2022 Baseball Mega Thread
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Good guys won 17-9.
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Sure would be nice to pick up a series win against Coastal this weekend. Coastal is good but beatable. GSU just won a series against them, but GSU is now in the "others getting votes".
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I've seen better fielding in Little League.Up 3-1, 5 errors later we get hammered 14-3.
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11-20 record on the season. Just got BLASTED at home by a conference opponent who was on a 3 game losing streak. “Nothing to see here. Everything is fine” - most people on this thread
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The lack of fundamentals is concerning.I think we have some talent but you have to catch the ball....
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We sit at the bottom or near bottom in every statistical category. At this point in the season, we are not a very good team and the future Sun Belt is only going to get tougher. After this series with Coastal, we have six more home conference games and nine on the road. Six of the road games are against the teams just above us in the standings in ULM and UTA. We still have to go to league leading Ga State as well. We host Troy and UL, who are currently tied for 4th.
Unfortunately, the one team we miss this season is last place Arkansas State. With their first win of the season last night, we now sit 2 games out of the cellar.
Unfortunately, the one team we miss this season is last place Arkansas State. With their first win of the season last night, we now sit 2 games out of the cellar.
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IMO, if you fix the walks and the unforced fielding errors, you take care of some of the other stuff. Unfortunately, much like free throw shooting in basketball, these things are much to do with the mental side of the game and they are contagious. So how do you fix this?
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How do we fix this? Coaching.
Coaching, coaching, coaching, coaching, and coaching.
It wasn’t cold yesterday and the “extreme altitude” should’ve affected Coastal more than it did us because they’re not used to that thin air.
Coaching, coaching, coaching, coaching, and coaching.
It wasn’t cold yesterday and the “extreme altitude” should’ve affected Coastal more than it did us because they’re not used to that thin air.
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Ok. Would it be fair to say then that Kerns isn’t an effective coach since his kids can’t hit FTs when it counts? Please don’t get your shorts in a twist about my use of Kerns as a coach. I’m merely saying that sometimes you can coach bad habits into existence by pressing the issue. A great deal of our issues are self-inflicted and if you start harping on them, then they become expected. We pitch ourselves into a lot of jams. But you know what, we also pitch and defense our way out of a lot of jams.
Are there issues with this team? Sure. Is a new coaching staff going to fix them? Maybe. Maybe not. Honestly, I don’t know the ends and outs of this team like I do football, but we have a Freshman playing First Base that came in as a Short Stop and is learning a new position. I’m not making excuses for him, just acknowledging that I don’t know the full extent of the deck that Smith is dealing from.
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IMO I would say that by the time a kid gets to be college age and he is considered good enough to play college ball the fielding errors and poor throws should pretty much be a thing of the past. I’d say that’s a recruiting problem. Hitting: now that’s a horse of a different color! Although much like fielding you better have developed the proper swing technique by college. However. If you can’t put the bat on the ball with proper hand eye coordination you’ll never hit, college coaches dont have time to evaluate that so I’d try and develop great evaluation relationships with the high school coach. Pitching IMO you gotta sign a bunch of’em and work on them hoping one or two work out . I guess that does sound like coaching. Do we have the max number of baseball coaches allowed?
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It’s hard to stockpile arms with the limited scholarships.pop5app wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 1:05 pmIMO I would say that by the time a kid gets to be college age and he is considered good enough to play college ball the fielding errors and poor throws should pretty much be a thing of the past. I’d say that’s a recruiting problem. Hitting: now that’s a horse of a different color! Although much like fielding you better have developed the proper swing technique by college. However. If you can’t put the bat on the ball with proper hand eye coordination you’ll never hit, college coaches dont have time to evaluate that so I’d try and develop great evaluation relationships with the high school coach. Pitching IMO you gotta sign a bunch of’em and work on them hoping one or two work out . I guess that does sound like coaching. Do we have the max number of baseball coaches allowed?
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We are in year 6 or so of the current regime.It would seem that this is who we are , and sadly perhaps , who we are going to be.
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This current team was winning on some razor thin margins and are now just not winning. Where are the mentality giants to stop things like a 9-run 9th inning? Everything emanating from the program right now is not good.
Kermit's contract expires next summer and Gillin has shown he isn't afraid to fire a coach with time left. I've wanted this to work, but at a certain point, you have to try something new.
Each series is growing in importance. Missing the conference tournament (finishing 11th or 12) would be a calamity.
Kermit's contract expires next summer and Gillin has shown he isn't afraid to fire a coach with time left. I've wanted this to work, but at a certain point, you have to try something new.
Each series is growing in importance. Missing the conference tournament (finishing 11th or 12) would be a calamity.
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I haven’t dug into the stats but how are the errors home versus away? I only ask because our infield is the pro turf (for lack of a better term). Even though you shouldn’t get bad bounces on the fake stuff do infield grounders go faster?
I always hate to immediately blame a team’s mental mistakes on coaching- the ones like free throw shooting or fielding ground balls. I agree, if you are 18-22 and are playing at the college level you should not have a problem fielding balls or shooting free throws. I was around baseball for 14 years with my boys and repetition was the key word for baseball. It used to be a key word for basketball and free throws. You take enough reps both become routine.
I always hate to immediately blame a team’s mental mistakes on coaching- the ones like free throw shooting or fielding ground balls. I agree, if you are 18-22 and are playing at the college level you should not have a problem fielding balls or shooting free throws. I was around baseball for 14 years with my boys and repetition was the key word for baseball. It used to be a key word for basketball and free throws. You take enough reps both become routine.
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We sit at 3-10 in the Belt at the moment. We will be half thru the conference season after the Coastal series. I would submit that the second half of the season is a lot easier in terms of the competition we will face. It's not outside the realm of the possible for this team to find a groove and work their way up to the middle of the standings. However, a second half with similar results to the first half has to put some pressure on the program leadership.
I realize it was SoCon days but during the mid 80s we went to the NCAA tournament twice and won as many as 40 games in a season. I don't think the climate was milder then than it is now. It can be done.
I realize it was SoCon days but during the mid 80s we went to the NCAA tournament twice and won as many as 40 games in a season. I don't think the climate was milder then than it is now. It can be done.
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Is there a huge gap in baseball talent between a SOCON team and an average Sunbelt team? Also, how do typically distribute baseball scholarship money? Do we have guys getting more than others or is it divided up equally?
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I think having a creek run under the baseball field is the difference maker, and no way that can happen when the current field is on top of the mountain. A beautiful view for sure, but where is the running water?hapapp wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 2:14 pmWe sit at 3-10 in the Belt at the moment. We will be half thru the conference season after the Coastal series. I would submit that the second half of the season is a lot easier in terms of the competition we will face. It's not outside the realm of the possible for this team to find a groove and work their way up to the middle of the standings. However, a second half with similar results to the first half has to put some pressure on the program leadership.
I realize it was SoCon days but during the mid 80s we went to the NCAA tournament twice and won as many as 40 games in a season. I don't think the climate was milder then than it is now. It can be done.
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No problems hitting long balls across river street and out-scoring everyone back then. Errors and defense were suspect at times but hitting, never an issue. Pitching- most played defense when not on the bump. Most early season "home" games were played in Granite Falls. Weather was always an issue!