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Regionals
Jun 5, 2023 18:38:21 GMT -6
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Post by bogeyman on Jun 5, 2023 18:38:21 GMT -6
Looks like the end of the line for Coastal Carolina. They are getting spanked by Duke in the finals 11-0. Coastal has some hitters but their defense and pitching is suspect. Their freshman phenom catcher, Caden Bodine, has let numerous pitches get by him tonight. He uses the "ole'" technique instead of blocking. Anyway, great to see Texas and TCU go to super regionals. Especially love the 20-5 and 12-4 whippings TCU put on Arkansas.
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Post by wildcatter on Jun 11, 2023 8:27:10 GMT -6
Oral Roberts forced game 3 in Eugene last night on a walk off hit.
No reason ACU can’t find ourselves in a regional one day.
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Post by bogeyman on Jun 11, 2023 10:13:57 GMT -6
Absolutely!!!
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Post by rc on Jun 11, 2023 11:14:25 GMT -6
Wake Forest and ACU are about the same size. They have twice the endowment, but we have our destiny. Why not rise to the occasion?
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Post by wildcatter on Jun 11, 2023 20:58:48 GMT -6
And Oral Roberts heads to Omaha.
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Post by bogeyman on Jun 13, 2023 10:35:20 GMT -6
Last night I watched the Texas-Stanford game and saw some unbelieveable defensive gems by both teams. Too bad the game ended with a very catchable pop fly to shallow right field that got lost in the cloudless twilight sky. In my opinion Stanford was the better team throughout the series but they didn't deserve to win on a pop up like they did.
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Post by rc on Jun 13, 2023 14:35:46 GMT -6
It was a devastating event for the outfielder who did not see the short pop-up to right center. He had to feel absolutely terrible. But Stanford did seem a little better team and nothing was more telling than Texas batters with 0-2 counts being fooled by slow curveballs or slow sliders. It was as if they had not be well coached. The odds of three fastballs down the middle was near zero but Texas seemed unable to figure out such a simple and otherwise wasted pitch.
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Post by mavsman53 on Jun 14, 2023 8:48:54 GMT -6
This will be my only response to this. The idea that a team, which was one of the final 16 teams standing in all of college baseball is not well coached is absurd and a tired act. This idea that when a team is fooled by curveballs and sliders and they did not make adjustments and that is on the coach is ridiculous. Hitting a baseball is unbelievably difficult, now more so than ever. Guys are throwing faster and with more spin rate than ever before. My son, who is 14, said the average fastball in the Babe Ruth era was 75-80 mph. If a guy throws a fastball below 90 in college baseball he better have wicked secondary pitches.
A coach can tell a player over and over and over, layoff the offspeed pitch and then they don't and somehow that is bad coaching? Seriously!
It sure seems to me, that a few of you believe, if a team wins, it was good coaching and if a team loses, it was bad coaching. I am telling you, that is not the case. I am coaching a 14u team right now. We are constantly working on things and sometimes I have had to go over to a player and say, did you hear what I told you earlier. Their response, yeah coach, my bad. It doesn't matter that they are 13 or 14. 21 and 22 year olds do it too. Are coaches perfect, not at all. They all make mistakes, sometimes silly ones. But I will never say it is bad coaching when hitters are swinging and missing. Was the coach batting or the players?
Much of the season, I read on here, when ACU played poorly we were coached poorly. And then more chimed in saying the same things. Here is the main thing I am going to say- the fastest way to grow community is through negativity. Years ago I had to look myself in the mirror and say am I a positive person or am I a person that is negative. Am I always cussing and discussing about something, letting words fly out of my mouth or in this instance onto a page that is positive or negative. Is this board awful, nope, not at all and there are other fan forums I read that make me cringe. I am challenging us to really think before we post things such as, that team was coached poorly or more importantly OUR team is coached poorly.
Please hear me, I am not mad at anyone. You can say whatever you want to about this post and it will be fine.
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Post by rc on Jun 14, 2023 13:04:34 GMT -6
Good post and fully understood. Still, a long history of baseball and experience with amazing coaches and professional players still leads me to my conclusions. Baseball is a game of odds. When you ignore the odds, it is rare that things turn out as well as when you are fully aware of them and prepare digilently to face them. Batting always has coaching, especially at all the higher levels. The objective is always two fold, to optimize the hitter's swing within a person's natural tendencies and to learn the finer points of strategy and odds. It was always easier to assume when the pitcher was going to go off speed or low and away when they had a 0-2 count, so the batter setting up to swing only if the pitch was missed to the middle leads to lots of hard hits, even home runs. The best in the game were masters of playing the odds. Of course one could be wrong and even look foolish, but the odds still favor the well coached. It is only when I notice things over and over that it is frustrating and my personal thoughts get shared on this forum. Do I accept well coached young men will make mistakes -- of course. The best we can hope for is, again, becoming better at playing to your strengths and playing the odds in a beneficial way. I have praised our ACU coaches and lamented when we make mistakes, but of course, mistakes happen. The amazing thing is when a mistake in strategy actually leads to success -- it happens, but the odds are still against it. These ideas are present in every sport or game, in every contest. And you can do everything well and still lose. Nothing is 100 percent. And by the way, what I said is "it was as if they had not been well coached." Coaching can be great and a player still fails -- that is the nature of sports.
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Post by Outsider on Jun 14, 2023 13:38:25 GMT -6
Mavsman, I also understand and appreciate your post. I know our players made a lot of mistakes and am sure they did things the coaches told them not to. None of us ever denied that. There were also times when we clearly watched the coach make direct mistakes as well. We have spoken to both, and like RC points out, we have both praised and lamented our coaches and players at different times. This is true for all of our sports, not just baseball, who over-all, had a pretty decent year. Now, I am sure all of us hope that our players that remain take what they did learn and continue to apply it more and more so they can continue to grow.
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