Making a Regional is a successful year and it doesn't matter how you get there.
Making a Regional is a successful year and it doesn't matter how you get there.
2000 South Carolina is the greatest team to not make it to Omaha (thanks in large part to gonads the size of beach balls).
2015 and 2016 might have been Tony's best coaching jobs. We lost a lot of talent off of the 2014 team, but the foundation was laid for the roster to continue the success. The last time the 2015 team was under .500 was when they lost game 1 to Bama to fall to 4-5. They fell to 15-13 with a loss to Georgia Southern and then went 14-2 over the next 16 games. Lost game 1 of the SBC tourney and came back from the losers bracket to win it all. That team had grit and determination.
2016 was a combination of a great schedule (#1 OOC SOS) and a solid record, coupled with a regular season and conference tournament title, to help propel us to a host spot. That 2016 team lost 19 games in the regular season. 2019 team has lost that many already.
2016 is what we should strive for. We didn't even hit 40 wins until the SBC tournament. We didn't have to sweat out whether we would make a regional. We had to sweat out whether we would host or not.
And our new hitting coach has our offense trending upwards. If we had just a normal Tony pitching staff this year we would have 10 more wins. Our bullpen collapsing has been a huge issue. When if and how it will get fixed is yet to be seen. We are leading or near the top of conference in nearly every offensive category. This is the weakest pitching staff I can ever remember under Tony.
Absolutely correct sir!
And Coastal proved the old adage a few years back, get hot at the right time and anything can happen. UCONN men's basketball also proved that a few years back. Heard talking heads speaking badly about that UCONN team this week, but they left with the trophy.
Why does someone always need to be thrown under a bus? We have 8 pitchers that are either freshman or sophomores carrying the load, of the upper class-men we hopedvyo count on leger, Horton and Bradford are either done, not what we expected or battling injury. Sometimes ___ just doesn’t work. In 25 years it’s rarely been pitching
When I see the offense continue on that trend while Tony rebuilds the pitching staff, I'll feel the same way you do. We lose a lot of the current lineup this year and are depending on the JUCO to D-1 transitions to go smoothly. I'm not as optimistic as I have been in the past. I stated in a thread the other day, had the staffing changes made for this year been made 2 years ago, I'd be much more forgiving. Hearing excuses for 1-2 years is much different than 3-4.
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