You are seeing it. Anyone who thinks differently just isn't being realistic. We are competitive in our league year in and year out and have had good success in making regionals during the last dozen years.
I would love for us to do more but reality is that we are meeting and probably exceeding reasonable expectations for this program.
one thing i agree with you on for sure, it does get old hearing Robe say we need to get tougher, well who recruited these "not tough" kids? Who coaches the "not tough" kids at practice. It is almost as bad as Bustle's football teams being young for 8 years. he needs to figure out what made his past teams tough and do it to every class. We have the talent, but it seems when we get put in a tough position we fold more often than not.
Here is my opinion of Robe.
Deep down inside he is still the great coach he was in 2000.
The problem is he has been beat down emotionally from all the years the previous administration had a who cares attitude about the athletic program.
All it takes is for the new administration to show a little care and Robe's fire will be back.
Its kind of like an employee that works for a company that is down, not expanding or giving raises and promotions. The employee's fire inside him gets put out.
All of a sudden the company gets bought out by a new company with high aspirations and lofty goals. They promote people, give them raises etc...
Now all of a sudden this employee that was once a great employee that lost his fire all of a sudden has a new zeal for life and is back to his old productive self.
I already see signs of the old Robe coming back. It takes a few years. Its not instant. But he is starting to get his fire back.
Lets not give up on him, because he did not give up on us when he damm well had every right to go someplace else when he was highly marketable.
The shoe is on the other foot now. Its time to give him the same slack that he gave us the last 10 years.
I said it when we hired Trahan, he is a recruiting BEAST. Schef brought in some big time players and even in the transition to Trahan, the Cajuns still competed and won the league title. It will get much better in the next few years. Of course, then people will comain that the Cajuns never won a national title.
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I must have miss this???
I feel like bandwagon king right now. I am getting jumped on from every angle. Its not like I brought in upon myself.
Just wait and see my predictions will come to fruition, they always do!
In all seriousness, I get tired of the damn same stuff after every game. Soft this, weak that. Just once I would like him to tell Jay after a game. "Jay I f*ked up, I didn't have us prepared, I made the wrong call. I should have taken Geith out after he gave up 3 bombs in 4 innings and 3 straight hits to lead off the 4th. We had a righty ready in the bullpen, but I left Geith in against the righty, it was the wrong move and they made us pay. After that we were just too far behind." Instead we get the "We weren't mentally tough enough... blah, blah, blah" .......
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