Missed opportunity for RPI
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Missed opportunity for RPI
Sutton and Daigle have been total flops in their senior year. Didn't see that coming.
But...improved the RIP factor for this yearOriginally Posted by latech
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Without all our defensive blunders we win 3-1.
Take back all the outs we gave them bunting and getting thrown out on the bases we might score a couple more.
Without a 3-run homer in the 8th we get shut out by a team that won't qualify for the CUSA tournament.
True freshman FIU pitcher Tyler Myrick had his longest outing of the season going 7.2 innings vs Louisiana Tech today.
Baseball. Bulldogs Drop Finale in Miami
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Louisiana Tech dropped the series finale to FIU, 6-3, but still took the series on the road in Miami.
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It was another horribly coached game. Sac bunting early when only down 1 run, caught stealing, leaving a pitcher in who has just thrown an 0-2 gutterball strike (his first appearance in 6 weeks), leaving another pitcher in too long who was making mistakes.
This has been the norm all year. Chalk this up as at least our 3rd conference loss due to mismanagement of pitching.
Sounds like we waste too may opportunities by hitting too many Sac bunts. When a team is down by 3 runs, Sac bunts aren't typically going to help.
I hope we are already looking for a new head coach....this one just is not working.
Holy crap... we're in position to potentially make the NCAA tournament, something that hasn't exactly been the norm around here (last year notwithstanding), and y'all wanna fire a 1st year head coach? Assuming we could find a better one, why would he want to come here when apparently making the tournament in your first year could still get you fired? Gotta give him a couple of years. Firing a guy who in his very first year gets you in position to make a regional seems shortsighted to me. Be a little patient.
You reacted to one post with a "y'all want to...". I'm not saying that.
He has mishandled our pitching staff. Do you disagree? He was handed a great team, so he should be doing well.
He's being given a chance right now. He's the one making the decisions. He's the one that sees what everyone else sees and has complete control of changing things.
In horseracing when analyzing the potential of a horse to win (like this weekend's Kentucky Derby) you look at what that horse has already done on the track, and you study his pedigree. I looked at Burrough's pedigree and asked (in another thread) was he a good hire? He has never taken a team to the post season. He was an assistant coach at USM for 8 years and during that time USM made the NCAA playoffs 6 times. That's good, but how much influence did Burr have in that success really? At NSU after a horrible first year, he had winning seasons, but never reached the NCAAs.
Yes, he'll have a solid winning season in his first year here. He still has a chance, of course, to take his first team to the NCAAs as a head coach. I HOPE HE DOES!
As for criticism from fans...that comes with the territory. I'm sure Burr is used to it....as are all coaches.
Maybe not everyone, but I've seen several people suggest this.
I don't know enough about baseball yet to comment on the pitching staff. Still learning. I will say I don't like the sac bunts.
I just think there's a lot of overreacting, that's all. Can't say I've never done that myself, but let's see how things play out.
But how much potential does NSU have in terms of reaching the NCAAs? They currently sit in 11th in the SLC without him. Remember, even Bill Belichick couldn't win with the Browns. Obviously that's an exaggeration of a comparison, but my point stands.
Obviously a coach will always have to deal with fan criticism. I'm just saying let's slow down the talk of "are we looking for a new coach yet?"
NSU used to reach the NCAAs with some regularity. That's when they were sending coaches all over the nation: Bama, Nebraska, etc.. It's been a recent slump for them, actually. Yeah, maybe successful baseball has left them behind for good now. But, seems to me it's easier to reach the NCAAs....well, the auto-bid, in a weaker league. Heck! every year the SWAC has a representative in the NCAAs and that league sucks.
To be fair, last year NSU was on the bubble. I posted elsewhere that UNO, SLU, and NSU all entered the SLC tourney with fairly high RPIs but they were grouped together on one side of the bracket and proceeded to beat up on each other. Only UNO got a bid, as I recall.
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