2022 NCAA Baseball News

[UnhappilyMarried 815]

2 minutes ago, Rickylovesweed said:

Pierce has pulled two of the top transfers the last 2 years in Antico and Messinger. 

This is far from a worry with Pierce. 

 There’s a big difference between finding the perfect missing piece to round out an order and needing to find 5 of those. And trying to replace Quintanilla with under recruited juco guys instead of elite transfers last offseason was a failure 

[Horny Bull 2759]

30 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

 

So much for all that Florida State hype.

[Hookem2147 21194]

Just now, Horny Bull said:

So much for all that Florida State hype.

Firing their coach unexpectedly and then not filling the spot for 2 weeks probably didn't help in that pursuit.

[Rickylovesweed 14262]

Just now, UnhappilyMarried said:

 There’s a big difference between finding the perfect missing piece to round out an order and needing to find 5 of those. And trying to replace Quintanilla with under recruited juco guys instead of elite transfers last offseason was a failure 

The season just ended and the transfer portal is full of good players. It's going to be fine. 

I don't understand your point about Quintanilla. They didn't go after "elite transfers" because they thought Nixon, Duplantier, and other bullpen pitchers would be better. Not to mention Gordon would have potentially been in the bullpen had Witt not been injured (at least in the postseason). They didn't try to replace Quintanilla with under recruited juco guys they overvalued the pitchers they had and some bad luck with Witt. 

[torre 1285]

Parker Bostic was Jose's first pitching coach.   No coaching experience.   Ran a baseball performance clinic called Maximized Baseball which focused on analytics.   Rice team ERA was 6.04.    Bangs pitched at SCar, Jose must have got a rec from someone.   

Need Rice to be competitive.

 

 

  

 

[Hookem2147 21194]

Damn, that is a really good hire

 

[torre 1285]

USC Insider Blog    

 

Troy Tulowitzki has turned down the USC baseball job, which places the job search back to square one.

Tulowitzki is the second coach to turn down the job following UC Santa Barbara coach Andrew Checketts.

D1Baseball reports Tulowitzki will not return to Texas as an assistant coach but will do consulting for a year before seeking a head-coaching job. That doesn’t sound like he loved what he heard from USC.

As I’ve said, there are numerous obstacles at a private school like USC and it’s not clear USC is willing to devote resources to baseball like it has thrown at football the past few seasons.

So where do things stand now?

Grand Canyon coach Andy Stankiewicz is available but USC has not contacted him yet. Long Beach State coach Eric Valenzuela is a natural candidate.

Time for USC to google some more names.

https://insideusc.blog/2022/06/26/sunday-buzz-troy-tulowitzki-turns-down-usc/

[Beau Vine 54207]

I would have thought Checketts would take that job since he didn't get OSU a few years ago and Canham is going nowhere soon.  

I wonder what his endgame is? He apparently wasn't interested in the UDub job.  I wonder if he even makes enough money to live in Santa Barbara?

Edited June 28, 2022 by Beau Vine

[torre 1285]

13 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

I would have thought Checketts would take that job since he didn't get OSU a few years ago and Canham is going nowhere soon.  

I wonder what his endgame is? He apparently wasn't interested in the UDub job.  I wonder if he even makes enough money to live in Santa Barbara?

https://trojandailyblog.com/will-andrew-checketts-see-the-light-at-usc/ 

 

Said Family likes the SB area.    My guess is USC does not want to fund assistant salaries and baseball specific training facilities.    UCSB is planning on upgrades if they can secure funding.    

 

 

[Goodman 3273]

This is the first I hear of a Private School being held back for baseball. Usually means they can get anyone in and funded. Curious is this is more about the program & staff budget along with facilities. 

[HenryJames 66038]

 

[WBT 20561]

Hook 'em Clay, time to repent and never sin again.

[Dnaguy 11920]

On 6/27/2022 at 10:02 PM, torre said:

https://trojandailyblog.com/will-andrew-checketts-see-the-light-at-usc/ 

 

Said Family likes the SB area.    My guess is USC does not want to fund assistant salaries and baseball specific training facilities.    UCSB is planning on upgrades if they can secure funding.    

 

 

Curious if/how the move to the B1G that was just announced is going to shape this hire.

[HenryJames 66038]

Not sure that's a positive for baseball.

[Beau Vine 54207]

1 hour ago, HenryJames said:

Not sure that's a positive for baseball.

It worked sooooo well for Nebraska baseball.

[NeverMarryAStripper 21874]

Does Nebraska even have a team any more?

[Hookem2147 21194]

Baseball may as well be water polo in the Big 10.

[deac_tracy 516]

This move really hurts UCLA baseball. USC was on it's deathbed already but UCLA was the #1 overall seed in 2019 and has finished ranked the last 5 years.

[Valmy77 13225]

10 hours ago, deac_tracy said:

This move really hurts UCLA baseball. USC was on it's deathbed already but UCLA was the #1 overall seed in 2019 and has finished ranked the last 5 years.

We'll see. A whole bunch more money might offset whatever travel issues they have. Besides unlike most Big 10 programs they can play home games in February.

[Fletch 5800]

Nm 

Edited July 2, 2022 by Fletch

[Beau Vine 54207]

Liar!!!

 

[Valmy77 13225]

Which part? About the USC series being hard fought and entertaining?

[Horny Bull 2759]

 

[petscii 1189]

2 hours ago, Horny Bull said:

 

This is not a good hire.  

[Cairn Horn88 8260]

[Valmy77 13225]

#15 hosts a Regional. Works for me.

[torre 1285]

https://www.usabaseball.com/team-usa/collegiate-national-team/schedule

 

Team USA Collegiate National Team begins play Saturday.   Games are scheduled to be streamed.   Early games may be archived for later viewing.

 

 

[torre 1285]

Japan scored in bottom of 8th to defeat Team USA 1-0.      Must have been a great game,  too bad ESPN does not stream.

Above stream is a paid subscription from the Netherlands. 

[Valmy77 13225]

11 minutes ago, torre said:

Japan scored in bottom of 8th to defeat Team USA 1-0.      Must have been a great game,  too bad ESPN does not stream.

Above stream is a paid subscription from the Netherlands. 

So why was it 8 innings? Was it scheduled to be 7 innings?

[Fletch 5800]

4 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

So why was it 8 innings? Was it scheduled to be 7 innings?

Not sure but I bet it has something to do with Pearl Harbor 

[torre 1285]

1 hour ago, Valmy77 said:

So why was it 8 innings? Was it scheduled to be 7 innings?

Apparently a 7 inning game,  they went extras (see 1st link)   No idea why, Olympic games are 9.   2nd link is USA Twitter to follow games if interested.

 

https://www.usabaseball.com/news/topic/collegiate/cnt-falls-to-japan-in-extras-1-0-in-honkbalweek-opener

https://twitter.com/usabaseballcnt

 

[Valmy77 13225]

Fortunately we squeaked by the Italians 9-0, also in 7 innings. I guess all the games in this tournament are 7 innings for some reason.

Edited July 10, 2022 by Valmy77

[torre 1285]

http://usabaseball.sidearmsports.com/sidearmstats/collegiate_national_team/media;category=batting 

 

2-0 win over Cuba today.    Nice win !     Skenes has yet to pitch or play.   Ahuna is playing 2B,  Gonzalez (0le Miss) SS.   Would have been nice to have Ahuna at Texas.

Games end with Netherlands on Tues,   Curacao on Wed.

 

 

 

 

[LTtxfan 49144]

 

[LTtxfan 49144]