College of Charleston - BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH

What a dismal performance, not much at all to smile about in this one other than Melendez's and Stehly's bats.

Pitiful pitching
No clutch hitting
Too many strikeouts
I don't get it, Witt going down an the bullpen catcher drinking incident could not have had this big of a negative impact.

CoC pitcshers were constantly ahead of us in at least 75% of our at bats, they deserve the win and it's time for an Augie like eruption in the locker room from Pierce.
 
We're burning through a ton of pitchers in these back-to-back midweek games (12 pitchers alone in the Texas State series). So for Pierce, does figuring out his real pitching roster maybe take precedence over winning at this point in the season?
 
This was Texas’ first truly bad loss of the season and every year most every team has one or two of these ugly losses. Look there is no sugar coating the crap that has been the last seven games but it bears repeating this is March and they are not yet even to twenty games or conference play. For comparison they have better record this year than they did last year at this time and last year they looked dead after aggy beat them and then ran off a huge win streak. No one is happy right now but there is plenty of time to right the ship and plenty of talent on this team to do it. Starts tomorrow and then this weekend.
 
There are probably USC fans who moaned and whined, back when they were winning back to back to back National Championships, that they would drop a game or a series here and there.
 
skandor akbar said:
didnt we finish 3rd/4th nationally last year? I wouldn’t call that mediocre.
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Yeah, and didn't we finish dead LAST in the Big XII the year before that (skipping truncated 2020 season)? I would say that evens out to about mediocre. We should be better.
 
Chop said:
There are probably USC fans who moaned and whined, back when they were winning back to back to back National Championships
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The ultimate in bitching and moaning here occurred during the 2005 season, when we finished third in the Big 12 and lost to Baylor 4x (swept in the series and the Big 12 tourney). And that Texas team ended up winning a natty (and beat the ******* cat-skinners twice in Omaha in the process).
 
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Other than USC (and maybe Ariz State or Stanford, I don’t know???), I’d say we probably match up or best anyone with regard to National Championships and trips to Omaha. Those two things are the ultimate yardsticks for judging a college baseball program.
 
I just took a closer look at our 2005 season, just for some context:

-We started out 21-1, but then got swept by Baylor to open B12 play
-We lost to Texas State in a midweek game
-We lost a series to Kansas
-We were eliminated by Baylor in the B12 tourney
-We lost to Arkansas in the second game of our regional
-We lost to Ole Miss in the first game of our super-regional
-We made it to Omaha, and never lost another game…:hookem:
 
Chop said:
Other than USC (and maybe Ariz State or Stanford, I don’t know???), I’d say we probably match up or best anyone with regard to National Championships and trips to Omaha. Those two things are the ultimate yardsticks for judging a college baseball program.
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I think that's accurate - all time, we should rate as either the #1 or #2 college baseball program. Only USC has more nattys than we do (12 vs. 6), but that was primarily due to one crazy run in the late '60's and '70's under Rod Dedeaux. Otherwise, by any objective measure (CWS appearances, wins, all-time winning%, etc.) we are better than anyone else.

Unfortunately, like our other major sports, we haven't really been up to Texas standards for the past decade+. We have been to the CWS three times, but those teams seemed to be led by a player who put everyone on their back and drove the bus to Omaha (i.e., Mark Payton, then Kody Clemens, and Mike Antico last year). Otherwise, we have been mediocre, including finishing LAST in the Big XII TWICE - something which should never, ever happen at the University of Texas. Hopefully someone like Mark, Kody or Mike will step up, and soon, for this year's team. I think Trey Faltine is the most likely candidate, but we'll see. But in any case, the coaching needs to improve as well in order for us to be more consistent. For that reason, I think the jury is still very much out on Pierce, despite the two CWS appearances.
 
The way I see it, our 3 starting pitchers (and Nixon + Quintanilla) carried the team last year. Pierce and Allen seem like guys who put pitching first—and that’s also how I look at it.

As for bats this year—I’d say the Titanic is having a year worthy of his nickname thus far. Faltine has a heck of a lot of power for a shortstop, so I hear you on him.
 
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