by Ruckus on Tue Apr 22, 2014 8:03 am
Our "trajectory" seems the same as it has been for years. Play decently early and maybe get a few wins but fold tents completely as season goes on. There are a lot of reasons for this, some related to funding equating into better talent (especially on the mound), some related to coaching and chemistry. I don't think playing small ball is a bad strategy to build the program around but we MUST play good defense and have good pitching to be successful at it. Therein lies our problem.
While a coaching change may solve some of those problems, it won't solve all. More importantly, I have ZERO confidence that another "national search" would yield better results than the last. We could very likely do worse.
I have said it before and I will say it again: the hiring decision in '07 set our program back at least a decade. Regardless of TI's ability and worthiness, it was a bone headed, disengaged, beareaucratic decision made by a committee which served as a scape goat for an administration that didn't care enough to take ownership over it, a committee with only one member who knows anything about baseball. So here we are: 7 years in with marginal (if any) real improvement in the program.
And until the college as a whole gets engaged enough to really improve and support the program, nothing is going to change. We are just wasting our breath and banging our heads against the wall. Which is why I choose to support TI and the team hoping for the best.
What did Scarlett O'Hara say: "Tomorrow is another day".