HORRIBLE HORRIBLE COACHING

Naaah, the coaching was the same as it's been all season: essentially, the best there is. Some days you eat the b'ar and some days the b'ar eats you.

Still, I gotta say I can't see pulling a DH who's 3 for 3 with two dingers and a two-bagger... and pullin' nearly all the bats out for fielders... seems like a good idea when you're looking to close out with a lead, but this time it didn't work out, did it? I'm not too sure I'da jerked Jungmann so quick... yeah, yeah, I know, six balls, but...

Anyway - yesterday's gone, and ain't no one can get it back. All we gotta do is win two, and we have a 50-50 on the first one and then 66-33 on the second one - that ain't all that bad.

Let's get 'em!
 
I have gotten on Augie all year about the bunting but its hard to really fault him for last night. decisions that in the past have worked just didnt last night. That doesnt make them wrong it just means they didnt work. Its a hard loss to take but sometimes thats just baseball.
 
this was a "one pitch" game. one pitch here or there and the outcome is different. actually i thought LSU was undisciplined several times at bat that should have cost them. they swung at times they should have taken pitches and didn't bunt when they should've. nonetheless, they came out on top in a very, very close game. one pitch
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My take - Auggie wanted to win, and in this case, too much...which led to him overcoaching the team rather than letting it play and win.
 
The coaching was lacking. Augie as a strategist is not good. Like Mack's and Barnes's teams, his plays hard. As to baseball strategy, the best strategy comes into play probably no more than 10-20% of the time.

Augie sucks at strategy, and you can refuse to admit it.

The BC game went so long, in part, because we either had our hottest hitters bunt or pulled them.

Two big points about last night. Moldenhauer was pulled for a PH. Not a defensive replacement. Think about that. Augie did not want him facing a lefty with fewer than 10 innings (or was it 5). We then burned Tant without him ever stepping in the box.

Jungmann. Do you remember the ASU game in which Jungmann came in to relieve? Tying run on 2nd. 9th inning. He gave up a hit and the tying score. Why repeat the scenario? Some guys are better starting an inning (maybe because they are part-time starters).

And bunting as a strategy, to the extent we do, is statistically ridiculous. One of the two key plays last night was the hit and run from Gibbs. If that play never happens, it is a 6-2 games going to the 9th.

Like Mack needs to hand off his clock management skills, Augie needs to hand over his strategy duties (although he probably does not have anyone to hand them off to now).
 
"Jungmann. Do you remember the ASU game in which Jungmann came in to relieve? Tying run on 2nd. 9th inning. He gave up a hit..." ______________________________________________________________________I must ask, since BostColl what is Woods' rate of retiring the 1st batter he's faced? I think its time to use the long releiver in that spot and save Wood for starting the 8th or 9th to finish.
 
Good one Stratlyzer.
Baseball, at any and every level, you must throw strikes to win.
Hookem Horns.
 
I can't believe this thread.
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Yeah, they bitched about DKR too. Coach Cliff didn't know anything about baseball. Now anything less than perfection and they gripe about Mack or Augie. Some people actually understand sports. Some people pretend they do and express their stupidity.
 
News Flash.....

DKR made coaching mistakes in his career. So did Tom Landry, So does Greg Popovich, Pete Carrol, and every coach that has ever coached any sport at any level....

You can't coach the end of the game thinking that it's going to go extra innings. He made the same moves last night and no one is complaining today. Of all the things you could complain about when it comes to Augie people pick his baseball strategy???? WOW....

carry on....
 
Augie has forgotten more about baseball than most coaches will ever know. He has a brilliant mind for the game, and his hunches are correct a lot of the time. I remember in the 80's when the Horns lost to Fullerton with Augie coaching, and some pint-size soft tossing lefthander beat us. I think his resume speaks for itself.
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