Regional Game 2: Stare vs Virginia

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Originally Posted by HoopsDawg

Thank you. St John's gave up 9 to Penn today! Lemonis has already announced Auger for tomorrow morning. What a wuss decision.

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Yeah just not understanding it. I guess he's playing the just win the next and advance theory.

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Originally Posted by maroonmania

No, he won't fire him but I personally can't see us ever getting back to Omaha with the Lemonis/Gautreau combo.

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You didnt see us being one of the better SEC teams this season and having the success we have had to this point

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Originally Posted by Todd4State

He had the sack to fire his friend midseason. If the boosters force the issue I could totally see him making the change.

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He didnt have a choice. He was given a lifeline and told this season was his last chance

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Originally Posted by Todd4State

He had the sack to fire his friend midseason. If the boosters force the issue I could totally see him making the change.

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Yea, but last year we were 14th in the SEC in pitching and by a WIDE margin. Our offense is not very good but not so bad that its obvious we need to make a move. Therefore, I don't see a move being made. Bad part to me is that, for the first half of the year the offense was pretty good. Its really only gone to crap the last month. Pitching has stayed the solid through the year, hitting has gotten worse through the year it seems.

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Originally Posted by Commercecomet24

Yeah just not understanding it. I guess he's playing the just win the next and advance theory.

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I would start Black or Siary tomorrow, if you don?t win against St John?s with that then you would not win against UVA with that. It is going to have to happen at some point?. You have to choose your spots

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Originally Posted by SilentSteel16

I would start Black or Siary tomorrow, if you don?t win against St John?s with that then you would not win against UVA with that. It is going to have to happen at some point?. You have to choose your spots

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100%

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Originally Posted by Coach34

You didnt see us being one of the better SEC teams this season and having the success we have had to this point

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I thought we could certainly be top half of the SEC good this year and never anywhere said different. The ironic thing though is that I thought that because I believed our offense could carry us if we just got marginal improvement from pitching and defense. Truth of the matter has been just the opposite though in that our pitching and defense have been well above average all year while our offense has not been nearly as good as I had hoped.

I guess Hugesack must have shot his wad in the SEC tourney. He hasn't done anything in this regional. Not even one pitiful single to his name.

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Originally Posted by Commercecomet24

If I'm the coach I would rather have my bullpen game aginst St. John's than uva. If we pitch pico or auger against St. John's then we only have one legit starter to go aginst uva while needing 2 wins. Gotta play to win the regional and saving auger and pico against uva would give us the best chance. St. John's is thin in pitching and honestly if we can't beat them throwing a bullpen game we aren't gonna win the regional anyways. Start Scheulke or siary or whoever and go from there

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This is the only call to win the regional. Lemonis is nutless if he pitches auger vs St. John?s. That?s just telling me he?s thinking about his job and not winning the whole dang regional.

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Originally Posted by Commercecomet24

Yeah just not understanding it. I guess he's playing the just win the next and advance theory.

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Lemonis theory= I’m a puss.

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Originally Posted by Commercecomet24

Yeah just not understanding it. I guess he's playing the just win the next and advance theory.

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He always plays to save the staff. That's why he didn't bring in Dohm to close it out which is what he should have done with that umpire. Because we might need Dohm to start. Which we probably will now because of Lemonis's bullpen management.

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Originally Posted by Coach34

He didnt have a choice. He was given a lifeline and told this season was his last chance

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Yeah. And this time you give him a minimum extension and tell him the reason it's not higher is because of the hitting.

Then you tell him to either hire a hitting analyst or get a new hitting coach and a hitting analyst.

As much as we pay Jake I'm sure we can probably pull Duke's hitting coach and might even save money doing it.

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Originally Posted by Todd4State

Yeah. And this time you give him a minimum extension and tell him the reason it's not higher is because of the hitting.

Then you tell him to either hire a hitting analyst or get a new hitting coach and a hitting analyst.

As much as we pay Jake I'm sure we can probably pull Duke's hitting coach and might even save money doing it.

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Gonna be interesting.

If Auger can go 8 or 9 innings and give us a stress-free game against St. John's, I don't hate our chances with Kohn and Dohm against the back end of Virginia's staff.

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Originally Posted by Quaoarsking

If Auger can go 8 or 9 innings and give us an stress-free game against St. John's, I don't hate our chances with Kohn and Dohm against the back end of Virginia's staff.

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Thanks for the laugh

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Originally Posted by Quaoarsking

If Auger can go 8 or 9 innings and give us an stress-free game against St. John's, I don't hate our chances with Kohn and Dohm against the back end of Virginia's staff.

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At the end of the day it will come down to this, can we hit? I do think both of the teams we play tomorrow are out of pitching. It just comes down to can we capitalize off of it. We have the pitching to still win this. Our hitting just has to step up.

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Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve

At the end of the day it will come down to this, can we hit? I do think both of the teams we play tomorrow are out of pitching. It just comes down to can we capitalize off of it. We have the pitching to still win this. Our hitting just has to step up.

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Bold of you to assume we win game 1 today. Should we beat SJ? Yes. Do we have the bats to do it? We?ll see.

Pitching wise I think we?re toast as well unless the bats wake up. We?re out of reliable bullpen arms for close game situations

Starting Auger is a mistake.

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Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve

At the end of the day it will come down to this, can we hit? I do think both of the teams we play tomorrow are out of pitching. It just comes down to can we capitalize off of it. We have the pitching to still win this. Our hitting just has to step up.

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Same story for 2 months now