Baseball Coach or Life Coach

[Rougarou]

This team has gotten progressively worse over the last few years coming off the 2014 season. That season should have catapulted us to that next level. We didn't build a $16M stadium and put together one of the top non-conference schedules to miss post season.

This is fair as a criticism and concern. The "life coach" thing you based the thread on is a red herring in my opinion.

Again, Matt Deggs wrote a book about redemption in life, went on a book tour and does various other paid speaking engagements. His whole thing is developing boy into men. I would bet all of the posters who don't want Robe to help his players develope as young men would salivate at the thought of Deggs returning to this program.

[CajunRage]

Its a vaild concern people are fearful nothing changes going into next season and we end up with the same result as the last 2 season. Going on a 3 year postseason drought woukd kill all momentum we gained in stickball

We were told last year that the lack of at bats was why we struggled offensively. Not only did we not get better, we got worse. And now we aren’t getting any indication that a change is coming. It’s an extremely valid concern. I hope Robe is shuffling to the mound 30 years from now, but I’m not going to turn a blind eye to some pretty big issues with the trend line we are on.

[CajunRage]

This is fair as a criticism and concern. The "life coach" thing you based the thread on is a red herring in my opinion.

Again, Matt Deggs wrote a book about redemption in life, went on a book tour and does various other paid speaking engagements. His whole thing is developing boy into men. I would bet all of the posters who don't want Robe to help his players develope as young men would salivate at the thought of Deggs returning to this program.

Please show me which poster said they don’t want Robe to develop young men.

[Just1More]

Good reply to an absolutely moronic thread.

Moronic thread? Or what you think was a moronic post by MountainDew? The OP wrote a very reasonable post. It's produced very reasonable responses. I don't "know" Tony. But I don't question his competitiveness versus commitment to being a life mentor. I think it jives well for him and us. It's Tony's choice of how he talks to the public. It's mellow yellow to say the least. And when we're not playing good ball, that grinds on the passionate fan.

It's funny how baseball coaches can get theatrically mad at umps (that's baseball)... displaying behavior that won't cut it in any other walk of life their athletes will experience... but won't get mad at their program, their staff, or themselves in public. It is a little hypocritical.

Tony may not give a flying squat about fans... or he could be misguided into believing the biggest and best fans are all cooperative and quiet... but he should be more expressive sometimes about how sucking wind in baseball sucks wind. I'm a calculated person with 1000 pounds of passion. Those are competing forces. I severely appreciate those that have that makeup. I'm not very appreciative of gifted people that are heavily slanted only one way. All passion sucks. But pure calculation does too.

[UL_Cajuns]

Moronic thread? Or what you think was a moronic post by MountainDew? The OP wrote a very reasonable post. It's produced very reasonable responses. I don't "know" Tony. But I don't question his competitiveness versus commitment to being a life mentor. I think it jives well for him and us. It's Tony's choice of how he talks to the public. It's mellow yellow to say the least. And when we're not playing good ball, that grinds on the passionate fan.

It's funny how baseball coaches can get theatrically mad at umps (that's baseball)... displaying behavior that won't cut it in any other walk of life their athletes will experience... but won't get mad at their program, their staff, or themselves in public. It is a little hypocritical.

Tony may not give a flying squat about fans... or he could be misguided into believing the biggest and best fans are all cooperative and quiet... but he should be more expressive sometimes about how sucking wind in baseball sucks wind. I'm a calculated person with 1000 pounds of passion. Those are competing forces. I severely appreciate those that have that makeup. I'm not very appreciative of gifted people that are heavily slanted only one way. All passion sucks. But pure calculation does too.

Nice post. We all need to calculate our responses in the real world.
RP is for uncalculated responses. It is what makes it interesting!

[Tell The Truth]

You are hired to win baseball games, if you develop the young man along with that, fine, but your contract says baseball coach and it's time you started being a better one...37 runs in 3 games against weak SUN WORST competition is not what you were hired for...you took the funny $$$ and built the palace you said you needed and what does joe fan get except lack luster play on the field and a bunch of stolen quotes from the internet that the local media passes off as robisms...winning makes you a much better man and if what I saw this weekend was character building then robe failed at that too cause that team had no balls!!!

[LifeTimeCajun]

What y’all are missing is he has run the program about the same as he did 3,5,10 years ago. And he still has the same fire he had 20 years ago. It’s just now since he took on the Deggs project a lot of what everyone accuses Robe of being a life coach and not a baseball coach has become public material. Hence Degg’s book. Does anyone remember his Saturday morning interviews with Bitter that would run over by 30 min or an hour? The things he was discussing back then are the same kinda things he is saying now. And honestly....this has probably made him a better coach.

[CajunRage]

What y’all are missing is he has run the program about the same as he did 3,5,10 years ago. And he still has the same fire he had 20 years ago. It’s just now since he took on the Deggs project a lot of what everyone accuses Robe of being a life coach and not a baseball coach has become public material. Hence Degg’s book. Does anyone remember his Saturday morning interviews with Bitter that would run over by 30 min or an hour? The things he was discussing back then are the same kinda things he is saying now. And honestly....this has probably made him a better coach.

So you’re not concerned one bit that we parlayed the best offense in the country, #1 ranking and a brand new $16M facility that rivals any big time program into the (as listed right now) #272 ranked batting average in the ncaa? He may be coaching the same way he always had and he was having success. That is the exact reason I posed the question. So is he going to triple down on his ways or is he going to make some adjustments and right the ship? We all know the first step staring him right in the face.

[CajunJeaux]

Guys...I must say I’m a little worried about MAT...has anyone heard from him or checked on him today?...this thread screams his name for a response...

[LifeTimeCajun]

Absolutely it is concerning. But he had a different staff coaching the area everyone is concerned about. In no way shape or form is Talbot equal to Matt Deggs. Two diff guys. Two diff approaches to coaching hitting. My point was about who Tony is.