Befuddling. Was it one of those days where their starting pitcher had amazing stuff and his breaking balls were really biting or were we pressing to hard?
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we’ve now lost to UNO twice, Creighton, N Dakota St and S Dakota St in these midweek matchups. Teams might stub their toe once or twice in matchups like this but this is ridiculous. All these midweek pitchers from lower level schools suddenly have amazing stuff against us. Someone needs to wake their a$$es up from their entitled slumber. Take a page from Tim Miles and lock them out of their facilities for a while.
Agree and bad part is when the better teams lose these games, many times they are resting their starters as post season is a lock for them. Hell **** 10 tournament isnt even a lock for the Huskers. Nebraska has to win those games. Nebraska nearly has to use their ace for midweek games. You can afford to lose 1 conference game per series but these midweek games are against **** teams and you cant afford to lose them. Should have cancelled baseball when we moved to this conference if the admins didnt care if we didnt make the post season.
I kinda rolled my eyes at Boldt saying they were having "selfish at-bats" not taking their walks, etc. Here come the excuses. Sets the weekend up nicely for us to see a lot of Huskers striking out looking because Coach is mad that they're not taking walks.
The easiest thing for a fan to do is blame the coach. At times it sounds and looks like these guys can play. Then the next game they’ve got their heads up their asses. Reminds me of what an old women’s college basketball coach said about his team. “They’re pretty good and then they all get their period at once.”
Hate to say it but ya - just can’t help themselves. Really is amazing how inconsistent the team is.
But we will never be competitive while the conference handicaps teams. I don't see the big 10 ever winning the college world series.
The last big ten national champion was Ohio state in 1966
Michigan was in the finals a few years ago and finished runner up
the only indiana team to ever make the CWS went 1-2
your schtick is pathetic & exquisitely unfunny
We are mediocre on the weekends but does Bolt care about midweek games?
You would think for the guy that has stated the next step is hosting a regional he would….but then again this program is not even close to being in position to be a team/program to host a regional.
You would think for the guy that has stated the next step is hosting a regional he would….but then again this program is not even close to being in position to be a team/program to host a regional.
Didn’t we have the bases loaded with no outs in the 7th in a tie game when play was resumed?
No they plated one on a sac fly I think but hit in to a double play to end the inning I think.
C’mon now
It’s easy to blame the coaches when the team sucks, we have no players now or incoming and our lesser opponents shove it up our asses multiple times per week
We need NIL money to compete with the creightons, UNOs, directional dakotas of the world!
I swear, the big ten as a conference drags teams down.
Flip a coin, because every Big Ten baseball team might as well be the same exact team.
He was talking about the suspended game. We had bases loaded with no outs and we hit a sac fly and then hit into a double play to only net 1 run.
In the 2nd game, we did get three outs on the same play when we were on defense
Except Maryland. They are a level up from everyone else currently in the conference
Well they’ve won like 22 straight conference series and are ranked in the top 25. But then they just lost their midweek game to Northeasterm last night. As usual it all depends on matchups but sure hell why not. They are definitely the flag bearers of this crap baseball conference until the California teams show up
If I'm in Maryland's position, I would not give a crap about midweek games and instead focus all my pitching resources on conference play. They are in good shape to secure a regional bid, probably as a #2 seed, whether or not they win the Big Ten Tournament.
That's where you would hope to find Husker baseball this time of year. But sadly they are nowhere close.
I will add that Northeastern has a pretty decent team themselves. Their HC will probably be moving up to a better gig soon.
Honest question...what is Childress' role on this team? It's hard to believe a team that has on staff arguably the best pitching coach in America for a while is this bad on the mound. Is Childress Trev's Plan B for head coach if things goes off the rails?
On 1620, Sipple was shocked at the turn of events because he said Bolt is a Van Horn clone. Maybe his style doesn't resonate with today's players?
On 1620, Sipple was shocked at the turn of events because he said Bolt is a Van Horn clone. Maybe his style doesn't resonate with today's players?
I think that it was premature to annoint Will Bolt as a Dave Van Horn clone.
Childress' official title is Director of Player Development. Outside of that, I have no idea what his day-to-day role is. I may be too simple-minded about this stuff, but it seems like if the other coaches were doing their job, you wouldn't need such a position.
It started when he was a player.
He might be fine if he brought in an actual, experienced pitching coach and gave them full control of all in-game decisions/changes, and was maybe more involved in the offense ala actually coaching in the third base box.
Or maybe not, but it's worth trying.