Cohen to host press conference tomorrow at noon

[godlluB]

As the British say, I wonder if one of our assistant coaches has suddenly developed an intense interest in gardening?

[Jack Lambert]

whoops

[CadaverDawg]

I think it's a pretty standard press conference. I doubt there will be coaching changes, unfortunately.

[I seen it dawg]

I can't even remotely think of something nice to say

[rcsteph1]

The wording of the announcement makes me wonder. It wasn't announced as just an end of the year press conference.

[Smitty]

I wonder if any writers will decide to stop being scared little stenographers of the great Coins and actually ask him some tough questions about the stuff bandied about by us average joes.

[CadaverDawg]

The wording of the announcement makes me wonder. It wasn't announced as just an end of the year press conference.

Just read the wording and you're right...something's up. May just be a way of Cohen trying to rally the troops and rah rah to show everyone he's going to turn it around...but then again, maybe we see some type of announcement. Id love to hear that Mingione has been replaced, but I doubt it. It was definitely worded oddly for a routine end of the year presser though.

[MsStateBaseball]

I have informed a few writers please ask some tough questions. We shall see. Uncle Dave will but Gene won't.

[War Machine Dawg]

Anyone want to link to the announcement or paste it here? Don't tease us by mentioning it then not letting us see it.

[CadaverDawg]

Anyone want to link to the announcement or paste it here? Don't tease us by mentioning it then not letting us see it.

From the @hailstatebb Instagram account....

"Tomorrow at 12 p.m. CT, John Cohen will host a press conference to address several items regarding the future of the program. Watch it live on Periscope by searching for HailStateBB."

[messageboardsuperhero]

There will probably be no major staff changes, but expect Cohen to give a rah-rah speech about how this type of season will never happen again, adjusting to the balls screwed us up, etc. Personally, I want some serious answers about how he plans on managing the game in the future.

Will we still bunt runners from 2nd to 3rd after leadoff doubles next year?
Will we continue to lead the league in sac bunting?
Will we continue to do dumb shit like negate the speed of our fastest player by batting our 280 pound first baseman right in front of him?
Will stop trotting Ming out to the 3rd base box and let someone competent coach 3rd base who doesn't run us out of an inning every damn game?

He at least seems to be attempting to address the obvious issues we have offensively by bringing in more physical players... But some of the in game stuff we do is flat out inexcusable and needs to be corrected.

[Jacksondevildog]

David Murray is a Gene sheep. His toughest question will be he asking himself about whether he should write a 3,000 or 4,000 word article on the press conference.

I have informed a few writers please ask some tough questions. We shall see. Uncle Dave will but Gene won't.

[rcsteph1]

There will probably be no major staff changes, but expect Cohen to give a rah-rah speech about how this type of season will never happen again, adjusting to the balls screwed us up, etc. Personally, I want some serious answers about how he plans on managing the game in the future.

Will we still bunt runners from 2nd to 3rd after leadoff doubles next year?
Will we continue to lead the league in sac bunting?
Will we continue to do dumb shit like negate the speed of our fastest player by batting our 280 pound first baseman right in front of him?
Will stop trotting Ming out to the 3rd base box and let someone competent coach 3rd base who doesn't run us out of an inning every damn game?

He at least seems to be attempting to address the obvious issues we have offensively by bringing in more physical players... But some of the in game stuff we do is flat out inexcusable and needs to be corrected.

So we will now have bench players coaching first and third????

[CadaverDawg]

So we will now have bench players coaching first and third????

Yea, it's scary just how many stupid things Cohen did/allowed last season. Hope it isn't too many issues to fix in one season, bc he won't survive 2015 version 2.0

[Really Clark?]

Superhero I understand where you are coming from and you have some good questions but we didn't lead the league in sac bunts and don't think we ever have under Cohen. We have been close, too close probably but we didn't lead the league. And look while I am not as big of a proponent of bunting I do see several 1 seeds that lead the nation in sacrifice bunts UCLA, Oklahoma State, Missouri State, Miami, Houston, and Cal St Fullerton. 37.5% of the 1 seeds all were Top 50 in sacrifice bunts and had more than we did. Now the when to bunt and several of those instances, I see where you are coming from. But let's be fair about how much we really bunted.

