Well, if you want to get serious...I root for two teams, the Cajuns and whoever plays LSU. Sure we have Tigger fans living here, but the vast majority are Cajun fans. You've never here before, have you? Its kind of dickish to make that statement. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by SPMT
I'll explain this again since you may have missed the last 8-10 times I've posted it. Baseball past the high school level is not always about talent. Yes, talent helps but you can take an above average high school guy and turn him into a 1st round pick if you have a coach who teaches the proper swing mechanics as well as theehtsk part of the game. Obviously ULL has this type of coaching staff. I played college with 3 guys tho never got D1 looks our of high school, who were taught the mechanics in college and were all successful at the MLB level, one even made American League all star team 2 times. They learned the game and great swing mechanics.ost D1 coaches, especially SEC don't teach mechanics an barely teach the mental part. They expect your talent to carry you, hence our shitty swings and Wed Rea only hitting 3 bombs on the year. Rea on ULL would have 15-20 already, because yet would have altered his swing mechanics. As I and any real baseball person can see, Cohen doesn't change/alter our swings to a swing that has power gap to gap. Like I've been saying, I could take our hitters and increas their slugging %.150-200 points with just a few minor changes to their mechanics. This tells me one of two things; either we don't teach mechanics or out hitters are too good to listen and work on the proper swings. As others have stated, we win a lot of Ames despite our coaching, because on paper out telnet is pretty dm good but at this level coachin can trump talent more times than not.Quote:
Originally Posted by SPMT
For those of you who go watch ULL this weekend, watch their guys that have power and where their hands finish during their swing. It's what I've been talking about for years on these boards. They make contact in front of plate without breaking , and continue pushing forward to wother gap, and then finish up and I've the shoulder. As opposed to context right at the plate, wrists break at contact, and the bat finished around the rib cage ala CT (like a swinging gate).
This is the difference. Plus they know situational baseball and can most likely predict the pitches like I can. It's pretty easy if you know the game.
Under Coach Robe we have always been good at pitching and defense. Our #1 is the coach son and #2 is from the SEC getting a second chance. You guys we like watching SS and 2nd the best combine we have had. The biggest factor is Coach Deggs who came from Texas A&M. He is the reason we lead in home runs last year. He doesn't coach home runs it is just a by product of his style. We recruit for speed and as he says Popeye arms.
Probably for the same reason some of MSU's players don't go to Ole Miss! Not all folks in Louisiana and/or Mississippi bow down and kiss the a$$ of the State's flagship!!!! Many of us are independent thinkers and are capable of making our own decisions rather than being led like a hog to slaughter!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by SPMT
Good grief, dude. You have some baseball knowledge yet manage to come off like King Douche. First, if you're going to be condescending toward someone not taking your word as gospel, you might start with spell check or just proofreading what you're typing. Some of it is literally incomprehensible.Quote:
Originally Posted by RougeDawg
Second, what you're suggesting is fairly absurd. You're saying that any coach who understands hitting mechanics can take virtually anyone (there are thousands upon thousands of above-average HS players) and make them major-league players. It's laughable on its face.
BTW, where do you coach, my man? Surely you're making 6 figures with your golden (yet somehow very basic) knowledge of swing mechanics.
Hahaha you just compared ULL to MSU and LSU to UOM. Lol try ULL to UAB and LSU to Bama. That's a little more similar.Quote:
Originally Posted by Duggie35
Ha, nice try. I'm guessing you don't last long.Quote:
Originally Posted by Duggie35
All I know is that if you last more than 4 hours, you need to go immediately to the emergency room or you may sustain permanent damage!!!!! LOL!!Quote:
Originally Posted by smootness
I'm just going to leave this here for you...Quote:
Originally Posted by Duggie35
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Amen to this. Come on RougeDawg, I can see you know baseball, but really, this was pretty much unreadable. How are you going to get your point across to anyone with this type of incoherent gibberish. And its not just this post. I see many on here that I just have to skip over because the English language, elementary spelling, and general writing skills are just massacred to the point it's not worth the effort. I don't mean to be a secondary education English teacher, because I am certainly not, but at least look like you have a college education when posting. That goes for everyone, not just RougeDawg. I'm not isolating him with this rant.Quote:
Originally Posted by smootness
Yep.Quote:
Originally Posted by smootness
A lot of times, just giving your thoughts on a subject will show your knowledge better than calling every poster on a board an idiot and pounding your chest while speaking gibberish and basic little league baseball fundamentals.
You stand corrected....aren't ya'll getting a COONASS next year who choose MSU over LSU? BTW, that word is derogatory.Quote:
Originally Posted by SPMT
Didn't you call me an idiot on another thread??Quote:
Originally Posted by CadaverDawg
I'm not sure what this has to do with anything. Of course it's true, but nobody is trying to bash ULL's program. We're talking about this year's team, which would not have won 53 games were it in the SEC. That's all we're saying. Yes, you would have better players in the SEC, probably. But you're not. We're not playing an SEC ULL, we're playing the current version.Quote:
Originally Posted by BirdofParadise
Yes because your statement was idiotic, and you have no knowledge of our team.Quote:
Originally Posted by BirdofParadise
Never acted like I was smarter than all posters like the comment you're quoting. Nice try though. Weren't you the guy that said, "I would rather face Mitchell than Fitts"? If so, I'd love to see if I'm the only one thinking you're an idiot for that comment.
I saw that post. Don't know if it was birdman that said it, but it was an idiotic post. Ross is the perfect pitcher to pitch against a team like ULL. He has a good pick off move, gets ground balls, and fields his position pretty good. Except for the one game that he lost because of the error that would've should've been an inning ending double play.Quote:
Originally Posted by CadaverDawg
Fitts can't get out of the 4th inning against the bad news bears. He's great til about then but that's all he's gonna give us.
