Taken an elite college baseball program and turned it into what may be the worst program in the state. What a colossal failure to capitalize on what was a tremendous opportunity to build something great to last a lifetime.
Look what we have accomplished in just ten years.....
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Tell that to Arizona State, Southern Cal, LSU, etc, etc, etc.Taken an elite college baseball program and turned it into what may be the worst program in the state. What a colossal failure to capitalize on what was a tremendous opportunity to build something great to last a lifetime.
Be careful, the sunshine pumpers will come after you for talk like thisTaken an elite college baseball program and turned it into what may be the worst program in the state. What a colossal failure to capitalize on what was a tremendous opportunity to build something great to last a lifetime.
Sunshine pumper here, please find me some sunshine in the baseball program.....and I will pump the hell out of it.
Kingston will be gone...eventually
. Best I could do for now.Are there just too few good college baseball coaches to continue winning at a certain level after a legend leaves? Are there any programs that just continue winning coach after coach?
I ask this because it just seems like a complete crap shoot, no matter how set a program appears to be. Now this is true for any sport to a degree, but it just seems like it's much more prevalent in baseball.
I ask this because it just seems like a complete crap shoot, no matter how set a program appears to be. Now this is true for any sport to a degree, but it just seems like it's much more prevalent in baseball.
That’s an interesting take. I think in football, the inertia of the biggest programs keeps them chugging along with coaching changes. And there are enough high name coaches (even some from the pro level) that are attracted to those jobs that sustaining success seems easier for those football programs. But in baseball? Who knows. It seems that programs rise and fall on the shoulders of one coach for a lot of teams. I hope this is wrong, or our success is destined to stay in the past.
We had three good coaches in a row - two of which I would call exceptional.
Seems like Southern Cal did as well - and much like USC, and then they didn’t.
Good help is hard to find.
We've joined the ranks of programs, once regulars in Omaha, now in a downturn - some for many years. I'm thinking of programs like Miami, Oklahoma State, Arizona State, Stanford, Fullerton, Wichita State, LSU, Texas, and a number of others. Shoot, include Clemson as well. I certainly hope we rebound better than those other programs.
I can't even remember the specifics of them beyond the fact they were dominant at one time.
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