Preview: LA Tech vs UL-Lafayette, ULM

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Originally Posted by Bone_afide_Dawg

You make a very interesting point. I think the answer is that Burroughs is actually a pretty poor judge of talent and character which goes towards his assistants too. Gaspard and Fouts are proving every game how awful they are at coaching up the Tech players. Every game is pretty much an exact repeat of the previous game. Nobody ever gets any better. To name names Matulia, Drost and Safford have the same at bats every time they go to the plate. It’s like déjà vu all over again.

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I think what it's showing me is the success of the program the last two years was on the special group of players we had that were baseball savvy. And looking ahead to next year, it has a good potential to be even worse, especially with the pitching staff.

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Originally Posted by parisdog

I think what it's showing me is the success of the program the last two years was on the special group of players we had that were baseball savvy. And looking ahead to next year, it has a good potential to be even worse, especially with the pitching staff.

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The last two years we had a ton of upperclassmen who were four/five year players with Covid-19, a tornado, and playing at a high school ballpark. They were tough and had dawgs in them. They had pride in what they did.

These players now don't have it in their DNA. There is no mental toughness. I saw players tweeting jokes after getting blown out by 10 runs to ULL. I am not sure the players even care if they win or lose.

Our pitching is absolutely abysmal. 5.80 ERA which puts us at 148th in the NCAA (behind EVERY OTHER SCHOOL in the STATE!) Yes. That's correct. Our ERA is the absolute worst in the state of Louisiana.

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Originally Posted by revf

The last two years we had a ton of upperclassmen who were four/five year players with Covid-19, a tornado, and playing at a high school ballpark. They were tough and had dawgs in them. They had pride in what they did.

These players now don't have it in their DNA. There is no mental toughness. I saw players tweeting jokes after getting blown out by 10 runs to ULL. I am not sure the players even care if they win or lose.

Our pitching is absolutely abysmal. 5.80 ERA which puts us at 148th in the NCAA (behind EVERY OTHER SCHOOL in the STATE!) Yes. That's correct. Our ERA is the absolute worst in the state of Louisiana.

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That's atrocious. And next season we lose 2 of our 3 pitchers who can actually pitch.

Looks like we are headed back to a more quite time at the ballpark. :((

Burroughs needs to replace his assistants with coaches who can actually identify talent and coach people up and cut loose the guys who aren’t capable of contributing. There’s no mystery to who they are. Right now he’s got several freshmen on the bench who are actually forgetting how to play baseball because they’re not playing. Who knows how they’re going to be after basically sitting out a year. Tech baseball is already in trouble in the first year after Young. He was clearly the major spark and winner that drove Tech over the coaching staff.

No surprise really that there’s no buildup or enthusiasm towards the ULM rematch. That essentially says it all about the Burroughs’ 2023 Bulldogs. Tech seems to be more or less locked into a 3 game losing streak routine, so let’s see.

I think Burroughs just had a screaming fit at the dugout for not being good cheerleaders for our crappy strike out fly out batting.

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Originally Posted by Bone_afide_Dawg

I think Burroughs just had a screaming fit at the dugout for not being good cheerleaders for our crappy strike out fly out batting.

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Yep, dropped an F Bomb loud enough for all the women and little people in the stands to hear.

It's just pathetic baseball...

No energy, no passion

#10 is the only player I see right now...

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Originally Posted by PawDawg

Yep, dropped an F Bomb loud enough for all the women and little people in the stands to hear.

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He must have thought he took that job at Baylor after all. :laugh:

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Originally Posted by PawDawg

Yep, dropped an F Bomb loud enough for all the women and little people in the stands to hear.

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I mean for what it’s worth even the kids at the game probably think we f*****g suck haha