If he can continue to get hitters to taker the ball the other way,... value-added. I sometimes think that maybe more credit should be given to the weight and conditioning that has been going on. What Robbins has done here with the long ball compared to his time at Seton Hall. I know Tinney was great at ND but his HR's here have been massive. How much of that is due to time in the J.Dan Brown facility?
For seeding in Hoover it does. We'd be two for sure with a win, but if aggy wins and we lose then we are a 3 due to tiebreaker H2H. Not a difference really between 2/3 seed there. More importantly it would give us 40 wins for the season and that is huge for the committee on overall appearance for national seeding. Keith talked about it last night post game. Don't ever leave anything to chance with the committee and their shenanigans with pairings and where teams go post season.
This ^^^. I get that February weather can suck, but still hate that you have to wait until mid February for first games due to the northern schools bitching years ago about bad weather. Tough shit! Starting in March only shrinks the season more and brings in the weather for the southern schools that you posted above. Don't like the idea for changing of regionals either.
Spilled milk. See @jdhorn92 's post above. Aiden's slugging % is .711. In every offensive category this year, he is better than what Will is doing out west at UCLA.
Yeah, definitely throwing at him. Too much showboating (not saying that was a worthy bat flip) nowadays, but throwing at the head is NEVER okay. Especially at this level. Bad look all around. Pat losing his cool with a TXST assistant post game with the shove (looks to be first?) AND the yelling from the dugout by the TXST players at Hallmark after. Needs to be better accountability on both sides.
Was coming here to post about the bat flip (?)...as there wasn't much to watch once it got to 16-1. I missed it live but that seems pretty harmless. Apparently the UTSA pitcher (Hubbard) threw some brush back (one sailed over head and one not close?) pitches later in the game when he came up again. He wasn't hit and landed up walking according to the box score. So the dust up during the handshake was about whether Hallmark had called for it. Hallmark's comments after the game regarding it. https://x.com/rylanphotog/status/2054397943285739929https://x.com/rylanphotog/status/2054396062782161362
The NCAA sent this 👇 out last week to all D1 Coaches. Apparently UK (and many others) don't care. NCAA needs to grow some balls (on this and other things in ALL sports) or it will no doubt continue to happen.