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UConn @ Cincinnati (April 8 @ 6p, April 9 @ 6p & April 10 @1p)

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Serious question. How much mor time does Penders get? Year after year we seem to underachieve. Could they get a Nagy or Walker to come back and coach?
 
And on top of that Buckley (who is hitting .350+) is riding the pine. You'd think that a team that is so desperate for offense would want production like his in the lineup
 
ATLDYKA said:
Serious question. How much mor time does Penders get? Year after year we seem to underachieve. Could they get a Nagy or Walker to come back and coach?
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Yeah sure, trash the coach when parents of commits and recruits come on here frequently. Great move. Also, the AD's office certainly doesn't share your anal obsession with miscues and will not fire a coach for substitutions and not sending runners.

You know what, Nagy and Walker would have their own screw-ups, and then you'd be calling for them to be fired. And the next guy, and the next guy...
 
I am always amazed that we think guys who were formerly great players would make amazing coaches. Nagy and Walker are names that maybe a Penders is not but how on Gods green earth can we assume they would be an upgrade? Same thing with basketball....people call for Ray Allen to be on Ollie's staff yet he has never coached.

Penders is going to be here for awhile...I am also not sold that this team is underachieving...I know we all were dreaming about making the NCAA tournament or set that as a goal..but they weren't all that close last year and some good offensive pieces and a couple weekend starters had to be replaced.
 
Stairmaster said:
Yeah sure, trash the coach when parents of commits and recruits come on here frequently. Great move. Also, the AD's office certainly doesn't share your anal obsession with miscues and will not fire a coach for substitutions and not sending runners.

You know what, Nagy and Walker would have their own screw-ups, and then you'd be calling for them to be fired. And the next guy, and the next guy...
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Geez, not trashing anyone, just thought it was a fair question.
 
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I thought the boneyard was a forum for voicing your opinion, being objective and being able to disagree or agree. My question was a fair one. I'm not saying that those guys would be any better. But does Penders just always get a pass in your book? I'm not seeing the improvement from year to year. I used to hear from you guys that we are young. When are we not young anymore? We have several seniors on this team. We seem to see the same mistakes year after year and to me that falls on the coaching. I guess we are just content with mediocrity on this board and I just want a little more. If you watched the way that game unfolded last night it made you sick to your stomach and it is a scenario that we seem to see unfold all too often.
One thing that I do know for certain is that Stairmaster will always be the first person to jump down my back anytime I question the coaches or decisions made.
 
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Lineup for game 2. In the past Toppa has played left field when he is in the lineup due to a weak outfield arm. Perhaps the coaching staff now prefers to keep DeRoche-Duffin in one position on defense.
 
Looks like Sundberg is a late scratch, as Krueger just batted lead off and reached base on an error. Sundberg has been under the weather according to Chris Jones on WHUS
 
Chris Jones says Toppa in LF, DeRoche-Duffin in RF. The posted lineup has them reversed.
 
And what do we do best when we get a little momentum? Error, wild pitch, unearned runs
 
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Bottom of the 4th UConn gives up 1 run but gets out of a bases loaded jam. 2-1 UConn.
 
After three smooth innings Cate had trouble with his control in the 4th. We'll see if he can reign it in in the 5th.
 
Easy 1-2-3 5th inning for the freshman Cate. Very encouraging to see him come back like that.
 
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Stairmaster said:
You're wasting your time - he'll never be convinced.
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I get that it is baseball, just saying we seem to be more prone to it.

I read the other forums and apparently a lot of people don't agree with your views and apparently they must be wasting their time as well because if their views don't agree with yours you sure do pounce.
 
ATLDYKA said:
I get that it is baseball, just saying we seem to be more prone to it.

I read the other forums and apparently a lot of people don't agree with your views and apparently they must be wasting their time as well because if their views don't agree with yours you sure do pounce.
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That's blatantly false. Your company (5 or 6 tops) includes your basketball board analogue who bumps the "Fire Kevin Ollie" thread every time UConn loses. Miserable people tend to stick together, hence why you think you're in greater numbers than you actually are.
 
Tim Cate tires in the 7th, allows one run, and leaves with runners on second and third and two out. Game tied at 2. Devin Over comes out of the bullpen.
 
Stairmaster said:
That's blatantly false. Your company (5 or 6 tops) includes your basketball board analogue who bumps the "Fire Kevin Ollie" thread every time UConn loses. Miserable people tend to stick together, hence why you think you're in greater numbers than you actually are.
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I have never once said fire Ollie. Do a search if you must you won't find it. You don't know what your talking about.
 
Over sends a pitch to the back stop, but it bounces back to Lefevre, and he gets the runner from 3rd out in a run down. Huskies get some badly needed luck.
 
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ATLDYKA said:
I thought the boneyard was a forum for voicing your opinion, being objective and being able to disagree or agree. My question was a fair one. I'm not saying that those guys would be any better. But does Penders just always get a pass in your book? I'm not seeing the improvement from year to year. I used to hear from you guys that we are young. When are we not young anymore? We have several seniors on this team. We seem to see the same mistakes year after year and to me that falls on the coaching. I guess we are just content with mediocrity on this board and I just want a little more. If you watched the way that game unfolded last night it made you sick to your stomach and it is a scenario that we seem to see unfold all too often.
One thing that I do know for certain is that Stairmaster will always be the first person to jump down my back anytime I question the coaches or decisions made.
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You are free to voice your opinion, and I am free to respond to it.

College baseball is not a high-stakes, high-revenue sport. It is drastically unlike football or basketball in the respect that firing coaches based on performance is extremely rare. Only 7 out of 295 programs fired a coach in the 2015 offseason. 5 of those coaches had losing records in 2015 (several of whom had not finished above .500 since 2010 or 2012). Among the other two, Clemson's Jack Leggett was sacked after not leading the Tigers to a Super Regional since 2010. Clemson is a national powerhouse program; we have never been, and we are not currently. It is perfectly fair for them to have a different set of expectations for baseball success than a program like UConn, who hasn't made a CWS appearance since 1979 and has only been to Super Regionals twice since then. This baseball program is not at the same level as the Men's Basketball or Women's Basketball program, where a high ranking and a deep tournament run is seen as a given year in and year out. The other coach with a winning record who was fired was Washington State's Donnie Marbut, whose departure was a long time coming given his history of clashing with their administration, a resume-falsifying issue, and a few other behavioral incidents. Bottom line, this is a sport in which more coaches are set for life than others. Andy Baylock spent 24 years as the head coach despite having the worst winning percentage since Sumner Doyle of 1924-35. It doesn't hurt that save for football, this institution has a history of keeping coaches around for the long haul in non-revenue sports: Reid, Tsantiris, Bruce Marshall for 25 years despite a .478 winning percentage.

I made a long post last year comparing our statistics concerning fielding percentage and walks per game with the rest of the country that I don't feel like digging up right now. Bottom line, many DI programs have it much worse than UConn with these mistakes, which are an inherent aspect of this level of baseball. If you can't handle it, the pro game is always there.
 
Devin Over stays in to pitch the 8th. Hopefully his last inning. He's usually good for one or two innings, but after that he seems to either lose it or gets hits hard.
 
I'm not a miserable person at all. Just unlike you I am not happy with mediocrity. Your attack came after a simple question I posed to the board about how long is Penders leash. I expected opinions and thoughts and instead you attack and say I'm affecting recruiting. If you really think kids read this and are that sensitive then maybe that's the problem.
 
Oops! Devin Over gets into trouble in the 8th, and a run scores off a squeeze giving Cincy a 3-2 lead. Domnarski in to pitch with runners all over the place.
 
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