Why can't the TX Softball team hit or pitch?

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Playing UT Arlington tonight. Second inning, bases loaded with one out and we scored zero. Third, runners on 1st and 3rd with one out and we scored zero. Pitchers walking batters right and left.

When Cat was here I lamented the fact that we couldn't score to help her. I advocated for hiring a hitting coach. We hired one and now I'm advocating for hiring another one.

Has anyone watched Stanford, Northwestern, or Arizona hit with runners in scoring position? They get it done and we don't.

Time to shake up the UT coaching staff and all positions are vulnerable. Pitchers can't pitch and hitters can't hit despite our wealth of talent. Time for change??

Barnhill wins on a two hitter 3-0. Way to go B!!
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However, 3 runs on 11 hits sucks. Get it together UT.
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plus if opponents didn't score any runs, couldn't have been walking that many. Cat would have loved to have gotten 3 runs in a game when she was pitching.
 
We will never improve until we get a new coach. Nothing personally against the one we have, but she has had her chance and has failed to live up to the standards that UT has in all other sports.
 
I have watch the softball program decline over the years.Not lack of talent! Lack of coaching the talent.
 
The team can hit.....

When did you see 6-11 hits in a game when CAT was here. If we had had that many hits when she was here, we would have won the NC 2 or 3 times!!!!
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CAT never had the run support that she should have had....Connie messed up really bad when she recruited players in CATS class.

I don't ever remember winning games with a lot of runs. Usually 1 or 2 runs
 
This program is a joke, but until people start to care, I don't see Plonsky making a change. She's been really slow in pulling the trigger (basketball, swimmimg) but when she has I've been really impressed with her choices. Volleyball, Soccer, Swimming, have all been great choices!

With A&M taking her program to the woodshed, I would think her competitve side would cause her to re-evaluate her program.
 
^^^How was plosnky slow in regards to WBB. We've had two coaches, Jodi and Gail, and each are extremely good coaches to have.
 
Programs like Alabama,Florida, Northwestern and even DePaul have lept past our softball...
 
This is from the DePaul website:NATIONAL RANKINGS
Final USA Today/NFCA Poll
1997 21st
1998 10th
1999 3rd
2000 8th
2001 18th
2002 11th
2003 9th
2005 8th
2007 6th
2008 22nd

Can't find Texas rankings on their website quickly, but I do know that it is not consistently in the top 25. De Paul is a small D1 school with a budget nowhere near the size of Texas. It is amazing what Eugene Lenti does with his teams, considering the budget he has and the talent he gets.

Pat Murphy, at Alabama, is doing great things as well. He has been there 11 years. Those years include WCWS appearances in 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2008. They also are tops in attendance, selling out routinely.

Northwestern may not have quite the history of 'Bama or Depaul, yet, but the Drohans have slowly been building their program into a Big 10 powerhouse.

It is interesting to look into the histories of some of the programs that are not named UCLA or Arizona, but yet are WCWS regulars. No question, Texas SHOULD be one. Are they?
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We came close in CAT's sophomore year when we had a run one lead over UCLA and one out away from probably winning the NC which UCLA won. UCLA scored two runs to beat us 2 - 1. That year as in CAT's years we couldn't provide run support. We could get runners on base but we couldn't get them in. We had several chances against UCLA to get a couple of more runs but at usual the batters were left stranded. That cost us the NC that year.
 
It wasn't "run support" that allowed those UCLA runs to score.

And we scored more against UCLA and Goerl than Cal did the next day (in their 9 inning championship game). Not many teams were scoring a lot in that WCWS, and you knew every game was going to be tight.
 
That is a good point. Scores were hard to come by back then and results were many times by one run in low scoring games such as 1 - 0 and 2-1.
 
Lets not kid ourselves. Our scoring ability in the Cat years was horrendous. She couldnt pitch a shutout every game, and when we finally played top teams at the Series, we couldnt score, and she couldnt always be perfect, so we lost.
 
Outside of a couple great pitchers this has not been a good program.

That's the main reason why I am not a huge fan of softball. If you have one pitcher that can dominate, she can pitch 3 out of 4 games and win them all if you only score one run in the three and then play a bad team in the 4th.

I'm curious how many games we won with Cat 1-0 or 2-0. Without her those would have been .500 +/- teams.
 
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