February 26, 20196 yr College Sports Madness - #9 USA Today/NFCA Coaches - #9 Fastpitch News - #7 There's 5 Big 12 teams ranked (OU, Texas, Texas Tech, Ok State, Baylor) and 2 in the top 10. For a conference with only 7 softball schools. For this weekend - Wisconsin is RV and ASU is between 15th and 18th
February 26, 20196 yr Elish is so happy in that pic. She makes me happy. Edited February 26, 20196 yr by Kel Varnsen
February 26, 20196 yr On 2/25/2019 at 1:14 PM, bschoolprof said: This White fella seems like a good hire. 16 walks in 80 innings for the pitching staff..
February 27, 20196 yr 1 hour ago, pacman said: 16 walks in 80 innings for the pitching staff.. That's incredible. Even our best pitchers under CC walked a ton of batters, but seemed to get out of most jams
February 27, 20196 yr 11 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said: That's incredible. Even our best pitchers under CC walked a ton of batters, but seemed to get out of most jams So fucking impressive. Between Elish - a White disciple who has only been coached by him collegiately - and Shae - no Connie stink on her she was awful. Past her prime. What he’s done with a freshman shows how good he is.
February 27, 20196 yr Author 14 hours ago, Js1 said: So fucking impressive. Between Elish - a White disciple who has only been coached by him collegiately - and Shae - no Connie stink on her she was awful. Past her prime. What he’s done with a freshman shows how good he is. Are you implying Connie had a prime?
February 27, 20196 yr 17 minutes ago, TrashMaster G said: Are you implying Connie had a prime? I guess you can't really call her "coaching" of Cat "prime" because Cat was a phenom but she was still responsible for the collegiate development of Cat Osterman and Blaire Luna. She did decent things with Bollinger and PvS. Tiarra Davis just had injuries. She did make Kim Bruins into a pretty serviceable #2 pitcher behind Luna the last time we went to the WCWS. BUT REALLY - Clark seemed to still be in the age of the pitching circle being 40 feet from the plate and games being 1-0 or 2-1. Like she never fucking adapted to the NCAA moving it back to 43 feet in '88 and giving offenses the upper hand. Her offenses during Cat's years were proof of that - she thought she could win games 1-0 with Cat throwing a no-no every game. Edited February 27, 20196 yr by Js1
February 27, 20196 yr Author 2 minutes ago, Js1 said: I guess you can't really call her "coaching" of Cat "prime" because Cat was a phenom but she was still responsible for the collegiate development of Cat Osterman and Blaire Luna. She did decent things with Bollinger and PvS. Tiarra Davis just had injuries. She did make Kim Bruins into a pretty serviceable #2 pitcher behind Luna the last time we went to the WCWS. BUT REALLY - Clark seemed to still be in the age of the pitching circle being 40 feet from the plate and games being 1-0 or 2-1. Like she never fucking adapted to the NCAA moving it back to 43 feet in '88 and giving offenses the upper hand. Her offenses during Cat's years were proof of that - she thought she could win games 1-0 with Cat throwing a no-no every game. Exactly! She should have been fired after failing to win a championship with Cat. Instead, she coasted and collected paychecks for another dozen years while the program languished. Here's to better times now and ahead!
February 27, 20196 yr I can only pull back to 2003 in stats: Cat's Texas career (missing 2002): 2003: 0.61 team ERA, .252 BA, 3.72 rpg 2005: 0.60 team ERA, .233 BA, 2.8 rpg 2006: 0.81 team ERA, .254 BA, 3.73 rpg2004 (the year Cat took off for the Olympics) - 3.23 ERA, .274 BA, 4.02 rpg Blaire's Texas career (2010-2013): 2010: 2.47 team ERA, .314 BA, 5.55 rpg - #7 overall seed, got knocked out at home regional 2011: 1.36 team ERA, .324 BA, 5.77 rpg - #3 overall seed, got knocked out in home regional 2012: 2.42 team ERA, 0.33 BA, 6.2 rpg - #6 overall seed, got knocked out by Oregon in home super regional 2013: 1.65 team ERA, 0.322 BA, 5.89 rpg - #4 overall seed, finished 3rd in the WCWS Since Blair left, ERA surprisingly steadily got lower - 2.8 to 2.97 to 2.42 to 2.11 to 2.45 but BA and rpg got WORSE - 0.33 (5.79) to 0.301 (5.7) to 0.30 (5.31) to 0.278 (4.54) to 0.268 (3.45). If you gave Cat even 80% of the rpg Luna's teams got, Cat wins a fucking title or 2.
February 27, 20196 yr On 2/25/2019 at 1:14 PM, bschoolprof said: This White fella seems like a good hire.
February 27, 20196 yr Adams gets the start today against HBU. Good plan looking ahead to this weekend: Friday DH: Wisconsin: Shae ASU: Elish Saturday DH: Princeton: Adams Wisconsin: Brooke Sunday: ASU: Shae/Elish That would be what I would do.
March 1, 20196 yr 1 hour ago, Js1 said: Don't forget we're playing 2 today RV Wisconsin @ 1pm #15/17 ASU @ 6pm and none televised all freaking weekend. what a bummer.
March 1, 20196 yr 4 minutes ago, thrillhammer said: and none televised all freaking weekend. what a bummer. ASU game one is Pac-12+. ASU game 2 is streaming on their site, I think The ESPN/Clearwater tournament was an aberration because ESPN happened to be hosting it - there's just very little early season softball on TV until April (when the NCAA WBB tournament is over - there's too much programming for basketball right now). Thank god for LHN, right? April/May is when ESPN and Fox Sports need programming and softball/baseball show up on TV. Our good games against Minnesota will be on LHN and I REALLY hope the SEC Network heads over to Knoxville for the Tennessee tournament. Those should be good games that need to be on TV somewhere. The reality is, ESPN needs to partner with Flo Softball and get those games they stream themselves onto ESPN3/ESPN+ or whatever bullshit it's called now. Edited March 1, 20196 yr by Js1
March 2, 20196 yr And now Burke! 9-2 and in run rule territory second b2b HRs of the day Edited March 2, 20196 yr by Js1
March 2, 20196 yr 10-2 t7. Most runs against a top 25 team since 2017 11-2 now. Now most against a ranked team since 2015! Edited March 2, 20196 yr by Js1
March 2, 20196 yr Great start to the weekend. Love how the bats are starting to really come alive. What are the game times for tomorrow?
March 2, 20196 yr 4 hours ago, Js1 said: I'm a fan of the all burnt orange. Would not have guessed that before seeing it. Also a fan of good softball on the 40.
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