College baseball is a small world, as you know. The coaching carousel will pick up speed in June. Pitching coaches will be in high demand. Pitching sucks everywhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by sportsfanatic21
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College baseball is a small world, as you know. The coaching carousel will pick up speed in June. Pitching coaches will be in high demand. Pitching sucks everywhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by sportsfanatic21
Man, ain’t that the truth.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dad04
I guess the question is, will we be in the market for one?
I always knew we had one of the best pitching coaches in the country. Its really starting to look like we had one of the best to ever do it.
Robe wasn't signing borderline proball guys out of high school. They knew how to pitch, but he made them winners. Bab and John Szecf went out and dug up most of them. Robe found some guys too. I heard he found Moody at a Notre Dame game Jut was in.Quote:
Originally Posted by crazycajun
I really hope, at some point, some guys that throw strikes, can get fastballs in on guys hands, and throw breaking balls and/or change ups down and away (depending on handedness) can be found….basically STARTING pitchers that aren’t out there with the goal of striking out every hitter they face.
Until that happens, it will be more of the same.
*this is about the Cajuns, but currently holds true at pretty much every college baseball program in D1
93-96 with a great breaking ball is all well and good (1) in the bullpen, and (2) if those pitches can be located with any consistency
Teams need guys with three good pitches to start so they can get through the order 2-3 times. We don't really have that. I watched Hunter Moody throw mid 80's FB and become All American.Quote:
Originally Posted by sportsfanatic21
Exactly what I mean. I don’t care if it’s 84 mph if all of the other attributes are thereQuote:
Originally Posted by Dad04
You aint getting Devey. He's a local investor and business owner and he aint giving up the money he's making to come coach pitchers.Quote:
Originally Posted by KajunKrazy
See Andy Gros.Quote:
Originally Posted by sportsfanatic21
I owned that dudeQuote:
Originally Posted by JMV JustMyView
Yep and so did the whole VC team. He got better once he got to UL.Quote:
Originally Posted by cajun4life
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Originally Posted by sportsfanatic21
It's all about hanging zeros. Nobody cares how it gets done.
Yea, many layers to that success. He could very well be one of the best to ever do it.Quote:
Originally Posted by crazycajun
Yep. The “strike everyone out” mentality is probably the biggest reason that pitching sucks…across the country
In his spare time he helped countless people fix their screwed up lives.Quote:
Originally Posted by lifetimecajun
This^^^^.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dad04
The legacy lives thru his family and exactly what Dad posted.
Baseball was just a conduit for some. CWS has become distant in the rear view mirror, much like the Blackham days in MBB. The ‘14 season will be a decade old next year. But all the years resulted in some solid men changing lives for the better.
It was no accident his players are widely respected, mostly all excellent family people and almost universally very successful in their chosen fields, including and especially his sons.Quote:
Originally Posted by ZoomZoom
"I wonder", why not name the thread, "Could Justin Robicheaux coach baseball pitchers?"
Because Justin Robichaux is going to coach softball pitchers. One of the main reasons he is there is that he has two girls. That won’t change and Justin isn’t going to be coaching baseball pitchers . . . not anytime soon, probably not ever again . . .
I thought he was making room for untold "wonders."Quote:
Originally Posted by GreatestStory
He did say in his first post, it was "just one of those thoughts" :)
I was making reference to a stupid (but funny) TV commercial where a guy is sitting on a beach thinking "Sometimes I wonder; why can't I wear white after Labor Day?." Regardless, I am frustrated at some of the games that our poor pitching has cost us. I guess I just wanted to express that without getting too nasty.Quote:
Originally Posted by GreatestStory
I hear VC could have beat South Carolina back then.Quote:
Originally Posted by JMV JustMyView