Bird is our play by play guy and has seen almost every pitch of our baseball season. We are undefeated against lefties and hot 40 points higher against lefties. I would venture that he knows slot more about your team than you know about ours.Quote:
Originally Posted by CadaverDawg
Horse. Shit. I don't care who he is....If he is saying he would rather face a guy that rarely goes 5 innings vs one of the best pitchers in college baseball the last 2 years, he's an idiot. And he doesn't know more about MSU than me or this board...and we know that any team should want to face Fitts over Ross. Take your shit somewhere else if you want to call out someone's knowledge. Play by Play guy does not equal baseball expert.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cajuns99
Didn't say he knew more about your team than you do, he knows more about your team than you know about ours. I guess we will see...maybe we won't, might not even get to that. We each have a game to take care of before that. I don't see why you are getting upset, I would think you would be happy about throwing one of the best pitchers in the country against us. When every one of your losses have come against righties, it's not idiotic to want to see a lefty.Quote:
Originally Posted by CadaverDawg
Not upset. And yes, it IS idiotic when the lefty is one of the best in college baseball while the righty is nowhere near the top. It's like saying we'd rather face the #1 pitcher in the country than Jackson State's #2 guy, bc JSU's #2 throws Right handed and we hit better vs lefties. It's just not smart and shows your lack of knowledge about the 2 pitchers. Has nothing to do with knowledge of YOUR team, and everything to do with the 2 pitchers and how much better one is than the other.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cajuns99
And not only that, but if your boy, Birdman, knew ANYTHING about our team, he would know that Jacob Lindgren comes in right away if Fitts gets in trouble. Who is Jacob Lindgren? Oh, just a lefty that averages 2 K's per inning and is one of the best pitchers in the country...if not THE very best. So I feel pretty confident that I'm right and you/he is wrongQuote:
Originally Posted by Cajuns99
I'm on iPhone most of time and don't look at what it aucocotrwxts to. And it is difficult to see what you are typing because the screen jumps all over the place.Quote:
Originally Posted by smootness
What I'm suggesting isn't absurd. I could take Wes Rea and work with him one summer as he'd be a 15+ HR guy in a college season. Every hitter who would make a few specific changes to their swing can increase power and average. Do you honestly think it was coincidence that Renfroe's power numbers jumped the summer he was in the cape? They have some of the next hitting instructors in the country. It also takes specific drills to reinforce the changes in mechanics. Then the knowledge piece is the capstone to a smart, efficient hitter. I'm saying that Any coach can take a borderline college guy and turn him into a top 10 round draft pick. I've seen it happen with my own two eyes. It takes a coach who knows as teaches the proper things AND a player who's willin to listen and work on what they are taught. This is how ULL is where they are, despite not pulling in the "starred talent" that power conference teams do.
I do not coach but you got part of your statement correct. In Omaha last year, I was sitting behind dugout during Indiana Game, just talking with my family and friend, predicting the pitches and bunts/throw overs/attempted steals/where the hitter was going to hit the ball, etc when the Omaha native in front of me turns around and asks how I was doing it. Told him I learned from one of the best and remembered the game. I was even yelling out back to our runners before the dugout. You can tell when things will happen if you know what to look for.
This is why I get so aggravated watching our swings and At Bats. My main point is, either our coaches don't teach the mechanics or our hitters don't listen. Either way we could dramatically improve if the swings were better mechanically. The offense would be feared by our opponents and we wouldn't need to manufacture runs.
Dang, I apologize. I had you pegged all wrong, I bow to your baseball genius. Anyone who claims they've sat in the stands and predicted pitches has proven to me they are the best hitting coach in the country.Quote:
Originally Posted by RougeDawg
Renfroe never played in the Cape, btw. He played on the same team two years in a row. The summer after barely playing for State as a freshman, he hit .305 with 8 HRs. He then returned to State and hit .252 with 4 HRs. Then he returned to the same summer league team and hit .366 with 16 HRs. He came back to State and was a significantly better hitter his junior year. Seems to me like he just matured, saw more pitching, and became a more refined player each year. Obviously he didn't learn those 2 or 3 basic principles that take you from being a no-name to a major-league player that first year for whatever reason, despite hitting really well in his summer league.
It's so weird that SEC schools don't hire these genius hitting instructors. Or I guess they do, since you absolutely would have considered Cohen among this group while he was at Northwestern State and Kentucky. Those teams hit the cover off the ball. Once he came to State, though, he lost all his basic knowledge of hitting. Yes, your scenario sounds plausible.
Please tell me you are kidding. This is so overboard it has to be a joke. Rave on catshit.Quote:
Originally Posted by RougeDawg
I just want to be on record, btw. If RougeDawg can take Robson, Vickerson, Bradford, Armstrong, Pirtle, Detz, Heck, and Henderson and turn them all into 15+ HR guys, please someone let Stricklin or Cohen know about this so he can be hired as hitting coach tomorrow.
Shoot, hire him as head coach, I don't care. If we can get that out of our lineup, we're clearly going to win it all year after year.
You would think that we could pay him whatever he wanted since we would win it all every year under his tutelage. Why aren't we putting a package together?Quote:
Originally Posted by smootness
Edited- wrong quote.Quote:
Originally Posted by smootness
Sorry copied wrong post. This is bullshit. Award winning. Not yours smootness. My badQuote:
Originally Posted by RougeDawg
Good grief, Rouge.Quote:
Originally Posted by RougeDawg
At the same time, we could also pay him whatever we wanted because he apparently isn't doing anything. He said I was partly right by saying he must be a coach making 6 figures; because instead of making 6 figures, he watches games in the park sometimes.Quote:
Originally Posted by I seen it dawg