Saw that Yeti Yard is students only tonight. Some may not like it, but it solves what I assumed was going to be a problem when playing teams with fans who would show up there. Good solution and creates an actual student section
Theyāre playing zone and letting us take bad shots. Drew gambled that Abmas and 4 guys with 0 offensive game wouldnāt make shots all game and he was right. It is what it is. Better than anyone thought a road game without Disu would go
Heading into conference play without a single quality non-conference win would be a resume disaster and Pierce knows it. Have to imagine every arm is available. For reference, Gordon threw 107 pitches the Friday before this one last year and got an inning.
Anyways⦠itās a meaningless Tuesday game if we lose
Early season embarrassments tend to be good for Pierce teams, but what a joke of a weekend. Tomorrow is going to be hell too with the shape the bullpen is in.
Every coach recruiting against Pierce for pitchers is going to point to the frequency of TJ surgeries and his post-surgery handling of these guys. At some point it isnāt luck and heās hanging guys out to dry that arenāt ready.
Adjust for competition. We donāt get to play St Johnās and HBU in pro parks. Weāre probably about .500 in non conference series vs high quality teams.
2 years ago to the weekend was Wittās scratched start vs UCLA in Houston where he was shut down before surgery.
Iāve been as pessimistic as can be about his return, but it was great to see him in a high leverage situation last night. He is the single biggest ceiling raiser for this team if he can keep progressing.
This isnāt new. We were ranked #1 2 years ago and they still dwarfed us in Houston. Arkansas dwarfs us in Arlington. Weāre always under-represented in Omaha. The majority of orange in Omaha is player parents.
Itās okay to admit that thereās a handful of SEC programs with significantly larger and more loyal baseball fanbases than ours. Im excited for the SEC move to wake some people up and change that.
Weāve been an Omaha losers bracket level program for 8 years. Which is fine, better than it was the 8 years before that. Pierce has built flawed rosters and coached them up well. We see an elite arm 3-4 times a year and lose miserably. Win most of the others.
The horribly recruiting over the past few years looks to be reversing course. Hitting big on this next class and giving them time to mature is how the program takes the next step. Until then, weāll still be in the mix to host postseason baseball every year
Shugart got the save in the regional final, yep. Couple huge Ks.
That month of baseball was some of my favorite ever. The series win at Tech (3 Kody HRs). The sweep vs TCU to win the conference (3 Kody HRs) on the last weekend of the regular season. The regional win (2 Kody HRs vs Atm). The supers comeback (3 Kody HRs).
I canāt seem to remember what happened after thatā¦
Iād probably take the 2022 team over this one, especially before the Witt scratch in Houston. We were undefeated. Pete had just out-dueled Burns. Stevens had an elite start vs LSU. Witt was 2-0
I said it before, but the Houston/Arlington split plays so much into how non-conference Feb/March is perceived. In even years, we get a few weekends to get in a groove and February feels great. Odd years we get thrashed opening weekend and it makes Pierce look like a genius when the team figures it out down the line.