Ragin' Cajuns Baseball looks to next year

[CajunT]

Boomer -

As a former coach you must surely know that attempting to say a starting line-up without seeing a kid play fall ball yet is a pretty pointless exercise.

Not to mention that they are not done signing yet. They will add several late signees to the 2012 Class.

[Cajun8]

Well, the YOUNG excuse can only get so much mileage because we weren't YOUNG last year and got embarrassed at the
SBC tournament. So, as much as i think that we do have some talent, we definately have some problems in good old
fundamental preperation. Way to many baserunning mistakes. I don't feel like we need to be a senior laden team to practice
good defense and baserunning skills, I've seen to many youth teams execute . Communication on the bases is lacking.
Also, if you have a good program, it should never drop to last , that means that you didn't look to the future. Now , we have to re-build that reputation. Can we do it ? of course, but it shouldn't happen. I'm not ready to pull the plug on Tony, but there are alot of areas that need improving besides playing with elder classmen.

[Boomer]

Not to mention that they are not done signing yet. They will add several late signees to the 2012 Class.

--------Speaking of guys not signed yet----Wonder if some can see themselves being able to come in and play early because of our poor record and lack of talent that we displayed this past year???????? And when they see the results in the past and the attendance-----UL becomes a pretty good place to do a career!!!!

[jumboragncajun]

Boomer -

As a former coach you must surely know that attempting to say a starting line-up without seeing a kid play fall ball yet is a pretty pointless exercise.

......and before the turnover dominos start to fall. Pointless.

Cajun T or Parrot: Does anyone know what happened to the kid we got from Dallas last year that was originally committed to Tulane?

[LifeTimeCajun]

Don't overlook the "volunteer" coach that we don't have anymore. Significant loss in my mind. While his body of work is very small, the guy knew the in's and out's of the game and teaches fundamentals better than most in the business. I think he was a loss this season to the program

[BirdofParadise]

......and before the turnover dominos start to fall. Pointless.

Cajun T or Parrot: Does anyone know what happened to the kid we got from Dallas last year that was originally committed to Tulane?

Had arm trouble and only pitched in one game last year. Walked the bases loaded and was removed. Decided to hang it up.

[Parrott]

......and before the turnover dominos start to fall. Pointless.

Cajun T or Parrot: Does anyone know what happened to the kid we got from Dallas last year that was originally committed to Tulane?

Jacques de Gruy transferred to Furman, where he did not play this season while sitting out per NCAA rules.

[LifeTimeCajun]

The draft only took one Underclassmen from last years team. There are tons of freshmen that contribute significantly in D1 baseball. However with new limited rosters, I do think it affects redshirting players. I wish we could of redshirted a few more of the freshmen we had this year. Two come to mind that did not see significant time and were not regular starters that could of benifited from a redshirt. But the lack of quality older guys didn't allow that

[CajunAmos]

The draft only took one Underclassmen from last years team. There are tons of freshmen that contribute significantly in D1 baseball. However with new limited rosters, I do think it affects redshirting players. I wish we could of redshirted a few more of the freshmen we had this year. Two come to mind that did not see significant time and were not regular starters that could of benifited from a redshirt. But the lack of quality older guys didn't allow that

With roster limits, redshirts fall within your 35 member team roster. If you redshirt them, it's one less player on your roster. We had one redshirt player this past year, James Peterson from Oak Forest Academy in Amite.

[cajuns67]

Yes it was a bad year for the Cajuns and yes they did come in last in batting average for the conference but before we continue negative comments (as I have seen on recent postings) on a coach and "young" team and the need to get the "bats going" for next year let's look at the statistics:

The UL batting averages in conference play in order of ranking of all individual conference stats (www.sunbeltsports.org):

4th - Compton .352 - So
15th - Leonards .322 - So
17th - Conrad .320 - Fr
38th - Girouard .284 - RS Fr
54th - Butler .254 - Fr

Hmmm ...... all Freshman and Sophomores.

If you calculate the conference batting average of the above returning players it comes to .297 which is above the conference leader FIU at .294. So I do not believe youngness was the problem with our batting average.

With the pitching we have returning next year as well as the return of Chase Traffica and Strentz I personnally think this young team has a great future ahead of them.

With all do respect... WE ARE LAST IN WHAT HAPPENED TO BE A 1 BID LEAGUE.