Maybe, but at some point you have to ask yourself if this team, collectively, and not to be harsh, is a bunch of losers. It's barely statistically possible to be 9-12 when you're outhitting your opponents over that time .270 to .226. You can't be 9-12 when every hitter who comes up is likely to get almost one more hit every 20 at bats than your opponent. But this team finds all sorts of ways to lose. That goes from the creative ways, like allowing key steals of home and having the same runner thrown out at home 3 times in a game and a half, to the recurring ways, like being the worst team I've ever seen at moving runners from 2d to 3rd with no one out.
I named no player. I called no individual a name. My post would not have been out of place at all on other boards. The team is playing below its talent level. When the basketball or football teams play below their levels (not that the football team can any more), the players and the teams get destroyed in the Boneyard. Sorry if you missed that all, but it's there. So do I feel a need to give a non-facetious apology? No. This team has the talent to have a much better record than they have to date. If your view is that we're all great but yet we keep losomh but there's nothing wrong with that -- well, I don't agree.
Your point on lack of execution is correct. To me, it isn't that simple. Some guys just haven't performed as in the past- Wang, Dunlop, Chris Winkel. Some guys haven't been consistent- Reggie, Kyler. I look at the early season as a time to work out the wrinkles and then get start to smooth them out over the conference season and have them worked out by tournament time. There is time for this team and I still think it is more than capable of putting together a run. I would rather see that run during the Big East Tournament and NCAA Tournament than in March or April.
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