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I agree!
Why? Our offense was second in the SEC and has been first most of the year.
How confident are we in our hitting coach?
Todd, if you think our offense is the second best in the sec, you don't know ballQuote:
Originally Posted by Todd4State
Our hitters are getting worse as the season progressesQuote:
Originally Posted by AlSwearengen
Exactly, stats can be deceiving. We are now up to 15 SEC games with only ONE game where we have scored more than 7 runs. Most of the time we are scoring 4 or 5 runs which puts a lot of pressure on pitching and defense which has failed us in clutch situations as well. But our offense has been fading significantly over the last few weeks, that much has been fairly obvious.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cowbell
And guess whose offense went homer less this weekend?Quote:
Originally Posted by Cowbell
There is a stark contrast to the engagement and approach of Gotreau and whomever we have now as hitting coach. Very different level of personal engagement and prep work. That is fact from players - fact.
I can guess which team only scored 2 runs against Sunday pitching.Quote:
Originally Posted by Todd4State
It's obvious to anyone watching. It looked fine early but pitchers are adjusting to us now and it's like we aren't countering at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Harrydawg
Along with Saturday pitching.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cowbell
Great.Quote:
Originally Posted by Harrydawg
Coggin was the hitting coach under Cohen for a year. I don't remember anyone being impressed with him. In fact Andy Cannizzaro fired him because he thought he sucked. And that's from an impeccable source. But now all of a sudden he has an offense that has a similar batting average to ours and a bunch of home runs with very possibly illegal bats and we have fans that want him back? Ok.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cowbell
F thatQuote:
Originally Posted by Cowbell
Their sec numbers arent way ahead of us as far as hr. He's a clown. He was hitting instructor by title only when he was here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Todd4State
I have no idea about prep work but I assume McMillan is good w this. But remember our fans thought it was stupid to have a player coaching first when goat was sitting in the dugout. But if your hitting coach is in the dugout it has to help. First base coach is worthless has one job that helps. One. A player or a deaf nun can do that jobQuote:
Originally Posted by Harrydawg
Thanks for That info.Quote:
Originally Posted by Todd4State
Yes. It's very curious. No idea if their bats are rolled or not and maybe they just play awful midweek pitching. And maybe it's just "that's baseball". I know umpires check crap like that so they probably aren't rolled. But as a whole their offense isn't significantly better than our has been on the year. If we have fans that aren't happy with McMullen they wouldn't be happy with 14 of the other coaches and they weren't all that happy when Coggin was here to start with regardless of his actual title and duties.Quote:
Originally Posted by Homedawg
There isn't anybody that is going to tell if a bat has been rolled by the naked eye. Two bats breaking in a game is pretty damn easy to say bats have been rolled.Quote:
Originally Posted by Todd4State
Yeah, I thought the same thing but don't they run the bats thru a compression tester prior to the game?
Can we still be friendsQuote:
Originally Posted by Homedawg
Yeah I was shocked that the ump didn't look at that second broken bat moreQuote:
Originally Posted by Duckdog
UGA hitting reminds me Arkansas a few years ago and UT under Vitello. Everything they hit is scalded and a routine pop up tends to go 350. I remember when Arkansas came to town one year and looked the exact same.
I still remember 2021. Arkansas hit, what I thought, was a pop fly. SOB went 395.Quote:
Originally Posted by TNDawg35
Back to the topic at hand, I don?t know whether Coggin is the answer or not. I have heard a few people say that Ammo actually runs a lot with their hitting. I would hire Ammo in a heartbeat. He?s a great hitting coach and he finds these portal kids that knock the shit out of the ball.
I?ve been on record that I don?t like McMullen, but I haven?t since day 1. And I can also admit that a lot of my dislike of him stems from the fact that I liked Jake. Jake was a good hitting coach who recognized when kids were struggling and was able to work them through that more times than not. Jake also would give his left arm for our guys. McMullen would pull kids aside in the middle of ABs early in the season. Now he just sits at 3B like a 17 walrus. The book is out on how to beat us and it doesn?t appear he has made any changes to our approach at the plate.
Was it Van Horn that called out TN (knowing Vitello did it while at Arkansas) or something about the batsQuote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
Couldn't have said it betterQuote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
Coggin would only come to State as the HC- thats his next move. And that aint happening
Ammo needs to get a head job at a G5 and then be the next guy for us if all goes well after BOC flames out in 5 years
Everything ok with your home life?Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
this^
Jake was too hands off. And I like Jake. He treated our guys like they were pros and that's fine if we were the Tupelo Fighting Elvis Impersonators. But we're a college team and despite NIL these are players that are still considered amateurs in the baseball world and therefore they are still learning.Quote:
Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve
The slump that Hunter Hines and Dakota had at the end of 2023 should have never happened. Ace Reese is hot the past two weeks compared to that.
There is only a six point difference in McMullen and Coggin right now as far as team batting average. And yes their slugging and OBP are higher but there might be something up with that since it's not translating over to conference games for whatever reason.
I know this is bait but I would say the odds of BOC being here 10 years are much higher than 5. By that time Coggin will probably have head coaching experience somewhere and then we can decide what to do at that point.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
Couldnt be better. Granddad now to a beautiful healthy baby girl. Oldest son is about to be a Sr and I no longer am used like a taxi service. Youngest son starts hitting the camp circuit this June as his recruiting process begins. Spring practice starts in a couple weeks. About the only bad thing going is my baseball team is 0-6 the last 2 weekends and plummeting down the Top 25Quote:
Originally Posted by Tater
Yea I'm happy about my life too and have things going pretty well - but am also pissed about the baseball team. I'm not on here making "look-at-me" skip bayless hot takes fishing for attention. Why are you?Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
cause I'm an expert level troller/ragebaiter- duh (and way better than Skip Bayless)
Cogg will be a hell of a HC one day and it probably won't be here. Hope I live to see the folks say I told us so.
That's not a why. That's just a self-description of you and you wear it as a badge of honor. I'm one too - and in my heyday I was more notorious on bigger platforms (Madden Ultimate Team EA Forums circa 2010 is something you'll never be as good at).Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
When I do it, typically it was an escape from shitty reality for me. Now if I do any ragebait it's more to bait someone in particular (like the concern trolling I'm doing to you right now) or I just do more engagement bait to have folks laugh.
You're stoking folks to get mad. Some you've met, some you've not. Most all who want the same thing as you - State to be better. Why troll and rage bait here and piss off folks you like? Why not go piss of those you don't?