[Husker] Baseball

[Bob Beach]

jonlists at cbsol.com wrote:
> 1 - 'cleaning house' - baseball players can normally transfer without a 
> year penalty, therefore it's not that hard although that rule will end in 
> the coming year. 
>   

     So, if you are the coach are you going to look a player in the eye 
that you recruited and tell him he has to go somewhere else?  When we 
are talking cleaning house we are not talking about a player 
transferring.  We are talking about a coach shipping him out.


> 2 - I don't think that pitching has slipped since Childress left. We 
> finished second in the Big 12 in ERA only behind Texas, and being the only 
> two teams under 4.50
>   

      Oh, I don't know, this year the Huskers had a 4.45 ERA this year 
and in Childress's last year they were 2.69.  I doubt that means 
anything, though.  Two runs a game is one heckuva lot.  Childress proved 
he was one great pitching coach in his tenure at NU.

> 3 - I disagree that pitching has been *the* problem. The bullpen has been 
> a problem at times, but this year's team is suffering in offense - not 
> getting the hits they need at the right times they need them. 
>   

      I agree there are games where the hitting didn't come through.  
However, I don't believe we got great pitching overall throughout the 
year, or at least the team I watched didn't.


> 4 - given the schedule we played this year, the idea that this team both 
> had a horrible season and didn't belong in a regional is absolute BS. This 
> team played a darned tough schedule, and didn't go the route that a lot of 
> other teams in big conferences did in feasting on smaller, weaker 
> opponents to build a big, fluffy 40-win season record. 
>   

      Depends how you look at it.  If you are going to be a great team 
you have to run with the big dogs and beat the big dogs.  Nebraska 
couldn't run with the big dogs this year.   If you want to say we did 
pretty good because we hung in there pretty well okay that's fine.  
Please take that mentality over to football.  If we go .500 in football 
or under and competed in every game and play a big time schedule then we 
should be satisfied.  We should be patting everyone on the back and 
congratulating the coaches.  However, I can tell you what will happen if 
the football team is under .500.  I understand football is different 
than baseball but this team was not in the upper level this year.  Could 
they compete? Of course.  Are they among the top teams? Of course not.  
The fact the Huskers were lucky to be in a regional is not BS.  But, 
everyone is entitled to their opinion.


Bob Beach