[Intramural All-American]

It's a standard end of the year press conference. Don't expect any big announcements.

[Todd4State]

There will probably be no major staff changes, but expect Cohen to give a rah-rah speech about how this type of season will never happen again, adjusting to the balls screwed us up, etc. Personally, I want some serious answers about how he plans on managing the game in the future.

Will we still bunt runners from 2nd to 3rd after leadoff doubles next year?
Will we continue to lead the league in sac bunting?
Will we continue to do dumb shit like negate the speed of our fastest player by batting our 280 pound first baseman right in front of him?
Will stop trotting Ming out to the 3rd base box and let someone competent coach 3rd base who doesn't run us out of an inning every damn game?

He at least seems to be attempting to address the obvious issues we have offensively by bringing in more physical players... But some of the in game stuff we do is flat out inexcusable and needs to be corrected.

This is what I am expecting too. If people are expecting him to throw Mingione under the bus and then burn him at the stake, people are going to be disappointed. He might throw the seniors under the bus as a group though- rightfully so.

Someone should ask him about the S&C program though. That was a far worse coaching job last year than anyone else on the staff if we're honest with ourselves.

Coaching offense in baseball is basically allowing your guys to use their strengths. We bunted a lot because that is what we did fairly well. I kept up with how many times we bunted for a hit and how many times it resulted in an out- intentional or not. Including sacrifices- the times we TRIED to make an out, we actually bunted well over .300 as a team.

When we have players that have more power, we will bunt less. Just like we didn't bunt Wes Rea and Reid Humphreys a whole lot last year. When you have a lineup full of singles hitters, you will see a lot more bunting.

You hear me talking about balance regarding a line-up from time to time- when you have seven singles hitters in your lineup, you're more likely to see something like your clean-up hitter being Jacob Robson. That's because our lineup was out of whack from the start.

Now as you said, we will have more power in the future, but we're still going to have the small ball aspect of our game as well. Jake Mangum was the best bunter in Mississippi, and Luke Alexander is really good at it too. Gridley is also good at it. The difference is we will have guys like Cole Gordon behind them to drive them in.

[Todd4State]

Superhero I understand where you are coming from and you have some good questions but we didn't lead the league in sac bunts and don't think we ever have under Cohen. We have been close, too close probably but we didn't lead the league. And look while I am not as big of a proponent of bunting I do see several 1 seeds that lead the nation in sacrifice bunts UCLA, Oklahoma State, Missouri State, Miami, Houston, and Cal St Fullerton. 37.5% of the 1 seeds all were Top 50 in sacrifice bunts and had more than we did. Now the when to bunt and several of those instances, I see where you are coming from. But let's be fair about how much we really bunted.

But....but....that can't be.... I was told that if you bunt your offense is horrible...

[Smitty]

But....but....that can't be.... I was told that if you bunt your offense is horrible...

No it's that they can get away with it because their talent means it doesn't hurt them as much. Like I've said for years the sac bunt hurts bad teams MORE because it's a bigger road block. See our 2012 year.

Bunting is not the reason they are good offenses. The correlation to them being a one seed and them bunting is nothing. You fail to understand statistics though because you think a statistical luck factor is an insult.

[Really Clark?]

No it's that they can get away with it because their talent means it doesn't hurt them as much. Like I've said for years the sac bunt hurts bad teams MORE because it's a bigger road block. See our 2012 year.

Bunting is not the reason they are good offenses. The correlation to them being a one seed and them bunting is nothing. You fail to understand statistics though because you think a statistical luck factor is an insult.

Btw, I wasn't really trying to make a correlation between bunting and #1 seeds. I was just pointing out that it is not necessarily a hinderance that many always think when it is brought up. Bunting could help make a team better. Some of these teams also have good offenses and, without studying each case, it could have helped or been a negative. It is more of a part of the philosphy relationship those teams probably have. I think several of those teams I listed also have very good pitching and defense. Bunting can be used to enhance the overall scheme for a team, especially with a pitching and defensive relationship that makes sense. But each case is different and the game time strategy of the bunt has a big part to play in whether it enhances an offense.