperwork!

Spizziri also won the ITA Singles over the weekend - third ever Longhorn to win it.  Followed it up by finishing as runner-up with Cleeve Harper in doubles.  First Longhorns duo to make it that far. 

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Former junior #1 

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With Gilles enrolling in January, this is absolutely the most talented roster ever at Texas. If NCAA played 8 lines of singles, there's no one in the country that could perceivably beat us. However, just 6 lines of singles gives other teams a chance if a few of our guys have an off day. I'm excited to see what this team can accomplish. 

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Spizzirri and Braswell should be the #1 and #2 ranked singles players come January when the spring rankings release. This team is stacked 

This team not winning a title might be more disappointing than if the volleyball team didn’t win one last season. 

Crazy expectations but that’s what you want. 

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