Quote Originally Posted by bulldogcountry1 View Post
I've never been a fan of Cohen's style. I've watched just about every game the last 3 years either in person, HSTV, or TV, and, frankly, it's mostly boring. Above all, I'm a State baseball fan, so I keep supporting. Cohen obviously made it work last year.

That said, it puts so much pressure on the defense and pitching staff to be perfect, but when you can't hit, it's all just a house of cards out in the wind. Sure, I can make a list about all the moves I can question Cohen about, but the bottom line is that the veteran players are sucking it up. If Detz and Rea were anywhere close to last year's numbers, we would be competing for a national seed right now. Then, you got the third year player in Britton who can't hit anything and a JR bullpen catcher getting most of the playing time. Pirtle is the only one that has showed up ready to play from day 1.
I think Cohen's plan was to spend the majority of his scholarship money on pitchers and win with pitching in the early stages of rebuilding the program. When rebuilding, in my eyes, it will take longer to accumulate enough hitters to win games with offense as opposed to signing four or five stud pitchers that can basically win games almost by themselves with minimal run support.

We just have to give it time and probably a little more than even i thought it would take and I figured it would take awhile because of how tough the SEC is.