Preview: LA Tech vs UL-Lafayette, ULM

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The Louisiana Tech baseball team gets set for a pair of midweek contests against in-state foes UL-Lafayette and ULM.

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[PawDawg]

Serious question. Why does he keep forcing Harlan on this team? He has done NOTHING this year except give up wins and multiple runs. Good grief!!

[PawDawg]

Dawgs pick up a couple to keep it close. Here's an idea. Let's send Harlan back out there to ensure the loss.

He get's out with no runs. First time all year.

[PawDawg]

No pitchers when we need them. (Harlan gave up 4 and was NEVER dominant)

No hitters when we need them. (Drost has left like 8 men stranded tonight on three strike outs)

[PawDawg]

Are we "competing"?

[PawDawg]

6 and 7 hole hitters strike out.

Then our best hitter (who our HC has batting in the 8 hole) strikes out.

[PawDawg]

Now a 14+ era pitcher gets two outs then gives up a homer.

LB gives him the hook.

[PawDawg]

One of our seniors pitching now for the final out.

Grounder to SS for the final out.

Three more at bats...I mean three more outs.

[PawDawg]

Another embarrassing loss by our poorly coached team.

[parisdog]

Just shows how bad our pitching roster is. How is Fouts not to blame for this disaster?

[parisdog]

And how in the world did LB think this was his most talented and deepest team.

[SicemDawgz]

Is it too much to ask to be decent in just one sport? Every major sport is in free fall.

[Bone_afide_Dawg]

And how in the world did LB think this was his most talented and deepest team.

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.

[Bone_afide_Dawg]

Serious question Why does he keep forcing Harlan on this team? He has done NOTHING this year except give up wins and multiple runs. Good grief!!

It really is dumbfounding, isn’t it. I think Burroughs lives a dream state movie script of imaginary outcomes. When faced with the same circumstances he always makes the repeated wrong decisions. And get this at least a few more times this season you’re going to get to see Harland do exactly the same thing again. It’s unbelievable…

[dawg80]

With the talent we had two years ago and even last year, we should have reached Omaha. Well...to be fair, this is baseball where funny things happen so even very talented teams experience hiccups or just lose a close game on a bloop hit or something goofy. Still, the talent was there to get to Omaha. LB burned out our closer last year pitching him about 70 innings. I noted that the final four teams at Omaha had their ace closers with only about 45 innings pitched and that in more games than we played.

I'll be nice and say LB is a mediocre coach.