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Message: [QUOTE="huskymedic, post: 4755565, member: 549"] Great read/preview. Very in-depth as usual. Find a way to read it: [MEDIA=twitter]1709264168916762695[/MEDIA] -> “Pitching has been the constant in our program over the last 10, 11, 12 years. We’ve always built it around pitching,” said longtime UConn head coach Jim Penders. “Last year the offense had to carry it a little more than we’re accustomed to, it was uncomfortable for the coaching staff — just not as much what we’re used to. It was a different type of year, that’s for sure, with the way that we were winning. There were a lot of tense games, put it that way. The kids, to their credit, maybe to our credit too, hopefully we didn’t show that tension, even though we were feeling it. They found a way, won a lot of one-run games and coming from behind, winning late like crazy. As a coach in my 30s I could probably handle it a little better; now that I’m in my 50s and got a physical coming up in a month and a half, I’d like to do it more with pitching.” <- -> Penders on Garrett Coe: “We’ve got to give him a chance at least at the beginning of the year to earn one of those weekend spots — for all purposes, he’s our guy. He’s our tough guy, he’s not afraid of anybody, any opponent. Nothing really rattles him,” MacDonald said. “So we’ll give him the ball, the team really rallies around him. He’s a great teammate, he’s done every role for us, he’s selfless — never makes it about himself, only cares about winning. If you look up the term ‘effectively wild,’ it’ll have his face on it — he will throw a pitch at your neck and then spot up on the black low and away. You can’t really prepare for him, he moves the ball around so much, guys leave their approach and get frustrated. When you need him to make the big pitch, he makes it.” <- -> Some of the personnel has changed, but UConn has proven adept at reloading effectively year after year, and this year is no exception. And you can be sure that one of college baseball’s very best coaching staffs — with associate head coach Jeff Hourigan and fellow longtime assistant Chris Podeszwa joining Penders and MacDonald — will have this team ready to battle hard and execute all the finer points of the game when spring rolls around. They do it every year. <- [/QUOTE]

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